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Venn Radio presents Wavelength: music all day long from your radio community. Sunday 16 August, 2pm until late, Späti, 27 Newland Ave, Hull. Meet the hosts, merch on sale, free entry, donations welcome.
Ned Flanders’ mum in a fetching beret saying we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas
Krumm from Real Monsters. A short named for humanlike figure with no head, but a big blue mouth, nose and an eyeball held in each hand.
Jacobs by Marc Jacobs for Marc by Marc Jacobs
Close up of my chest in what should be a navy blue T-shirt but instead is a Rorschach test pattern of white chalk and dark sweat patches
Players warming up in the scorching sun at North Ferriby
The Now That’s What I Call Music generator with the classic music Dril tweet “How do I get cowboy paint off a dog?”
An excel spreadsheet full of meaningless numbers and letters representing box office data
Lars Eidinger as Hamlet in Thomas Ostermeier’s production for the Schaubuhne in Berlin. He’s sprawled on brown earth, wearing modern trousers, a red Hawaiian shirt with black palm trees silhouetted on it, a gold crown and two ping pong balls with black dots on them over his actual eyes. Two men either side, one in brown trousers and a black leather jacket, the other a black suit, prop him up. In the foreground a sword is lodged in the earth.
Portrait of someone with spiked hair and many eye lashes scractched into a wooden table
Guardian article about theatre on cruise ships: That, says Daley, is because the mainstream theatre industry has woken up to what can be achieved on cruise ships. On the one hand, it's about meeting new audiences - "People are seeing theatre on a cruise who may never have been to the theatre before" - and in large numbers. "You've got a guaranteed audience," says Daley, "and where on earth would you get that? We can get 600 people coming to a play in the afternoon. In the evening, we may get 1,200 people over two sittings. This is a fabulous opportunity for your work to be seen." It's a great
BBC sport headline: More than £1pm spent - how premier league clubs prepare for transfer window
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Guardian homepage. At the top, “Burnham promises pragmatic approach to North Sea oil and gas.”. Immediately below, “Hundreds evacuated after apocalyptic wildfire near Suffolk nuclear power station” including photo of huge plume of smoke.
Hand drawn flyer for the Adelphi Club in Hull from sometime in the early 90s. It’s all in black pen with notable gigs (including Oasis) drawn on bubbles down the left and a diary of other dates on the right. Crammed around the margins is more info, text heavy, including a singles chart down the left.
Promo artwork for Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos at the Glyndebourne, an opera based on the Greek myth of Ariadne.
What is your sex? Prefer not to say, Female, Male, None of the above Is your gender the same as the sex you were assigned at birth? Prefer not to say, Yes, No
Andy Burnham in a DJ booth with one hand on the mixer and another holding a mic, looking at the camera
Others, like AI sales company Yuzu Labs founder Emmie Chang, go even further. Chang admitted to the WSJ that she records most of her first dates by putting her phone on the table or chair. Afterwards, she asks Anthropic’s Claude how the date went, wondering if she could be “more engaging or empathetic.”
Fred Willard as the clueless dog show commentator in Best in Show
View from behind my decks in a small Berlin inspired bar
A plastic tub full of ripe blackberries
Screenshot of an IT security training video. It’s a black and white cartoon with a bald (of course) man with a big moustache hiding in a plant pot while a dopey employee puts his key in a door.
Green testicle like unripe fruit growing among leaves of a climbing passion flower
Leonard Nimoy in the Simpsons, teleporting away after claiming his work is done
Wikipedia page for “Leandro Paredes. Argentine bastard (born 1994)”
Gob from Arrested Development doing a magic trick to the Final Countdown
People stood in a circle with headphone cables coming together in the middle, plugged into adapters connected to a sound recording device held by an artist, whose legs we can only see.
Me, my head, a mop of greying brown curly hair, with a speech bubble imposed on the photo so it looks my hair is quoting the below post.
Ann Widdcombe is the number one trending topic on BlueSky. A red button at the side says Hot with a flame icon.
