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Doctor Who: The Reality War (2025)
November 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Doctor Who: The Reality War (2025)
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Someone might read this and say "Hey, Where is Guys Like Me? Where is It's Not, where is You Do? Where is Freeway? Where is Little Bombs" But I say, Hey, there are enough amazing Aimee Mann songs to go around because the woman can do no wrong.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
A voice that still carries: Aimee Mann’s greatest songs – ranked!
Thirty years on from the release of her acclaimed album I’m With Stupid, we count down the sucker-punching best tracks by the US singer-songwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Someone might read this and say "Hey, Where is Guys Like Me? Where is It's Not, where is You Do? Where is Freeway? Where is Little Bombs" But I say, Hey, there are enough amazing Aimee Mann songs to go around because the woman can do no wrong.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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The problem with digital ID cards isn't what you think. Here's why Britain and other nations should stop pushing digital ID apps, right now. My latest for @newscientist.com, now free from the paywall! www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Digital ID cards could be a disaster in the UK and beyond
The British government isn't the only one looking to introduce digital ID cards. There is so much to worry about here, not least the threat of hacks, says Annalee Newitz
www.newscientist.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The problem with digital ID cards isn't what you think. Here's why Britain and other nations should stop pushing digital ID apps, right now. My latest for @newscientist.com, now free from the paywall! www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
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Earlier today we published the Ringways Map, in collaboration with @maps.sabre-roads.org.uk. We are beyond excited to finally put it online - below is a thread explaining why it's so special, but to see it for yourself just follow the link: www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.p... 🧵
www.sabre-roads.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Earlier today we published the Ringways Map, in collaboration with @maps.sabre-roads.org.uk. We are beyond excited to finally put it online - below is a thread explaining why it's so special, but to see it for yourself just follow the link: www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.p... 🧵
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If anyone is looking for an absurdist musical comedy series set in a comic strip world featuring kabbalistic imagery and Bob Hoskins, then you should check out In The Looking Glass
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWzi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWzi...
In The Looking Glass (episodes 5 and 6) 1978
YouTube video by TV Gold
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If anyone is looking for an absurdist musical comedy series set in a comic strip world featuring kabbalistic imagery and Bob Hoskins, then you should check out In The Looking Glass
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWzi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWzi...
Once upon a time I clicked on an image on Amazon just to find out what the hell it was. Now Amazon thinks I just forgot to buy it and need repeated reminders.
November 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Once upon a time I clicked on an image on Amazon just to find out what the hell it was. Now Amazon thinks I just forgot to buy it and need repeated reminders.
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Despite the headline it’s not George RR Martin personally going for them cos he’s rich and famous. It’s all of us.
The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off.
That’s a win for basic law.
The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off.
That’s a win for basic law.
Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright
• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright
• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
October 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Despite the headline it’s not George RR Martin personally going for them cos he’s rich and famous. It’s all of us.
The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off.
That’s a win for basic law.
The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off.
That’s a win for basic law.
It's that time again, for NT members. You don't need the voting pack to hand, just your membership card (assuming you know your own name and address, of course).
🌳 As a #NationalTrust member I’ve just voted for the recommended slate to keep out the bogus, right-wing entryists of “Restore Trust”. Anything this creep wants is bad for Britain and bad for our heritage.
🌳 If you’re a member, vote Recommended Slate now: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
🌳 If you’re a member, vote Recommended Slate now: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
One vital reason to vote in the National Trust elections and for the NT endorsed candidates. We can't risk the Restore Trust candidates getting any influence on it.
October 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It's that time again, for NT members. You don't need the voting pack to hand, just your membership card (assuming you know your own name and address, of course).
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Well, today’s historical anniversary could have been precision-tooled for the benefit of @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social...
October 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Well, today’s historical anniversary could have been precision-tooled for the benefit of @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social...
A small contribution to the Cow Tools discourse...
Further study: Larson's article about it is a castle study in "Strategy and structure : short readings for composition" (1996 - archive.org/details/stra... is the 2nd edition)
October 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
A small contribution to the Cow Tools discourse...
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[Lyn Venable, author of "Time Enough at Last" (If Magazine 1953) and “The Missing Room” (Weird Tales 1953), died on March 31, 2025, at the age of 97. Lyn was surely the last living person to have contributed to both the original Twilight Zone and the original Weird Tales. Last leaf on the bough.]
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
[Lyn Venable, author of "Time Enough at Last" (If Magazine 1953) and “The Missing Room” (Weird Tales 1953), died on March 31, 2025, at the age of 97. Lyn was surely the last living person to have contributed to both the original Twilight Zone and the original Weird Tales. Last leaf on the bough.]
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Random math fact: the golden ratio (1.618) is very close to the conversion ratio from miles to kilometers (1.609), meaning you can use the Fibonacci sequence to convert between miles and km: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, etc.
October 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Random math fact: the golden ratio (1.618) is very close to the conversion ratio from miles to kilometers (1.609), meaning you can use the Fibonacci sequence to convert between miles and km: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, etc.
