Same energy

Finally an article about a successful vetting process. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

do you ever wake up at 3am and think "shit that's a good idea, I better write that down so I can share it later on"

Werner Herzhog. #art

A wee reminder that the subs window for disabled people and people of colour is still open!

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

Oh to be a heron with my chest feathers blowing in the breeze…

Listening to "I'm with her - sing me alive" (a live album, appropriately enough). Gorgeous cover of Paul Simon's Obvious Child!

Pleasing hint in the new issue of Record Collector’s Tori Amos interview that Choirgirl Hotel on vinyl is in progress, albeit slowly

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOld A former foghorn next to the Old Lighthouse at Dungeness. #PharosFriday

It is, allegedly, the 136th anniversary of a news story whose last line I don’t think you’ll be able to predict appearing in the Woodford (Kentucky) Sun

Had a wave of deja vu, cos her predecessor made exactly the same announcement a year ago. You know, announcing a load of data centres that still haven't been built (and which wouldn't have created any jobs or revenue if they had). We are being taken for a ride.

Liz Kendall urges UK public to embrace Wayne, their annoying cousin who keeps turning up unannounced and saying stupid shit and is very difficult to shrug off

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

“Set in Scotland and Space.”

Dunsapie Loch, earlier this morning. Edinburgh

The shocked-face head is sending me. It belongs in a box for the Murder, She Wrote x Se7en crossover I didn't know I needed.

Absolutely blown away by Tori Amos at Glasgow! 😍

yes!

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

💥 20 years ago the Tenth Doctor & Rose began their adventures in Series Two of #DoctorWho What better way to celebrate than with a poster featuring #DavidTennant, #BilliePiper and monsters from across the Series!

Colson Whitehead hilariously killing it in the NYT today. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

I told the family this headline at the dinner table last night and the kids looked at me blankly and said "I don't know what that means" so I am going to walk into the woods and become a crone now.

#TrekADay Hey baby, are you Star Trek III The Search For Spock? Because I don't care that you're odd, I still respect you.

If you say Doctor Who + 20th Anniversary, I WILL think Five Doctors, not New Earth… *reaches for Marcus Scarman crumbling to dust gif, can’t find it, ages and crumbles to death anyway*

I am very much enjoying Maureen O’Brien’s perfectly paced and thoughtful reading of Jenny Colgan’s Time of the Angels (although I confess I’m now visualising Amy Pond as a tiny little old lady from the Highlands and Islands)

“If you were in charge of Star Trek, what would you do?” Make more than ten episodes every two years. If that means half the season uses standing sets and are small character tales about ethical issues of the week, so what? Aren’t those what people liked about TNG?

Whatever age Peter Capaldi is he always looks like Doctor Who

This is the only outmogging I understand/will permit

Should be part of his next test.

BAFTA-Nominated Actor Who Plays A Young Alan Carr In 'Changing Ends' Set To Lead BBC's Adrian Mole Adaptation deadline.com/2026/04/bbc-...

Ncuti Gatwa to receive honorary doctorate from University of Glasgow cultbox.co.uk/news/ncuti-g...

My brain refuses to accept just how BIG elephant seals are, with male southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) reaching 4,000 kg (8,000 lbs). They also, apparently, have strong views on internal combustion engines. But I want to talk about how they dive WHILE SLEEPING.

Her ethereal voice haunted and charmed me since 1982. Clannad’s farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 2024 was unmissable. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Annie Jones, who played Jane in Neighbours, just mentioned an upcoming auction for one of the most iconic pieces of 80s art - Mrs Mangle’s portrait. Imagine owning this! Iconic! www.instagram.com/anniejonesxx...

Happy 75th birthday to Peter Davison, best known to us all of course for his showstopping appearance as "audience member going bonkers" to Dave Clark's "Everybody Get Together" on TotP.

Monday.

The call of dog

this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built

hoping jd vance comes here to negotiate a stronger brexit so we can end up back in the eu

Have been worried the past few weeks that the mysterious banging sound I’ve been hearing in stormy weather was (another) roof problem. Turns out to be downstairs neighbours garden gate (which is anchored to the building side) 🙄 One can of WD40 = a far more affordable fix

The great Peter Howell @ph-incoming.bsky.social is now on BlueSky - give him a follow! Oo-ee-oo… #DoctorWho

Worth watching (Sheila Hancock!) This used to be available on BFI Player but has long since vanished. I’ve been kicking myself for ages for not taking the chance to watch the Redifussion Erpingham Camp when it was there too. (Joe Orton tv plays boxset, please and thank you)

I see Sky Arts is showing a Douglas Adams documentary Tuesday night / Wednesday morning. I’m wondering if this longer slot means it’s a longer edit? I saw a version of this a while back that was about an hour and it didn’t do that much for me.

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Here Be Dragons. #birds #art #linocut #linoprint #printmaking #dragon Liquoricelino.etsy.com

A 1st century BCE Roman marble sculpture of four puppies asleep together, discovered in the House of the Faun in Pompeii, and now preserved at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. 🐾💕

So I had not posted this, but want to put it here now; I had been thinking about doing some fanart based on specific stories by Victorian author M.R. James, who is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern ghost story. This one is based on one of my favorite James stories: Number 13.