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Watching the new BBC show about people making tiny dioramas of places from people's pasts - a sort of miniature-based version of the Repair Shop in some ways - and it's doing that thing that BBC entertainment shows do where we seem to be in a parallel universe to the one in their news output.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Watching the new BBC show about people making tiny dioramas of places from people's pasts - a sort of miniature-based version of the Repair Shop in some ways - and it's doing that thing that BBC entertainment shows do where we seem to be in a parallel universe to the one in their news output.
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Jesus Christ, the "remastered" Beatles Anthology documentary they re-released is filled with AI slop. Look at John and Paul's faces, and the "T" on Beatles.
November 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Jesus Christ, the "remastered" Beatles Anthology documentary they re-released is filled with AI slop. Look at John and Paul's faces, and the "T" on Beatles.
I'm just going to see a man about a dog
"Leave it, he's not worth it!"
November 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I'm just going to see a man about a dog
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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🤦♀️ Midland mainline electrification has been paused indefinitely.
🤦♀️ The northern legs of Hs2 have been slashed.
🤦♀️ Northern Powerhouse Rail is still a pipe dream.
🛤 We need new rail not new roads and the govt should get with the programme.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🤦♀️ The northern legs of Hs2 have been slashed.
🤦♀️ Northern Powerhouse Rail is still a pipe dream.
🛤 We need new rail not new roads and the govt should get with the programme.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dismay at government pause to Midland Mainline electrification
Councils say full electrification is essential as the government diverts funding elsewhere.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
🤦♀️ Midland mainline electrification has been paused indefinitely.
🤦♀️ The northern legs of Hs2 have been slashed.
🤦♀️ Northern Powerhouse Rail is still a pipe dream.
🛤 We need new rail not new roads and the govt should get with the programme.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🤦♀️ The northern legs of Hs2 have been slashed.
🤦♀️ Northern Powerhouse Rail is still a pipe dream.
🛤 We need new rail not new roads and the govt should get with the programme.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver
Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver
A 17th-century building that housed William Shakespeare's family has been left damaged after a driver reversed into it.
news.sky.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
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Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
I still remember 868.9983 from my PhD years.
Possibly tangential but:
Fiction should be shelved in the 800s
Fiction should be shelved in the 800s
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I still remember 868.9983 from my PhD years.
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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/ 🧵
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The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...
October 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...
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I attended a big local authority conference on Midland Main Line electrification on my first ever day at work in 1986. I retired this year before it has been delivered.
Remind me what makes Britain Great?
Remind me what makes Britain Great?
Spending a decade watching a dedicated high speed railway between several of the UK's largest cities get repeatedly downgraded to what can now be described as an "electrified link" (currently being delivered on the existing line and delayed since the early 1990s) is radicalising.
September 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I attended a big local authority conference on Midland Main Line electrification on my first ever day at work in 1986. I retired this year before it has been delivered.
Remind me what makes Britain Great?
Remind me what makes Britain Great?
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Over 50% of Reform voters and nearly 50% of Tory voters (and a good 10-15% of other voters) are people you cannot trust to honour a contract. This is what our politicians are pandering to: liars and cheats.
The majority of Reform UK voters would see indefinite leave to remain removed from all of the groups we asked about, apart from those who have lived in the UK for 20+ years
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
September 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Over 50% of Reform voters and nearly 50% of Tory voters (and a good 10-15% of other voters) are people you cannot trust to honour a contract. This is what our politicians are pandering to: liars and cheats.
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Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2
September 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2
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making tax digital is such bullshit. i shouldn't have to pay a company money to be allowed to pay the government my taxes.
August 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
making tax digital is such bullshit. i shouldn't have to pay a company money to be allowed to pay the government my taxes.
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Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".
(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)
(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)
August 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".
(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)
(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)
My bus is one of the few that hasn't slowed down, but it still only averages 8.1mph, which is why I don't use it.
🚨NEW🚨: The Londoner has crunched over 10 years of TfL data to reveal which routes have slowed the most.
Want to see how your route is faring? Use our interactive tool here to explore the average speed of your bus over the last ten years.
Want to see how your route is faring? Use our interactive tool here to explore the average speed of your bus over the last ten years.
Feel like your bus is getting slower? It probably is
The Londoner has crunched over 10 years of TfL data to reveal which routes have slowed the most
www.the-londoner.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
My bus is one of the few that hasn't slowed down, but it still only averages 8.1mph, which is why I don't use it.
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Wouldn't like to be in their choux
July 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Wouldn't like to be in their choux
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I should hope so. He’s younger, fitter and has a 3,000 mile head start.
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Macron will beat Trump to London
A royal welcome for a republican president
www.economist.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I should hope so. He’s younger, fitter and has a 3,000 mile head start.
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
They should build some kind of new route to relieve the WCML. It could be high speed.
"Insufficient capacity": All three West Coast Main Line open access applications rejected
www.railmagazine.com/news/-insuff...
www.railmagazine.com/news/-insuff...
"Insufficient capacity": All three West Coast Main Line open access applications rejected
Bids by FirstGroup, Virgin and Wrexham, Shropshire and Midlands Railway have all been turned down.
www.railmagazine.com
July 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
They should build some kind of new route to relieve the WCML. It could be high speed.