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Headlines from 1250 AD:

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Y’all mind if I catch the

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

Think how much time you’d have if you had no hobbies or interests at all!!!!

This is, and bear in mind I can't bear sport, an extremely stupid take.

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

Reading the travel diaries of Bertrandon de Broquiere (1400-1459 AD), one of the first white boys to say Inshallah

Paraphrasing ManCarryingThing here but it’s telling that boosters of AI in art almost never present the books (or “paintings” or whatever) AI writes as the end in itself. It’s always a means to make money, either selling the books or seminars

New Muppet Show is a joyful delight. Sabrina Carpenter truly Gets the Muppet vibe in a way i can’t imagine every future guest nailing. Either way - come on man give me more! I want to watch the pig be mean to the frog!!

Hey Cameron Winter, can you explain the basic relationship between Christianisation and state building in early medieval Northern Europe?

“I went around the corner to see if spring was there.” “Did you find it?” asked Toad. “No,” said Frog. “There was only an old worm asleep on a tree stump.”

I know it wasn't everyone's cup of tea but I watched Kimmy Schmidt a few times and laughed out loud every single time at the episode where Mikey, trying to convince his co-workers on the construction site that he wasn't gay, followed the advice of "spray painting a hot chick on his truck"

Something something Heated Rivalry

Always thinking about Bernard Shaw’s description of Joan of Arc

My favourite holiday song: I’ll Be Home For Quiz Mice by Grand Foyer

you might be wondering "who goes to see the avatars?" it's me, i go to see the avatars. i love that shit.

“I think you’re in my seat”

God bless the true Mayor of Norwich. A Fine City indeed 🫡

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

@weirdmedieval.bsky.social I had to make you guys these meme after listening to this particular episode.

SWEYN FORKBEARD CNUT THE GREAT HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN MADS MIKKELSEN YOUR BOYS TOOK A HELL OF A BEATING

SCOOOOOT LAAAAAAAND

i actually really really hate the "there are too few positive male role models for boys" thing for one banal reason and it is that it literally just isn't true

Every Scotland fan checking the football scores youtu.be/frhQMuyH0lg?...

Finally finished @aptshadow.bsky.social ‘s wonderful Children of Time last night. 18 hours later I’m still walking around muttering “they turned that woman into ants!” to myself. Absolutely masterful stuff to the very last page.

I know the discourse has moved on but every single person involved in this show should be knighted for Services to Proper Fucking Telly

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

BBC really burying the lede there

the assumptions made about the target audience by making the first two items "OnlyFans' and 'child support' are kind of incredible

Easily my favourite thing about the podcast being back from hiatus is the number of people going “Wait, Joe Mason is a REAL person???” Buddy I’ve been asking myself the same thing for a decade

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

The Celebrity Traitors isn’t just the best thing on tv right now, it’s the best thing that’s *been* on tv in at least three years. Multiple moments in the last episode had me exactly like this

Glad to see Celebrity Traitors is no different than regular Traitors when it comes to reading intelligent analysis of what's going on as a cause for suspicion. David Olusoga: "Think logically. Don't get swept along by groupthink." The rest: "He's being too clever. Burn him!"

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

I desperately want to pick the brains the 5% of East Midlanders who, when asked to name the single most distinctive thing about their region, spontaneously and confidently replied “we have an airport”

King and Conqueror is bad in pretty baffling ways. I’m going to make a thread of just random ??? moments from the first episode alone

Hey meta just fyi prompting me to use AI to write a message to my family group chat is offensive and borderline demonic

Really enjoyed Superman, but I’m starting to worry that James Gunn has a cheat code to my emotions because he seems to have my EXACT music taste. ‘This is the Day’ and ‘Dog Days are Over’ in GotG Vol.3 was some absolutely *diabolical* work

I’m no expert but I would’ve got a person to do it.

I’ll say it: I want the guy who made Better Man to make the Beatles movies. Don’t let Danny Boyle near them. The story of the Beatles is a technicolour tragicomedy about the four most charismatic twentysomethings to ever live. The last thing they need is a dark, reverent reboot

Sidebar from my thread: the *only* part of Uprising that completely works for me is the reveal that he’s “dating” a piece of kaiju brain. It’s so viscerally upsetting that it has to be a Del Toro idea

It’s been some kinda weekend so throwing on Pacific Rim. Let’s see if the movie that fundamentally rewired my brain in 2013 and I’ve seen a dozen times holds up!

For about 500 people alive, this is HUGE news

I didn’t want to believe it but yes the Robbie Williams movie is as good as they say. Multiple scenes had me exactly like this

#InternationalZebraDay 🦓: #Zebras in a Byzantine Greek illuminated manuscript of the Book of Job, c. 1362. BnF Grec 135, f. 100r and 224r. gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

I feel like if Chaucer was writing the Canterbury Tales now, he'd include a whole section about "fart selfies" www.bbc.com/news/article...

A thing I keep thinking about is @petefrasermusic.bsky.social’s observation that people now view social media as something that is done to them rather than something they might actually actively curate. It’s very sad and embodies all the things I was optimistic and wrong about as a teen.