The Dreaded Lurgy
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Cobblers. Sometimes found in Ecclefechan.
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if you’re wondering what TV & radio would look like without the bbc if the right had its way, picture the state of our privatised rivers & seas, but instead it’s raw sewage pumped into your telly & speakers
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
if you’re wondering what TV & radio would look like without the bbc if the right had its way, picture the state of our privatised rivers & seas, but instead it’s raw sewage pumped into your telly & speakers
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Instruction to King Charles’ bodyguard.
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Instruction to King Charles’ bodyguard.
BBC Soundz has once again put up this wonderful Patricia Hodge reading of Kipling's deeply moving, near-perfect short story. A great piece of work.
The Gardener by Rudyard Kipling - BBC Sounds
An Aunt's grief for a nephew killed in the First World War.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
BBC Soundz has once again put up this wonderful Patricia Hodge reading of Kipling's deeply moving, near-perfect short story. A great piece of work.
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I'm at the dentist, and they've put an artsy print of a molar next to a bunch of lilies on a small table and it feels like I'm at a funeral for a tooth
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I'm at the dentist, and they've put an artsy print of a molar next to a bunch of lilies on a small table and it feels like I'm at a funeral for a tooth
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Roses are red
Kites are for flying
Kites are for flying
![Telegraph headline: Terminally ill man tackled to the ground by six police officers after mooning speed camera as part of his 'bucket list' before dying (subhead: Retired lecturer Darrell Meekcom had been irritated for years at being caught for "silly speeds" while only marginally over the limit). Plus photo of “Darrell Meekcom, a wheelchair user, [who] criticised the police response as "completely disproportionate"”. He is an older man with little hair and an understandably downbeat expression, holding a walking stick which has a head shaped like a bird’s](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/bafkreidaovzz3ewtmvdh5oxu4j5vo7lokofefxh2reeerchbrhxqogeaua@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Roses are red
Kites are for flying
Kites are for flying
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But it's also a numbers station sending out coded messages through Bins.
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
But it's also a numbers station sending out coded messages through Bins.
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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Power station concept by Victor Vasarely. 1970s.
(photo taken at Vasarely Foundation)
(photo taken at Vasarely Foundation)
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Power station concept by Victor Vasarely. 1970s.
(photo taken at Vasarely Foundation)
(photo taken at Vasarely Foundation)
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The boy (13) is doing gothic literature in English and has to write a gothic story. This has several promising elements - burning abbey, nuns, senseless murder - "but," he says, "I keep worrying it's turning into a comedy." So begins the most important lesson of the gothic.
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The boy (13) is doing gothic literature in English and has to write a gothic story. This has several promising elements - burning abbey, nuns, senseless murder - "but," he says, "I keep worrying it's turning into a comedy." So begins the most important lesson of the gothic.
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For Armistice Day, here's a letter my great uncle wrote to his old school in 1914 about the Christmas truce
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
For Armistice Day, here's a letter my great uncle wrote to his old school in 1914 about the Christmas truce
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Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware
Tesla engineer was concerned about known thermal runaway problems in the batteries, elon and his head of security concoted a mass shooter threat pretending to be him, leaked it to the press and got a bolo issued to tried to get him swatted, Elon then stiffed his head of security
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware
Doing one of its many "I'm a Battleship, honest" impressions
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Doing one of its many "I'm a Battleship, honest" impressions
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Man answering his phone outside Reading Station: It’s too late, I’m on the train.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Man answering his phone outside Reading Station: It’s too late, I’m on the train.
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District or Circle?
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
District or Circle?
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Still possibly one of the greatest Armistice Day tweets of all time from the good old days on Twitter.
#inremembrance
#lestweforget
#cockdestroyer
#inremembrance
#lestweforget
#cockdestroyer
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Still possibly one of the greatest Armistice Day tweets of all time from the good old days on Twitter.
#inremembrance
#lestweforget
#cockdestroyer
#inremembrance
#lestweforget
#cockdestroyer
If you have never heard 'Fanfare' by Eric Matthews, go and listen to it now.
I bought that album. The other stuff on it wasn't much cop (and it might have the worst sleeve notes ever). But to have a musical epitaph like 'Fanfare' would be amazing.
I bought that album. The other stuff on it wasn't much cop (and it might have the worst sleeve notes ever). But to have a musical epitaph like 'Fanfare' would be amazing.
Records you discovered through Mark and Lard's late-night Radio 1 show. Whether they went on to bother the top ten or you're still convinced that only you bought them, let's sing their praises here. Anyone else got the Harvey's Rabbit single??
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November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
If you have never heard 'Fanfare' by Eric Matthews, go and listen to it now.
I bought that album. The other stuff on it wasn't much cop (and it might have the worst sleeve notes ever). But to have a musical epitaph like 'Fanfare' would be amazing.
I bought that album. The other stuff on it wasn't much cop (and it might have the worst sleeve notes ever). But to have a musical epitaph like 'Fanfare' would be amazing.
Cool. I'm going to create 80 more actors. They still won't get any 'work'.
Wondering if this will make @brendelbored.bsky.social create 4,000 AI actresses just to flex on them.
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Cool. I'm going to create 80 more actors. They still won't get any 'work'.
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This is one of mine.
An affectionate parody of hapless rockers, This Is Spinal Tap, is now part of the cultural fabric as a new book by its creators explores.
A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever: The Story of Spinal Tap review
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November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This is one of mine.
There is! But it appears to be AI slop.
Is there a genre of music called 'Haunted Banjo'? I would listen to that.
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
There is! But it appears to be AI slop.
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The first minister has said the continuation of a former Tory adviser’s position on the BBC board is “untenable”. www.holyrood.com/news/view,fo...
Former Tory adviser position on BBC board ‘untenable’ – John Swinney
It comes as the leadership of the BBC has been called into question following the double resignation of the director-gen...
www.holyrood.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The first minister has said the continuation of a former Tory adviser’s position on the BBC board is “untenable”. www.holyrood.com/news/view,fo...