A recent digital addition to the APTS Archive is a fascinating diary from the Lines Termination Room at Alexandra Palace - Oct 1937 to Oct 1938. Contains 40 pages of notes on equipment usage, operation times, & faults, also early mention of BBC engineer Mr. Harry Rantzen, father of @ERantzen.

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

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Stolen from Illiterate Britain on Facebook, and it’s not the spelling that has me needing to ask questions #FacebookNews

Can’t beat a bit of Lieutenant Columbo on a rainy Sunday afternoon - especially when it’s one of my absolute favourite episodes!

There's something extra tragic about him putting it on himself

Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯

It's still a work in progress, but seems stable enough for "public beta", so by popular demand here's a standalone version of the parametric clock generator I recently added to my online teletext viewer: zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...

Apple Motion is used to make nearly all the effects, titles, generators and transitions in Final Cut Pro, both built-in and those made by others. They can be made responsive to the aspect ratio of the timeline they are used in. Here’s how: www.linkedin.com/pulse/making...

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Oh piss off with the snooker #BBCFour

I once unit managed a live two way interview for France 2 with Tom Jones from the Culloden Hotel outside Belfast.. the French production crew were a nightmare, Tom was lovely though #BBCFour

It would seem the answer is THREE @thirsty-kirsty.bsky.social

A friend at work was very good friends with Brian Harvey from East 17 - in fact he was with him the infamous night outside Stringfellows when the scuffle happened between Brian & the photographer! #totp

All I want out of life is to slag off some pop bands from 1998 whilst leathered, is that too much to ask? #totp

Some news..

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For your consideration..

Some more gifs finally approved..

We’ve all been that raccoon - I know I have…

I’m working away from home at the moment & staying in a lovely Airbnb.. it’s fantastic BUT it’s more complicated than an Apollo lunar module based on the number of light switches it has..

[looks for Luxton and District logo]

This is the greatest picture ever taken in the history of photography

#OTD - 2nd December 1953 The BBC Television Service introduced the Bat Wings ident, designed by Abraham Games, after two years of development. Games was paid 200 guineas for the design, 70 guineas for an on-screen clock, and a 15 guineas retainer.

There you go. Donald Trump & Benny Hill.

Take yet another bow, Brexit and all you sad saps who bought the pack of lies sold you.

Influencers! Stop normalising the practice of holding a lapel mic in your hand and talking into it. It's utterly stupid, it's meant to be on your shirt/top and ah, what the hell, you'll just ignore me and carry on doing it. #OldManYellsAtClouds

Boiling my 3KW kettle knowing Americans lose their shit about that but consider it perfectly normal to be able to buy an Uzi at Asda.

Xmas movie season is opening with this absolute classic…

Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free. Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.

Introduce yourself with 5 cars you’ve owned Alfa Romeo Giulia Honda S2000 Fiat Punto Mk1 Fiat Tipo DGT Citroen AX10RE

CANCELLED #totp

This Legs & Co routine was clearly dreamt up over a boozy lunchtime in the BBC Club at TVC #totp

Mulligan’s Tyre #totp

Were they singing “Run, run down the Emley Moor” on the skateboarding song? #totp

Boney M would have known a lot about the 70s situation in “Belfast” I’m sure.. the song was originally titled “Derry” - I doubt they’d know much about the 70s situation there either #totp

Wasn’t she just on a few minutes ago?! This is exactly why scheduling back to back episodes of #totp doesn’t work..

Might have started adding some GIFs on Tenor…

Jeez Bono has always been an utter bellend #totp

I didn’t think late 90s #totp could have sunk any lower - this episode has convinced me I was very wrong on that front.. make it stop!

🇮🇸 RÚV's board of directors has recommended to the EBU that Israel should not participate in #Eurovision 2026. The Icelandic broadcaster will discuss their position on participation in 2026 at a board meeting following next week's EBU General Assembly.

"Rachel Reeves is the worst chancellor of all time..." - Kemi Badenoch

STAN LAUREL and OLIVER HARDY outside The Royal Marine Hotel in Dublin. The boys stayed there for a total of 33 days in 1953.

Somebody posted an old photo in a Facebook local group and asked if anyone could clean it up. Well-meaning people turned to #AI. Lots of responders seemed happy with the results, but this is how you destroy historical records.

BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.

I spent today extracting image data from some interesting eprom dumps... Figuring out the fairly simple addressing, and shuffling everything around and recombining into a single file that could be decoded as a YUV video frame. 🙂

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