Horror story in four words. I've done it. Musk buys The Beatles

Coming to this photo with no other context other than thinking “what has he done now?” Can’t actually be bothered to find out.

Emma Siddi is in the writing/cast of the UK version of SNL. Which gives me hope for the first time. Because she is ace.

TIL the original monolith created for 2001: A Space Odyssey is above a cashpoint near Tower Bridge maps.app.goo.gl/dnMyAc7kHGKQ... (Kubrick decided against perspex, later Arthur Fleischmann sculpted it for the Silver Jubilee)

Wow, nearly sixteen years ago since I was bored at work one day and did this in Windows Movie Maker. youtu.be/aq0zxmL6jjI

My Wogan story - It was my first day of work at BBC Broadcasting House, I was 19 & quite nervous. I passed Wogan on the stairs & he gave me a cherry "Morning" Later that week he stopped me & asked how I was getting on, which was lovely of him because he didn't know me at all. A class act.

I'm getting more than a little alarmed reading articles like this where the inventor behind it sounds so blissfully unaware of the consequences. "There's a few teething problems obviously. The android has to time travel naked but it can already ride a motorcycle"

I hate this. I hate that scholars and teachers are supposed to be digital fraud experts. I hate that this part of their job description is becoming larger and larger. I hate the widening distrust. I hate a culture that aggressively devalues the curiosity and humility required for ongoing learning.

Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I genuinely love the classification “possible film” - because that might also mean it’s a proper long form documentary about something unexpected. Good work @robmanuel.b3ta.com, thank you.

Exeunt, leading Katherine.

Oh no.

Do you want to know if you can watch a film on the BBC tonight?

Finally we’ll see the story of how the nation of Aamerleda was founded

The Slop Heard Around The World 😑

The first govt project I worked on was an initiative about reducing printed documentation, surely had a budget in the millions but that passed down from a big IT consultancy through a couple of companies until it got to me I did the front-end work from my little flat in N Wales for around £500

Spotted by @roygill.bsky.social - we were grumbling a bit about BBC Four showing East Of Ipswich again on Innes Lloyd Night last month, rather than Palin's never-repeated other play for Lloyd, Number 27. Well, it's on in two weeks: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Pleased to announce I've been hired to do the marketing for this campaign

“Have a good time… all the time.”

This cannot be fixed because the method by which an LLM generates text referencing real cases is the same method by which an LLM generates text referencing fake cases

HT @brianbutterfield.bsky.social

Worried in 10 years time there’s going to be a spate of Oscar nominated films about sad former ICE agents.

Paddington Bear (the film version) and the half-skeletal soul-eating bear thing from Annihilation were made by the same VFX team. They wanted to name Annihilation Bear after a less salubrious London railway station. It's called Homerton. I am not making this up.

Genuinely surprised they still exist tbh. All the ones I remember seeing dotted around London closed years ago.

Can I just say something...? 🧣

I love the fact that the wardrobe Sid and Bernie used for this film was the same that James Bond used in OHMSS, filmed in Pinewood around the same time.

Incredible shot of the cockpit of Space Shuttle Discovery, taken by a camera mounted on the robot arm during the STS-128 mission (September 2009) as it passed over Central Asia.

If you don’t already follow Dick Chickpeas, you really should.

Happy Birthday Adrian Edmondson

I know it's not within the hundred most awful things here, but... the nearest penguins to Greenland are in the Galapagos, five thousand fucking miles away

wonder if they'll be living on the mars colony that he started there last year

A random little filmic fact for you I heard about recently - My Blue Heaven, the Steve Martin starring comedy about an ex-gangster moving on with his life, and Goodfellas, are based on the same material. Nicholas Pileggi and Nora Ephron were married at the time and both interviewed Henry Hill.

For authors whose works are listed in the Anthropic Settlement case in the US: Reminder of key dates (if your works qualify). If you wish to ‘opt out’ or object to the settlement, you must do so by 29 January 2026. You will find more information on our website, including FAQs. buff.ly/4jKhnye

Reminds me that I've been looking for an opportunity to use this far superior version of the Drake meme

An (incomplete!) thread of #DoctorWho studios being employed as sets in the series... Day of the Daleks: that green-lit space is the folded-up studio audience seating in TC8, representing a futuristic wall.

Chelsea is the best human being in #TheArchers - And has been for a very long time. I’m so happy the writers have brought her back in.

92 today. My hero.

Make sure you stick around at the end of Hamnet for the post-credits scene setting up the Shakespeare Cinematic Universe

So, if you ever wondered why people who understand surveillance are salty about video cameras on doorbells... It's only a matter of time before they get co-opted into mass surveillance. And if the regime you live under changes that's you spying on your neighbours.

That reminds me: It's Tom Baker's birthday in two days so no need to panic if you see his name trending on Tuesday. That was a public service announcement for geeks everywhere.

I'm a Gen X Brit who grew up swimming in American culture. Aways wanted to go on a long road-trip holiday in the USA. I'd *almost* saved up enough years ago but then we had a daughter and that was that. Since then, it's been my retirement dream. Never going to happen, is it? That country is gone.

the entire population of England in 1086 will return in... Avengers Domesday

Proprietor Aaron Aardvark

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’ “A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles” BELGIAN WHISTLES

Elon Musk said we are going to make Star Trek real A reminder In Star Trek A devastating nuclear war fueled by wealth inequality, political polarization and extremist factions begins in…. 2026

NASA say that the crew member who was ill and returned to earth is doing well and now having a meal with colleagues.

why do musketeers use swords not muskets