The Diocese of Oxford has warned against a social media trend in which well-meaning people clean gravestones in churchyards. They say “Many churchyard monuments & gravestones are made from soft stone such as Portland limestone or Bath stone, which can be easily harmed by harsh cleaning techniques.”

As there's a new Harry Styles album out today and we haven't done one for a while... Harry Styles as Barnsley Museums objects. A THREAD 👇 Copy of Gainsborough's 'The Blue Boy' by Henry Bone

"The citations may be non-existent, but if the learned trial court has considered the correct principles of law and its application to the facts of the case is also correct" then it's perfectly okay, says Indian court. #lawsky #AI www.bbc.com/news/article...

How cool is this? Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library of Congress: not "seen by anyone in likely more than a century" He pioneered jump cuts, double exposure, black screens, forced perspective Watch it here:

"Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position." Christopher Marlowe baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593 known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: looking deliberately like he's appeared on Good Morning Britain by accident, Dave Vanian of The Damned is paired with Barry Ryan, whose Eloise his band have just taken to number three.

@greatdismal.bsky.social should see this

🚨GREAT BAT NEWS🚨 In December, we asked you to pitch in so BCI could acquire and preserve Brandon Hill Cave, the only known maternity roost for Endangered bats on Utila island, Honduras, before luxury developers swooped in.

Jane Baer has died at 91. A titan, she worked on 'Sleeping Beauty,' co-founded Baer Animation, supervised 'Roger Rabbit,' and advocated for her fellow artists. Few careers trace the evolution of late-20th-century American animation as completely. www.cartoonbrew.com/rip/jane-bae...

The judge said absolutely no AI glasses with facial recognition can be worn in the courtroom. If anyone has already used them to record jurors, “you must delete it or you will be held in contempt of court.” “This is very serious,” Judge Kuhl said.

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting. You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

Hedy Lamarr for National Innovation Day. Lamarr co-invented frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology during WWII, which laid the groundwork for modern wireless technologies, including Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth.

Tod Browning’s landmark horror picture, DRACULA, starring Bela Lugosi, hit theaters across the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1931.

RIP Bud Cort variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Immediately thought of @weirdmedieval.bsky.social

I did not know that many states have a program that lets seniors and/or disabled people defer paying their property taxes until the property is sold. This was a lifesaver for some people I know. Check your own state. Here's California's

So, WikiFlix is this wonderful place where public domain cinema classics are waiting for us. 📽️ From Nosferatu and Night of the Living Dead, to Metropolis and Un Chien Andalou, you can watch everything here: wikiflix.toolforge.org

Looney Tunes is (finally!) heading back to broadcast television, with Turner Classic Movies set to position the classic shorts as curated works of film history rather than disposable kids' content. www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/looney-tu...

18 announced for the 2026 Eisner Hall of Fame

Another mainstream movie promotional still flagged as "adult content" by the censor bot lol

Born #onthisday in 1809, Edgar Allan Poe. Many illustrators have tackled Poe's dark and macabre tales but perhaps none so hauntingly and brilliantly as Irish artist Harry Clarke. See his exquisite imagery for Poe's Tales of Mystery & Imagination: publicdomainreview.org/collection/h... #otd

Looking for help from fans of NWOBHM or heavy metal in general. I'm trying to find a Saxon video from the late 1980s that features an explosion. Maybe someone gets knocked off their feet by it? Any ideas, @metalinjection.bsky.social ?

‘We wouldn’t still be playing if we’d got stinking rich’: the Damned celebrate 50 years of punk, goth and holy grail hunting

This is fun and educational little project by @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social demonstrates creative and on-brand social media engagement without a huge budget

My computer speaker is distressed at what it's hearing @pareidolia.bsky.social

Remembering David Bowie, born on this day, 1947. Pictured here in The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1976.

Fantastic photo of one of our sky puppy friends

Remembering Ron Asheton, who died on this date in 2008. Inimitable, one of the greats underappreciatedrock.org/ron-asheton

Remembering SYD BARRETT - born 80yrs ago today #PinkFloyd

Welcome to the Public Domain, MOROCCO (1930) 🎩 🎥 Marlene Dietrich was bending the rules as she pleased. See her iconic suit & daring kiss in this pre-Code classic. 🌸💋 Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree

Anyone who doesn’t understand how to read a royalty statement, there are professional auditors who will do it for you and they only get paid if they make a recovery for you. If you don’t know any, HMU. I know lots of them.

Season's Greetings and Happy Holidays from your friends at BCI. 💫 Thank you for being a part of our community this year. 🦇❤️

Merry Christmas from Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet

A number of my works are available through the National Library Service, which provides work via audio and braille, and I encourage their use. All my contracts allow for this service to provide access to my work. www.loc.gov/nls/who-we-s...

Someone ask for a snowball? ❄️🥶 These little floofs (𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴) hibernate in the snow! Snow provides good insulation and protection from predators -- which is important when you weigh just 4-8 grams. 😮 🦇 Ussuri tube-nosed bat 📸 Yushi & Keiko Osawa

I have just found out that some reprehensible fucking dork has made an AI chatbot based on the character I played on The Magnus Archives and *it has my voice*. I genuinely don't think I have ever felt so fucking violated. My actual voice. Saying things I have never said. I feel sick.

Huge news! This is the week that #LadyKillers is back! Our new season begins on Tuesday 16 December at 3pm on BBC Radio 4 and the trailer's available NOW on BBC Sounds. If you're outside the UK, listen weekly wherever you get your podcasts.

Journalism, how does it work

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

Not @theonion.com Not the Onion www.reuters.com/world/us/rub...

The only Christmas party I want to attend www.instagram.com/reel/DRh--3z...

Water your tree.

Conservationist Kristen Lear discusses efforts to restore agave plants in the American Southwest and Mexico, and what restoration means for both pollinating bats and your tequila. Plus, scientists can now track individual butterflies during monarchs’ epic migrations. 🦇 🦋

Pepys House (at his alma mater Hitchingbrooke School) may be renamed due to "recent research" revealing his actions towards women. Did they just now read the Diaries? @samuelpepys.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sunny, Suni, what's the difference. This has been up for two days and has not been corrected. Does ABC News have any editors left? abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

A Redditor is mildly freaking out because a friend noticed the air fryer looks like a grinning face. Now the owner can't unsee it and finds it unsettling @pareidolia.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...

The greatest Thanksgiving special ever made by any TV show in history. There is no debate. Don’t even bother.

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more: collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/