Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisdayhttps://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwux6mulr22eIt’s the 109th anniversary today of respected surgeon Beaman Douglass publishing a learned paper in Torreya, the journal of the Torrey Botanical Society (the oldest botanical society in the Americas, fact fans) all about how he accidentally fucked himself and his wife right up with shrooms02 Oct 2026 08:26 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwux6mulr22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwvr23cwgc2aJust been reminded of this. Happy weekend, everyone! [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Oct 2026 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvr23cwgc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwvkawkrz22lThis is pure Viz [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Oct 2026 14:07 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvkawkrz22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwux6mulr22eIt’s the 109th anniversary today of respected surgeon Beaman Douglass publishing a learned paper in Torreya, the journal of the Torrey Botanical Society (the oldest botanical society in the Americas, fact fans) all about how he accidentally fucked himself and his wife right up with shrooms02 Oct 2026 08:26 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwux6mulr22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwutwj3lmk24Happy 76th birthday to Peanuts (I especially love the fourth image here) [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Oct 2026 07:28 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwutwj3lmk24https://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3m26vu56ajs2xRoses are red Oats go in porridge02 Oct 2025 06:18 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3m26vu56ajs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwtowi3hrk2oThere would be a certain justice in the man the BBC seemed to be determined to shoehorn into every show getting kicked off this one first But whatever happens: Claudia, our chic angel of death is back01 Oct 2026 20:25 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtowi3hrk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwsda5dmrs2jWell, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today01 Oct 2026 07:23 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwsda5dmrs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwswlwl66k22This can only mean one thing... Yes: time to trot out the old story about Holloway and Rex Harrison when legendary arsehole Harrison gets twatted at the stage door... [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 13:10 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwswlwl66k22https://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwssciex7c2pNew ‘me reading ur tweets’ shot just dropped01 Oct 2026 11:53 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwssciex7c2phttps://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwsda5dmrs2jWell, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today01 Oct 2026 07:23 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwsda5dmrs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwqahi6dos2mWell, if it’s 30 September, it must be... oh God. The 36th anniversary of the first—and, you may not be entirely surprised to hear—only transmission of a sitcom which was genuinely called ‘Heil Honey, I’m Home’, in which Hitler and Eva Braun live next door to Jewish couple Arny and Rosa Goldenstein30 Sep 2026 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqahi6dos2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwpoltk7ds2wSpike Milligan under pressure to write yet another script c.1955 [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Sep 2026 06:09 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwpoltk7ds2whttps://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwohvcihcc24This is really good work. The level of detail they’ve managed to uncover about who invested and how they benefited is extraordinary https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002zkrm/finding-britains-slave-traders-with-david-olusoga29 Sep 2026 18:36 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwohvcihcc24https://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwnhgfkits27Today is the 321st anniversary of the last of the ‘wars of the fists’ (guerre dei pugni) on a bridge in Venice. Sometimes also known as battagliole sui ponti, or “little battles on the bridges”, or guerre de canne (wars with sticks), they could also involve cudgels, roof tiles, stones, and knives29 Sep 2026 08:55 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwnhgfkits27https://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwnhgfkits27Today is the 321st anniversary of the last of the ‘wars of the fists’ (guerre dei pugni) on a bridge in Venice. Sometimes also known as battagliole sui ponti, or “little battles on the bridges”, or guerre de canne (wars with sticks), they could also involve cudgels, roof tiles, stones, and knives29 Sep 2026 08:55 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwnhgfkits27https://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwm645prj22xProper art [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Sep 2026 20:36 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwm645prj22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwllpu6psk2oIt’s the 51st anniversary of the first day of the unlikely-sounding Spaghetti House Siege, when three armed robbers went into the Knightsbridge branch of an Italian restaurant chain, staff hid the money from them under a table, police surrounded the building, and they were stuck in there five days28 Sep 2026 15:07 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwllpu6psk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwj4y2wlns24Now that’s an important historical anniversary [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Sep 2026 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwj4y2wlns24https://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwixrel5t22qGood sticker (and not one I expected to see in True Blue, distinctly Brexity, Stamford)27 Sep 2026 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwixrel5t22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwirwkcrlk2jIn (one of) my happy place(s) (Carry On, Jeeves - short stories from 1925)27 Sep 2026 12:20 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwirwkcrlk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3mwil2k7h6k2pOne of my favourite anniversaries today: the 19th of Ken Russell announcing his second-last film… [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Sep 2026 10:17 +0000at://did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwil2k7h6k2p