Lovely video about our open day on Saturday from photographer Hayley Salter. Reminder that the consulation closes THIS FRIDAY so this week is the last chance to have your say about why community spaces like the Warehouse matter. mrhalliance.co.uk/consultation
A plea for the future of the Friends of the Earth Warehouse in Digbeth from one of its tenants, @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social. We are Mostly Harmless weknow0.co.uk?p=3244
The Vogons are coming for Birmingham Science Fiction Group! – We Know Zero
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It's a bit click baity, but I wrote a blog post about Gen X and retirement: little-bits.paulmorriss.com/2026/08/gen-...
Gen X are beginning to retire - here's what we're planning
Gen X were born from 1965 to 1980. Although it’s possible to retire from 55, that’s pretty rare. Some of us are over 60 already though, ...
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Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
a wooly man without a face@jojororo.bsky.social · 4w agoTIL that between 1971 and 2012 ELO released 18 compilation albums, 13 studio albums and 5 live albums
I reread "My Family and Other Animals" for the first time since my childhood. Was it as good as I remembered? little-bits.paulmorriss.com/2026/07/rere...
Rereading a favourite childhood book: My Family and Other Animals
It must have been in my early teenage years that I first read Gerald Durrell's book My Family and Other Animals . I loved it, and I'm pretty...
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Contrary to all good sense I'm publishing two blog posts on the same day rather than spacing them out. One's about a zine I published, and one is a review of ELO1. little-bits.paulmorriss.com/2026/07/thre... little-bits.paulmorriss.com/2026/07/im-j...
Threescore celebration
On the occasion of my 60th birthday, I, like so many before me, created a 16 page zine printed newspaper style by newspaperclub.com . The ...
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Little boy on the school run: I don’t want to go to sport camp. His mum: I know. I don’t want to go to work. But once we’ve both done that, we can go on holiday.
A prog prom. Be still my beating heart. Not too still though. Also on BBC 4 at some point www.bbc.co.uk/events/ed5fbp
Prog Rock: A Fanfare for the Common Man
The Proms celebrates prog rock with BBC Radio 6 Music host Stuart Maconie, presenting brand-new orchestral arrangements of songs by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Mike Oldfield, Renaiss...
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Contrary to what the title text says I googled Woodingdean water well
Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 2mo agoHoles xkcd.com/3266/
![Comic: Holes. Elevation is to scale relative to sea level and ground level. Land shapes and horizontal distances are not to scale. [Lines for every 1k meters starting from -12k up to +4k: Bingham Canyon Mine (US), Veryovkina Cave (Georgia), MPONENG Gold Mine (South Africa), Sanford Laboratory (US), Giant Crystal Cave (Mexico), Derinkugo Underground City (Turkey), WIPP (US), Restof Salt Mine, with an arrow pointing at the bottom that reads “oops” (US), San Andreas Fault Observatory Borehole (US) CFB North Bay (Canada), Woodingdean Water Well (dug by hand) (United Kingdom), Diefen-Bunker (Canada), Deep Underground Command Center (Canceled in 1965) (US), Lake Peigneu, with another oops arrow next to it (US), Sydney Opera House Parking (Australia), Onkalo Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository (Finland), Hudson River, Delaware Aqueduct (US), Raven Rock (US), Wieliczka and Bochina Salt Mines (Poland), Atchison Storage Facility (US), Snolab (Canada), Detroit Salt Mine (US), Hongyancun Subway Station (China), Nuclear Test Shafts (North Korea), Super Kamiokande Neutrino Detector (Japan), Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy), Peak above Gran Sasso, Modane Laboratory (France), Peak above Modane Laboratory, Gotthard Tunnel (Switzerland), Peak above Cheyenne Bunker and Gotthard Tunnel, Cheyenne Mountain Bunker (US), Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russia) - deepest artificial point below surface at -11917m, Lake Baikal (Russia), sediments under Lake Baikal, IDDP-2 Borehole (Iceland), Dead Sea (multiple countries), Ryfylke Tunnel (Norway), Pantal Remis Mine with another oops arrow (Malaysia), Great Blue Hole (Belize), Joides Resolution Expedition 307 (Atlantic Ocean), Deepwater Horizon Borehole (Gulf of Mexico) - deepest artificial point below sea level at -11944m, Glomar Challenger Hole 504B (Pacific Ocean), Mohole (Pacific Ocean), Joides Resolution Expedition 329 (Pacific Ocean), Mariana Trench (Pacific Ocean)]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia43wl3gwyqydc47yse5gbdzybk2edtcibxdtr5jf4gqorc676ap4)
