Oh god. If we actually pull this off, if humans manage the seemingly impossible here, the expected arseholes are going to Millennium Bug this and say it was a hoax all along.

Madness. Simply madness. I repeat, EVERY SINGLE OPINION ON THE ENDING, GOOD OR BAD, IS ACCEPTED! But there are boundaries between fantasy and reality that shouldn't be crossed. Threatening someone just because a work of fiction didn't end the way you wanted is one of them.

Hahahahahahahahaha <pauses for breath> hahahahahahahahahaha When I was my teen’s age I was in the pub, smoking, drinking and pogo-ing. The government couldn’t stop that so I doubt they’ll stop my teen…using Pinterest.

Bluesky overrun by British teenagers at night because it's the one place the Labour government will never check.

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING IMMEDIATELY AND LOOK AT THIS DOG

A honorific that can be pleasingly shortened to “cuz” for people needing a single syllable version. In my family we title relatives as cousin when they might be very distant and another generation entirely so it’s an easy one for me to adopt.

you can just do anything you want with your house www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/8...

Last Sunday, I asked for help spreading the word about my free #history game, #PastPuzzle. The post was viewed by about 1,000 people and attracted around 1,000 new players. I’d be happy if you took the time to watch the video (it has English subtitles). Extra puzzle @ the end: youtu.be/MdsiINl_Uzs

Right about now, funk soul brothers. (image on left is of the kind of pub you'd cross the road to avoid, with a police car outside it and a large crowd of anti-fascist protestors. Image on right is Norman 'Fatboy Slim' Cook in the crowd near a sign reading 'dance 4 love'.)

On the blog this week - I read The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K Le Guin and definitely prefer this to Avatar www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/6/...

Great piece on the context for Rivals.

These all seem fair enough. I also think it works well with lots of writers: different voices for different stories. In RTD2, my fave stories were by other writers. Maybe separate back out the producer and series editor roles as it’s clearly *exhausting* being showrunner for Who.

New YouTube obsession just dropped.

💙 Refugee Week is coming to Exeter (15–21 June), with a range of community events celebrating this year’s theme: Courage. Find out more and see the full programme on the Refugee Support Devon website. refugeesupportdevon.org.uk/news/just-dr...

Dunno what happens when Michael Palin dies, presumably we just shut up shop and sell Leeds to Greater Manchester.

Gift link has run out but we've intervened at god level and made it free to read as it's a year old. www.ft.com/content/3862...

The guy who was the best at painting British rain, has died. #RIP #DavidHockney

There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.

Here is a gift link to Simon Schama's appreciation of David Hockney's life and art which we ran last year. It's an amazing piece and contains, as you might imagine, some spectacular pictures including an absolute corker of Hackney with Lucian Freud as.ft.com/r/f1473f70-0...

Brief Encounters from Vintage Classics - a series of 52 short books by (modern) classic authors, out next month. Flapped B-format paperbacks, £9.99 each. Here are five of them.

Hockney’s work was always about light: the sharp cyan of a swimming pool reflecting Californian sun, or the dappled shade of a Yorkshire lane. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I am reluctantly realising that there are a generation of commentators who are too young and or too American to remember the Troubles. And too confident to realise there is historical context to the phase “Belfast riots” which they might need to read up on a bit.

As soon as you start arguing these race riots shouldn't happen because immigration has fallen you give credence to the racists' supposed "legitimate concerns". Children were evacuated from burning houses: that is NOT legitimate. Stop playing their game.

I…nope. I’m done.

18) And, crucially, fascism does not start with death camps - that is where it can end. 19) Both democracy collapse and fascism start with the limitation of rights for specific communities; the undermining of the rule of law; the curtailment of democratic participation, incl protest rights etc.

If I were an academic doing a “sometimes you do have to smack children” bit on the radio, I probably wouldn’t chuckle part way through it.

The BBC need to lean into this. When the current series of any show ends, the main character should suddenly turn into Billie Piper. When the next one starts, Billie is nowhere to be seen. Normalise this now and in a few years it won't be an issue for Doctor Who.

Impressive numbers of old school fans telling Eddie that some fans remember 1989 and therefore are justified in ignoring how TV is made now. I also remember 1989. Just sing Que Sera Sera and focus on more important things than something outside your control.

An ongoing series of original novels, using the written format to tell stories too broad and too deep for televisi… Naah, that would be silly.

Really, really, really object to any news corporations labelling people setting fire to cars, houses and attacking police as 'protesters'

I’ve finished watching Tip Toe and, sure, the odd RTD trope (a Cassandra, you say? And a monstrous older woman?*) but the rage and the fear and, dear god, the consequences of small actions. *there’s more tropes, but spoilers.

There's a woman in my building going absolutely nuts saying "the council is housing poor people here. In our building!" It's a council estate. Yes, a lot of flats have been bought out. But it's a bloody council estate block. Of course the council is going to put people into housing if it has flats.

Some heroes don't wear capes

Anyone here know someone in Marvel’s IP protection team?

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

I was talking to someone yesterday who thought Brexit had been a disaster. But still supported Farage. The disjoint is so frustrating.

A very rare - for me - full green grid on cluesbysam.com

The answer to both questions is Oh Brother Where Art Thou came out in 2001

It's almost time to blast the grime away with the PowerWash Simulator 2 STAR WARS pack, coming July 16th 💦 Join the rebellion against dirt as you clean your way across the galaxy on PC, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2 ✨

Particularly pissed off that this ignores that French troops *also took part in D-Day*. It's important symbolically and practically that the first troops to enter Paris weren't Soviet or American, but Free French

I know we shouldn't respond to the trolling, but Vance implying that Sikhs are part of a "mass invasion of migrants", when they fought in tens of thousands for the British in two world wars and even THE INDIAN MUTINY is 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

People talk a lot about the internet being reduced to a hellscaoe but then you find art like this Cardi B audio layered over young kestrels being scared of a butterfly:

Spending my rainy Saturday clearing emails. This is interesting, from the people that created Slow Ways for walking between towns is coming the more accessible active travel mapping: goodways.org

I remember being a kid and being told over and over that if you get lost or separated from your family, look for a man on his own to help you. Oh wait no, it was a woman with kids, always, every time, by every adult figure.

This is fantastic.

This thread is good: the full essay is excellent.

One story I love about Anthony Head is that he heard how badly James Marsters said “bollocks” and started tutoring him so that Spike’s accent wasn’t totally dreadful.

He'll be staying at Grey Gables. The question is, will he be visiting very silently or are we to be treated to another visit from Tony Head? #TheArchers

Ah, Brizzol.