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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 14h

Old LP: Girl On The Test Card by Pete Winslow and the King Size Brass. The cover features the classic test card with a girl playing noughts & crosses on a blackboard with a clown toy

Back of the LP sleeve. A b&w photo of Pete W blowing into a trumpet, and extensive notes

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 4d

4 years ago today I stumbled across the greatest tv listing ever written

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 20h

V rare fella near Northampton right now, skycards pals

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine a 1970s Alan Partridge on a mind bending trip through long lost London, so breakneck & fragmentary, full of incredible characters & handbrake turns that it feels like a dream where the cast & context keeps mutating & it still won’t be as wild as the actuality of this
youtu.be/hTIkSgNC4ww?...

1975: BERNARD FALK's Tour of HIDDEN LONDON | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d

Ladies and gentlepuffins we are floating in space.
One small step for puffin, one giant leap for puffinkind, with more Jill McDonald joy for my Sputnik Sweethearts.

Colourful cartoon cover of a 1968 Puffin Post magazine, in which a pink space rocket emits fierce fiery jets of flame from three booster rockets which are powering it.
The rocket is patterned in black flowers and orange pink and yellow zigzags speeds through a black starry sky with a big shiny sliver satellite spinning through space.
The rocket is crewed by three puffins in yellow space suits sitting at porthole windows and three on space walks outside tethered to the rocket by squiggly blue cables.
Above it, another rocket, this one striped red and yellow zooms across bearing the title Puffin Post in white, hand drawn capital letters outlined in black.
The style of the illustration is very much 1960s psychedelia for primary children and it gives a real sense of an unfolding scene in motion

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 1d

This feels like something you’d expect to see in Stath Lets Flats.

Rightmove photoshop fail looks like cars 'have been glued by Pritt Stick'

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 1d

It’s 1992, which tissue box cover are we crocheting?

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 1d

Damn, I'd love to have seen that!

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone else remember that guy who made a career of ringing up Radio 4 current affairs prog phone-ins (especially Women's Hour) back in the 90s to make some rw complaint, every now and then pretending to be a member of a minority? (This isn't him, obvs, it just reminded me)

The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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The Merciless Peppers of Quetzlzacatejimbo @redjolt.bsky.social · 1d

Found Glup Shitto’s plane.

A plane from Skycards called the Groppo Trail

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HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 3d

Genuinely the greatest documentary the BBC have ever made - THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE - am utterly thrilled it's now on youtube. youtu.be/bc9qxyf_suI?...

1973: Life on the LAST LIGHTHOUSE | Tuesday Documentary | World of Work | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 2d

Well I know what it is (for me anyway), it's "strong lines on creamy background". See also Giacometti's paintings, which caused my head to explode when I first came across some in an encyclopedia of art as a teen back in caveman times

'Annette', a painting by Alberto Giacometti. Portrait of a woman, sat straight up facing the viewer, arms crossed over and resting on her lap. Strong dark lines on a background of creamy greys, predominantly blue

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 2d

Something about this one 🤌

Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 2d

Still Life with Gingerpot I by Piet Mondrian, 1911
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137552

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

© 2007 Mondrian/Holtzman Trust

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 3d

My Lovely Course

A pair of hands laying a COURSE of bricks

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 3d

😎👍

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 3d

Dawww!

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 3d

Dammit of course, yess!!! I was just looking up "flourospar", I knew there was a "fluh" sound in there somewhere!

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 3d

Ohhhhhh, damn, I know what you mean but I think it must have been someone else who gave you the info cos I haven't got a clue what that's called lol

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THE GO! TEAM @thegoteam.bsky.social · 3d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PPG...

Classic TV Theme: Room 222 (Jerry Goldsmith)

YouTube video by David Gideon

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 3d

The sleeve for 'Propaganda' is pretty great as well ("concept and photography Monty Coles")

Front cover of the Sparks LP 'Propaganda'. The Mael bros are in the back of a speedboat or small motorboat, clearly travelling very fast. Both are bound and gagged and looking at you the viewer with evident concern

Back cover. The Mael bros still bound and gagged, this time looking very alarmed at you through the rear window of a big old car parked up in one of the bays of a petrol station or garage. An attendant is checking under the hood while three guys (presumably the rest of the band) hang around

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 4d

Uploaded to YouTube recently, something I’ve never seen before of interest to U.K. TV presentation fans: BBC One Inside Out (East Midlands) talking about test cards and TV presentation featuring the legend that is Keith Hamer youtu.be/-O0GDo4uZi0

Test Cards and Idents - Keith Hamer - Carole Hersee - Inside Out East Midlands - BBC1 - 11-01-2010

YouTube video by studio2television

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Lort Burn Specials @lortburnspecials.bsky.social · 8d

LORT BURN SPECIALS: 3

Featuring OWEN HATHERLEY, ANDREW HANKINSON, KATE LISTON and music from BEN LOWES-SMITH

SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER 7PM

@alphabettitheatre.bsky.social

MAKE NEWCASTLE MITTELEUROPA AGAIN

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 4d

ALERT for Owen Hatherley / Peter Mitchell fans

Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 4d

i don't know where you are, or who, or if you exist, but i'll be talking with him about it in newcastle on the 18th: www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/lortburnspec...

Lort Burn Specials

www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 4d

Unfortunately I'm bloody miles and miles and miles away, otherwise I'd be up there like a shot!

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 4d

Ha, same here! Google lens wasn't much help - declared with absolute certainty it was a specific robot off Robot Wars, or part of the cupola from Renfrew town hall lol

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