Who would have thought that a comic that you have to research in order to understand it, would survive that process and still be funny? explainxkcd.com
Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 2mo agoBaryon Asymmetry xkcd.com/3263/
![4-panel comic. (1) [Person floating near glowing black ball] PERSON: So you’re the creator of the universe? CREATOR: That’s me! So, got any questions? (2) PERSON: Oh man, so many. What’s the reason for baryon asymmetry? Why is most of the universe matter and not antimatter? (3) CREATOR: Crap. Did I forget the antimatter? One sec, let me just... (4) [explosions everywhere with “BOOM” sound effect]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiggjr6uff6p2r6mjzlfy7xoijcqeekmrsdmejy7wpmu5mr5wiay5q)
Years ago I read an SF short story about an alien race which communicated by using examples of legends. So instead of saying, "I'm hot", they would say, "Of Odin, when he climbed the fiery mountain". It's just struck me that is how memes communicate. "Of the distracted boyfriend, who..."
My third visit to the @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social. Would recommend still: little-bits.paulmorriss.com/2026/06/brum...
Brum SF Group: Antony Johnston
This was my third visit to the BSFG , the second IRL, as the previous one was on Zoom with an author in the US. Antony Johnston writes in s...
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I've started a new series where I just listen to music... and write about it. Who knows if this series will ever be more than one, but here goes little-bits.paulmorriss.com/2026/06/me-i...
Me? I'm just listening to the music - Us by Peter Gabriel
It seems a contradiction if I say I listened to an old album by one of my favourite artists recently. The truth is, I'm not a very good mu...
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If I could travel back in time I'd say to my younger self, "develop an archiving strategy". Oh, and buy Apple shares.
Anyone else watching Small Prophets and wishing they had a Ford Capri?
Waiting for McDonald’s to do figures from The Canterbury Tales next
I can't have been the first person to have noticed this: This type of thing on Google chat is like the doors in Hitchhikers that talk to you as you go through.
Inspired by @genmon.fyi and his 2014 blog post interconnected.org/home/2014/11... (recently linked to) I wrote about a fictional universe that the author gave away: little-bits.paulmorriss.com/2026/02/when...
Stars Wars as a new genre
Posted on Sunday 30 Nov 2014. 471 words, 4 links. By Matt Webb.
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I sometimes think of this xkcd cartoon. xkcd.com/435/ I've previously added my own thing on the left: economics is just applied sociology. Now I've thought of another: psychohistory is just applied economics
Purity
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‘The Story of the Christmas No1: Mistletoe & Vinyl’ by @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk is up there with ‘Regenerate, Exterminate: The Story of Doctor Who’ by @johnhiggs.bsky.social and ‘The Day of the Doctor’ by Steven Moffat as best book evs
When I heard the first word of this song on The war between the land and the sea I knew what it was. What a great version of Heroes open.spotify.com/track/0cnVtB...
Heroes (From "The War Between The Land and The Sea") - Original Television Soundtrack
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Available for 99p on Kindle today www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Christ...
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Paul Morriss@paulmorriss.bsky.social · 9mo agoI went to hear @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk talk about his new book about Christmas No. 1s last night - would recommend: little-bits.paulmorriss.com/2025/12/marc...
I went to hear @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk talk about his new book about Christmas No. 1s last night - would recommend: little-bits.paulmorriss.com/2025/12/marc...
Marc Burrows - Mistletoe and Vinyl - The story of the Christmas No. 1
Last night I went to the cosy little bookshop Books on the Heath in King's Heath, Birmingham . Marc Burrows was speaking about his new book...
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The Story of the Christmas No.1 — Mistletoe & Vinyl is out now! "A hugely entertaining romp through six decades of music trivia ⭑⭑⭑⭑ " — Classic Pop Magazine. Lots of other books available too! Perfect stocking filler for the music nerd in your life. www.marcburrows.co.uk/s/shop
