Fun fact: une mauvaise utilisation de guillemets est toujours drôle. Extracteur ✌🏻de jus✌🏻
Aug. 5, 1926: The opening of a world congress of Esperanto-speaking socialists in Leningrad. The banner at top left reads: “Down with language barriers! Long live Esperanto—the workers' tool of understanding.”
Jump to 50 seconds in and listen to the music they use. Trust me. Your flabber will have never been so gasted.
Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra@fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 10mo agoSpecial bonus feature:
Ride A White Swan by T. Rex. Heard it for the first time on a crackly AM oldies station in 1990 and my jaw dropped in astonishment. youtu.be/skjvDLpeh4c?...
T.Rex - Ride A White Swan 1970
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Hello Bluesky. What’s your favourite song that’s around 2 minutes in length? Asking for me, my indulge shower timings and the unprecedented drought we’re in. e.g Housemartins- Happy Hour, Damned- Help Any genre, modern or classical. Just 2 minutes. #musicsky #climatecrisis #drought
Definitely didn’t just spend several minutes wondering what this was Welsh for 👍
Everything about this sounds like a 21st century parody of 1990s British pop-rock, from the references in the lyrics to the band's name - I am actually in awe
This is a remarkable artefact of the late 1990s.
David Bryant@23daves.bsky.social · yesterdayI'm not sure if it's Britpop or post-Britpop, but I succumbed to Hillman Minx's "I've Had Enough" thanks to its chart-hype first week price of 99p. A group backed heavily enough by their label that they hired Angus Deayton for the video, but no album ever emerged. youtu.be/AXlW6ZbKLbE?...
Saw this picture and trying to figure out the Diddy Kong situation is leading me down a rabbit hole that can only end with me rejecting the moon landing
I once sat in a pub beer garden during festival time in Edinburgh, and the time I was there coincided with the audience from a Jimmy Cricket show spilling out and into the pub grounds. I swear, you never saw such a silly, delighted, just downright *happy* bunch of people. Not a bad old epitaph.
Entertaining things happening with the Lean mathematics proof assistant: a few days ago someone used it to verify a ‘proof’ of the Collatz Conjecture (the 3n+1 problem). The ‘proof’ used a bug in Lean’s kernel; the conjecture remains open www.reddit.com/r/math/comme...
From the math community on Reddit: Lean 4 Bug Found Incidentally by AI, "Proving" Collatz
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Why on earth has it taken me more than forty years to discover that David Byrne produced a Fun Boy Three cover of Ron Goodwin's Miss Marple theme? youtu.be/QklX2Sh-dw4?...
Murder She Said
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1st August 2026 This 'gull' was entertaining the crowds at the Cambridge Folk Festival today when it suddenly 'flew' over to these two guys who were eating and just stood there watching them and now the more I think about this the funnier it gets.
Nun on a lawnmower, Ty Mawr Convent, Monmouth, south Wales, 1979, photo by Kevin O'Farrell, Irish photographer.
obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo
Today’s Guardian Prize Crossword by Kite contained some very tricky wordplay. I’m not entirely happy with one of the definitions, but a satisfying solve all the same www.theguardian.com/crosswords/p...
Prize crossword No 30,074
Prize crossword No 30,074
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Though little remains of their culture now, the concerns and fears of these people can be surmised from the artwork they left.
there are occasions when an artist captures their subject so perfectly, all you can do is marvel at their ability
Enjoyed this nicely thematic one, evoking a few 70s and 80s memories. Definition of last one in relied on some entertainment general knowledge that I didn’t have, so I felt pleased to work it out from the wordplay!
Dan Dickens@brockwellgrecian.bsky.social · 6d agoI set today’s Guardian cryptic crossword. Hopefully, it’s a fun ride: Hard rock capturing the heart of Mason Mount (5) Emma made point about cross-dresser (9,4) Show off magnificent stomach (10) www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...
Containing Richard Stilgoe’s legendary Statutory Right Of Entry song from Nationwide. A huge find!
Why Don't YouTube?@whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 6d agoAnother catchup. whydontyoutube.substack.com/p/the-why-do...
Winner of a tripe eating competition, Manchester, April 1975 (Mirrorpix/Manchester Evening News)
Well, this is rotten. Always pleased when his stuff turned up on the Radio Paradise playlist, and Once is a fine little film.
Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash at age 56
A tangential thought. So many British comedy TV shows were turned into films in the 70s, despite being totally unsuited to the big screen. The Goodies, chock-full of brilliant visual humour, never did. Why no movie?
Isabel Rogers@isabelrogers.bsky.social · last wk.Well this is just lovely - last night's Front Row with Samira talking to Graeme Garden about Bill Oddie.
The Goodies’ tie-in books get a deserved mention here: they’re remarkable comic creations, jam-packed with clever stuff.
David Quantick@quantick.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote a bit about Bill Oddie and the Goodies. quantick.substack.com/p/the-funky-goodie
A story about Bill Oddie RIP. When Rowan Williams was Archbishop of Canterbury, he used to invite me to his Christmas parties. One year, I took my husband Andy Gill as my plus one…
