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You can make your own origami gävlebocken! (I want to try it.)

I think I have some red yarn somewhere.

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💬 14  🔁 7249  ❤️ 10660 · The diagram for the classic Origami Goat, with a twist to make its horns curve ! It's from this video by by Origami Word, but it seems to be a pretty old/intemporal design…
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December 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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On a different note, but no less incongruous, here's my favourite entry from The RSPB book Birds of Britain and Europe. The Dunnock which apparently feeds on grated cheese under shrubberies
November 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Would love a deep dive into what's gone weird in her algorithm to lead to this.
Finally, someone is coming for the Norwegians, and not a moment too soon
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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james cameron every couple of years for some reason:
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Liskeard. - My Hometown in SE Cornwall - Any railway Historians out there who can throw any light on Circuses travelling to and from Cornwall by Train? Thank you in advance 🐘
December 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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i mean there's gotta be a niche for everyone right. fill my mouth with your marmalade.
December 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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do we think Ben Whishaw struggles to date because of how weird it must be to sleep with someone who has Paddington's voice
December 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The original Independent of the 1980s was a great paper (later incarnations were good but they wasted insane effort on pointless redesigns, endlessly fiddling with the size of the eagle on the masthead)
The new paper appeared like a breath of fresh air. Its typeface was clean, its layout spacious and its use of pictures bold and often large scale. Free of old constraints, its journalism was well-written and challenging too.
Sir Andreas Whittam Smith obituary
Financial journalist who was the founding editor of the groundbreaking Independent newspaper in 1986
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November 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
November 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I am gobsmacked that this summary is 100% correct.
The whole film is told as a flashback to Pete Murray.
Jonathan's ambition was to become a surgeon and marry Edie...

📽️ MY BROTHER JONATHAN (1948) 1:45pm #MichaelDenison #DulcieGray drama #TPTVsubtitles
November 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
After a good start I found this one really tough, though eventually it all came together. A very entertaining challenge.
I set today’s Guardian Prize crossword. Don’t be scared.

Waistcoat good for pulling? (7)

Finished eating skinned sea bass fillet (6)

On stage (3)

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Prize crossword No 29,865
Prize crossword No 29,865
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November 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Listening to Jethro Tull’s Thick As A Brick, still marvellous after all these years.
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Now that's a dream of a story and headline combo.
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Somewhere on high, Hugh Dalton is having a bloody good laugh
As bad as your day might be, it could be worse, you could be the person who accidentally published the OBR's budget document a couple of hours early: obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Brand new on Dirty Feed: just how reliable are Bob Monkhouse's memories of The Golden Shot?

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November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It was embarrassingly recently that I realised the famous instantly-written JFK tribute edition of TW3 was the same night as the first ep of Doctor Who. I mean, obviously it was, but I never made the connection.
Exactly 62 years ago, the very first episode of #DoctorWho had just finished. But what was on for the rest of the evening? Here's the actual BBC Television schedule for the rest of the night, with the post-Kennedy changes. #DoctorWhoDay #DoctorWho62

(Don't worry, no great long thread this time!)
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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I highly recommend this entire thread, not just the initial link.
It was 62 years ago #OnThisDay in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.

I'm quite pleased with this one...

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Breaking news - November 1963
BBC History recalls one of the first truly global news stories of the modern multi-media age
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November 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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sorry to Wizard of Oz post, but I was raised on the Midwestern cut of the film where Oz is in black and white and Kansas is in color so that we would be discouraged from flights of fancy and excited to return to farm work
November 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Sybil’s encountered underfloor heating for the first time and it’s blown her mind
November 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I Claudius - Fool's Luck (22nd November 1976). Claudius (Derek Jacobi) reluctantly accepts the mantle of Emperor and begins to assert his authority.
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM