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BBC One - Number 27 A young property developer tries to convince a 90-year-old woman to sell her house.

There's a welcome repeat of Michael Palin's Number 27 tomorrow night on BBC Four. Madly, this is its first screening since 1988. Newly shot intro by the man himself. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample The BBC is bringing back its Radiophonic Workshop as a tool for a new generation of musicians.

The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

In a house, robots are painting, writing and playing music, with smiles on their faces. Outside, in the pouring rain, a human empties a wheelie bin into a refuse vehicle while another sweeps the street with a glum expression on her face. A third human is cycling down the road with a Just Eat food delivery on his back, while a fourth walks along the pavement, arms filled with packages from Amazon.

Seen on Mastodon. This is by Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards.

Jeffrey Epstein survivors speak out
#SuperBowl #SuperBowl2026 #SuperBowlXL

"I was 14"
"I was 16"
"I was 16"
"17"
"14"

"There are about a thousand of us"

"It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows"

"It's time to shine a light into the darkness"

"Release all of the Epstein files"

After nearly 4 years, @indicator.bsky.social are once again blowing the dust off another early Hammer film from the vaults!

Keep your peepers peeled for Thursday’s announcement…

After a certain point the sanity of Palantir's leadership does matter to the national security of the UK and other European states buying its software

If people are going to make money from social media, it seems so wildly obvious that what can be broadcast by the platforms is regulated in the same was as TV is.

Farage was banging on about Turkish barbers, so these lads in Glasgow did this.

It's in Dumbarton Road, if you fancy a trim.

A big wall of DVDs featuring Hammer Horror, Big Chris Lee, Quatermass, Vincent Price and Peter Cushing

Stumbled across a DVD shop in Durham market yesterday with a display that would please @generalwitch.bsky.social fans!

The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online For thousands of years, ordinary people all over the world not only worked side-by-side with domestic animals on a daily basis, they also observed the wild fauna around them to learn how to navigate a...

The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online

The truth about the Epstein files’ Brexit connection Links to Putin, Bannon and Thiel deserve further investigation

Any investigation from the UK into the Epstein files should be extended to investigating the relationship between the disgraced financier and Steve Bannon.

What role did Bannon play in our politics? And why?

Bezos burning the Washington post to the ground is as firm a reason for the continued bbc licence as ever there was. Eventually everything that can be owned by a billionaire will be owned by a billionaire and at that point its future will be determined by the whims of a man making 166k per minute.

This!
We're not defending the current iteration of the BBC News department.
We're defending the principle.
While the current reality has rarely been more flawed, the principle has never been more critically important.

At first I thought this table was a joke. But no, the proposals to restore the Houses of Parliament really are costed at a min of £8.4b and to take 19 yrs; max, £19.4b and 84 yrs. A normal country would go: that's absurd. Let's build a new one for a billion.
committees.parliament.uk/publications...

50 years ago this week The Return Of The Pink Panther was number one at the UK box office. Some film about a shark was at number two.

Trump is seeking to undermine British and European democracy and anyone who takes the money and does his bidding should be called out fir what they are

Who Funds You?

Point is that politically linked think tanks should be forced to declare all funders as a matter of transparency, whether or not on the left/right. Worth noting that Tufton in particular are bad at this, plenty on left/right (like Onward) are more transparent:
www.opendemocracy.net/en/who-funds...

Boris Johnson’s Deputy Chief of Staff here, worried that secretly-funded lobby groups masquerading as ‘think tanks’ might finally be held to account. Because of course she bloody is.

Zack Polanski, "Palantir.. £240 million contract last month"

"That was lobbied by Global Counsel which is Peter Mandelson's lobbying group"

"The idea that a defence company from the US has its fingerprints all over our healthcare system, alongside Peter Mandelson"

First saw this as a teenager at a cinema matinee paired with The Long Good Friday. The two best gangster films ever made. Hell of an afternoon.

Soot-Covered Prince Andrew Begging On Street For Child To Molest

Soot-Covered Prince Andrew Begging On Street For Child To Molest https://theonion.com/soot-covered-prince-andrew-begging-on-street-for-child-to-molest/

Mandelson leaks UK secrets to Epstein

Epstein was working for the Russians

And still Keir Starmer will not instruct our security services to investigate Russian interference in pushing Brexit over the line

Love what's been done to this barrel outside the Transylvania Shop on Victoria Road in Glasgow. It's just a great bit of decoration that makes an interesting addition to the typical 'barrel as furniture' genre.

#glasgow #govanhill #barrel #shopdecor #keepglasgowweird

Right: Nigel Farage an Nathan Gill spent the past 26 years badmouthing the European Union, then driving Brexit. Turns out one of the was being paid by Russia to do; hiding his allegiance to Putin behind a Union Jack

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I absolutely burst out laughing

The Lords is a massive problem. How can a supposedly advanced country still be maintaing a veritably feudal upper house where you can't get rid of members.

It's absolutely insane.

It's laziness and entitlement. Some of the stuff I had to read at university was a slog ... and that was just reading Eng Lit, not even science or technical texts. If you can't be bothered watching a film, don't pretend to study film. Ditto with any discipline, if you're not prepared to do the work.

Own country.