This was great fun last year. Scottish-based playwrights, let's go!

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This was posted by @mambarlife.bsky.social in the Other Place and it’s too good not to share it.

Hahahaha. Sound. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

Thread - 1/7 7 reasons #AI is a tool of global domination and tech fascism. 1. Constant hallucinations which are factually incorrect but subtly interwoven with correct information, requiring expertise to spot. As a routinely used research tool, it undermines facts/truth - helpful for fascism.

Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.

At the Edinburgh Fringe in the 80's, having a toilet cubicle door held open for me by the previous occupant - Michael Elphick

Sarah Montague on #wato pointing out that house prices now are 8x the average annual wage, versus 4x for "boomers". Absolute lolz at *economist* Evan Davis chortling away as he says, "Yes... I can never quite understand how it's got so out of kilter!" Incisive, expert stuff...

Lost - my grey jacket, Hibs scarf and green hat as seen in this picture. I’m pretty sure somebody accidentally picked up my jacket in Bongo Club last night. If anyone happens to have it or my scarf I’d really appreciate any help returning them. The scarf is more than 20 years old 😞

Thanks GlobalTV Canada! 🇨🇦

Any chance that online retailers, just for December, could pop stuff in the post in plain packaging? My kids had the (frankly, fucking awesome) surprise gift for their parents totally ruined by the contents being emblazoned across the box. #PlainWrappingDecember

This was a lot of fun to read and narrate. Get your ears round it!

Everybody in Scottish Theatre shoud stand and salute.

Trumpeting that you're presenting "One of the most successful musicals of all time" on your marquee, while asking (likely) minimum-wage employees to do voluntary work... Arsehole Theatre Group?

If there's anything worse than implementing a governmental policy that drives children into poverty, it's got to be refusing to reverse said policy until it's politically expedient. Downright wicked.

Have spent a good chunk of yesterday and today breaking my washing machine down into its component parts, to ascertain whether it was repairable or not. Reader, it's fucked.

Wonder how many other people have cancelled their Xbox #GamePass...?

Incredible that, even if you repeatedly reject any and all offers of AI assistance EVERY TIME YOU OPEN ANY APP, it never learns that you're never going to use it and stops bothering. Demonstrates a real lack of intelligence, if you ask me...

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

🙏🧡 No lie, this is a cracking read/listen. Fabulous writing

And I thoroughly enjoyed doing so! 👏🧡

Is it, aye?

Theft. Facilitated by #ScotRail, a publicly-owned company...

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

"The Stranger's Case," William Shakespeare Sir Thomas Moore: Act II Scene 4 ___ Imagine that you see the wretched strangers, Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, Plodding to the ports and costs for transportation ...

@edchildrensfest.bsky.social returns 24 May - 1 June... we're thrilled Greg Sinclair @@gregsinclairartist.bsky.social (We Will Hear the Angels) is bringing one of two commissioned shows. Tongue Twister is a show for children aged 6-12 years celebrating the musical beauty of language. We can't wait!

What a pair 🙌🧡

Really enjoyable read. Particularly if, like me and the taxi driver in the article, the name Pringle featured heavily in your youth!

I'm likely being naive here but it seems to me that if a country wants to pursue isolationism, then...isolate them.

For theatre artists and freelancers, disability welfare cuts will erode career sustainability, self-esteem and quality of life. You can write to your MPs via theyworkforyou.com to state the negative impact the cuts will have.

Anyone who loves music should acquaint themselves with The Associates 🧡

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

This. All of this.

A lot will be made, and rightly, of the consequences of this for the industry here in terms of the future - but at the risk of stating the obvious, River City is also a vital employer of a vast and varied and experienced workforce right here and now. www.radiotimes.com/tv/soaps/riv...

Aside from, very relevant, arguement about the representation of ordinary Scots on our screens, this is the crux of the matter. The BBC can choose to focus on "Shetland", "Vigil" and "The Rig" but none of those are possible without River City. It is a vital part of Scotland's screen industry.

Looking forward to these VERY much 🧡

Very much feels like a day of three teams thinking they could simply turn up and win...

Spring is when the lone lost gloves come back with the birds & blooms. All the warm-cold weather, on-offing brings their solitary not waving, drowning into blossom. Signalling helplessly from railings & fences, spatchcocked on the pavements like the last girl in a horror film crawling for dear life

Fascinating that none of the mainstream media have really picked up on Trump's comments about Greenland. I mean, a smirking sideways look, while saying, "...one way or another, we're gonna get it." is...pretty tyrannical stuff.

In 2018, I sat down on a doorstep beside two rough sleepers & recorded their lives. The R4 series Tara & George asked what led the couple to the streets. Last autumn, I was contacted by Tara’s brother, Shaun. She’s dead. Sun 16 Feb on BBC Radio 4 at 715pm & BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Cracking piece of street art in Glasgow right now.

I can't help but wonder if this might be exactly what Republicans want. A shutdown gives them the perfect excuse to circumvent the whole system "for the safety of the country and its citizens"...

This is very urgent. The UK government is planning to change copyright law. If you are an artist, author, musician or work in the creative industry please read this. www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...

One of the best articles I’ve read about the age we are entering. And it touches on something that we need to discuss more: in authoritarianism it is *logical* to cede power to those in power. Or rather, it is seemingly logical. Ultimately, even after you give in, they’ll come for you.

Smiling today! 🦅💚 #iykyk

This was brilliant. If you can, go!

I don’t think our news media have the chops OR interest to defend evidence based thinking or political honesty - the Jeremy Vine show having a segment on whether Farage would make a better PM than Starmer sums up the infantile click hunger broligarchy.substack.com/p/total-info...