Here are my top 10 most unusual dog friends of all time!

RIP Lowell Fillmore 'Sly' Dunbar www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLJF...

Our newest rescued giraffe, Pips, likes to tail her Keepers around Kaluku. When a chore takes them further afield, they've devised a clever stopgap – hanging a jacket on her favourite tree so she can browse 'accompanied' by a comforting scent. Learn more about Pips: swt.bio/pips

John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on this day in 1926.

Sly Dunbar has passed. A true architect of genre. RIP youtu.be/TbDJjjJQJ-o?...

John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on this day in 1926.

Happy birthday to Peter Coyle. Here he is with The Lotus Eaters performing The First Picture Of You on Switch in 1983. Watch the full song plus Out On Your Own at youtu.be/8Y4y7dHTKYY

We're getting a snowstorm tomorrow. But New York City is prepared.

Painting with your pup: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old. You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes. From Treasure magazine, 1963 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

Bless my cotton socks.... Reward by the Teardrop Explodes is 45 years old today. Here's the official video for the single, which was released on this day in 1981 youtu.be/o2_sJHPIbVw

🎶 Alfriston, oh Alfriston I still hear your sea winds blowing 🎶

Bugger. Been nice knowing you all.

Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen's note to Starmer after visiting Chequers yesterday.

Yes bro

How social animals work together

It's difficult to improve on this summary.

You're watching BBC Scotland.

You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

Red roofed fisherman's shelter, Rye Harbour, East Sussex

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Not enjoying 6 Music's Rap and Rave Day? I recommend listening to this piss take from Riley & Coe - excellent tunes and it will make you smile. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Thank goodness I'm not Angela Raynor, otherwise the press would have hounded me out of office.

Penguin logo checks nobody is looking before breaking into its dance.

Captain Bonespur, there.

When someone asks you to play "Wonderwall".

And then in Switzerland he said "Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German". #Davos

TRUMP: no-one has eaten more cheese than me. if anyone tells you otherwise they're a horse fucker. I eat cheese every day, sometimes two days. cheese is good, it's nutritious, it's for white people, you can't eat the plastic packaging but sometimes I do BBC NEWS: and now we move onto foreign policy

TRUMP: i could fight top cat. no other President is brave enough to fight top cat but I could, I would hit him in the face with the lid of his trash can. everyone would be cheering. thank you for killing Top Cat. we needed that to happen BBC NEWS: a thoughtful Trump muses on congressional power

And then in Switzerland he said "Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German". #Davos

Exclusive footage of Trumpaloompa speaking at Davros. (sic) youtu.be/7Hbx_lo0ilY?...

I dearly hope this is their actual reaction

Sparkling stochastic terror was its precursor, right?

This is Chloe. She doesn't understand why she can't have any of your Chinese food. Brought over a clean plate and everything. 13/10 (TT: morgansieberrr)

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

When someone asks you to play "Wonderwall".

Remember the Soviet joke about a man who always goes to look at the papers but never buys one. The news agent asks him what he's looking for and he says, "An obituary" and the news agent points out that they're always in the back section. "This one won't be".

They had the audacity to claim Bluesky didn't have the juice, but not since peak Twitter have I logged off for an evening and come back to my entire feed speaking in a new language of rapid-fire in-jokes that I have to reverse-engineer to figure out what's happening. That, my friends, is The Juice.

The American Woodcock, though. *snork*

"Meanwhile, Princess Anne went for a ride in Kirkbride, Queen Camilla went shopping in Wapping, Prince Edward dropped a clanger in Bangor, and the young ladies of Buckingham asked Prince Andrew if he'd mind staying at home. Now it's goodnight from me ... ... and it's goodnight from him."

Might knock out a children’s book, this afternoon.

Update from Channel 4:

Baby Lola learns to swim! #Otters 🥹❤️

Aconites, hellebores and snowdrops flowering at the wonderful #HighdownGardens Definitely feels like Spring is on its way. #Spring @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @southdownsnp.bsky.social

Today in 1978 - Magazine - ‘Shot By Both Sides’ single was released. One of the great debut singles. 👌 youtu.be/-ul_vTkwgs4?...

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a library in possession of a good Jane Austen biography, must be in want of some googly eyes.'

Got some very red aurora happening in Orkney right now

This is Luna. She faked having a paw injury after her human hurt their leg. Figured they felt silly hopping around like that and thought it'd be less embarrassing if she did it too. 13/10 (IG: claassenam)

I've just had a fast moving coronal mass ejection, so I'd give it 10 minutes if I were you.