Reposted by Paul RhodesAlison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · 10/10/2026This looks like clickbait but is actually pretty respectful and wholesome. Abdul may be the only music critic we need, tbhyoutube.comTribal People React to Queen Bohemian Rhapsody For The First TimeYouTube video by TRYBALS 2214
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If any one of these experiments should accidentally fail, the whole basis of number theory would collapse. 020
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Surely it's ten similar but independent thought experiments? 210
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Which is odd given that they became huge on the back of people who read TCOM first (because there weren't any others) and did continue. 020
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026A modern, even grittier take on Paradise Towers... URGENT PEXIT REQUIRED 010
Reposted by Paul RhodesKate Watson @loreandordure.com · 06/10/2026THAT IS NOT THE ONLY THING EDUCATION IS FOR! IT ISN’T EVEN THE MAIN THING! 27459151
Reposted by Paul RhodesIan Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed. 271001226
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026But obviously... youtu.be/qM3YTy-jb0k?...youtu.beGeorge Fenton - ShoestringYouTube video by MrPasta 000
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Oh, that's a shame. Shoestring my second favourite, after its B-side... youtu.be/Ploelou87ew?...youtu.beGeorge Fenton - TumpyYouTube video by MrPasta 061
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Can't do that 9 albums thing due to crucial and inexplicable omission 120
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I can't believe it took 4 minutes for that to happen. 140
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Minor point, but it was still 'Upper' when they built it (and they were still 'Abbey Road') - so they had the number foisted upon them later. 000
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Coincidentally, if you look for 221b in old newspapers you find it a lot, because a common weight for grain (and potatoes, and otters apparently) was 22lb. 010
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Nothing wrong with a 'b'. There was a real 1B Upper Baker Street (around that time it was a tobacconist's shop, on the corner of Marylebone Rd.) 110
Reposted by Paul RhodesCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026not me, but growing up my best friend was the vicar’s daughter, and I vividly remember one day overhearing the vicar’s wife imploring him to NOT refer to their lunch guest as “the baby eating bishop of Bath and Wells” because “we have established that he does NOT find it funny”. 820917
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I didn't read past the words single currency anyway: lots% 010
Reposted by Paul RhodesSam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky 451647648
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Apparently (well, a couple of years ago).... www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...ianvisits.co.ukThere’s a 30-year old dead rabbit in Seven Sisters tube stationFor over thirty years, a dead rabbit has hung inside Seven Sisters tube station, and thousands of people walk past it every day without noticing. 140
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Oh, strike that, reverse it. Looks like the access point ones weren't earlier than cellular, just cheapo option that failed when cellular costs came down. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_...en.wikipedia.orgRabbit (telecommunications) - Wikipedia 100
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Cellular" distinguished from the earlier type (like "Rabbit") where you needed to be near an access point. 100
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 30/09/20261985 ad ("One of our car phones is a so advanced it doesn't need a car") using the full range : "car phone", "cellphone", "portable telephone" and "Mobile Phone". 060
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Cellular hand portable phone appears in ads around 1990, perhaps to distinguish from the earlier mini briefcase type portables. 000
Reposted by Paul RhodesJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You could show more confidence as a country by putting AI nowhere near centre stage, and shouting that you won’t be taken in. That’s a confident move. Just like you would magic beans, or a perpetual motion machine, or Bagpuss’ Mouse Mill with the chocolate biscuits. 612125
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026But any of them (or anyone else) could have taken any route. Was there a constraint that they had to take the shortest route and only to their respective destinations? 011
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The process seems to be: What kinds of puzzles are there? How can we make a crime investigation look a little bit like this kind of puzzle? Hm. Turns out we can't, really, but never mind, nobody will notice. 010
Reposted by Paul RhodesJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind 1002199778
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"It's not the despair, Laura. I can stand the despair. It's the hope." 010
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Also, whatever/whoever it is, it hasn't had "incessant news coverage" or I would have seen it in the news. 170
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The precise layout of this junction was apparently so important that it generated numerous letters from 1903 on, articles in the Spectator, this booklet in 1906, a revised one in 1907, arguments only really fizzling out once Australia House was already built and not movable. 120
Reposted by Paul RhodesRay Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“The problem: Pajitnov did not design these puzzle pieces, known as tetrominoes, and despite TTC’s relentless public-relations campaign to the contrary, they are not unique to Tetris... ” thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bizarre-...thereader.mitpress.mit.eduThe Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born TetrisBehind the beloved game lies a struggle over mathematical ideas, erased collaborators, offshore millions, and copyright power. 0113
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It seems to have been used to indicate orientation in descriptions of stamps - 'oblong' for landscape, 'rectangle' for portrait. For instance archive.org/details/stam...archive.orgThe stamp collector's handbookPlymouth: William Brendon and Son, George Street--Colophon 111
Reposted by Paul RhodesJohn J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 20/09/2026Hands up who wants some fun research into The Young Ones? Brand new on Dirty Feed: the truth about Colin Baker's appearance, or rather non-appearance, on the show. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/09/evil... 21258104
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026As I recall, the Doctor fought giant maggots and deadly slime. Not sure I even noticed the mad computer. (Admittedly I was four at the time.) 021
Reposted by Paul RhodesNick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips. 341534329
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Could be light pull or similar for blinds. Like this one for instance... www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...etsy.comVintage French Brass Acorn Light Pull Blind Curtain Cord Weight - Etsy UKThis Light Pulls item by afarmhouseinfrance has 25 favourites from Etsy shoppers. Dispatched from France. Listed on 14 Jul, 2026 160
Reposted by Paul Rhodeswrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Oh go on then. The evolution of Take On Me... 'The Juicy Fruit Song' by Bridges (before Morten Harket joined them www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOhi...youtube.comBridges - Miss Eerie (The Juicyfruit Song, earliest recording of Take On Me)YouTube video by The A-ha Archive 34815
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Oh! But what does this mean for a second Look Park album? 000
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026But now in the close up I think the insect leg might be attached to the actor's upper arm? Argh. 110
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A hypothesis: actors are wearing costumes on their top halves sticking through holes in floor, the fuzzy thing is actor's hand that they are leaning on, they only really control the head and the insect legs are controlled by puppeteers. 120
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Also, as @glassstanley.bsky.social pointed out, the head movement (and the body not-much-movement) seems the same between the shots. 110
