Globo Cautivo de Henri Giffard...1878 Ilustración de Albert Tissandier... Fotografías de Prudent René Patrice Dagron...en los Jardines de las Tullerías, París...1878 Vía Javier Pérez-Herreras.

Just spent 30 mins in my GP's waiting room, overhearing a string of upset, baffled older people protesting that they couldn't download the app, follow the link etc. The speed with with companies and businesses have pursued merciless digital exclusion absolutely boils my piss.

Just had the local Tory candidate at the door...this never, ever happens around here, it's been the safest of safe Tory seats. So safe the stop thetories site can't even recommend a tactical vote (Lib Dem most likely). The Tories are *petrified*

Andy Serkis playing sax with Nitin Sawhney at Glastonbury. That's one random collaboration but sounds amazing.

Some crazy levels of rainfall coming down in the Italian Alps at the moment.

Here he is. Ed Davey bungee jumping while yelling, “Do something you’ve never done before - vote Liberal Democrat!”

Estimated timings for Thursday/Friday results being declared

"It's a disgrace." Lord Melvyn Bragg has responded to #TheStateOfTheArts report, published this week with CCMPS Warwick Uni. He's calling on the UK to address its findings as a matter of urgency. Watch the full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=Th-OVp…

A huge captive hot air balloon is such a magically wonderful symbol for the Paris Olympic flame - a nod to France's illustrious ballooning history, and specifically Henri Giffard's 1878 'biggest ever balloon' which carried passengers high in the Paris sky.

A view of Giffard's giant balloon held high over Paris - rather higher than the Olympic Torch balloon - allowing most of its passengers the first aerial view they will ever have seen of the city.

The 'ballon gigante' was located in the Tuileries, very close to where the Olympic Torch balloon is today. It was held by strong guide ropes and released by steam powered winches to heights of 500-600m over the Paris rooftops 12 times a day.

Stunning images by the only accredited underwater photographer at the Olympic surfing at Teahupo'o in Tahiti.

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The BBC sound effects library is now completely free to access. This is news. sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?cat=Mac…

Thank you so much to Kate Bush and the team for making this moving short film to draw attention to children affected by conflict. Please do consider donating if you can. 🔗 Watch the full film at: bit.ly/3BZnVv9

Why is Google Books removing access to out-of-copyright books that it once hosted as open access? There is a good chance that the mass-deaccession policy of libraries, on the ground that "it's available for free online", will be one of the most stupid acts of modern curatorship.

New Saint Etienne single! I don't get to say that very often. youtube.com/watch?v=MzpATg…

The saddest part about the upcoming depression in the US is that we won't get photos like this anymore. Instead we get Ghiblified AI slop.

As another US billionaire, Bezos, fires 3000 satellites into space to join Musk's 40,000 in the space land grab, they're turning it into the next human landfill site. Just one stray piece of debris could make space unusable. vice.com/en/article/ear…

🚨CLOSING AT 5 PM TODAY! Ofcom's Royal Mail consultation on plans to cut delivery of NHS letters and others from 6 days a week to 3 closes today. Privatisation failed. Time to take Royal Mail into public ownership. Take 1-min to tell the government: weownit.org.uk/act-now/using-…