Danny Birchall
@dannybirchall.bsky.social
Capercaillie, lammergeier, cassowary
Some people are really losing their heads over this exhibition
The celebrated ‘Marie Antoinette Style’ Exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum explores the lasting legacy of the most glamorous Queen in history with over 250 years of iconic fashion, jewellery, art and film.
Marie Antoinette Style at the Victoria & Albert Museum
The celebrated ‘Marie Antoinette Style’ Exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London explores the lasting legacy of the most glamorous Queen in history with over 250 years of iconic fashion, jewellery, art and film.
royalwatcherblog.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Some people are really losing their heads over this exhibition
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Your hot tips for Palermo in April, please
(especially places to eat and drink)
(especially places to eat and drink)
January 17, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Your hot tips for Palermo in April, please
(especially places to eat and drink)
(especially places to eat and drink)
This is not for counting people, this is so they can send ICE agents round with the pizza
at last we will be free from the backbreaking drudgery of ordering pizza from a menu and even counting how many people the pizza is for www.theverge.com/tech/863365/...
January 17, 2026 at 11:17 AM
This is not for counting people, this is so they can send ICE agents round with the pizza
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NVidia chief creep says resistance and scorn for AI have done a lot of harm. Good. Nice confirmation it's working. Keep it up. Although the main thing is this stuff is harmful crap so the mind and body tend to revolt against it automatically.
January 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
NVidia chief creep says resistance and scorn for AI have done a lot of harm. Good. Nice confirmation it's working. Keep it up. Although the main thing is this stuff is harmful crap so the mind and body tend to revolt against it automatically.
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POLITE SOCIETY 📽️ debuts on British television on Wednesday night and don't miss it, it's hysterical intheirownleague.com/2023/01/29/p...
Polite Society: Sundance 2023 film review
Runtime: 103 minutes Director/Writer: Nida Manzoor Actors: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya, Shobu Kapoor, Nimra Bucha, Ella Bruccoleri, Seraphina Beh, Sally Ann, Akshay Khanna by Sarah Manvel “Polite Soci…
intheirownleague.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:27 PM
POLITE SOCIETY 📽️ debuts on British television on Wednesday night and don't miss it, it's hysterical intheirownleague.com/2023/01/29/p...
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In case you're flagging late on this Friday afternoon, GWAR's cover of 'Pink Pony Club' is a reliable pick-me-up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5XR...
GWAR cover “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan
YouTube video by The A.V. Club
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January 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM
In case you're flagging late on this Friday afternoon, GWAR's cover of 'Pink Pony Club' is a reliable pick-me-up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5XR...
made a typo on my planning application for a conservatory and now I've got a bunch of lads playing the bassoon outside my kitchen window
January 16, 2026 at 12:02 PM
made a typo on my planning application for a conservatory and now I've got a bunch of lads playing the bassoon outside my kitchen window
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Oh wow. Trump got a hand-me-down Nobel Peace Prize! Did you know:
It would not be the first time a Nobel laureate has given his or her medal away: in 1943 Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun gave his medal to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
It would not be the first time a Nobel laureate has given his or her medal away: in 1943 Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun gave his medal to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
January 16, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Oh wow. Trump got a hand-me-down Nobel Peace Prize! Did you know:
It would not be the first time a Nobel laureate has given his or her medal away: in 1943 Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun gave his medal to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
It would not be the first time a Nobel laureate has given his or her medal away: in 1943 Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun gave his medal to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
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Are you anti-AI because you believe our institutions delivered democratic accountability and some approximation of fairness that AI has ruined, or because you recognise AI as the amplification of existing injustices and structural cruelty?
January 16, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Are you anti-AI because you believe our institutions delivered democratic accountability and some approximation of fairness that AI has ruined, or because you recognise AI as the amplification of existing injustices and structural cruelty?
Suburban multiplex fans -- how easy would it be to sneak a 14yo into an 18 cert film?
January 16, 2026 at 7:09 AM
Suburban multiplex fans -- how easy would it be to sneak a 14yo into an 18 cert film?
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Info studies people, would you say that authors in IS use “materialist” to mean something slightly different from what, e.g., historians mean by the term?
