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Matthew Adams
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· Sep 26
As always, there's a Yes Minister scene for this.
My favourite video. Also the Family Guy version of same.
a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a room .
Alt: a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a room framed by a mirror. The man is a pencil sketch the woman is live action. The camera pans around and the live/sketch is reversed.
media.tenor.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
My favourite video. Also the Family Guy version of same.
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Just read that today is the last day that MTV stops showing pop videos.
Here are some images from pop videos that, for me, have all sorts of energies, all sorts of biographical traction.
I might bang on about videos for a bit.
Here are some images from pop videos that, for me, have all sorts of energies, all sorts of biographical traction.
I might bang on about videos for a bit.
December 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Just read that today is the last day that MTV stops showing pop videos.
Here are some images from pop videos that, for me, have all sorts of energies, all sorts of biographical traction.
I might bang on about videos for a bit.
Here are some images from pop videos that, for me, have all sorts of energies, all sorts of biographical traction.
I might bang on about videos for a bit.
I have a glass of wine, I'm about to eat chicken pie, and we are watching Sleepless in Seattle which *is* a Christmas Movie.
December 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I have a glass of wine, I'm about to eat chicken pie, and we are watching Sleepless in Seattle which *is* a Christmas Movie.
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I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
December 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
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#diggingforbritain Series 13 here we come! First episode on BBC2 and iPlayer on Jan 7th 9pm✨
December 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#diggingforbritain Series 13 here we come! First episode on BBC2 and iPlayer on Jan 7th 9pm✨
A homeless alcoholic outside Foyles once shouted 'Are you John Lennon?' at me. I have never looked even slightly like John Lennon.
I would also take a moment to remember the lady who lived with her plastic bags on New Oxford Street near old Forbidden Planet.
I would also take a moment to remember the lady who lived with her plastic bags on New Oxford Street near old Forbidden Planet.
As I walked past a homeless man in the doorway of a shop on Hammersmith Broadway, he told me to “Cheer up mate, it might never happen”.
Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”
December 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A homeless alcoholic outside Foyles once shouted 'Are you John Lennon?' at me. I have never looked even slightly like John Lennon.
I would also take a moment to remember the lady who lived with her plastic bags on New Oxford Street near old Forbidden Planet.
I would also take a moment to remember the lady who lived with her plastic bags on New Oxford Street near old Forbidden Planet.
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Corfe Castle, the model of Corfe Castle in Corfe Castle Model Village, and the model of Corfe Castle in the model of Corfe Castle Model Village in Corfe Castle Model Village.
December 31, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Corfe Castle, the model of Corfe Castle in Corfe Castle Model Village, and the model of Corfe Castle in the model of Corfe Castle Model Village in Corfe Castle Model Village.
Xmas 1990 was Malcolm Longair's excellent lecture. The following October, he did the first (and best delivered) set of lectures I had at University, blitzing through 'Theoretical Concepts in Physics'.
The RI does great online events for members (and membership is cheap).
The RI does great online events for members (and membership is cheap).
Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s:
www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
Watch the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES archive
Watch all the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES back to 1966, when the lectures were first televised.
www.rigb.org
December 31, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Xmas 1990 was Malcolm Longair's excellent lecture. The following October, he did the first (and best delivered) set of lectures I had at University, blitzing through 'Theoretical Concepts in Physics'.
The RI does great online events for members (and membership is cheap).
The RI does great online events for members (and membership is cheap).
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Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s:
www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
Watch the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES archive
Watch all the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES back to 1966, when the lectures were first televised.
www.rigb.org
December 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s:
www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
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2025 has been a blast & #HillfortsWednesday lives on 🥳🛖
Thanks for all the follows & comments. BlueSky remains a great platform for archaeological discussion & sharing 🍻🔥
📽️ Walking up & into the south gate of Pendinas hillfort, Aberystwyth, last week. Look at those mighty terraces & views! 😮
Thanks for all the follows & comments. BlueSky remains a great platform for archaeological discussion & sharing 🍻🔥
📽️ Walking up & into the south gate of Pendinas hillfort, Aberystwyth, last week. Look at those mighty terraces & views! 😮
December 31, 2025 at 7:29 AM
2025 has been a blast & #HillfortsWednesday lives on 🥳🛖
Thanks for all the follows & comments. BlueSky remains a great platform for archaeological discussion & sharing 🍻🔥
📽️ Walking up & into the south gate of Pendinas hillfort, Aberystwyth, last week. Look at those mighty terraces & views! 😮
Thanks for all the follows & comments. BlueSky remains a great platform for archaeological discussion & sharing 🍻🔥
📽️ Walking up & into the south gate of Pendinas hillfort, Aberystwyth, last week. Look at those mighty terraces & views! 😮
I've got to plan and execute the Allied invasion of North Africa while simultaneously running a group of washed up MI6 agents.
