I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college: “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”

@aiannucci.bsky.social love the latest Strong Message Here with Stewart Lee. Your discussion re the diet of pacifying truth and fiction we're fed via the media put me in mind of Nigel Kneale's 60s drama play, The Year of the Sex Olympics. He'd predicted the here and now about 50 years ago.

Beautiful sunrise this morning

BBC News - How a Hollywood tour guide discovered an unknown celebrity grave www.bbc.com/news/article...

@jonronson.bsky.social hello there! Apols for the question out of the blue but I wondered if Things Fell Apart was coming back for another series?

Ok this thread is absolutely fascinating, love it! @maidfortv.bsky.social

This was my childhood hero, if you want to know why I am like I am

Neurologically speaking, there's no such thing as 'useless' subjects or 'rip-off' degrees Insisting we should only teach useful subjects is like saying science should only do research that gives positive results If you honestly believe that's how anything works, *your* education was the wasted one

My debut folk horror audio drama is now available! Enter a world immersed in Shropshire Folklore, ruled by Devil Himself. There's something very strange afoot up the stiperstones! buzzsprout.com/411730/12499890 buzzsprout.com/411730/12600423

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This is the inevitable outcome of relentless anti-immigration political rhetoric and a media environment which disproportionately amplifies the voices of racists, giving the indication that they are the "voice of the public" rather than the minority they are. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

What an absolutely gorgeous photo of Diane Keaton.

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Film collectors and cinema lovers, working with experts at DMU’s Cinema and Television History Research Group, are preparing for a special screening of vintage television episodes.

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

Here's a little something for when randoms turn up in your mentions demanding you explain what you're posting about

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Utterly disgusting, but another sign of the continuing emboldening of hate groups. Labour should be as quick to act against groups like this, who are actually causing harm and breaking the law, as they declare themselves to be against those opposing genocide. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

“Mission To The Unknown” premiered 60 years ago today. Here is the University of Central Lancashire’s recreation of the episode from 2019. #DoctorWho youtu.be/NW8yk-m5Ig8

My hands are shaking a little as I type this but...ITCH! IS OUT TODAY!! I'm finally a big 5 published author! Feminist, formication folk horror with creepy crawlies, ancient traditions, unsolved murders, weird processions, masks, an old pub and an excellent dog. www.hachette.co.uk/titles/gemma...

The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.

This made me laugh more than it probably should 😂 #funny

In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.

When politicians like Trump, or Starmer, say & do transphobic things, parents talk about it in front of kids & then the kids bring it to school. It’s horrific that these kids are being taught to hate & at such an early age. It is critical we do not import this into Irish politics:

Absolutely this 👇

Spot on.

An incredible scoop from Darren here lifted straight from... Polanski's public Wikipedia page

Love this.

Sorry but any politician waxing lyrical about cricket pitches, village greens, milkmaids, cycling spinsters or whistling bin men, clearly grew up in Trumpton

I’m old enough to remember when a comment like this would have been a resigning matter…

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

LETS GOOO

Today's sunrise makes me feel like I'm walking on the surface of Venus or something. Not that anyone could walk there and survive the pressure or the deadly sulfur rain, but the colour of the sky reminds me of that planet.

Oh do piss off, there's a good chap www.bbc.com/news/article...

Family includes everyone! ❤️

IT’S TIME. We are back with #31DaysOfHalloween - highlighting a #spookybook (or several) every day. Kicking off with a new-to-us copy of a classic of the genre.

Blimey, Scars of Dracula really is a dreadful film #hammer #hammerhorror #britishhorror

Sad news, what a superb talent she was BBC News - Keeping Up Appearances star Patricia Routledge dies at 96 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hot Damn: Lost Nigel Kneale BBC radio drama from 1952 newly recorded from Kneale's original script. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESpi...

Any time people start talking about weakening protections for certain groups I am always reminded of this quote.

People often claim it's a mistake to call far-right figures racist. But it's extremely telling how much they hate being called racist. Farage doesn't welcome it. He is afraid of it. And he has benefited from people's reticence about using it to describe his policies.

Aw diddums. Did the nasty man call you racist just because you make racist comments, push racist policies and support racists being racist?

St John's church, Glastonbury peering out of the mist. Photograph taken this morning from Glastonbury Tor on Michaelmas day.

watch this.

“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏

British TV hivemind, a question for you. Are the monthly viewing figures for British TV for the 70s, 80s & 90s online? Teletronic has the 60s figures & BARB from 1998 onwards, but I can't find the rest. @drdjohnston.bsky.social @cooraysmith.bsky.social @nothinglane.bsky.social do you know? Thanks!

The Reform right like the MAGA right are completely fact averse and know that they can bullshit their way to power because their followers simply don't care about truth. That's the threat this country faces, and it strikes me that our media are ill equipped to tackle it and failing us all.

As part of UoB's Booktober Events, I'll be running one on Male Mental Illness in Literature in Birmingham at The Exchange. Tickets are FREE and you can sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/male-menta...

Favourite 10 TV comedies, in no particular order: 1) The Good Life 2) The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin 3) Parks and Recreation 4) Community 5) AbFab 6) The Office (US) 7) Blackadder 8) Up Pompeii 9) Peep Show 10) Victoria Wood (As Seen on TV)