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I found this in the ‘assorted crap’ box in a charity shop in Hereford yesterday. It was given by Nellie Crowther to someone called Olive in February 1913. Olive then got friends and acquaintances to write in it in the years that followed. 🧵
November 10, 2024 at 10:44 AM
I found this in the ‘assorted crap’ box in a charity shop in Hereford yesterday. It was given by Nellie Crowther to someone called Olive in February 1913. Olive then got friends and acquaintances to write in it in the years that followed. 🧵
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreicahofq6s4xow7vowj7dx6odw6ejdwr4kwcmzta7qwi4hg2nvywji@jpeg)
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BBC Sounds is starting a repeat today of Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully, one of my absolute favourite radio sitcoms (written by @eddierobson.bsky.social btw) You should listen to it, it is *funny*.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully - Pilot - BBC Sounds
Sitcom about an alien invasion of a small English village. Starring Katherine Parkinson.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
BBC Sounds is starting a repeat today of Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully, one of my absolute favourite radio sitcoms (written by @eddierobson.bsky.social btw) You should listen to it, it is *funny*.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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True "Salem's Lot" story - back in 1981, when BBC1 did "a special two-part presentation", one of my friends and I (being big strong and tough boys) decided to convene in my bedroom to watch it. IN THE DARK. Now : the layout in my bedroom - two single beds, in the middle of the room <more>
October 17, 2025 at 9:48 AM
True "Salem's Lot" story - back in 1981, when BBC1 did "a special two-part presentation", one of my friends and I (being big strong and tough boys) decided to convene in my bedroom to watch it. IN THE DARK. Now : the layout in my bedroom - two single beds, in the middle of the room <more>
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World’s laziest man enjoys laziness machine.
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
World’s laziest man enjoys laziness machine.
Evils of new technology (March 1887 edition).
October 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Evils of new technology (March 1887 edition).
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Yesterday my etsy shop had preciously one view. (And i think that was probably me) If you like my stuff please repost. An eccentric millionaire with lots of empty wall space could be scrolling your timeline right now. marswasrubbish.etsy.com/listing/1579...
October 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Yesterday my etsy shop had preciously one view. (And i think that was probably me) If you like my stuff please repost. An eccentric millionaire with lots of empty wall space could be scrolling your timeline right now. marswasrubbish.etsy.com/listing/1579...
I just remembered flash cubes. Dunno why. It'll probably be deely boppers next, or programmable calculatora, or using the azimuth adjustment screw or something.
October 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I just remembered flash cubes. Dunno why. It'll probably be deely boppers next, or programmable calculatora, or using the azimuth adjustment screw or something.
Me+wife (various)
Parents before PhONEday
" " after PhONEday
Grandparents when it was 5 digits
" " after it gained an extra zero
" " after PhONEday
Other grandmother 01.. then 081... then 0181... then 0208...
Vicarage that had almost the same number as the station taxi firm
The station taxi firm
Parents before PhONEday
" " after PhONEday
Grandparents when it was 5 digits
" " after it gained an extra zero
" " after PhONEday
Other grandmother 01.. then 081... then 0181... then 0208...
Vicarage that had almost the same number as the station taxi firm
The station taxi firm
- Mine (mobile and landline)
- My wife's
- My parents' (and their old one)
- My hairdresser
- Lombard Direct ("free on 0800 2 15000 - 24 hours a day!")
- And Going Live/Live & Kicking obvs
- My wife's
- My parents' (and their old one)
- My hairdresser
- Lombard Direct ("free on 0800 2 15000 - 24 hours a day!")
- And Going Live/Live & Kicking obvs
- Mine
- My dead grandparents' landline
- My dead parents' landline
- My dead dad's mobile
- My best friend's mobile
- Live & Kicking
- My dead grandparents' landline
- My dead parents' landline
- My dead dad's mobile
- My best friend's mobile
- Live & Kicking
October 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Me+wife (various)
Parents before PhONEday
" " after PhONEday
Grandparents when it was 5 digits
" " after it gained an extra zero
" " after PhONEday
Other grandmother 01.. then 081... then 0181... then 0208...
Vicarage that had almost the same number as the station taxi firm
The station taxi firm
Parents before PhONEday
" " after PhONEday
Grandparents when it was 5 digits
" " after it gained an extra zero
" " after PhONEday
Other grandmother 01.. then 081... then 0181... then 0208...
Vicarage that had almost the same number as the station taxi firm
The station taxi firm
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I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.
October 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.
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It's Bluesky so I would like to now talk to you, with authority, about something I know nothing about.
TV production.
UK TV can't afford to make TV (see article) so...
Here's a still from Blake's 7 series 4 ep9 "Sand"
Isn't it terrible. So unconvincing.
TV is so much better now...
TV production.
UK TV can't afford to make TV (see article) so...
Here's a still from Blake's 7 series 4 ep9 "Sand"
Isn't it terrible. So unconvincing.
TV is so much better now...
September 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
It's Bluesky so I would like to now talk to you, with authority, about something I know nothing about.
TV production.
UK TV can't afford to make TV (see article) so...
Here's a still from Blake's 7 series 4 ep9 "Sand"
Isn't it terrible. So unconvincing.
TV is so much better now...
TV production.
UK TV can't afford to make TV (see article) so...
Here's a still from Blake's 7 series 4 ep9 "Sand"
Isn't it terrible. So unconvincing.
TV is so much better now...
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The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵
October 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