Should be using this as accompanying music $GBBO
The Wigan Church of Pies
YouTube video by The Lancashire Hotpots - Topic
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Illuminatus
@illuminatus.bsky.social
Politor merdarum. Septentrionarius. Software wrangler. Vaguely sinister. Transmitter of “low quality thoughts”, apparently.
Over the past eighteen months or so, I did a podcast to promote The Golden Age Of Children's TV, in which loads of great guests came on to talk about their favourite Children's TV show. It turned out quite well so I'm going to link to all of them in this thread.. timworthington.org/the-golden-a...
The Golden Age Of Children’s TV
Do you live in a town? Was it Bill or was it Ben? Who is The Phantom Phlan Plinger? Can you guess what is in it today? Why don’t you just switch off your television set and go out and do something …
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See, if they’d all been watching the Hairy Bikers on 2 fifteen minutes ago, they were all over the pies, including being in a Scotch Pie factory $GBBO
The Telegraph's solution to youth unemployment, from two men with double-barrelled surnames.
"Move fast and break things," say the people who, in an uncanny coincidence, are responsible for breaking the entire planet at a terrifying speed.
A pre-fame Annie Nightingale throws a party for the BBC's "A Whole Scene Going" www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0lo...
1966: How to Throw a House Party | A Whole Scene Going | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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No-one ever talks about stockpiling the fun stuff. Like if I’m in a situation where I need to access an emergency stockpile I want a sweet treat to perk me up do you know what I mean. Where are the bourbon biscuits.
My standing search on the phrase "stochastic parrots" regularly turns up people labeling it a "thought-terminating cliché". I think maybe they're right, but not the way the think they are: >>
I honestly can't express in words how angry this makes me. How about not getting the AI to do that, and writing the outline/draft/notes yourself? Then it's not a problem at all.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · yesterday"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2
Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emotional reunions as photographer recreates shots 46 years on
Sam Hill spent months tracking down the "special generation" he photographed as teenagers in 1980.
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A darkly accurate SU-view of TEF, imagined by @jimdickinson.bsky.social. Tell the truth and you accelerate the doom spiral. wonkhe.com/blogs/who-wo...
Who would dare to tell the truth about the TEF?
As OfS consults on a TEF that punishes rather than rewards, Jim Dickinson imagines a year as an SU officer at a struggling provider and finds honesty the worst policy
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Robinson in perv glasses, which he probably invented. #CallMyBluff
Liza married Alvin Stardust, Colin Baker and Tarka the Otter. Not at the same time, though. #CallMyBluff
They’ve discovered computers and word processing. Even the true labels are all neat and printed now #CallMyBluff
I met Liza recently and she was very lovely and chatty #CallMyBluff
"rise of the rockstar chef"? "Fuck of the fuck off fuck" more like #morelike
Later it may be, but Frank’s pink dickie remains the same #CallMyBluff
Bob le Taxi so doing better on General Knowledge, which is a nicer thing #Mastermind1977
You can smell the rapidly expanding pool of piss in that chair, can’t you? #Mastermind1977
The Bishop of Bath and Wells *blackadder.gif* #Mastermind1977
It’s nice she’s gone for the period bowl cut to go with the subject #Mastermind1977
Having a catch up on some 4extra comedy shows, including this particular episode, which contains the origin of Arnold Rimmer’s exam and revision technique …
Son of Cliche - The Weird Dimension - BBC Sounds
Award-winning sketch comedy from out of this world.
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