Steve
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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...
obr.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Somewhere on high, Hugh Dalton is having a bloody good laugh
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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
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/
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Brand new on Dirty Feed: just how reliable are Bob Monkhouse's memories of The Golden Shot?
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/poor...
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/poor...
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Brand new on Dirty Feed: just how reliable are Bob Monkhouse's memories of The Golden Shot?
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/poor...
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/poor...
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!)
(Don't worry, no great long thread this time!)
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 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.
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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...
www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
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...
www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
Breaking news - November 1963
BBC History recalls one of the first truly global news stories of the modern multi-media age
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I highly recommend this entire thread, not just the initial link.
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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
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
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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
Sybil’s encountered underfloor heating for the first time and it’s blown her mind
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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
I Claudius - Fool's Luck (22nd November 1976). Claudius (Derek Jacobi) reluctantly accepts the mantle of Emperor and begins to assert his authority.
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oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
Today’s Guardian Prize Crossword is by Paul - I’m not always on his wavelength but I enjoyed this (mildly thematic) one www.theguardian.com/crosswords/p...
Prize crossword No 29,859
Prize crossword No 29,859
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Today’s Guardian Prize Crossword is by Paul - I’m not always on his wavelength but I enjoyed this (mildly thematic) one www.theguardian.com/crosswords/p...
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All Along The Spock-towers
Hey's (Dead) Joe
Vulcan Haze
Axis: Boldly Go As Love
Spock-sy Lady
Hey's (Dead) Joe
Vulcan Haze
Axis: Boldly Go As Love
Spock-sy Lady
If this doesn’t brighten up your feed just a bit then I don’t know what.
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
All Along The Spock-towers
Hey's (Dead) Joe
Vulcan Haze
Axis: Boldly Go As Love
Spock-sy Lady
Hey's (Dead) Joe
Vulcan Haze
Axis: Boldly Go As Love
Spock-sy Lady
When Frank Muir died some of the obits were obnoxious about him for no clear reason. The Frank Muir Book is lovely and he clearly spent a lot of time in the London Library putting it together.
"Call My Bluff is a model of understated entertainment and - God forbid in the present day - maturity."
@benfinlay74.bsky.social on the delights to be found over on BBC Four.
thelionandunicorn.com/2025/11/22/l...
@benfinlay74.bsky.social on the delights to be found over on BBC Four.
thelionandunicorn.com/2025/11/22/l...
Let us now praise: BBC Four
BEN FINLAY celebrates the BBC that used to be.
thelionandunicorn.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
When Frank Muir died some of the obits were obnoxious about him for no clear reason. The Frank Muir Book is lovely and he clearly spent a lot of time in the London Library putting it together.
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Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Jimmy Durante and Buster Keaton 1932
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Jimmy Durante and Buster Keaton 1932
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The Jailbreak of Ballad Reading.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The Jailbreak of Ballad Reading.
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subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz350bs
November 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz350bs
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This does feel like a major crossing of the Rubicon – the world's best-funded and in many ways most powerful public health agency is now actively pushing disinformation.
I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This does feel like a major crossing of the Rubicon – the world's best-funded and in many ways most powerful public health agency is now actively pushing disinformation.
I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
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Nine years ago my son drew this for his homework. Other artists failed to capture Stalin's cheeky grin.
November 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Nine years ago my son drew this for his homework. Other artists failed to capture Stalin's cheeky grin.
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“Are the fae open source?” is such a terrifying question in so many ways.
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
“Are the fae open source?” is such a terrifying question in so many ways.
“Here is a web page that shows HTML/CSS clocks, updated every minute, generated by nine different LLMs. They are not very good at it.” clocks.brianmoore.com
AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
clocks.brianmoore.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
“Here is a web page that shows HTML/CSS clocks, updated every minute, generated by nine different LLMs. They are not very good at it.” clocks.brianmoore.com
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November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Keys found embedded in jam sandwich. Apologies.
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Keys found embedded in jam sandwich. Apologies.
Easy to forget how huge Adrian Mole was in the 80s and 90s, and it still holds up well: a young man, and a central English town, on the cusp of big changes (fascinating that the first novel’s coyness about naming its location as Leicester may have been due to editorial qualms about ‘parochialism’)
power struggles at the top of Your Party; the Palace of Westminster is falling down; Dick Taverne; why Wittgenstein didn't stan for Shakespeare; the Leicester roots of Sue Townsend and Adrian Mole; in search of Britain's loudest bird
The Joy of Six 1437
Sienna Rodgers takes us inside the power struggle at the top of Your Party: "There is talk that the leadership race could feature at least ...
liberalengland.blogspot.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Easy to forget how huge Adrian Mole was in the 80s and 90s, and it still holds up well: a young man, and a central English town, on the cusp of big changes (fascinating that the first novel’s coyness about naming its location as Leicester may have been due to editorial qualms about ‘parochialism’)
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Me: Beauty contests are an affront to humanity that degrade participants and spectators alike, both spiritually and aesthetically
Me watching Miss Yorkshire Television 1985: can't wait to drive around Yorkshire in my Yorkshire Television car wearing my Yorkshire Television medallion and tiara
Me watching Miss Yorkshire Television 1985: can't wait to drive around Yorkshire in my Yorkshire Television car wearing my Yorkshire Television medallion and tiara
November 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Me: Beauty contests are an affront to humanity that degrade participants and spectators alike, both spiritually and aesthetically
Me watching Miss Yorkshire Television 1985: can't wait to drive around Yorkshire in my Yorkshire Television car wearing my Yorkshire Television medallion and tiara
Me watching Miss Yorkshire Television 1985: can't wait to drive around Yorkshire in my Yorkshire Television car wearing my Yorkshire Television medallion and tiara
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A moment, please, to consider the absolute majesty of Daphne Oram's unbelievable score to this. A pitch shifted, time stretched, frequency agile glimpse of the future of music production; a liberty-taking all analogue remix of Sandy Nelson's Teen Beat realised in real time with the visuals.
November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A moment, please, to consider the absolute majesty of Daphne Oram's unbelievable score to this. A pitch shifted, time stretched, frequency agile glimpse of the future of music production; a liberty-taking all analogue remix of Sandy Nelson's Teen Beat realised in real time with the visuals.
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It continues to be funny to me just how much Keir Starmer's social media team do not have his voice down *at all*. I mean, at all, at all.
One to bookmark. His presence on social media seems all a bit leaden.
November 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It continues to be funny to me just how much Keir Starmer's social media team do not have his voice down *at all*. I mean, at all, at all.