Steph, Destroyer of Words

ITrix; Librarina.

Escape plans: @avwoman.bsky.social or [email protected] (whichever gets the silly stuff in the end).

Answers to her or them.

[Steph, Destroyer of Words @AVWoman]

To end the year (and the #WordleHouse project), let's take a look at the history of Wordisle. We start in 185 with the Roman Conquest. They built the city of Lexiconium on the confluence of the River Lexicon and the River Lynam.

[Steph, Destroyer of Words @AVWoman]

Today's #WordleHouse is the Lexicon History Centre. It explains the history of the Roman city, Lexiconium, which became Wordletown after the Conquest. There's a whole room on the legendary Knights of Lexicon who guarded the ruins of Lexiconium until defeated by the First Lord.

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

On this day in 1990, Jean Alexander reprised her role as Hilda Odgen in an ITV Telethon mini-episode written by John Stevenson.

[Ida @wood_ida_]

Happy "The Clangers might be cannibals day"!

the day i mark down in my diary each year as more important than any other. this literally won an AWARD five years ago 🎉

[Matt Lucas HQ @RealMattLucas]

good morning

[Steph, Destroyer of Words @AVWoman]

Shocked, horrified, or just downright disappointed with what they're doing?

Absolutely voice it on here.

But also, please... Write to your MP.

[euro pete 🇱🇻 🇧🇬 🇩🇰 🇲🇩 @euro_pete]

Imagine the world where Sam and his Tellyheads suddenly found themselves improvising a winner's reprise in the green room chucking everything off a couple of coffee tables

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Tomorrow's World. Radio Times, November 1970.

[spankybackpack @spankybackpack]

ON THIS DAY IN 1998: The government privatised Blur as 'GORILLAZ' — making 1.6bn from the sale of shares in Feel Good Inc.

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

The final ep of Moonlighting aired OTD in 1989, and went full meta. Bruce Willis & Cybill Shepherd race to save their own characters, David & Maddy, from cancellation, because when the show ends they'll literally cease to exist. It even admits why Moonlighting ultimately failed

[Steph, Destroyer of Words @AVWoman]

Don't suppose they could be persuaded to host Strictly...?

[N 🇸🇪 - 🇺🇦🍉 @BumbacComeback]

This is what the opening act in semi 2 was for 10 years ago.

Performed by the hosts, with no playback (yes, they remembered all the languages)

#Eurovision

[verypete lambert @Prof_Quiteamess]

New #Eurovision forever slogan just dropped

[Steph, Destroyer of Words @AVWoman]

Did somebody say "chaos"...?

[BBC Breakfast @BBCBreakfast]

Keir Starmer has warned that a Labour leadership contest could result in "chaos" amid speculation that Health Secretary Wes Streeting is plotting to challenge him imminently.

Chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman had more details on #BBCBreakfast

https://t.co/DJazG2TRCO

[jamgaranga 🌻 @euro_jam]

Post-Orban Hungary returning like

[b3ta @b3ta]

Artist: Octo https://t.co/GoVQMDCzwS
From the 'CITV' challenge https://t.co/HBxSXGTgy3 #CITV

[spankybackpack @spankybackpack]

#StarWars

[verypete lambert @Prof_Quiteamess]

The folk art of Mercian waterways shall once again adorn the University's 1969 administration tower

[Alastair Wright @Pott_Shrigley_]

Rainbow over Tinsley, 1987
#Sheffield

[verypete lambert @Prof_Quiteamess]

The idea that for many thousands of years getting a simple blister meant realistic risk of death is hard to compute.

[Amanda @Pandamoanimum]

It's 10 years today since Prince died.
So a reminder of this, because sometimes sadness can still bring laughter.

[Clayton Hickman @claytonhickman]

Here’s something slightly different I’ve been meaning to try for ages - a remaster of the original 1962 pinhole-camera gun barrel photo from the #JamesBond opening titles. I’ve never seen a full-frame of the actual photo (does it even still exist?) and the Connery version is the only one with all the lovely detail intact. Even by Roger’s debut (pic 2) it looks like a dreadful blown-out photocopy-of-a-photocopy.

So this is my attempt, made by stacking 4K grabs from Dr No, with extensive cleaning and tarting-up and recolouring of the bits we only see when the barrel jerks around once the blood has drenched the image. If you’re on a mobile please ‘Load in 4K’ for the full effect.

Maybe someone might find this useful? If nothing else it’s quite a pretty thing to gaze at for a while!

[Steph, Destroyer of Words @AVWoman]

@Prof_Quiteamess