Douglas
@doctordouglas.bsky.social
Music, books, running, football, old video games, older films...
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This is my favourite thing on Blue Sky at the moment and it really deserves more followers.
Ok, so the aim is to use every single tube station on the TFL map, (The Croydon tram can get fucked) whether I hit in or out and then visit the closest pub for a quick half. Unless I’ve miscounted there are 422 to visit. Here we go
October 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This is my favourite thing on Blue Sky at the moment and it really deserves more followers.
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Look at the length of the drawstrings emanating from Pep Guardiola's hoody. How is that allowed? His hoody's not even bunched up so that's not even their maximum length. I feel like I'm going mad. Do something @premierleaguetips.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Look at the length of the drawstrings emanating from Pep Guardiola's hoody. How is that allowed? His hoody's not even bunched up so that's not even their maximum length. I feel like I'm going mad. Do something @premierleaguetips.bsky.social
5 nil to the roundabouts...
September 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
5 nil to the roundabouts...
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Happy birthday to Gerard Love. Here's a thread celebrating his genius, starting with Teenage Fanclub performing Radio on Later in 1993. This sounds so good and Gerry's smile at the end says it all
youtu.be/FYS-K-dPgKs
youtu.be/FYS-K-dPgKs
Teenage Fanclub - Radio (Later with Jools Holland '93)
YouTube video by TeenageFanclubVEVO
youtu.be
August 31, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Happy birthday to Gerard Love. Here's a thread celebrating his genius, starting with Teenage Fanclub performing Radio on Later in 1993. This sounds so good and Gerry's smile at the end says it all
youtu.be/FYS-K-dPgKs
youtu.be/FYS-K-dPgKs
Can't
Slightly diminish a band:
Hüsker Don’t
Hüsker Don’t
Slightly diminish a band:
Potentially Some Doubt
Potentially Some Doubt
August 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Can't
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It's so obvious that Q is in the wrong place in the alphabet. It's got no right to be among common letters like N, O, P, R, S and T. Stick it at the end with the other freak letters.
July 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
It's so obvious that Q is in the wrong place in the alphabet. It's got no right to be among common letters like N, O, P, R, S and T. Stick it at the end with the other freak letters.
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xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:
Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself 'MechaHitler'
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot has unleashed a slew of antisemitic commentary and praised Hitler after apparent change allowed to be 'politically incorrect'
www.rollingstone.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:
@tftimemachine.bsky.social Thelma Chambers / Ferris
Edinburgh born Brigit Forsyth, probably best remembered as Thelma Ferris, nee Chambers, long suffering wife/girlfriend of Robert Andrew Scarborough Ferris in "The Likely Lads"
June 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
@tftimemachine.bsky.social Thelma Chambers / Ferris
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We need better language about AI. We can’t use the same term for the process that detects cancer as the process that make your photo look like a Ghibli. If we restrict the program that’s designed to specifically steal IP it doesn’t mean all the other applications cease to exist.
May 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We need better language about AI. We can’t use the same term for the process that detects cancer as the process that make your photo look like a Ghibli. If we restrict the program that’s designed to specifically steal IP it doesn’t mean all the other applications cease to exist.
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I heartily regret voting for fucking Labour and this first year will do for them what the coalition did for the fucking Lib Dems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK care homes face ban on overseas recruitment under migration plans
Yvette Cooper to announce proposals to reduce net migration in response to growing pressure from Reform UK
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I heartily regret voting for fucking Labour and this first year will do for them what the coalition did for the fucking Lib Dems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Stevie Wonder and Prince did and Stevie’s run probably surpasses it 1971 - 80.
Prince 80-88.
But it is between those 3 imo.
Prince 80-88.
But it is between those 3 imo.
April 18, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Stevie Wonder and Prince did and Stevie’s run probably surpasses it 1971 - 80.
Prince 80-88.
But it is between those 3 imo.
Prince 80-88.
But it is between those 3 imo.
The guitar playing scene is magnificent.
Celebrate Lon Chaney's birthday by watching The Unknown (1927) in which Lon plays a double-thumbed strangler who disguises himself as an ameliac knife-thrower then falls love with the circus owner's daughter (Joan Crawford) who has a phobia of men with arms.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Th...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Th...
en.wikipedia.org
April 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The guitar playing scene is magnificent.
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You know what I’d call for if I was prime minister - more funding of youth clubs , extracurricular activities, and mental health support - but showing a film looks like concern while costing very little
March 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
You know what I’d call for if I was prime minister - more funding of youth clubs , extracurricular activities, and mental health support - but showing a film looks like concern while costing very little
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Beautiful everyday Ladybird things.
Round-tipped school scissors
Artist: Harry Wingfield (yes, it’s a painting)
‘Third Picture Book’, 1971
Round-tipped school scissors
Artist: Harry Wingfield (yes, it’s a painting)
‘Third Picture Book’, 1971
March 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Beautiful everyday Ladybird things.
Round-tipped school scissors
Artist: Harry Wingfield (yes, it’s a painting)
‘Third Picture Book’, 1971
Round-tipped school scissors
Artist: Harry Wingfield (yes, it’s a painting)
‘Third Picture Book’, 1971
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Fisher Price are missing a trick not selling a My First Rodeo toy.
September 15, 2023 at 1:47 PM
Fisher Price are missing a trick not selling a My First Rodeo toy.
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7 awards out of 15 that could be won by British artists went to artists from private schools. That's nearly half. As compared to 7% of the population who actually go to private schools. 'Broad'? (Oh and one of Ezra Collective went to Eton.) Sam Fender, who you mention, has spoken out on this issue.
March 2, 2025 at 11:17 AM
7 awards out of 15 that could be won by British artists went to artists from private schools. That's nearly half. As compared to 7% of the population who actually go to private schools. 'Broad'? (Oh and one of Ezra Collective went to Eton.) Sam Fender, who you mention, has spoken out on this issue.
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While idly scrolling, I chanced upon this still from Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot, and for a brief second I thought "What, there was an American remake of Minder?!?"
February 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
While idly scrolling, I chanced upon this still from Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot, and for a brief second I thought "What, there was an American remake of Minder?!?"
January 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Big tech is now formally in league with the far-right. The resistance to it will be personal and political iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...
How to resist the tech overlords
Big tech has now made its position clear. It is on the far-right. Here's what happens next.
iandunt.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Big tech is now formally in league with the far-right. The resistance to it will be personal and political iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...
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Rare footage of Postman Pat’s nips
January 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Rare footage of Postman Pat’s nips
@delaneyman.bsky.social have you heard Prince's performance of Whole of the Moon? He sings "I saw the whole of the moon." youtu.be/JHedRKgUnMQ?...
The Whole Of The Moon (by Prince & 3rdEyeGirl - 5.3.15 Paisley Park - The Waterboys cover)
YouTube video by Lifelinz 4ever
youtu.be
January 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
@delaneyman.bsky.social have you heard Prince's performance of Whole of the Moon? He sings "I saw the whole of the moon." youtu.be/JHedRKgUnMQ?...