A week after it aired in America, the first episode of Hill Street Blues received its UK premiere on this day in 1981.

Exciting news - we now have a CHERRY TREE growing outside Orkney Library & Archive! ❤️ Massive thanks to the Orkney Japan Association. It's one of 30 trees planted in #Orkney as part of the #Sakura Cherry Tree Project which aims to plant 10,000 cherry trees across the UK. 🌸🌸🌸

Marcus Gilbert passed away on Sunday, January 11. He played Ancelyn in the 1989 Doctor Who story 'Battlefield'.

Doctor Who - the 4th Doctor Patreon backer character request www.patreon.com/post...

Gets me down youtu.be/TgFurwDc7X0?...

You'll work in some of the most remote and beautiful places on Earth, build lifelong friendships, and contribute to vital science about our changing world. 🗓️ Contracts run from six to 18 months 💸 Salaries start at £30,244 per annum ✅ You need to have the right to work in the UK (sorry)

I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you! adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

Its been a month since I sold a colouring book. Countless hours to produce and I've sold around 25 copies. Slightly gutted, but I'm not giving up on it yet!

A piece on BBC World Service just now about Operation Mincemeat

It's Squirrel Appreciation Day 🐿️ Read about Hans Holbein's 'A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling' 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto... 📷 The National Gallery

Today I completed the Githyanki from the new Monster Manual! They're ready for 3D printing, and free as always :) I made the warriors and dracomancers! Free stls: mz4250.com/posts/148719... Tomorrow I'll start on the Githzerai! Stay tuned :D

Just checking in case the US infiltrated munitions and ‘green men’ into Scotland and we weren’t told. US CG 755 Munro does not show up on MarineTraffic.

Am biodh an saoghal anns an staing anns a bheil e an-diugh nan robh Dòmhnall Iain Trump air an t-sean-fhacal "lean gu dlùth ri cliù do shinnsire" ionnsachadh aig glùin a mhàthar Leòdhasaich? www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan...

Florence and the McQueen www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I'm delighted to be confirmed as the new Editor for Archaeology & Art for the international journal Studia Celtica. With a double-blind peer review policy the journal is an excellent place to consider publishing new archaeological research about the Celtic nations 😊 👉 www.uwp.co.uk/journal/stud...

Don’t have nightmares www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

For a moment this evening we were largely cloud-free 🙂 Cloud has now obscured the whole sky, but for a moment it was definitely one of the more 'see-able' auroras in recent years 👍 It was very bright outside, like moonlight.

Doomed to repeat it youtube.com/watch?v=UQFw...

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

No reason youtu.be/uEEi4cpziUU?...

Space: I like not knowing things, but it doesn’t stop me being interested youtu.be/jmo0JyGOC3M?...

Easter is coming

“Trust me, I know what I’m doing” www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Just checking: how much money does scottish government pay trump international in 2025

Mentioned on BBC Sounds “Take Four Books”. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto...

Hey, have you played GET IN THE CAR, LOSER!, my lesbian road trip RPG about an anxious trans lesbian going on an adventure to fight a reactionary cult summoning an ancient evil? It's currently on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/938860/G... and also available on your local Nintendo Switch eShop!

Wikipedia: The majority of scholars emphasise the Viking influence on the birlinn. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birlinn

Doh, getting my Sand Creeks and Pine Ridges muddled up. But then, I am not an American.

Accidental find (from 2017) www.sundaypost.com/fp/questions...

🔥NEW VIDEO The first in a three part series! Here are my 10 favorite small box games from Asia last year! youtu.be/b6t5iL4Awx0

Who the heck wants to work for the UK Govt on science & technology innovations, except as a way to infiltrate the country www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Selling fast! If you want to come see me at Wolverhampton Literature Festival in a few weeks, grab your tickets now… 👉 wolvesliteraturefestival.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Post-supermarket wind down. Spoilers for current audio book, Simon Scarrow’s “Tyrant of Rome”. Fiddlesticks. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Just checking what the Scottish govt can do when Trump & his administration are declared enemies of our country.

Tidying up does mean organising my paints, doesn't it?? Removing the paint brush holder at the front by using the original huge hex-stand as a negative space. Sources: www.printables.com/model/767273... www.printables.com/model/764883...

Saw that this short film was a follow-up to Charlie Brown’s school exchange to Europe. But no sign of the film on tv stations, just some clips. youtu.be/OjEMUVRzLts?...

FALMOUTH tickets - 3rd December - not doing many solo shows first half of the year, but Cornwall I’m coming to you thepoly.savoysystems.co.uk/ThePoly.dll/... #cornwall #poetry #comedy #books

@whitespider1066.bsky.social They’re taking the hobbits to Isengard To Isengard To Isengard

On Geek Grotto today, with the news that comic shop Plan 9 is closing this weekend, Craig & I sit down to talk about the state of the comics scene & more.
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Winding down youtu.be/PasAkc_Tk7o?...

Marking end of a busy week with a pre-Blanche order to replace hand-made takeaway box mouldy damp palette w some Army Painter new kit.

A long way from the coast of the USA. I hope it doesn’t accidentally damage any of our offshore wind turbines. That the felon-in chief lost his court case to. Ya bas. == US ship involved in tanker seizure berthed in Aberdeen www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This really does feel like the end of an era, often visited in mid 90s and early 2000s when my family first moved up here. (Remember pre-Internet days looking for a comic store in Aberdeen, and finding it!) Staff where great, occasionally sneaking in some extra goodies to my standing order bag. 😀

Thanks to Brexit, we no longer have to put up with unelected bureaucrats. In other news, the new leader of Reform in Scotland is Lord Malcolm Offord, totally unelected in any capacity whatsoever and appointed as leader by me alone. Still, it's only Scotland.

Groenland : Trump menace de droits de douane les pays qui ne soutiennent pas son plan

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

Loch Morlich being photogenic www.lochmorlich.com/webcam

Theres been a murther www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...