And "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", with a colourised Hitchcock

The Twilight Zone got an 80s remake

Photo of 60th anniversary Blu-ray boxset of "Thunderbirds"

Niche? Never!

It took me a moment to figure out what LI was…

@dangolding.com we have a new four-legged family member, who's having their first exposure to screen sounds tonight. So far the biggest response has been to the human voices in the Morricone, but I also got a dirty look as I "sang" along with the Williams. The Hermann made them slightly anxious.

Also seeing lots of CORS policy activity when the site I'm logged in on, bsky.app, tries to load data from panthercap.us-east.host.bsky.network. Maybe load-balancing is broken, and the real names of individual servers is leaking through?

Looking at the console in Firefox to see why Bluesky loads so slow - turns out the Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) policy is blocking requests to load "ageassurance" code from public.api.bsky.app - and oddly enough it's the api servers that Bluesky reports are having trouble...

Bandicoots bounce back in Brown Hill Creek as team works towards 'superhighway' A small colony of endangered brown bandicoots just south of Adelaide continue to breed as conservationists hope to connect them with other populations.

Endangered southern brown bandicoots bounce back at Brown Hill Creek www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

Alpine ash endangered listing 'will do nothing to protect them' Scientists hope an endangered listing may help preserve alpine ash forests, but the forestry industry is raising concerns that it could result in further decline.

Stronger environmental protection granted for alpine ash forests but concerns remain www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2... via @abcnews

'Face lift' for Queensland dinosaur after discovery of 1,300 more bones The dinosaur's face lift has become the butt of online jokes among palaeontology fans, but researchers say it is the most accurate depiction of the creature yet.

Analysis of 1,300 new dinosaur bones overhauls understanding of Qld fossil emblem www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

Race to save Brisbane River's very hungry Australian lungfish Researchers hope they have found a way for a fascinating living fossil to once again breed in the Brisbane River, but hunger is making it harder.

Race to save Brisbane River's Australian lungfish from its own appetite www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2... via @abcnews

Giant echidna fossil rewrites understanding of Victoria's prehistoric past A fossil hidden in a museum collection for 119 years has revealed giant echidnas once roamed Victoria's east, filling a major gap in Australia's prehistoric record.

Scientists confirm skull found in Gippsland cave a century ago belongs to giant echidna www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

Is the Chinook the fish - err, copter - that John West rejects?

Investigated getting a second battery for my whipper snipper, so that I can have one charging up whilst I deplete the other cutting grass. Turns out the cheapest, and fastest, way to do this is to buy a second complete whipper snipper from my local Bunnings :-(

'Missed opportunity': Astronomers lament loss of telescope partnership The Artemis II mission used space technology developed in Australia, but experts fear the axing of a multimillion-dollar telescope partnership may stifle innovation and astronomy.

Scientists fear the end of a European space partnership may harm Australian innovation www.abc.net.au/news/science... via @abcnews

Loved, but costly — is the end near for this heritage railway? The West Coast Wilderness Railway in Tasmania is a beloved attraction and an important employer. The state government says it wants the railway to have a sustainable future, but hasn't said how that c...

Tasmanian tourist attraction West Coast Wilderness Railway facing uncertain future www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

Why yes, I am taking shots at a book written nearly 1000 years ago, but I will point out that puts the author 1000 years *closer* to the events he is supposedly describing

I find myself wondering if a small LLM, trained only on the source material available to Geoffrey of Monmouth, would actually be able to produce a "history" of the Kings of Britain even more bizarre...

Geoffrey of Monmouth would have made a great writer for Pertwee-era #DoctorWho. He's got the whole "episodes 4 and 5 recapitulate episodes 2 and 3" process down pat.

Ah, I see. Well then, the B52s were unnecessary since we already had the Beatles (and the Bee Gees, and the Rolling Stones, and …)

No hang on, this is getting into “all books other than [insert name of holy book of your choice] are unnecessary” territory :-)

Next you’ll be telling us that the Spitfire was completely unnecessary because the Sopwith Camel already existed:-)

Study finds Tasmanian native forest logging increases potential for more severe bushfires www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

Photo of text in book, which reads "Eventually, when these three had reigned in peace and harmony for a long time, Humber, the King of the Huns, landed in Albany. He met Albanactus in battle, killed him and forced the people of his country to flee to Locrinus."

From Lewis Thorpe's translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's "The History of the Kings of Britain". Imagining Ryan George doing a pitch meeting for this:
Writer: And then the Huns invade Scotland.
Executive: Huns? Around 1100 BC?
Writer: Hey, shut up! And the Huns drive all the Scots into England!

No 'proper timetable’ for reopening Great Western Highway, NSW roads minister says www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

Somewhere on the internet lurks Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie’s spectre, raised from the dead by Shawn’s careless use of Practical Necromancy.
Unable to rest, his vast, cool and unsympathetic intellect regards the living with envious eyes, and slowly and surely draws his plans against us.

Emperor penguins, Antarctic fur seals now endangered due to climate change www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

A really well presented debunking of the claims that the Artemis night side photo was faked youtu.be/-UJtA__XTQQ

The bad fingers reply with a medley of their greatest hits, finishing with “Come and get it” :-)

Wait… The Archies? Does that mean the Pseudoarchies sing “Aspartame Aspartame” instead? :-)

Seriously impressed by all the micro-printing required to get that much text on minute paper 🙂