Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

public libraries ftw

The Munchkins Miniature Shetland Rescue summer fair always turns up some interesting finds, and this year it was these two @backlisted.bsky.social inspired beauties.

Pretty much any 3 by JJ Cale. They’re all basically the same platonically perfect album.

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 763: Having a tough time? Good. Got a rejection? Good. Got a bad review? Good. Had to abandon a project because it wasn't working? Good. These things all teach you resilience, patience and determination; the things you need most as a writer.

This is lovely and it is a great piece of writing.

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 7d ago

I know people like to take the p*ss out of Adrian but this is a great piece of writing.

And Obama PROMISED me he'd read The Truth About Archie and Pye this year. Did he? Did he hell. Bloody Obama.

Failed to make the Bridport shortlist again. Then again, I didn't actually enter this year so there's that.

Well, looks like someone's just bought a complete set of the Mathematical Mysteries. All 6 of the buggers, plus an extra copy of Bad Day in Minsk. Exciting times.

For no good reason apart from the fact that it's an absolute banger, here's the greatest TV theme tune of all time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHOM...

The Money Programme Intro - BBC Two 1998

YouTube video by Cookie's Classics

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This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

PLEASE SHARE THIS To the young person (longish dark hair, patterned waistcoat, chinos & DM boots) who left this scroll of papers on the Piccadilly Line train at South Kensington station at about 4.25pm today, I’ve handed it to the station staff at Hammersmith.

‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton

RIP Tom Chadbon. Best punch ever delivered to an alien.

Reading that Bill Oddie has died. It seems appropriate to play this Mike Ratledge-penned classic from Soft Machine Six, which was dedicated to Bill. youtu.be/CTMM2oPqJBw?...

Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album [For B.O] (Remastered 2006)

YouTube video by The Soft Machine - Topic

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This is bonkers, is it not?

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

RIP Bill Oddie. Legend.

Oh, sad news about Bill Oddie. Used to love ISIRTA and then the Goodies of course. Only Graeme left now.

What's your sign?

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra@fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · last wk.

What’s your sign?

Lovely stuff

Gary Brannan@garybrannan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ach, you know what? Why not. Here’s Alan Bennett’s closing monologue from ‘On the Margin’, missing for nearly 60 years, and found on a Sony CV2000 tape in the Galton and Simpson archive You, dear viewer, are one of the few people ever to have seen this. Enjoy! discover.york.ac.uk/collections/...

Sun Ra / Saturn Records Business Cards : Why buy old Sounds? Buy new sounds from the future.

Seeing as Madge #AtTheBBC is on again, a reminder of an all time great Tweet by @michaelspicer.bsky.social

If you're worried about the reviews your book or record might have on the internet, remember the Himalayas have a 4.3 out of 5 star rating on Google Maps.

Obviously need to post more badgers.

Last night's badgers, scurrying hither...

“I was named Ebenezer after an uncle, and Scrooge… after Ebenezer.”

HappyToast@happytoast.co.uk · 2w ago

If Scrooge is his surname then he was a Scrooge before his parents named him Ebenezer, so I'm out.

I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.

I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”

The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is not the only factor which makes it hard to photograph. Add dark, shiny heads and a shallow profile, and catching them sideways on (when you can't see wings or tail) involves more luck than judgement. But it's fun to try, however flawed the result.