Blue Peter (21st December 1972). "I think they're coming up the road, into the Blue Peter studio, now". A textbook last BP before Christmas ends with a carol round the tree.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

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Typical, now Michelle's skint, she's going to want to share my chips now!! 🙄

"A Weekend in Leeds" might sound like the booby prize on a tv quiz, but it certainly looks like vibrant 1960s Leeds could easily hold it's own against many a city. I'm sure Mr @redpeter99.bsky.social would agree. youtu.be/IYIdAxfmbss?...

Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.

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Let's open door number 19 of the Scarred For Life advent calendar... It isn't truly Christmas till the wolves are running - it's THE BOX OF DELIGHTS!

A fine way to hunker down and spend the winter. #vinyl

Nothing that an "AI" does has any anchorage in material reality, it's all just code, continuously juggling. It has no grounded understanding of anything, no responsibility, no reasoned sense of consequence, or anything else...

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Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.

Rainbow (18th December 1972). It's series one, which means that David Cook presents, Zippy is voiced by Peter Hawkins, John Leeson is inside the scary Bungle suit and there's no George (although Duffy is on hand to join in the singing).

How exciting! My Advent Calendar says there's just one more England batting collapse left until Xmas! #TheAshes

One does enjoy a mini-England collapse of a morning. #TheAshes

Remembering Eddie Kendricks on his birthday. Here's his isolated lead vocal from the Temptations' Just My Imagination - simply stunning (🔈🔉🔊)

'Christmas in Bowman’s Place', Islington (1849) by James Pollard (Private collection)

BBC1 Christmas Ident - 1978 (don't have nightmares)

Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll created the multiple Emmy Award winning 🇺🇸American serial police procedural television series "HILL STREET BLUES" (1981 - 1987) which ran on NBC for 7 seasons producing 146 episodes 📺 MTM Enterprises 🚔 🚨

There are no jobs and the country is headed for a recession. But at least now there’s a gold toilet in the White House.

I just don't buy the whole "Bluesky is just a liberal echo-chamber and lefty love in" argument. I block and mute just as many muppets here as I did over at the dark place.

Peeking behind door number 17 of the Scarred For Life advent calendar... some of the toys and games you could expect to find under the tree, from Bermuda Triangle to Freddy Krueger!

“Don’t waste your time on anything that doesn’t thrill you or bring you love. See you out somewhere in the cosmos.” This is the posthumous message left by Gil Gerard. The actor who played Buck Rogers in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) has just passed away at the age of 82.

Thoughts and prayers with Chris Mason and Beth Rigby this morning as they digest this (for them) devastating news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

Behind door number 16 of the Scarred For Life advent calendar... two coat hangers, some flammable tinsel, and a few candles: it's the health and safety nightmare that is BLUE PETER'S ADVENT CROWN! 🔥🔥🔥

Good morning! This week's theme is Christmas 🎄🎅 ------ 'Rainy Camden Lock' by Jonathan Stewardson jonathanstewardson.com 👤: @jonathanstewardson.bsky.social

WTF are we doing here, BBC?

"They've made the school nativity play WOKE 😡😡" Colin from Portsmouth.

Take a journey through time down a new NSF COLDEX ice core borehole just completed by the team in #Antarctica! If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

When you have to listen to Tony Blackburn, Sharp's Extra Strong Mints will help, 1980

A disastrous consequence of a culture reserving its greatest rewards for commentators with the most pungently expressed opinions is how hard it becomes for them to climb down. By rights, *everybody* writing or speaking in the national interest should be horrified & outraged by Trump’s attacks on us.

As the wind gently rattles the shutters and the logs merrily crackle in the fireplace, in keeping with tradition perhaps more so at this time of year than All Hallows Eve, a little seasonal reading… 👻 #booksky

On this day in 1988 - one of the all time great TV moments as Michael Palin arrives in London in mid-December, and finds that a smattering of decorations are up but that nobody's in the mood for Christmas - or for him... timworthington.org/2023/12/12/l...

Ugly jumper competition

Remembering Ravi Shankar. “[Ravi has] always been like a guru and father figure, but at the same time I think mainly of him as a friend, because we joke around most of the time.” - George Harrison, in his foreword to Raga Mala (1997) Read more at www.instagram.com/reel/DSIYEpF....

This is the full list of info the US is proposing to require from applicants for an ESTA (electronic travel authorisation) to secure visa-free travel to America. This would apply to every UK holidaymaker, conference attendee or businessperson. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf

What's behind door No.1️⃣1️⃣ of the The EightyPercentMental advent calendar? ❄️🌲⛄🎁🧑🏿‍🎄 A guarantee of life changing neural re-wiring if you do these three simple things ... maybe. Ah, the internet. Unregulated nonsense galore. Be careful out there!

Lurking behind door number 11 of the Scarred For Life advent calendar... a BBC show from 1968 which, according to legend, was so scary that it wasn't just banned - it was destroyed (save for one brilliant episode). It's LATE NIGHT HORROR!

At what point do you switch her off? Because that will be down to you, and probably due to the yearly/monthly subscription increases. "I'm sorry love, but we can't afford grandma anymore, it's her or Netflix"

Stuck cat

Everyone needs to get off X. Now. Government. Politicians. Your Aunty Judith. All of them are fueling this racist extremist billionaire

Reform UK's commitment to Wales in one photo.

"Get in loser, we're going shopping" - Aquinas, probably.

"Let's prevent people getting paid just about enough to live on!" is going to be such a great campaign winning slogan.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...