The Battle for Orgreave a powerful documentary from 1985 which highlights what happens when a government uses the police and the courts for political purposes and when said police are willing to perjure themselves in the hundreds to secure an unfounded conviction. youtu.be/dn7DZSagDI4...

Law and Order (1932) is one of the best Westerns of all time. Everyone needs to see it, especially now that it's been restored and is available on an excellent Blu-ray from Kino Lorber: kinolorber.com/product/law-...

The Royal Navy’s ‘Fleet Shadower’ concept, developed prior to the SWW, envisioned a high-endurance, low-speed and low-noise carrier aircraft to monitor enemy naval forces at sea by night. Two companies were chosen to submit prototypes and the AS.39 (L) and G.A.L. 38 (R) were the result. 🧵1/7

Recently digitised - near Taunggyi in the Shan States of Burma, Indian troops fire 3-inch mortars against Japanese forces, July 1945. #filmcataloguing #ww2 #history Full film: IWM JIN 88 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Had the Labour party been reading Private Eye in 2009, when business columnist Slicker was already laying out the peculiar Mandelson-Epstein connection, they would have known exactly what they were dealing with. ➡️ Watch the full episode of Page 94 on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnCe...

Walcott Junction, 2/12/2026, 3:50:31 PM

Just going to leave this here

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

"So I says, 'Yeah? If you want that money come and find it 'cause I don't know where it is, you baloney. You make me want to retch.'

On this day in 1998 - The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Far Beyond The Stars" directed by Avery Brooks (Benjamin Sisko) premiered. Rather than try and find a single quote, clip, thought... I'm just gonna post the whole episode because it's that damn special. (1/15)

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm" www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw... #R4Today

tidal.com/album/257025... still an absolute killer album. Some hardcore dad dancing in the kitchen #PE #PublicEnemy

Something compelled me to make this

Any excuse. Found on a Philips N1500 Video Cassette

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People forget the Kate Beaton comic the "Poe looking suspiciously at a letter" meme comes from is also a devastating read on Jules Verne.

millions will stream sunday’s super bowl without seeing this ad.

Open Channel D... Solo and Kuryakin pursue the only surviving conspirators of 'The Quadripartite Affair'... Premiere: THE MAN FROM UNCLE (1964) 4pm #RobertVaughn #DavidMcCallum #LeoGCarroll 'The Giuoco Piano Affair' #TPTVsubtitles

A small point from yesterday. Again Scotland didn't use all their subs. Hastings didn't get on so why have him on the bench? That could have been a fresh forward to come on. Margins are so small you need to use everyone. A small indication of the lack of a clear strategy at the top. #6Nations

Well, if it’s 8 February, it must be the 94th anniversary of Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk (a fascist from New Zealand who said he was King of Poland) going on trial for attempting to get into print his poem ‘Here Lies John Penis’ 🧵

“Nicholas Ray's JOHNNY GUITAR is so rigorously, comprehensively excessive, its excesses eclipse any baseline against which excess is typically judged.”

OTD in 1592, Lady Margaret Campbell brought her son the 2nd Earl of Moray to Edinburgh intending to display his body and force the king to bring his killers to justice. Ye Hielands and ye Lowlands, O, whaur hae ye been? They hae slain the Earl o’ Moray, And laid him on the green.

Can miracles happen twice? A visit to Castel di Sangro, 30 years since the achievement made globally famous by Joe McGinniss. Everything has changed but, meeting some of the book's old characters, it's as if nothing has at all. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

🗓️ #OTD in 1944 – midget sub X-23 arrives at sub base HMS Dolphin in Gosport. [At least it did if the target date was achieved!] #NavalHistory COPP 9, the team that's earmarked to use it for beach recce work, arrived from Scotland about a week ago. (📸IWM ADM 1260) ➡️ buff.ly/SJ3wWBU

I don't think I could take one of the most dominant club teams in Europe and make them that shit if it was my stated intention. Gregor Townsend really is a generational talent in that regard

Townsend out. No more excuses. This has been shambolic

Scotland playing at the moment like a team whose head coach spends most of the week doing something else 😬 #ITAvSCO

Just saw a new "book" allegedly chronicling the history of goth and deathrock by one mister "Nick Razer." Heads up: it is AI slop, as are all his books, many of which are super sus. His press quotes from @thequietus.com and NME are fake. Don't fall prey this this edgelord stupidity.

I am excited to announce that I will be giving an illustrated talk about my book The Road to Mons Graupius at the wonderful Innerpeffray Library @innerpeffray.bsky.social on Sunday 15 March. Join me if you can, tickets are available here: innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/shop/shop/ti... #RomanSiteSaturday

On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was

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BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone. He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein We have published it in full. www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

75 years ago this morning, the United States conducted FOX, a proof test of a Mk-6 atomic bomb, at the Nevada Proving Ground, its fifth test there. The yield was 22 kilotons (the predicted yield was 34 kilotons). Below, the first published photographs of a mushroom cloud over Nevada, from that test.

British propaganda animation showing Austro-German aggression in 1914 and the British empire coming together to defeat the Kaiser. #ww1 #history

#Dundee #Dees

As always, when we get a new Shoot! in, we share the player profile This week! Henry Hall of St Johnstone And his very specific anti cluster dislike.... (From Shoot! - 19/09/1970) #shoot #shootmagazine #StJohnstone #SJFC

Outrageous!

30 seconds in and I'm already thinking of muting the commentary #6Nations

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

RAMBO 1986 SEARS

Marty Grimes (born 1962) is the first Black American pro-skateboarder from the early to mid-1970s. Born in Los Angeles, California, he was one of the original members of the legendary Z-Boys and Dogtown crew. He is currently the owner of Grimes Skateboards

Feb. 3, 1926: A large crowd, some of them climbing trees for a better view, watches heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey do an outdoor sparring session in Tampa. Afterward he meets his many fans.

Is that a Jamie Hewlett cover??

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

What was the "unwritten rule" of serving in the American infantry in WW II? Charles Reis Felix knew: "Nobody gets out of a rifle company. It's a door that opens one way, in. You leave when they carry you out, if you're unlucky, dead, or if you're lucky, wounded. But nobody just walks away."

Today in 1958, at RAF Sculthorpe, about 3 miles west of Fakenham, England, USAF atomic bomb technician Master Sergeant Leander Cunningham, 41, suffered a mental breakdown, locked himself in the bomb maintenance building, and threatened to detonate a Mark-5 bomb by shooting it with his .45 pistol.

Booking an appointment with my podiatrist 😳