‘I'm pleased and happy to repeat the news that we have, in fact, decided not to destroy an entire civilisation. But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, The Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.’

Remembering that time JOTASTAR™ got a licence to produce a Blake's 7 toy gun and made the wrong one...

Newseye is a bullshit account, some twisted little child trying to feel important by spreading scare stories. Block!

one undercooked big mac is all we need

#OnThisDay 7 April 1991 The first episode of THE DARLING BUDS OF MAY is broadcast at 7.45 on ITV. Set in rural 1950s Kent, it follows the 'perfick' life of the Larkin family and stars #DavidJason and #PamFerris, alongside #CatherineZetaJones in her breakthrough role.

#OnThisDay 7 April 1997 Peter Baldwin makes the last of 726 appearances as Derek Wilton in #CoronationStreet, with the character dying from a heart attack. The closing theme music of this episode was replaced by a tune playing from the car radio.

A visitor's guide to East Cheam – out and about with Tony Hancock

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

mods are asleep post camera falling out of plane and landing in a pig pen to be licked by a pig

"I'm osmotic..."

Come on, Yanks. You shot James A. Garfield for way less than this shit.

New rule: newspapers who encourage their readers to buy a second home in the countryside that sits empty eight months of the year aren't allowed to blame the housing crisis on immigrants

The scene in Threshold House in late 1965… “Donald, the story’s flagging. Give Hartnell more hmms and haas.” “I’ve got a better idea John. I’ve heard that Peter Butterworth is free for a few weeks!”

Hi guys! I've very 1st world problem. Last Christmas, I gave you m— no wait. Last Christmas, I bought my 15yo daughter a present she REALLY wanted (with a heavy use of my overdraft): tickets to see her all time favourite artist, Alex Warren. The gig is this month, in London She's super excited (1/2)

“Bit stronger please, Ant, it’s the end of the episode.” I’m 2+ hours into Planet of Fire studio footage and it hardly needs saying but Ainley gives lovely villainous laughter and I’ve not tired of the many takes needed.

"Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell"

It’s like the No Homers Club 🤣🤣

Bluesky should just show the test card after 1am

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When your AI uses only minimal research.

"Yeah, we've RESTORED that old programme you love by DELETING something in one shot that we personally didn't like the look of."

I was looking up a 1983 newspaper for other reasons, but thought there were some of you on here who would appreciate this advert for the Austin Rover Metro City, for just £3,380. That would be about £11.6k in 2026 pounds. Driving is Believing! #BritishCarsMeanBritishJobs

It was on this day 92 years ago that W. B. Yeats got ‘Steinached’ — a partial vasectomy, carried out by Austrian endocrinologist Eugen Steinach to reinvigorate the 69-year-old poet... 🧵

1.10pm on Easter Monday is tellybox time for a vintage blast of Peter Sellers in classic comedy Heavens Above! screening on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Eric Sykes, Malcolm Muggeridge and Ludovic Kennedy are all involved in this clever satire. #TalkingPicturesTV film-authority.com/2025/08/05/h...

My shower in Malaysia has an option I don't really want to try

Geoffrey Chater and Edward Woodward in Callan - None of Your Business (5th April 1972).

A different perspective. Always helpful.

He is risen

I feel attacked

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: a very odd Emu's Pink Windmill Show as Carol Lee Scott has gone down ill, meaning an emergency call to Pat Coombs to take up the green facepaint as an easily confused supply witch.

I need a t-shirt with this on.

guys, bluesky is dying. if we don't start getting more likes, a greedy developer will bulldoze the site to put up a parking garage. the only thing that can save it is for a ragtag crew of misfits to put on one last big concert at the community center.

Very important information. VERY

I'd never noticed it before but there's an incidental character in The Inimitable Jeeves called the Reverend Cuthbert Dibble, and now I'm wondering if the creators of Trumpton were Wodehouse fans

"You know, Alfred, now I think of it, it always was your voice on the Batphone..."

Four years ago today, and June Brown’s obituary gets very dark very quickly.

Steptoe & Son - The Desperate Hours (3rd April 1972). The final episode of series seven featured fine guest performances from Leonard Rossiter and J.G. Devlin.

@danmckee.bsky.social You still looking for a house which is exactly to your tastes that will require you to do no work at all?

BRADLEY WALSH: what will you do with the money if you win today? EVERY CONTESTANT UNDER 40: pay off my student loans. maybe we can stop renting before we have kids EVERY CONTESTANT OVER 55: probably put it towards another of my regular luxury cruise trips

Talking of banger tweets

The UK has been importing food since Roman Times. It’s possible that we have never been self-sufficient in food.

Look, I get that girls used to do things like prick their fingers to be “blood sisters” and all that, but still, YIKES, NATASHA

Intensity from the vault: Judas’ Death - Jesus Christ Superstar (Live Arena Tour, 2012) Universal.   #DigitalHouseOfTimothy #Backstory #JesusChristSuperstar #JudasDeath

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

POV: After murdering my literary agent for sleeping with my wife I return home to find that I am completely fully fucked

"It seems that I'm some kind of a galactic yo-yo..." "Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos" episode 4 (1971). #DoctorWho

Brookside had many, many problems from 1990 onwards, but it really jumped the shark in 1997 when Ron Dixon was given a lookee-likee nemesis called Dick Ronson.

Erin on PROLOGUES: "I feel like it's stuff that wasn't good enough to be in the book"