I’m a handmaiden, odalisque and muse to the Incredible String Band.
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I've got to plan and execute the Allied invasion of North Africa while simultaneously running a group of washed up MI6 agents.
In my epic rewatch of Silent Witness we are in the glorious period where everyone has beautiful Nokia Lumia phones.
December 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In my epic rewatch of Silent Witness we are in the glorious period where everyone has beautiful Nokia Lumia phones.
These are really great adventure games.
Happy to report that those wonderful, beautifully illustrated Magnetic Scrolls text adventures can still be played (online) here: msmemorial.if-legends.org/msa2/msa2.html
December 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
These are really great adventure games.
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I worked in an old age home on school holiday and many of the residents would tell me their age followed by "you know." I've never understood the "you know" bit but love it, so I use it whenever I give my age. "I'm 28, you know."
December 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I worked in an old age home on school holiday and many of the residents would tell me their age followed by "you know." I've never understood the "you know" bit but love it, so I use it whenever I give my age. "I'm 28, you know."
"Crossing the Road with Robert Peston" a depressing new millennium replacement for The Tufty Club.
I live in Muswell Hill. I have one of these most weeks.
Peter Capaldi in the hardware shop.
Rebecca Front in Sainsbos.
Sophie Okonedo in the greengrocers.
Crossing the road with Robert Peston.
Peter Capaldi in the hardware shop.
Rebecca Front in Sainsbos.
Sophie Okonedo in the greengrocers.
Crossing the road with Robert Peston.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"Crossing the Road with Robert Peston" a depressing new millennium replacement for The Tufty Club.
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My latest socks 🧦
December 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
My latest socks 🧦
It's like that U2 track Apple forced on people.
Anything can "surge in adoption" if it's forced into every facet of technology use.
In 2025, AI became pervasive in American life and the economy, with ChatGPT surging in adoption much faster than any other major technology in memory. @nytopinion.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It's like that U2 track Apple forced on people.
It's good to amplify this message whenever possible. The voices that drown out real issues with scapegoating and hatred really are a minority (as we see whenever it is put fairly to the test in e.g. WI or National Trust votes...neither notable hotbeds of leftist social liberalism).
We are now at 75k signatures, with many messages of support on Instagram, Facebook and here.
This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls.
Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜
notinourname.org.uk
This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls.
Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜
notinourname.org.uk
Home - Not in our name
Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community
notinourname.org.uk
December 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
It's good to amplify this message whenever possible. The voices that drown out real issues with scapegoating and hatred really are a minority (as we see whenever it is put fairly to the test in e.g. WI or National Trust votes...neither notable hotbeds of leftist social liberalism).
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
My granny was born in India (because my great grandad was in the Sherwood Foresters)
So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
My granny was born in India (because my great grandad was in the Sherwood Foresters)
My daughter and I said hello to Claire Foy and family in a Sylvanian Families pop-up shop.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
My daughter and I said hello to Claire Foy and family in a Sylvanian Families pop-up shop.
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This charming crab is waving goodbye to 2025. One of many marine images around a lost figure of Neptune (a wheel from his chariot survived) under what is now Gloucester House in Dyer Street, Cirencester. This image was the most popular of my #MosaicMonday offerings this year!
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
December 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This charming crab is waving goodbye to 2025. One of many marine images around a lost figure of Neptune (a wheel from his chariot survived) under what is now Gloucester House in Dyer Street, Cirencester. This image was the most popular of my #MosaicMonday offerings this year!
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
Lowland pandas!
December 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Lowland pandas!
Bottom right plays bass in a band called Tungsten Carbide.
When people say they want to go back to a time "when men were men", I point them to Issue 2528 of the "Men in Belted Sweaters" catalogue.
December 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Bottom right plays bass in a band called Tungsten Carbide.
Hooray! I love the NPG.
The only known photographs of mathematician and computing pioneer Ada Lovelace have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery just before they were expected to be sold to a private buyer.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/nat...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/nat...
National Portrait Gallery buys rare photographs of Ada Lovelace for the nation
The only known photographs of mathematician and computing pioneer Ada Lovelace have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery just before they were expected to be sold to a private buyer.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Hooray! I love the NPG.