#EveryAlbumIOwn A Night At The Opera. Queen. 1975. Top 3 tunes: You're My Best Friend, '39, Love Of My Life You can skip: Never need to hear Bohemian Rhapsody again Rating: 9/10 "Was the fin on your back part of the deal? (Shark!)" has to be the best 'Yes, that's the joke' in the history of music.

Coffee time.

"This contradicts claims by some rightwing commentators, who have blamed rewilding for causing wildfires."

Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show

National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding

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This also happened to me tbf

Michael Fry@bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 17h ago

I’ve been on a real XMen buzz recently and I watched XMen Apocalypse and I love that they gave Professor X’s baldness a backstory. His hair got burned off by apocalypse. They didn’t need to do that. He can just be bald in the normal way.

Fantastic song. Have it on CD single somewhere in the attic room. Not sure why I didn't get the 12" single as I was still mostly buying those in 89.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 20h ago

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I’ve reviewed the return of the wonderful Ludwig.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 15h ago

Ludwig review – cosy crime at its bumbling best

Can’t believe 7 Zark 7 was in the Epstein Files.

Sanja and I took a road trip around the M25, looking for its best roadside attractions. We saw: a horse! A fire! A magical hill! A dead pirate! A pool noodle! The largest scale model of anything in the entire world! We lost: our sanity. New video out now. youtu.be/n4io-mUVf0g?...

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Magic

University of Ghent waking up to the fact that having a "race realist" on staff with stated intentions to become a professor of "eugenics and race science" is not ideal for their PR ambitions. They were fine with him 3 weeks ago though, so this investigation is the direct result of public pressure.

Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · yesterday

Racist Zero under investigation by his current employer www.thenational.scot/news/2648073...

Reacher: You're a criminal. This annoys me. Time for punching. Neagley: I will hunt you to the ends of the Earth, burn your home down, murder the shit out of you and watch you die because you're evil and it's vitally important to me that you die knowing that. I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS.

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 6d ago

UHM EXCUSE ME LARGE MAN CREW BUT THE NEAGLEY SPIN-OFF IS COMING NEXT MONTH!?!?!?! we are so blessed, I deserved this www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOzN...

Our follow up podcast dissecting Channel 4’s anti ADHD polemic is up now #adhd #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #channel4

The Cosmic Shambles Network@cosmicshambles.com · 2d ago

After Channel 4's 'The Great ADHD Myth?' aired last night, we gathered some experts to review just how wrong it got things. @robinince.bsky.social chats to Camilla Pang, @ginarippon.bsky.social, @drdeanburnett.bsky.social & @thepublicturner.bsky.social Full chat on The Incomplete Shambles Podcast.

Do any of you nerds know exactly when the pressing fault occurs during "Money" on the first UK solid blue prism Dark Side Of The Moon?

god I love this column so much, what INSANE reasoning, how big is that room Dave

The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterday

You be the judge: should my partner stop hogging my side of the bed?

Oh, bother

This “plan” assumes there is never another global energy shock that causes a global gas price spike. It is not a plan. It is wishful thinking.

City A.M. | London's Business Newspaper - News, Opinion, & Anal…@cityam.com.web.brid.gy · 3d ago

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Gary Johnson, China Crisis Bassist, Dies At 61

Gary “Gazza” Johnson, the China Crisis bassist who helped define the band’s classic 1980s sound and played on “Black Man Ray”, has died aged 61.

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We wondered on @cosmicshambles.com podcast whether Professor Katya Rubin knew how her interview was going to be used , well, surprise surprise (remember this was the documentary that Channel 4 boasted was “science led”)

81,000 warning letters sent to crypto holders in HMRC tax crackdown

81,000 warning letters sent to crypto holders in HMRC tax crackdown

According to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request the number of letters sent has almost tripled since 2024.

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Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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Okay, I have a book out, it's about Doctor Who and the awesome ways it engages with a bunch of themes across sixty years. And is available at www.hernebooks.com/product-page...

Where We Stand, Where We Fall: The politics of Doctor Who | Herne Books new

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Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 3d ago

EVERYBODY SHOULD ALWAYS BE MENTIONING THEIR BOOKS

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

This is a great, succinct, stinging piece

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d ago

There are specific institutional failings that are shared with Cambridge's broader approach to descent - but too much of the coverage, both before and after his tragic death, has had too much of a 'a black person can't be a successful fabulist!'

EARTH MUST DIE is OUT NOW. Starring Joel Fry, Martha Howe-Douglas, @alexhorne.bsky.social @misterabk.bsky.social @benstarr.bsky.social @5teviem.bsky.social Tamsin Greig, Don Warrington and LOADS of other people. It's cheap | good | funny, check it out. store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

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These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...

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In 1987 the poet Benjamin Zephaniah was considered for a visiting fellowship at Cambridge. Here's how Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper approached that particular story.

'And really one of the breakthroughs of Channel 4 News in its early days was its coverage of the miners' dispute'

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · 3d ago

Can OnlyFans models make the climate crisis sexy?

A couple of points about that 'Watch these before Avengers: Doomsday' list. First up, it's a Disney+ marketing tool approved by Marvel rather than a panic measure from a studio who thinks nobody will understand their film without doing revision. Secondly...

I ditched toilets for shitting my pants

alyssa mercante@alyssamerc.bsky.social · 6d ago

Mark Kern has been “developing” a crowdfunded game for ~10 years. He’s spent most of this time tweeting reactionary bait, histrionic declarations of war, & attacking marginalized folks. He just launched a new game site, seemingly built entirely with AI, saying he needs $3.38M to finish the game.