Roddy McDowall chilling on the set of PLANET OF THE APES (1968)
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Behind the scenes on ‘The Banana Splits’ TV show, 1968.
"Children are dying while wearing Argentina Messi shirts. These children love you & they love football, but they are being killed while you remain silent." Hossam Hassan shared this message after Egypt's controversial 3–2 defeat to Argentina, where several rigged VAR decisions sparked debate.
We need to either return to a pre-bot/AI internet, or flee to create a new one. Call me naive, but back in the 90s I was under the impression the internet's destiny was to be an unprecedented knowledge resource that benefitted humanity. Instead it's become the unreliable puppet of grabby little men.
Almost 5,000 people have joined the call for a halt to new hyperscale data centres in Scotland. The 24 applications in so far would require 1.5 times as much energy as all of Scotland uses at peak demand. We can't let this free-for-all continue. Please sign and share widely greens.scot/datacentres
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Forget Cruyff, Gullit and Van Basten this is the best ever moment in Dutch football.
The most amazing thing you’ll see today I guarantee is this frame-by-frame animated remake of “Sabotage”. youtu.be/lgXSDPmOWCE?...
Stop Motion Sabotage - A Stop Motion Recreation of Beastie Boys "Sabotage" video
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1953, Hollywood, CA. Rosemary Clooney in an early (first?) example of the "Young woman sits in front of her record player among her favourite records" trope
this week I have been mostly watching Rebus, having just missed it when first on telly. *theme is nuts. youtu.be/U_ExKoHfiQc?...
intro - rebus
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RICK RUBIN on why Hollywood keeps making soulless movies: "So many big movies are just not good because they're being made by people trying to make something they think someone else is going to like. That's not how art works. That's commerce."
Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co
By the time they split up, The Smiths had more or less stopped bothering.
#OtD 28 Apr 2011 glorious leader of the proletariat, Labour shadow chancellor @EdBalls made his first tweet: simply his own name "Ed Balls". Today, Ed Balls Day, we remember. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9978...
JENNIFER WELCH: Those two men [Trump & Netanyahu] are disgusting human beings. They should both be in jail... The fact that man [Netanyahu] is able to come over to the US and not get arrested and sent to the Hague just shows how morally depraved American foreign policy is...” 🎯💯🎯💯🎯💯
The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...
