I’m watching Andor again (loving it)

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

But we need to develop Fist My Bump sufficiently

More Sarah Records stuff, I’m afraid, but this one’s a biggie… because My Secret World, Lucy Dawkins’ 2014 film about the label, is now available to view in full for free online. So if you’ve ever wondered what all these people I keep talking about looked and sounded like, [1/3]

‘Rogue Trooper’ First Look: Duncan Jones Unveils His Hand-Crafted Take On ‘2000 AD’ Comic Book’s Dystopian War Machine ‘Rogue Trooper’ first look: Duncan Jones unveils his hand-crafted take on 2000 AD’s dystopian war machine

Roll out, Troops! The Genetic Infantryman has landed!

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Cannot wait. I got to talk to the team behind this in 2023, who told me: "Believe it or not, this is 100% stop-motion, including the explosions and sawdust. We filmed the sawdust separately (tried millions of takes...) and layered the best version with the characters."

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

Record Store Day. The only day I won’t go into a Record Shop

Andy Kershaw - Corsica and Sardinia - BBC Sounds Andy explores the music of Sardinia and Corsica.

One of my favourite Andy Kershaw shows. RIP

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This as well via @hoxtonrich.bsky.social

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Further evidence of the Failed State

Free Verse Poetry Book Fair flyer

We'll be among the 60+ poetry publishers at the Free Verse Poetry Book Fair on Saturday 25 April: hope to see you there.

St Columba’s Hall, Pont Street, London, SW1X 0BD (near Knightsbridge & South Kensington tubes). 12pm-6.30pm. Free entry. Further info:
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Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities | AISI Work We conducted cyber evaluations of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and found continued improvement in capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and significant improvement on multi-step cyber-attack simulati...

This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era.

Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/

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one-page comic, black and white and grayscale panel 1 : close up of a woman's hand, wearing rings, on an old spellbook page panel 2 : same woman's hands conjuring some black fire panel 3 (big) : woman sitting on the floor where a pentagram is drawn, with skulls and candles, while a tiny demon with horns seems to jump out of the spellbook right on her legs, visibly very happy the woman's wearing converse-like shoes, jeans, a tope revealing her shoulders (and a big tatto on the left one), she has a choker necklace and hair loosely tied into a messy bun text : Look. There's never a perfect time to cast your first spell. Especially as a self-taught witch. Reckless ? Sure. But the truth is... I needed a friend."

Fanart of the android Guinevere from the Knights of Guinevere animated series, drawn in my style, half her face ripped off showing the mechanism underneath Lots of cables coming out of her back and limbs, blue intestines out of her belly

Colored piece, drawing of a woman in modern clothes, jean shorts,t shirt, barefoot, with a crown of thorns on her head, wielding magic, giant flowers with an eye at their center in the dark background

page from HIGH STRANGENESS #4, art by me, written by Cecil Castellucci and Daniel Noah, color by Francesco Segala, lettering by Becca Carey

Hi #PortfolioDay ! I'm Chloé, comic artist, illustrator & concept artist 🌸💜

I work with Oni Press, Lifeline Comics, Titan Comics, & I'm always open to more cover gigs ✨

Vanda and Young: They never finished Love Is In The Air. No-one seems to mind. | Pete Paphides Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon

7. Speaking of the brilliant cultural things that happen as a result of immigration, here’s the wild story of Harry Vanda and George Young, who formed The Easybeats as teens in a Sydney migrant camp and went on to become Australia’s most celebrated songwriting duo. www.patreon.com/posts/vanda-...

“You had a column where you could put personal ads. And so, John and George and I used to just put them in. Just so we could see our words in print, you know?” Paul McCartney gets experimental again. ... Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon

2. Wanna see the unabridged version of the interview I did with Paul McCartney just after the release of Electric Arguments in 2008? His quote about Carnival of Light still makes me laugh.

Belle and Sebastian: “Honestly, for two years I used to put up notices all over the place, in Safeways, lampposts” (2002) | Pete Paphides Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon

1. In 2002, I was one of the first writers to interview Stuart Murdoch from Belle and Sebastian. Sadly, my editor at the time (Sarah Vine – whatever happened to her?) made a right pig’s ear of it. But I recently found the original transcript. Here it is, along with the story behind what happened.

Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon A place to talk about what we love about the music we love

THREAD: I’ve been posting pretty much daily on my Patreon site. All of my posts this year have been free to access, so all you need to spend is your precious time. Here are some recent things you might have missed. (thread) patreon.com/NeedleMythol...

Hey #portfolioday

I’m Darren and I design stuff.

Photo of a woman riding a bicycle on a road. She's wearing a sweater.

Billie Fleming, aka Billie Dovey, set the woman's record for greatest distance cycled in a year in 1938 at 29,603.7 miles (47,642.5 km)

#BicycleBirthday
April 13 (1914-2014)

😠

#RStats Core member Tomáš Kalibera passed away.

Screenshot of the announcement by Simon Urbanek regarding Tomáš Kalibera’s untimely passing. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tomáš Kalibera on 1 April, a valuable member of the R core team for close to 10 years and a good friend, after a short but aggressive illness. Tomáš brought in fresh perspective and knowledge, enabling him to improve many aspects of R, including performance and reliability. He created many tools aimed at aiding package authors to make their packages more reliable, and was instrumental in modernizing the Windows build of R. He was an active member of CRAN and the R community, providing help to package authors, and he was the most prolific writer on the R core blog. He will be remembered for his profound contributions to R by millions of users. He is survived by his wife and 1 year old son. A full obituary will be posted in due time. Respectfully, Simon Urbanek

RIP Tomáš Kalibera. #rstats lost a huge contributor today. Condolences to his young family.

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A thatched roof with 2 chimney pots. Atop the roof, instead of the usual duck or pheasant made of thatch, there stands a majestic T-rex

Went for a walk and a pint and spotted the best example of free will I've ever seen

“Henceforth [Hitler] would devote all of his time to the Nazi Party, from which neither then nor later did he accept any salary.”

- Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 89

Dutch satirical TV show #eventothier revealed Rutte's role at Trump's White House Easter celebration.

GCN's move into urbanism continues with this new video asking whether cycle infrastructure might be unequitable. Features Andy Bonau and me, one of whom was looking far scruffier than the other...

Big space plop

It will truly be a tragedy if Westminster council falls to the Tories in May.