I made this postcard move - Bembridge Windmill, Isle of Wight

Absolute joy

I owe you all an apology. I failed to mark the 11th anniversary yesterday of the 20th anniversary of the Great Northern Jerk-Off. I also missed the 30th annual Great Northern Jerk-Off in 2024, and have been unable to establish when the 2026 Jerk-Off was or is being held

It’s the 211th anniversary of an editorial in The Times which “deplores the credulity of Londoners”. Apparently, they’d fallen en masse for a rumour that there was a gentlewoman living in the capital who was unremarkable but for the fact she had a pig’s head 🧵

Tempted though I am by the Lloyds Bank Coprolite, the diorama of the execution of Louis XVI featuring taxidermied grey squirrels, Vermeer’s View of Delft, the Magdeburg Unicorn, George V’s Fabergé aardvark, and the hat made from a mushroom at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, it has to be...

It’s the 211th anniversary of an editorial in The Times which “deplores the credulity of Londoners”. Apparently, they’d fallen en masse for a rumour that there was a gentlewoman living in the capital who was unremarkable but for the fact she had a pig’s head 🧵

Ladies and gentlemen: the weekend / Monday

Remembered this gif exists. Morning

EXT: Day. The grave of Noel Edmonds. A figure lies face down in the freshly dug soil, sobbing inconsolably. CAPTION: GREYFRIARS BLOBBY.

Just looking through some old comics and found a mail order advert for Small Prophets

Classic sci-fi movie Saturn 3 celebrates its joyful 46th anniversary today. Obviously, you’re familiar with it – directed by Stanley ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ Donen, it starred Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel, and had a script by Martin Amis. It couldn’t fail. Ah, and yet, and yet... 🧵

My sister sent me a photo of some of our ancestors. Not a clue who any of them are, but have been making snap judgments 2. Is well aware that you’re thinking of the granny from the Giles cartoons. Will clip you round the ear later 3. Has read Oscar Wilde. Will be disowned 4. Syphilis, clearly

Just been reminded that this video exists. Morning all

Currently watching this deeply weird thing, and I haven’t read any interviews in which he’s said so, but surely Kinski’s Dracula is where Rami Malek got the idea for the voice he does in No Time To Die?

Lest we forget to have a shit

See Ravilious, RT Ravilious. It’s a rule

Good morning please enjoy these French porcelain sphynxes, they can’t believe you would actually post that, they are both repelled and intrigued

’Oo remembers casting a shadow? What were that all about?

Oo The London Nobody Knows! youtu.be/vj4d7rI3A84?...

Or the Dave Allen one about the British Eccentric www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RX1...

This is a fantastic interview:

Well, happy 13th birthday to this immaculately timed headline

Reminds me of this from the old place a few years ago

27 years ago today, artist John Myatt was sentenced to a year in prison for conspiracy to defraud, after painting around 200 fake works, including Chagalls and Matisses over a period of eight years, which convinced buyers despite usually being rendered in household emulsion mixed with KY Jelly 🧵

Instantly ordered one of these, obviously

For anyone who by some incredible mischance has not read / or listened to this, one of the most striking and influential books of this century.

Hahahahahahaha like fuck

27 years ago today, artist John Myatt was sentenced to a year in prison for conspiracy to defraud, after painting around 200 fake works, including Chagalls and Matisses over a period of eight years, which convinced buyers despite usually being rendered in household emulsion mixed with KY Jelly 🧵

Roses are red Hives have bees in

12 February, or – as it’s also known – 188th anniversary of the day Lady Hester Stanhope wrote to Queen Victoria in high dudgeon to say “Few things are more disgraceful and inimical to Royalty than giving commands without examining all their different bearings” 🧵

The first episode of Bagpuss was originally broadcast on this day in 1974. Created by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate, the series ran for just 13 episodes (with voices provided by Postgate, Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner).

Anyone want a painting?

I've no idea who did this as I received it via WhatsApp....nb @scottwortley.bsky.social

12 February, or – as it’s also known – 188th anniversary of the day Lady Hester Stanhope wrote to Queen Victoria in high dudgeon to say “Few things are more disgraceful and inimical to Royalty than giving commands without examining all their different bearings” 🧵

Looking forward to seeing if @aiannucci.bsky.social 's theory on AI plays out www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_s...

14 years ago today. No social media manager. No PR. Just raw unfiltered emotion and heartfelt stream of consciousness for a much-loved and much-missed musical icon. The day the music died and Twitter peaked. @

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

that’s it, i’ve finally taken my best photo of all time 😅 (this chubster is an unapologetic beggar so don’t feel bad for him) 🧪🌍 #bird #birb

People who went to Dulwich College no longer enjoy playing this game

It’s the 247th anniversary of Admiral Augustus Keppel being acquitted at a court martial, the natural outcome of which obviously was... yes, that’s right: the Honourable Charles James Fox, Member of Parliament for Westminster, got shitfaced and smashed windows in the Admiralty 🧵

Roses are red Clouseau would fight Cato

In other historical anniversary news today, Facebook says it’s 10 years since The Younger Child (then 10, and who had to text us when she’d arrived at school safely) was treated to some *very clever and funny* dad work

It’s the 247th anniversary of Admiral Augustus Keppel being acquitted at a court martial, the natural outcome of which obviously was... yes, that’s right: the Honourable Charles James Fox, Member of Parliament for Westminster, got shitfaced and smashed windows in the Admiralty 🧵

2685 years ago, on the 11th of February 660 BCE, the legendary Emperor Jimmu ascended to the Japanese throne according to tradition. Due to this, today is National Foundation Day in Japan as the event is regarded as the mythical founding of the country.

I changed the audio

On learning of the appalling injustice of cats not being allowed shepherd’s pie

British people: Those Swedish bastards who beat us are in the curling final. Hmmmmmph Also British people: Playing America, are you? COME ON, SWEDEN!

It’s the 136th anniversary today of some highly prized artefacts from Ancient Egypt being auctioned in Liverpool. From there, the 180,000 mummified cats in question went to their splendid and dignified final resting place. A museum? No. They were ground up and used for fertiliser 🧵

It’s 10 February, which can only mean one thing. YES, OF COURSE! It’s the 671st anniversary of the townsfolk and students of Oxford marking Saint Scholastica’s day by... er, hammering shit out of each other until over 90 people were dead 🧵