Statue in Rotterdam of a gnome holding a butt plug. I don’t even know what it’s meant to be, a mushroom? It’s enormous. Not just the statue itself but the plug. Like it would be coming out the other end.
Legendary 90s board game Dream Phone
A Panasonic air conditioning unit attached to the side of a Victorian terrace home in northern England
Keir Starmer stood in a pub watching football on a screen behind the photographer. His arms are folded and he’s grimacing. His aides next to him have big grins.
Farah Chamma, a Palestinian poet with long dark curly hair and a keffiyeh around her shoulders, over a green hoodie. A Palestine flag is hanging in the background.
Guardian article screenshot: The doorbell has Ring's new 4K camera, which is quite a big leap over the previous version used in the wired and battery doorbells, capturing far more fine detail. It makes it much easier to see writing, such as name badges, and allows much improved digital zoom up to 10x magnification. It is good enough to read a car numberplate from about nine metres away, day or night.
The Cheeky Girls in matching purple dresses stood in front of a Christmas tree in a shopping centre
Screenshot from a BBC article: "Can I keep my child off school because of the heat? "If your school is open, the advice is to send your child in as normal. "The government says school attendance is the best way for pupils to learn and reach their potential."
The Hull pogrom in 2024. One man in an England flag shirt and another wearing one as a cape attack a BMW and try to drag the migrant drivers out of the door
Lots of runners in Palestine T-shirts waving Palestine flags wait by an inflatable arch that says Run for Palestine
A white setter spaniel cross with brown ears and markings lying on her back on a purple sofa, head nestled on a yellow cushion
Guess Who? The classic mystery face game
The Drake meme but with Keir Starmer. Top panel, looking away from text that says Picking on Nazis. Bottom panel, smiling and looking at text that says picking on children, trans people, migrants and Palestinians
"I love it and can't wait to get it on, but I won't put it on until my grandson has got his on because we do everything together at the Tigers." The club's owner Acun Ilicali has also presented the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with one of the new shirts. Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North.
A BlueSky post from Arts Professional, reporting on how 87% of people between the ages of 18 and 30 say opportunities to connect and create outside of school or work are disappearing, according to a report commissioned by the Roundhouse.
Shabana Mahmood dressed like a camp guard in a prison dormitory with bunk beds
A pigeon on my leg walking up it while other pigeons bobble around
Close up of a front of house show report. Under the heading “Anything overheard, positive or negative” is a comment “Gosh it’s small” heard upon entry
Selfie of a white and brown dog lying on me. I’m wearing a white Palestine football shirt.
The Polar Bear Music Club full of people sat down to watch a documentary on a projector screen.
Theatre stage photo of a white woman in green top and a south Asian woman in a knitted jumper looking at an orange plasticine man.
Mr Burns from the Simpsons in disguise as Mr Snrub, wearing a fake moustache
Marina Abramovic with a speech bubble pointing at the quoted post
Poster for Synthesis, a night of minimal wave, synth pop, electro and industrial at the People’s Republic on 19 June, from 8pm.
A mint condition 1979 BMW 7-series (sadly not mine) photographed from the back with a proper sticky out boot
“It’s fucking fucked” a senior Labour source just said. Screenshot from the Hull Daily Mail’s live blog coverage of the Hull City Council elections from 00:54am.
Screenshot from The Stage performing arts newspaper. Headline says “ACE reasserts commitment to tackle antisemitism in wake of Golders Green attack” while the intro says “Arts Council England has reaffirmed its commitment to opposing antisemitism after two Jewish men were stabbed in north London this week.”
A flight tracker map showing RAF planes leave Cyprus to fly over Gaza
The battery cover for a Pentax SP1000. There’s a slot for a coin or similar shape to turn to open it, but it’s worn down and eroded so nothing will grip it.
Back cover of the View from the Allotment End fanzine of North Ferriby football club, showing a football pitch among ruins in Gaza City and a caption that says Free Palestine