#OnThisDay in London history, 1987: Michael Delaney killed by scab TNT truck, Wapping, during printers’ lockout by Murdoch’s News International wp.me/p74yfw-QE

Election Night 1997.

Ah, shit. Saw somebody post a link to a Waldrop story and hoped it wasn’t for the reason I feared. A big blow. One of my all time favourite writers. The level of favourite where you leave a couple of stories unread so that you’ll never have read everything they wrote.

The iconic labor song “Solidarity Forever” turns 109 years old today. Written in defiance of early 20th-century oppression, it railed against the forces that “would lash us into serfdom” with the abiding counsel that the “union makes us strong.” jacobin.com/2024/01/solida…

Happy John Carpenter Day, the realest man alive

The ‘new image’ of Wrens using Colossus has appeared in dozens of books over the last several decades. It just took me like 10 seconds to find it in Hinsley & Stripp’s ‘Codebreakers: The inside story of Bletchley Park’ (OUP 1993) bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…

doing dishes and had the thought “the sink helps you with water”. such a hauntingly dimwitted sentence to produce that im actually a bit frightened now. there’s no way the brain that produced that thought is capable of making something of my life. time will tell

If you're struggling to get into Jean-Michel Jarre, try banging him sharply on the kitchen worktop or running him under hot water

Puppets are very funny and cool but whenever I see a comedian with a puppet I assume they’re gonna suck and they almost always do

1/2 Scenes in Bristol today are jaw-dropping. Hundreds have been queuing all day to register with an NHS dentist, & this is the moment PCSOs tell those waiting they'll have to come back tomorrow 📹PaulGillisphoto All the updates on link here 👇 bristolpost.co.uk/news/health/li… earlier..

In this photograph Chris Evans and Laurence Fox have very strong 'German couple who have just checked into an AirB&B in Twickenham because they are going to see Depeche Mode but are 'first looking to have some of the famous British fish and chips!'' energy.

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Still no Radio 3 series inspired by Benjamin Britten and his Embittered Bittern.

📢 KATAMARI DAMACY OST NOW AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE ON STREAMING PLATFORMS To celebrate the game's 20th anniversary, the Katamari Damacy Original Soundtrack has been released worldwide on music streaming platforms 🎉 Links to the OST below 👇

welcome to map club the first rule of map cl whats that? no sorry this is not fight club ok see you are here you actually want to be over h