We know all the classic lines (“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap”), but I fondly remember her being on TFI Friday and someone in the audience shouting “I love you, Dolly”. An immaculate pause and: “Oh, honey. I told you to wait in the truck”

This "Microdramas" thing is extraordinary. [1/2] www.reuters.com/business/med...

Microdramas boom in a shrinking Hollywood as studios chase a TikTok audience

When Craig Williams opened his production facility in downtown Los Angeles two years ago, he thought he would rent out the converted furniture warehouse for the occasional music video to sustain his f...

reuters.com

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz358bs

Why is it with restaurant menus, the more upmarket the venue the less likely it is to include the pound symbol ("Gravlax 14") but on TV ads, the more *downmarket* the product, the less likely they are to include the currency ("This huge sofa just three nine nine")?

And what I only discovered recently was that you can set Reader View as default on many devices. Give it a try folks! [1/2]

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 3d ago

Reading newspaper articles past all the pop ups and ads is like trying to read a book propped up in a field through a fence while passing in a moving train.

Such a good thread from such a good researcher.

Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · 4d ago

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

He’s talking about bombing the Bond Market now. What’s most amazing is that it’s not even a tiny bit shocking.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 4d ago

Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.

Works better read out than written down, obviously.

Fell down a rabbit hole into the Domesday Book and when I searched for the area I'm from, I uh

Well meaning, I’m sure, but this would give most people earning over £18k an extra £90.50/month, including many high earners, while giving nothing to those under £12,570. I suspect many people don't realise what an oddly targeted tax cut this would be. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Petition: Raise the personal tax allowance to £18,000

Since 2021 personal tax allowance has been frozen at £12,570. This freeze was due to expire this year but the Chancellor of the Exchequer has extended it to 2031. We want to keep some more of our own...

petition.parliament.uk

Loved the John Constable exhibition at Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich. Just one gallery but awesome. Amazing that they got the National Gallery to loan them ‘The Hay Wain’. As The Spectator said: "You've never seen it like this before". [1/2] ipswich.cimuseums.org.uk/constable250...

Constable 250 Exhibitions | Ipswich Museums

Celebrate Constable 250 in 2026 with exhibitions at Christchurch Mansion, marking 250 years since the birth of Suffolk artist John Constable.

ipswich.cimuseums.org.uk

It’s arrived! Today’s plans have been put on hold. (More details at halfmanhalfbiscuit.uk/friday-night... )

Best Jokes of the Fringe 2026: https://www.comedy.co.uk/fringe/news/8817/olaf-falafel-wins-fringe-of-the-fringe-2026/

Olaf Falafel wins (Some Guy Called) Dave Joke of the Fringe 2026 - British Comedy Guide

Olaf Falafel has been crowned winner of the (Some Guy Called) Dave Joke of the Fringe 2026 competition for his gag involving a piranha and a boomerang.

comedy.co.uk

If you know, you know.

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 2y ago

give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head

Interesting look at AI market share – ChatGPT is still dominant but has been inexorably losing ground, especially to Google Gemini. Just a smaller share of a growing market though, absolute user numbers may still have risen. (LinkedIn) lnkd.in/p/gBEYKYan

Great visualisation of ChatGPT's ongoing decline in market share 📉 It's fun to see various AI fads come and go in the visualisation. Sudden spikes for DeepSeek which then fade away, and most…...

Great visualisation of ChatGPT's ongoing decline in market share 📉 It's fun to see various AI fads come and go in the visualisation. Sudden spikes for DeepSeek which then fade away, and most recently...

lnkd.in

Finally, some mainstream press coverage for Marillion.

Currently loving FluidVoice, fast AI assessed dictation anywhere you can type on a Mac, and it does the whole AI part locally and offline too. It's free, open source and genuinely useful. It makes dictation more natural than typing for me – just one key to start. Did this with it. altic.dev/fluid

FluidVoice — Voice-to-Text for macOS

Speak naturally. Write instantly. Free, open source voice-to-text with on-device AI, adaptive tone, and zero data leaving your Mac.

altic.dev

Love how this dude discovered the cheat codes of "what if I listened to constituents" and "what if I modeled good behavior" and "maybe I behave like a normal person should." These are apparently dark secrets that have been hidden from other politicians.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last wk.

I'm listening, I'm learning. Safety first, NYC.

– Track timings to hundredths of a second – "Noise Information" (Clicks at 13'05", 13'06" etc) – "FOR THOSE WHO HEED THE CALL OF THE MACHINE WE SALUTE YOU"

The old internet@theoldinternet.bsky.social · last wk.

44 years ago today, the first CD was produced. What is the first CD you owned?

I love looking at the odds of possible next US Presidents. After you know who, anything is possible. I spy Tiger Woods! Dwayne Johnson! Meghan Markle! And many more... (PS: the election will be between Jon Ossoff and Tucker Carlson) www.oddschecker.com/politics/us-...

US Presidential Election 2028 Winner Betting Odds | Politics

US Presidential Election 2028 - Winner Betting Odds. Get the best available US Politics odds from all online bookmakers with Oddschecker, the home of betting value.

oddschecker.com

I've compiled all of 'Football ARTicles' into a free PDF - 35 articles - 58 artworks - 47,000 words - 264 pages read/download at link below danleydon.com/sketchbooks

There's a part of the population who seem to love being exploited. The more they have the piss taken out of them by their leaders, the more they support them. And the worst people sure aren't missing this opportunity. https://www.ipswich.co.uk/who-kicked-the-dogs-out-but-let-waffles-in/

https://neal.fun/baby-map/

It's largely forgotten that ABBA followed up "Waterloo" with 6 flop singles (only one just dented the top 40), and at this point – over a year after Eurovision – had only just (finally!) got their second hit ("SOS"). "Seaside Special" was about as much as they could have hoped for at the time.

archivetvmusings@archivetvmusings.bsky.social · last wk.

Seaside Special (16th August 1975). ABBA travel to Torbay to perform two songs, first up is Waterloo.

'Released 50 years ago today, Ian Wade revisits the brilliance of 'Dancing Queen' and discovers a single which future-proofed ABBA' Having the time of your life: #ABBA’s Dancing Queen at 50 buff.ly/qpvKBoq

Amazed to find out from this that another Clacton by-election is highly unlikely because a “recall” by-election needs 10% of constituents to request it, and that’s highly unlikely, as – incredibly – it’s illegal for anyone to draw attention to that recall petition.

Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast@ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 2w ago

🗑️ LATEST EPISODE 🗑️ Farage’s troubles aren’t over just because he won in Clacton. But he might just swerve having to face another by-election… 🗑️ With @seththevoz.bsky.social @jasonhazeley.bsky.social @nndroid.bsky.social & special guest @rewearmouth.bsky.social 🗑️ Listen – linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

Sky News legend Jon Craig points out that Nigel Farage is the first by-election winner not to turn up for the count since IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in 1981. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...

Nigel Farage Easily Wins Clacton By-Election – But Dodges Result Declaration

The Reform UK leader said police had told him “there is an organised campaign to disrupt” the announcement.

huffingtonpost.co.uk

Farage’s vanity by-election may be expensive for UK taxpayers, but we’ll get £15,000 back from about 30 lost deposits.

Incredible work – divide the UK in two by population, tax paid, etc. puntofisso.net/MapSplit/ ...by Giuseppe Sollazzo www.linkedin.com/in/giuseppes...

You really do learn something every day.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

The original "Tragedy of the Commons" paper was a racist hoax perpetrated by an academic fraud who wanted to make the case for the expulsion of black and Brown people from America and their mass extermination abroad: memex.craphound.com/2019/10/01/t... 85/