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Sporadic releases of electronic music. MUST NOT BUY MORE SYNTHS. www.sofacom.co.uk
Will COVID infection in men cause epigenetic changes to their children?
New data from mice gives a clue.
On this day in 1965, the first edition of The Magic Roundabout was broadcast on BBC1. Using the animation from the French show Le Manège Enchanté, completely new scripts (which bore no resemblance to the originals) were written and narrated by Eric Thompson.
18.10.2025 13:11 — 👍 68 🔁 27 💬 5 📌 3
Two pagodas at Orford Ness against a very moody sky, it didn’t rain, just did light tricks.
Pagodas iii
Orford Ness
2018
A curious landscape, a shingle bank, chewed by the North Sea. Home to radar arrays, a lighthouse, an atomic research facility, wildlife, and inexplicable slightly dangerous looking chunks of metal.
Eight things that have happened in America since Wednesday that you should know about... all in 2.5 minutes!
youtu.be/_7UW5BH0ig8
iOS 26's 'Liquid Glass' is shit right? It's not just me? Like it's sort of craply skeuomorphic but for an interface that never existed outside floaty hologram phones in sci-fi. It just screams 'we are out of ideas'
17.10.2025 19:46 — 👍 89 🔁 7 💬 24 📌 2
@london.gov.uk joined pupils in Battersea to launch his £2.7m School Filters Programme. Classrooms with air filters saw a 68% drop in PM2.5 levels — linked to fewer respiratory infections & better attendance. Tens of thousands of pupils will now breathe cleaner air. www.london.gov.uk/mayor-invest...
17.10.2025 11:46 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We've just reached 156 million views on our YouTube Channel, Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen
Subscribe? For free?
www.youtube.com/c/MichaelRos...
Sleep tight
16.10.2025 22:52 — 👍 33 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
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.
16.10.2025 20:58 — 👍 2685 🔁 1029 💬 50 📌 93
A seawall only more so. It’s a curve and a vanishing point, it’s a barrier and a punch pointlessly returned to the sea.
Here begins a load of old photos from the Lost in a Landscape series, some I wrote about, some I didn’t, and the book will happen one day, but other stuff is going on, so not now.
Seawall
Eccles, Norfolk.
#LostinaLandscape
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp... This is an excellent and frightening piece - the AI bubble may be built on accounting fraud that the Trump admin is actively encouraging
17.10.2025 04:44 — 👍 154 🔁 37 💬 7 📌 0
Fire near Forest Hill Station.
Be aware that there is an ongoing incident on Perry Vale, south of Forest Hill Station #se23. There is a fire behind the shops. Firefighters are in attendance. The advice is to keep windows and doors closed. Southbound trains are also not stopping at the station.
Photo of a man riding a bicycle on a street underneath some clothesline that are drawn across the street. Some kids are looking at the man on the bike.
📷Shirley Baker
16.10.2025 19:20 — 👍 31 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
A man, smoking a straight pipe, looks intently at a rain gauge. He is wearing collar, tie and a sensible sweater
How to be a Ladybird man, part 20.
Smoke a pipe. Never cigarettes. Always a pipe
Artist: Robert Ayton
(The Weather, 1962)
St Ann's Square, Manchester, painting by Arthur Delaney (1927-87). Stolen from a gallery in 2015.
16.10.2025 07:41 — 👍 59 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1This could be the celebrity endorsement that bursts the AI bubble.
16.10.2025 07:50 — 👍 83 🔁 20 💬 5 📌 0My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
14.10.2025 06:40 — 👍 1097 🔁 481 💬 48 📌 28
Illustration of a futuristic-looking bicycle, with aerodynamic windshield and a lot of straight lines.
Schwinn’s Futuristic Aero-Space Concept Bicycle Design
ca. 1960s
#birdbot
14.10.2025 05:00 — 👍 39 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0blimey that sounds like me on the Freak Zone
12.10.2025 20:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
TV screen: Test Card F
TV screen: Test Card F
TV screen: Test Card F
TV screen: Test Card F
A few extras:
The ever popular Test Card F
Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.
An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old
“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”
Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)
All my comics have happy endings!
10.10.2025 09:56 — 👍 1136 🔁 370 💬 14 📌 11Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials "Disease detectives," high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.
In the 14th century, people burned doctors for heresy during the plague.
In 2025, they’re just made redundant.
Progress!
Brilliant.
I have to say, I was not prepared for the fact that, in 2025, the most potent weapon against American fascism would be (checks notes) . . . . inflatable animal costumes.
The Chancellor says she 'fixed' a problem caused by “some snails or something”.
Comments like this pit nature against growth – it’s the wrong target.
Here, the system has worked: protecting one of UK’s rarest species while allowing 20,000 homes to proceed.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
BT Tower, Fitzrovia, London - Eric Bedford, Chief Architect at the Ministry of Public Buildings, 1961-65 Image credit: James Burbs (@londonfromtherooftops)
Happy 60th Birthday to the BT Tower!
Built 1961-65 to the designs of Eric Bedford, Chief Architect at the Ministry of Public Works, the 582ft telecommunications tower is one of Britain's most distinctive post-war buildings and after being sold in 2024, is set to be converted to a destination hotel.
