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Does the weather actually pay any attention to the forecast?

ELIZABETH BROWNING: How do I love thee? MARIO:

Remembering Ian Marter who played my favourite Doctor Who male companion Harry Sullivan born on this day in 1944 and also sadly died this day in 1986. 💐 💜 #IanMarter #HarrySullivan #DrWho

"THE TRIPODS" season 1, episode 7 (transmitted 27/10/84) Will is cheated of happiness when the woman he is engaged to becomes a willing servant of the Earth's Tripod overlords... A BBC adaptation of John Christopher's novel, "The White Mountains" (1967). #scifi #sciencefiction #1980s #horrorfam

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

My response to the Ministerial statement on jackdaw gas Field. Jackdaw will not bring energy bills down. It can only add to the margins of our energy security.The real answer to energy security is having homegrown renewable power the price of which we control and electrifying everything at speed.

Ah, this explains Kennedy’s anti-Arab rhetoric

@cosmichope.bsky.social Hello. Would you be willing to tell me about the Druid element of your profile?

“I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle… and say, nope, I ain’t a gonna kill nobody.” Woody Guthrie

For the love of all that is holy, do NOT hand out Snickers lest you inadvertently kill some kid with a peanut allergy.

The language of academia seems deliberately verbose and ridden with jargon. The more complex the language, the more simple the actual idea being communicated - the language is a disguise to suggest sophistication.

Want to feel old? 1999 was 44 years ago.

Accidental Trumpkin

Bluesky has five kinds of users

Imagine a world where we are no longer dependent on oil and nuclear energy. It's coming and it's better and that's why the vested interests are doing everything in their power to stop it

"There was nothing wrong with it when I built it, unless humanoid creatures have damaged it!" "Doctor Who: Paradise Towers" part 4 (1987). #DoctorWho

Th dark irony of it all is that Reform want to defund the BBC.

Chekhov’s gone

Listen, don't knock it. This sort of #DoctorWho nonsense is how I knew more about Aztecs and Highlanders than anyone else in infant school.

Yeah, it’s stupid. They probably know this. It doesn’t matter. They only say this stuff to stay in the headlines and in the social media discourses. And they’ll be plenty of people reading it nodding along and saying “yes!”

Shocking, isn’t it, that things could go so horribly wrong when you let the country be run by a guy with six bankruptcies to his credit.

"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."

The Lord of the Rings is essentially a series of faculty meetings broken up by several long walks in the countryside.

Isaiah 29:13 "These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me; their worship of Me is but rules taught by men." This passage underscores the importance of heartfelt devotion over mere external compliance with religious norms.

Figuring out how to mass-fuck these algorithms and then following through in doing so is the key to the future.

Nothing to see here.Just Meta interfering in elections.

I’m deeply reminded of that scene in Romeo and Juliet where Lady Capulet sends the nurse away, only to immediately ask her to return because the mother doesn’t know the daughter well enough to have the conversation.

Tonight, it will be exactly fifty years since the most effortlessly beautiful fictional friendship of my TV childhood suddenly ended. I loved them SO MUCH.

🎯🎯🎯

Trump is exactly the sort of person for whom we should be praying.

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence

Has everyone left out a ham sandwich and glass of iodine for the Clock Man tonight? No peeking at 2am! He’ll TAKE YOUR HANDS.

Dear Spotify email people, London is not near me.

'The word "individual" means undivided, so we could say that very few individuals have ever existed. We could call them dividuals. Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness[...] Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all' (David Bohm).

Oh for goodness sake. Just nationalise it. And indeed nationalise every water company with a high debt to profit ratio. Essential infrastructure cannot be treated as a cash machine for either shareholders or creditors (to the manifest detriment of bill payers & their local areas).

We have a tumble dryer that was given to us by a relative and we paid nothing for it. Been running it for years. Recently started making the most terrible noise. A £6 teardrop bearing, easily accessible for replacement, sorted it.

The immigration doom loop, summed up here by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Found a copy of the Church Times from December 1978 stashed away in the vestry recently. I regret to inform you, we're still hung up on the same 'issues' almost 50 years later.