Lorna McKie
@greyblueiris.bsky.social
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
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Entirely separately stumbled on this yesterday and am half way through Carl Sagan's. Makes an interesting pairing with this year's on similar themes but with an almost fifty year change in style and substance.
Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s:
www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
Watch the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES archive
Watch all the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES back to 1966, when the lectures were first televised.
www.rigb.org
December 31, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Entirely separately stumbled on this yesterday and am half way through Carl Sagan's. Makes an interesting pairing with this year's on similar themes but with an almost fifty year change in style and substance.
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Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!
December 31, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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John Carpenter's They Live, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social, 12.35am.
December 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
John Carpenter's They Live, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social, 12.35am.
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i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
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“Rain smacked Los Angeles. It splattered on the palm trees, sizzled on the neon, gurgled down the dirty boulevard. The town was sick. They hadn’t seen sunlight in almost a day. But I had the cure. A fifth of magic and a sack full of cold, hard joy. ‘Ho,’ I said once. It was enough.”
-Noir Santa
-Noir Santa
December 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
“Rain smacked Los Angeles. It splattered on the palm trees, sizzled on the neon, gurgled down the dirty boulevard. The town was sick. They hadn’t seen sunlight in almost a day. But I had the cure. A fifth of magic and a sack full of cold, hard joy. ‘Ho,’ I said once. It was enough.”
-Noir Santa
-Noir Santa
Looks like Nessie’s started early.
Join the crew of STINGRAY (1964) at 10am as they investigate 'The Loch Ness Monster' on #TPTV
December 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Looks like Nessie’s started early.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Christmas in Glasgow back in 1971, featuring the Christmas lights outside the Kelvin Hall advertising the circus, and the lights in George Square. There are also shots of the Christmas lights from the streets around Glasgow.
#Glasgow #history #Christmas
🎥 NLS Moving Image Archive
#Glasgow #history #Christmas
🎥 NLS Moving Image Archive
December 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Christmas in Glasgow back in 1971, featuring the Christmas lights outside the Kelvin Hall advertising the circus, and the lights in George Square. There are also shots of the Christmas lights from the streets around Glasgow.
#Glasgow #history #Christmas
🎥 NLS Moving Image Archive
#Glasgow #history #Christmas
🎥 NLS Moving Image Archive
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I love the fucking internet, part 972964386: "One Night In Bangkok" arranged and performed as a 16th century chanson. youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?...
One Night in Bangkok but it's a 16th century chanson
YouTube video by Jonasquin
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I love the fucking internet, part 972964386: "One Night In Bangkok" arranged and performed as a 16th century chanson. youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?...
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Animation is magic and Harryhausen was a wizard.
December 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Animation is magic and Harryhausen was a wizard.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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then in 2019 GPT-2 generated this carol
www.aiweirdness.com/the-ais-caro...
www.aiweirdness.com/the-ais-caro...
December 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
then in 2019 GPT-2 generated this carol
www.aiweirdness.com/the-ais-caro...
www.aiweirdness.com/the-ais-caro...
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
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Stages of holiday shopping
1. Plenty of time
2. Gifts for myself
3. Oh no
1. Plenty of time
2. Gifts for myself
3. Oh no
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Stages of holiday shopping
1. Plenty of time
2. Gifts for myself
3. Oh no
1. Plenty of time
2. Gifts for myself
3. Oh no
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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Story thread-
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
December 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Story thread-
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Trump posted this without knowing Nick Reiner had been arrested. He posted it apparently assuming that one of his fans had murdered Rob Reiner. So if you want to know how Trump will react once his fans start murdering his enemies, now you know. He'll celebrate and blame his enemies.
Trump offers incendiary political message about Rob Reiner’s death
Two people have been found dead at the home of Hollywood director Rob Reiner, officials said.
www.cnn.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Trump posted this without knowing Nick Reiner had been arrested. He posted it apparently assuming that one of his fans had murdered Rob Reiner. So if you want to know how Trump will react once his fans start murdering his enemies, now you know. He'll celebrate and blame his enemies.
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Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers.
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
December 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers.
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
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This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
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Take your kids to the science museum where they can learn about plasma balls and touch screens with JavaScript errors on them.
December 12, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Take your kids to the science museum where they can learn about plasma balls and touch screens with JavaScript errors on them.
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Saddened to hear of the death, aged 99, of Hillhead boy, Stanley Baxter, but what a run!
From BBC Children's Hour to the Five Past Eight Shows, pantomime to Parliamo Glasgow, global TV fame to his later BBC Radio plays, Stan was the man.
From BBC Children's Hour to the Five Past Eight Shows, pantomime to Parliamo Glasgow, global TV fame to his later BBC Radio plays, Stan was the man.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Saddened to hear of the death, aged 99, of Hillhead boy, Stanley Baxter, but what a run!
From BBC Children's Hour to the Five Past Eight Shows, pantomime to Parliamo Glasgow, global TV fame to his later BBC Radio plays, Stan was the man.
From BBC Children's Hour to the Five Past Eight Shows, pantomime to Parliamo Glasgow, global TV fame to his later BBC Radio plays, Stan was the man.
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My all-time favorite newspaper correction:
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
My all-time favorite newspaper correction: