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I've always wondered how much money Frank Mills got for flogging this tune to so many doorbell and kids toy companies. youtu.be/8gMZ6QWv62s?...

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Frank Mills - Music Box Dancer • TopPop

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 12h

And I just don't think the Beatles films will go there, I don't think anyone will sanction the George film where Paul is a controlling prick and the Paul film where nothing fucking gets done unless he chivvies the others into it.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13h

Praise be! For it is the 157th anniversary of the discovery of the Cardiff Giant, when (in the Cardiff that’s in New York State, just south of Syracuse, rather than Wales) definitive proof was found that giants once roamed the Earth, just as it says in the Bible

A banner advertising the Cardiff giant, calling it ‘genuine’, ‘original’, and “the most valuable single exhibit in the world today”. There are people milling about

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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 10h

20 YEARS AGO TODAY: the semi-finals of Mastermind requires a new specialist subject. Just make sure it's one you know something about.

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Ben Baker (Actually Dead The Whole Time) @benbaker.bsky.social · 14h

Just looking through a 1986 edition of Private Eye and just spotted this story about "Brush Strokes" apparently being plagiarised which I've never heard before. Anyone know anything about this?

A story about aspiring writer Tom Boyes submitting a script called Brush Strokes to the BBC, being turned down and then learning of the Esmonde / Larbey series a year later.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

His co-defendant, a Mr S. Doo, entered a plea of “Ruh-roh!”

WPXI-11 Pittsburgh: Man accused of planning terrorist attack enters 'not guilty' plea in federal court

Court sketch shows a man who looks suspiciously like Shaggy out off of Scooby Doo.

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Chinny Honk @chinnyhonk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

LEST WE FORGET

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Alan Partridge - Quote of the Day @apartridgeqotd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Alan Partridge is great for your mental health!

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Coronation Street - written by H.V. Kershaw (14th October 1970). Irma returns to the corner shop - and it seems not a moment too soon.

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🎃 Simon Threadgold 🎃 @sthreadgold.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The beard's fooling no-one, Robotnik.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Believe it or not, there was an episode of The Waltons with a poltergeist. No, not one that turned out to be superstition or a hoax. An actual poltergeist. Even allowing for every series having their 'weird' episode back then, this one beggars credulity. timworthington.org/2019/10/31/l...

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Stu E. Fewtrell @stuefewtrell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

You know what? I'm actually tempted.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I don't think LLMs are conscious because I know (roughly) how they work and that work doesn't require consciousness, and there's no reason to think consciousness would be an emergent property of the software, any more than it would for, say, Microsoft Word, which no one thinks is conscious.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 13/10/2026

[1993] MTV Unplugged - Music series showcasing musical artists usually playing acoustic instruments. Here, Nirvana perform "Come As You Are" live.

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Coronation Street - written by Adele Rose (13th October 1976). Pour a few drinks into Mavis and she becomes the life and soul of the Rovers. The only problem is what happens afterwards ....

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Well.........

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Hayley Mills Pics @hayleymillspics.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Hayley Mills pictured at Heathrow airport in February 1971

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

On this day 1971, boxer Muhammad Ali visited Tesco at Stretford’s Arndale shopping precinct to promote Ovaltine.

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Joe Scaramangaaaarrrggghhh!!! @joescaramanga.co.uk · 11/10/2026

That new 2cv though

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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: the new owner of Weatherfield's warehouse arrives and Coronation Street doesn't know what's about to hit it.

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The most amazing day at middle school was when Robert Bales bought his Dad’s nudie mags in so he could be “in” with Gary Granger and his mates, but Mrs Slack found the mags in his bag and told his Mum who was the headmaster’s secretary.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 09/10/2026

Just remembered I forgot to post my most favourite of the articles in the @transdiffusion.org #ATVShowBook (transdiffusion.org/atv-show-book/). 3,000 years of Crossroads is celebrated with this **truly insane** feature "written" by Meg Mortimer.

There's a lot of text here. You can read it all at https://associatedtelevision.network/programmes/its-crossroads-3000th-birthday/

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Do we really need to explain to people that it is really, REALLY important to read to young children? Like, you, personally, need to read to your child - your voice, your face, your hand gestures, your lap, your arms, your closeness. What kind of parent doesn't know this in their bones?

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Keystone guy vexed by kerning fail.

Closeup of a building frontage showing the keystone of an arch carved with a somewhat frowny face, and to the left a street sign which, roughly, reads "NELSON MANDEL A PL"

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Dave Convery @zomda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No he isn’t. The book is very clear on this.

Screenshot of an advert for a deluxe edition of Dracula on Kickstarter. It shows the book, a yellow hardback with red embossed text, as has the text “DRACULA IS LIVE” imposed on it.

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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I just don't get it. The BBC's seemingly preferential treatment of political parties that would happily see it abolished. So concerned with the optics of appearing 'impartial' that it ends up looking biased in favour of those who want rid of it. Please make it make sense. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Alan B @gallonofalan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Favourite Blessed anecdote:

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Grumpenstein’s Monster @maxwellshabbsby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

how i arrived on bluesky

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Mick Life Crisis @shangadge.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

how I arrived on BlueSky

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Paul Frightlaw Meets the Wolf Man Uptown @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For anyone who hasn't seen it, here's the Pebble Mill clip of Dahl in his filthy shed of solitude. Presumably intended as a charming portrait of an eccentric artist at work, it makes him look like Albert and Harold Steptoe fused into one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQkz...

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Roald Dahl interview and short film - Pebble Mill at One 1982

YouTube video by Telling Tales with Carl Ashmore

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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I see Maudie Bickerstaff has died." "Who?" "Her that lived on Rosamund Street." "Oh, her. Bandy legs and a bosom." "Such a shame." "Couldn't catch a pig in an entry that one." "How did she die?" "A surfeit of trousers I shouldn't wonder."

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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor. Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys. It grossed $17m Here's a bit of David's acting:

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is what we should have done with the drawers my dad had, full of cassettes where he had recorded weird music/funny snippets off the radio. All done without the use of the pause button, which he did not understand how to use. 28 years old he was.

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don’t know who needs to here this, but being the Alpha and the Omega is not the same as being an alpha male (largely because that is a silly, sexist concept that doesn’t actually help anyone)

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Give Us A Clue (6th October 1981). Kenneth Williams has come all the way from Great Portland Street to mime Flash, Bang, Wallop.

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🎃 Smersh Pod 🎃 @smershpod.com · 29/09/2026

Can announce that the film to be covered (as it were) at Live Smersh will be ADVENTURES OF A PRIVATE EYE. Get your tickets!

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John O’Shea @politicalhackuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Controlling a plague is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman”

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Matt Beany @mattsawyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So RTD: Thought the 2025 season had to end up with someone in the role or it seems like it’s finished (the programme which is famous for Daleks, a police box, and a PERIODIC CHANGE OF LEAD). And he told the BBC they shouldn’t make the 2026 Xmas Special

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Doctor Who: David Tennant's Shocked Reaction

ALT: Doctor Who: David Tennant's Shocked Reaction

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Riverman Records @riverman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's fairly well established that the Kinks were a great 60s singles band, but when you see the track list it is quite gobsmacking.

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You don't get proper telly any more

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 05/10/2026

I’m waiting for my annual flu vaccine and another customer at the pharmacy is complaining that on a recent visit he handed a £20 note to a woman standing by the counter thinking she was a member of staff. Turns out she wasn’t. More true crime stories as I encounter them.

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