Happy much missed Birthday

RESTAURANTS: Don’t buy tea towels from Q Division’s surplus store.

Happy Birthday, Katie C. We miss you.

We were crucified nearby… how often can you say that?

It seems the answer is Count Arthur Strong.

Your TV can watch what you watch, but not in a cool way. Here are the details on Automatic Content Recognition and how to turn it off. I hate that this is a thing. It shouldn't be a thing. www.pcmag.com/explainers/y...

Bob Dylan trying to find his way back from some Wetherspoons toilets…

I didn't know this. It's true! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%...

Mine SWEEEEEPERRRRRRRRRRRR

You can sing Minesweeper to the tune of Goldfinger

What’s the perfect GIF for your BlueSky persona?

Do you think we could all collectively agree the world is awful and go back to why it was delightful to be on here in the old days originally and just do 24/7 whimsy again?

[chef’s kiss]

Delia Derbyshire diorama kits fom heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com

Quatermass & the Pit (tv version) from heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com

Getting Catherine Tate to co-present the opening of Red Nose Day tonight as Nan was an absolute masterstroke. In an instant it’s become a comedy show again instead of a generic shiny floor telethon like in recent years. Hope they keep it up. Please consider donating. bbc.co.uk/rednoseday/

This picture was taken shortly before Bruce Willis arrived and the three of them decided to set up a shoe shop.

I failed the introvert test. Come and see me on tour to hear jokes from a man who longer dresses like Shrek. mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs

This screenshot of Elite is 23 kilobytes. The entire game was 22 kilobytes.

TIL Bamber Gascoigne was a step-nephew of Ian Fleming. Then I remembered that he was president of Cambridge Footlights in the days before it was cool. And also was the owner of the real Button House location from Ghosts. Not enough people are called Bamber. It’s a name that could do with reviving.

STICK IT ON A FIVE POUND NOTE

The golden skylight in Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing Broadway.

they literally renamed the entire company after this

The UK government has today published a Copyright and Artificial Intelligence report outlining that it is moving away from the proposed copyright exception for AI training, widely rejected by the creative industries. Read more 👇

ION I’m sad that Eleanor Bron is no longer playing Carol Tregorran, but it was nice to hear the character having some actual airtime again after such a long period of quiet. #TheArchers

This could be huge www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Behold a lady who had been working in a shop from 8.30, did her make-up in dingy work toilet mirror with no natural light, run to the station at the other end of town then sat on a train to London

*laughs in 'the night we had the big BAFTA award celebration for HH I had to ask my Job 2 boss to do an early shift at the shop, take my bafta dress, get changed & do my make up in the staff toilets and then run to get the train'*

Contains my favourite piece of desperate exposition, when the good guys’ robot Jet Jaguar (a man in a suit who is the same size as them) lands next to the giant Kaiju (also a man in a suit) and is suddenly the same size as the monster. “Look! He must have programmed himself bigger.” JOB. DONE.

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz

Apropos of nothing here’s a reminder that the original matriarch of Albert Square is also the mother of the President of the Galaxy.

I posted a 1912 photo of a man with smallpox and someone asked if it was AI. That says something about the moment we’re living in: because of vaccination, we’re now so far removed from this virus that real images of it look fake. #medicalhistory #vaccines #vaccineswork #skystorians

Any time I read a story like this, I immediately scroll down to see if my favourite true crime trope - the absurdly incriminating search history - gets featured. I can confirm that this one does not disappoint.

Safety Catch is brilliant. Tell more people to listen to it.

For some reason Audible has changed the names of the excellent Radio 4 sitcoms Start/Stop and Safety Catch, if you’d like to buy them for your listening pleasure. They are now known as, and this is not a joke, “It’s Not Us, It’s Them” and “Killing It!” Genuinely, how do we stop this madness?

Just realised I read Terrance Dicks’s novelisation of The Horns of Nimon in one sitting as a child more times than I’ve actually seen it.

Condorman ads were on TV in adbreaks relentlessly when I was 5/6 & looked so fun. Never saw it. It ended up on a streaming service when I was in my mid-40s so I finally got to see it. Trailer had all the best bits. Why did I remember the trailer so well? Did you remember it too? Can we get help?

using the latest NVIDIA cards you will be able to, in real time, replace any existing assets with esteemed character actor Stephen Tobolowsky

Destroying Reach should be a BBC KPI

Just read that Tina Fey is the host of the first episode of SNL UK. And Michael Sheen is the new host of the show formerly known as Richard Osman’s House of Games. Unexpected.

So, BlueSky, one of my passions is the study of tea in WW2. I need you to watch this oral history from three ex-tea ladies from the Bermondsey WVS. Because you could guess for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and you would not guess where it is going... #skystorians #history #tea

The newsreader on Radio 3 quoting Donald Trump this morning in the style of Jeffrey Fairbrother reading a letter from Joe Maplin.

All the missing Not Only But Also episodes please.

Happy birthday Sir Michael Caine 🎂 @barneyfarmer.bsky.social

Goodness me, this is so nice. Purves's reaction is lovely. "Oh, you're kidding. Oh boy! I'm absolutely thrilled." 🤩 youtu.be/la9AOL7xP-c?... Thank you @filmisfabulous.bsky.social & @tobyhadoke.bsky.social

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

Wonderful news to wake up to!