If you have #BritBox or some other means of watching #BBC and English TV, I can’t recommend The Cleaner enough. #GregDavies wrote and stars as a crime scene killer and it’s just amazing. All of the humor from shows like #Taskmaster and #ManDown are full on and it’s just the best. Tons of fun cameos that you’ll recognize from his other shows https://youtu.be/xLT301f2ju4
For the price of 3/365th of a TV License, I'm looking forward to enjoying #glastonbury2023 with an actual bed and actual shower and a much better view thanks to the #BBC.
🎉 “From some point today every episode of Red Dwarf will drop on BBC IPlayer. This is the first time ever all the shows have been available to watch at the same time in the same place. Let the Dwarf binge begin.” - @DougRDNaylor
Interesting different press takes on the British passenger in this missing submersible. To the BBC, Hamish Harding is a "British Adventurer". To the Guardian, he is a "UK Billionaire". Interestingly, on this one the Daily Mail has gone with the same line as the Guardian - he's a billionaire.
Presumably both are true(ish). One is designed to make you feel some sympathy with him, one is designed to make you think it serves him right.
State of #robotics in 1966. This clip from the #BBC archives first shows a (bit overly optimistic) vision of #robots in 1976. It then follows up with a short introduction to the state of the art in the UK at the time. It ends with a plea from a UK researcher stating that the USA is so far ahead in computing that the UK should focus on robotics and leapfrog the US. https://youtu.be/T282C7cjWwg#robots
Millions of Americans’ personal data exposed in global hack
Millions of people in Louisiana and Oregon had their data compromised in a sprawling cyberattack that also hit the US federal government and state agencies - including the Department of Energy. As well as corporations in Britain like the BBC and British Airways
How very strange, the #bbc who always insist on both sides of the story, even seeking out to interview defenders of boris the lying criminal Johnson, but in the coverage of the kings birthday, funded by us the long suffering bloody tax payers, and yet a sign of a mention of any one who does not support this outmoded mechanism that preserves privilege and the class system. Perhaps they’d like to interview me? Very happy to provide some of your much loved balance. #notmyking
Amazing journalism by the BBC, about the terrible situation in North Korea.
"The first family in his village to succumb to starvation was a mother and her children. She had become too sick to work. Her children kept her alive for as long as they could by begging for food, but in the end all three died. Next came a mother who was sentenced to hard labour for violating quarantine rules. She and her son starved to death." #BBC#NorthKorea https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/bskbb4rmae/inside-north-korea
One of my colleagues just showed us the BBC Sound Effects library which includes a "mixer" (AKA SoundBoard). It's free to use for non-commercial stuff e.g. School plays etc. and has over 33k sound effects.
You can download and/or share "mixes"/SoundBoards on the web, e.g.:
My post on my Substack (it’s free), wishes Richard Kemp, legenday #LSD chemist a happy 80th birthday & reveals what happened to his 8,000 word document,, ‘Microdoctrine’. Clue: the BBC obtained it under false pretences (ripped it off) from journalist Patrick O’Brien, in another historic case of the BBC’s notorious loyalty to the ‘Establishment’ Not so much ‘catch-and-kill’ as ‘snatch-and-kill’, intended to silence a dissident. #OperationJulie#BBC#psychedelic https://blackd.substack.com/.../happy-80th-birthday...
Tech Press don’t understand the #Fediverse, so how can they understand its growth?
To hear them talk, most of them believe that #Mastodon and the Fediverse are one and the the same. Some of them go so far as to call the Fediverse the “Mastodon network”.
Which means that they don’t have a clue about what the Fediverse entails, nor how it has grown.
Case in point: between Jan-May 2023, #Misskey and its forks grew by 300,000 accounts. No one in the Tech Press reported this.
Okay, perhaps they didn’t know because the bulk of growth happened in Japan. But still, this is fairly important to know since Misskey is now responsible for generating the bulk of Fediverse content. Even so, Tech Press think the Fediverse is about Mastodon.
And now, #Lemmy and #Kbin are experiencing lots of growth, with both collectively gaining 100,000 users in a week. This is quite a noteworthy event since the #RedditMigration is part and parcel of dissension on #Reddit – a pretty major Big Social platform.
Does the Tech Media report on this? Nope. But again, that’s because they don’t understand the Fediverse nor what it entails.
Then Meta signal that a new project they’re making, #P92 (a.k.a., #Barcelona), will be joining the Fediverse. There’s even screenshots that show this app interacting with remote Fediverse servers.
But instead of reporting about how this will affect the existing Fediverse, press such as the #BBC say this is an altogether different social network than Mastodon.
That’s right! Tech Press don’t even realize P92 will be joining the Fediverse – a social network that already exists!
Is this all ridiculous? Yes.
But this is why we have to be forthright about what the Fediverse is, what it entails, and why it all matters.
An important podcast that starts in the town that adopted me since...the pandemic. If you are wondering, yes, I got into an argument with one of the representative of these #conspiracy movements. The discussion ended with the man very stressed for my soul which will be damned in the coming apocalypse. How is my soul connected with the COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy? Well, you will be surprised by the complex system of beliefs that conflate in conspiratorial minds.
✂️ 1:14 | Sir #DavidAttenborough makes a seed pod, erm, "lose it's load" of seeds with a wee prod of a stick, and gets a big kick out of doing so for the camera! 😂
Ukraine dam: Satellite images reveal Kakhovka canals drying up (www.bbc.co.uk)
Following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, BBC analysis reveals the changes in the surrounding area....