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👻 Happy Halloween! 👻

During the 1924 Royston Hospital Carnival, Dan Young, who owned the Kneesworth Street cycle shop, dressed as a skeleton. Tricycles like this were developed so a lady could mount from the front, therefore making them more "suitable". Queen Victoria purchased 2 tricycles in 1881.

YouTube video by Toy Polloi Custom Vintage He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Grayskull display with lights - Toy Polloi

It's Halloween, so time for a slightly on topic project?

Skeletor thinks so.

youtu.be/bqUHnvciXT0

My Dad leaves his teeth all over the place in whatever receptacle he can find, much to the annoyance of my Mum.

We need more weird parades like this. Not just Halloween either.

Lincoln Strolling Bones Skeleton Parade takes over uphill area The parade featured puppets, musicians and performers on stilts.

Strolling Bones Skeleton Parade in Lincoln

My zucchini jack-o’-lantern. I feel like he’s more terrifying than any other jack-o’-lantern I have ever made, and I didn’t have to waste one of my pumpkins!

#jack-o-lantern #Halloween #fallvibes #spookyseason #vegetables #growvegetables #vegetablegarden #autumn #scary #Zucchini #carved

Frankenstein's monster mug.

Morning.

A tweet that says: Just got Reform to commit to a serious crackdown on Motability as part of their reforms to PIP. Lee Anderson says he’d be keen to see anyone with a Motability car forced to drive a ‘blue three wheeler’

This from X is a striking example of what I argue in today’s column. Reform and the Tories are out here gleefully saying disabled people on Motability should be forced to drive a 3-wheeler, like a scarlet letter. The stigma is not an accident - it’s the design.

ESA Space Safety Fleet ESA Space Safety Fleet

Asteroids and solar storms and space debris, oh my!

Explore the upcoming fleet of ESA Space Safety missions dedicated to safeguarding humans and infrastructure on Earth and in orbit from hazards originating in space:
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Bats are seeking sanctuary in churches - but they're making an unholy mess A new study estimates that about half of all churches in England have bats living in them.

Bats in churches:
"Many of these churches have been on these sites for probably 1,000 years, and probably as long as they've been standing they've had bats in them" ..

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A greenish comet coma among many stars

Comet C/2025 R2 Swan on October 24th. This is processed from 14.5 minutes of integration across 28 images in PixInsight and Photoshop.

flic.kr/p/2rCpsHF

An anthropomorphic root vegetable chauffeur driving a witch and a black cat around in a car made from a hollowed out marrow

Happy Halloween!

Keep a close eye out today for witches being driven around the countryside by their root vegetable chauffeurs in a hollowed out marrow car.

Sighs.

Captain Scarlet with the Grim Reaper behind him holding a glowing hour glass.

Morning.

Captain Black with glowing green eyes under a tree holding a gun.

Night all.

I'm getting tired. I thought the film was called Tickets On Sale.

YouTube video by VHS Video vault Ghostwatch additional reassurance

Tomorrow is, of course, Halloween so after #TOTP at 9.25pm let's bring the 2025 National Seance to Bluesky with a #Ghostwatch watchalong.

*Additional reassurance may be required.

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Back From Behind The Sun – Still Not An Alien Spacecraft, Though After conjunction and perihelion, the comet has come out from behind the solar glare and the first image shared.

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Back From Behind The Sun – Still Not An Alien Spacecraft, Though

www.iflscience.com/interstellar...

Goldfinches on teazel

I've been sharing my bird photos across the internet for almost 20 years.. what I'd love to know is if I've directly inspired any of you to appreciate birds more?
Maybe you bought a camera or started feeding the birds?
Please let me know!🐦🥰🐦
#birds 🪶

My links;
linktr.ee/carlbovis

Blue star Vega at centre. Many other star dots on a dark background.

Nearing the end of the month. Back in October 2023 I was capturing Vega (Alpha Lyrae). 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

"THE DALEKS by TERRY NATION as featured in the BBC TV series "DR. WHO"" ("TV21" issue 41 (dated 30/10/65)).

(Even as lad, decades before I was diagnosed with ASD, I never understood why JT’s choice to live apart & pursue his love of astronomy was seen by many as odd. It seemed like a totally sensible, and indeed enviable, choice.)

One of best things about this Graham Bleathman cutaway of Thunderbird 5 is the way it spells out the huge size of International Rescue’s satellite. You can see how John Tracy lives up there for months at a time. Just hoovering the place could fill the days up.

My Dad had at pub called The Homeward Bound. He used to play bar billiards there and won a few trophies. I am talking back in the 70s.

What began with tragedy ended in triumph. This is the untold story of the European Space Agency’s pioneering 25-year Cluster mission to study how invisible s... Seas of the Sun: The story of Cluster (Full documentary)

🔴 Live now: the premiere of 'Seas of the Sun: The story of Cluster' 🍿

Watch here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go_rve555TQ

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"A little disturbance here in the Panopticon..."

"Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin" part 1 (1976). #DoctorWho

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