January 15, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Info studies people, would you say that authors in IS use “materialist” to mean something slightly different from what, e.g., historians mean by the term?
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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News | Melanie Keen steps down as director of Wellcome Collection
Sam Owen to act as interim director when Keen leaves this spring
Sam Owen to act as interim director when Keen leaves this spring
Melanie Keen steps down as director of Wellcome Collection - Museums Association
Sam Owen to act as interim director when Keen leaves this spring
www.museumsassociation.org
January 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM
News | Melanie Keen steps down as director of Wellcome Collection
Sam Owen to act as interim director when Keen leaves this spring
Sam Owen to act as interim director when Keen leaves this spring
If you have a doctoral student, what is the noun to go with post-doctoral? A 'post-doctoral worker'? A 'post-doctoral researcher'?
January 15, 2026 at 1:16 PM
If you have a doctoral student, what is the noun to go with post-doctoral? A 'post-doctoral worker'? A 'post-doctoral researcher'?
Yeah, most European countries have only ever done normal diplomacy
For non-German speakers:
“Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”
“Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”
Liebe Medien, ich kann die Schlagzeile "Keine Einigung zwischen USA und Dänemark" nicht mehr sehen. Wenn ein Bewaffneter eine Bank stürmt, titelt ihr doch auch nicht: "Räuber und Kassiererin finden keinen Konsens über Geldübergabe." Hört auf, imperiale Aggression als normale Diplomatie zu framen.
January 15, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Yeah, most European countries have only ever done normal diplomacy
Someone said something this week about 'diligence' in their creative practice, and I like that word so much better than 'discipline'
January 15, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Someone said something this week about 'diligence' in their creative practice, and I like that word so much better than 'discipline'
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This quad poster proof by the great Peter Strausfeld for the Academy Cinema in London is a trial print made before lettering was added. Can anyone identify the film on the basis of these three figures?
January 15, 2026 at 9:20 AM
This quad poster proof by the great Peter Strausfeld for the Academy Cinema in London is a trial print made before lettering was added. Can anyone identify the film on the basis of these three figures?
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The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win
January 15, 2026 at 7:43 AM
The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win
Categorising Peter Greenaway's The Falls as a dinosaur movie
January 15, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Categorising Peter Greenaway's The Falls as a dinosaur movie
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The 'give ice qr codes' thing reminds me of when Sarah Everard was murdered by a real policeman using his real police id to kidnap her, and the police & gvt made out the solution was to have a helpline to check that the person bundling you away was a real policeman (as the murderer was)
January 14, 2026 at 6:02 PM
The 'give ice qr codes' thing reminds me of when Sarah Everard was murdered by a real policeman using his real police id to kidnap her, and the police & gvt made out the solution was to have a helpline to check that the person bundling you away was a real policeman (as the murderer was)
comic strip about a lecherous man in a silly hat who runs around to his own theme tune
Benny Hillbert
Benny Hillbert
comic strip about an office worker turned assassin who goes after the man who created him
Killbert
Killbert
January 14, 2026 at 9:38 AM
comic strip about a lecherous man in a silly hat who runs around to his own theme tune
Benny Hillbert
Benny Hillbert
The class spent a good five minutes discussing whether the word 'Taggart' worked in the poem about shoplifting.
January 13, 2026 at 10:11 PM
The class spent a good five minutes discussing whether the word 'Taggart' worked in the poem about shoplifting.
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Dogbert weighing Scott Adams’ heart against a feather
January 13, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Dogbert weighing Scott Adams’ heart against a feather
I learned about 70% of what I know about American politics in the 70s from Doonesbury compilations lying around in comrades' houses when my parents were doing speaking tours of the states
why did so many millennials read so many newspaper comics? easily 60 percent of my reading diet in elementary/middle school was collected editions of calvin and hobbes, farside, dilbert, peanuts, doonesbury (!), foxtrot (?!?) and i know im not alone. historically unique phenomenon
rather than talk about Scott Adams I want to talk about something weirder (me). Who else was really into Dilbert when you were 12. Who else was like, boy, I can't wait to work a cubicle job
January 13, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I learned about 70% of what I know about American politics in the 70s from Doonesbury compilations lying around in comrades' houses when my parents were doing speaking tours of the states