Just checking to see if Bluesky really is an echo chamber.

Helloooo!

Without doubt, The Rutles from the TV film All You Need Is Cash. The band (in various iterations) went on to have a life that far exceeded the original film.

Who would only lick an ice lolly twice?

Abandoned bicycle.

"This is not in our hemisphere, this is in your hemisphere"
Sebastian Gorka on BBC Newsnight talking about the Ukraine war.

I think someone should try to explain to Gorka just how geographically close Russia is to America.

Receding Floods
Sankey Valley Park, Warrington
New Year's Day

First documented conspiracy theory and subsequent mass panic.

@savetheobs.bsky.social

My standard reply from the Guardian Customer Service Team after emailing guardian.readers@theguardian.com

Little Laura, a very early animation from Oliver Postgate. So early, I can't find any pictures of it and have had to search the BBC Genome instead.

As it's a bit cold out there today, here's a photo taken during the summer of a dragonfly that came to inspect my work when I was painting our fence.

The view from our front door this evening (and we don't live in the middle of a forest or the countryside for that matter).

St John's Beacon, Liverpool against a night sky with an almost full moon.

@georgetakei.bsky.social
I thought this cartoon from the UK magazine Private Eye, referencing Zulu (the 1964 Michael Caine film) might cheer you up.