Downtown is where Petula Clarke always goes.

Uptown is where the girls come from.

Downtown is where the trains are.

To be fair, I learned this from Billy Joel and Rod Stewart so it may not be entirely accurate.

Not necessarily his fault, as BBC directors (and actors) came from the theatre traditions rather than film and TV. So he wouldn't even have considered the fact that the scene was being viewed from one angle for the duration, because isn't that how *every* play is viewed?

I think you may have a point insofar as the writing is concerned but if I'm thinking of the same scene it all plays out in a single locked off midshot over almost two minutes.

"Unlikely", I would have thought...

The kind of ballroom someone hell bent on starting world war three might need?

Tee, and indeed, hee.

I don't think I could ever learn to play the Scalzi. He has even more strings.

I really want one of those.

Not enough to actually spend money on it.

But enough to hope I someday find one abandoned on the street and I can sneak it home and... not be able to play it because it must weigh an absolute fucking tonne!

One of the best Wildlife encounters I have ever had. A tiny Fox Cub, wondering what the hell is sticking out of that bush.

#mammals #nature #ukwildlife #wildlife #foxoftheday #animals #photography

Good morning ! A beauty for your #FoxOfTheDay today , shared by Vonalina Cake !

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a news conference in the U.S. Capitol. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted.

To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”

You're never 60!

What's your secret?!

You look great, while I'm six years younger and look like someone has taken a flamethrower to a waxwork of Harold Shipman.

I had a Tesco "Finest" lasagne last week and was pleasantly surprised.

So, I decided to have another one tonight.

I think they put the top layer (what little there is of it) on with a fucking catapult.

I just watched the Flight 666 documentary on iPlayer last night and it didn't include this, so I'm afraid I'm as out of ideas as you!

I was almost late back from lunch, because I *couldn't* leave while this album was still playing.

I eventually went to the record counter and asked what they were playing.

They told me it was Attack of the Grey Lantern by Mansun and I bought it on the spot.

I remember going to WH Smith in Clydebank in about March / April 1997 and the record that was playing was a song I'd heard on Top of the Pops a while ago and really liked but not paid much attention to.

The whole of the rest of the album was allowed to play, and I stood, transfixed.

If you haven't seen this, 1) Why?! What kind of monster are you?! and 2) watch it now, as a lovely bit of prep for tomorrow.

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence -but we are as valuable as ever| Stephen Marche The Guardian The, GuardianOpinions

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

Because it's better than putting it on our computers? 😉

I wonder if these people will ever realise that it doesn't matter how much they grovel and kow tow to the narcissistic orange maniac he will *never* see them as anything more than disposable cannon fodder?

He's coming for the soup!

Mavic Chen and his magic pen. That's how I remember him, anyway.

You've gotta have a (solar) system.

Three men and a woman staring solemnly at what looks like a tin can.

Is this currently the most widely distributed photo from Doctor Who? A 60-year-old shot of four people staring solemnly at a baked beans tin.

Actually, I'm half-expecting it to appear on beans tins.

(Disclaimer: I am super-excited about the recovered episodes and avoiding spoilers like mad.)

There are 57 varieties of this image.

I shall get my coat.

I don't care if this makes me a dinosaur. If I found out that a writer had used a solitary line of AI I would never read them again. If I thought someone had used AI in an email to me, I would never respond or indeed respect them again.

Matt Frei, "What Keir Starmer struggled to explain is that this calamity was started by our supposed friend and ally, Donald Trump"

"Plenty are feeling the cost of his illegal war with Iran, real enough to create a covid like shock to the economy, without a vaccine" #C4News

A light at the end of the tuna?

Similar to PEBKAC / PEBSAK (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair / Seat And Keyboard).

A massive Welsh name?

Must be Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, surely?

screenshot of a resignation letter expressing sadness at leaving NASA

My resignation letter