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Musician, piano teacher, reader, big sister. Old Labour; absolutely horrified.
This looks like one of the questions in the NY Times' "Copy Edit That!" quiz series where you had to identify the mistake the copy editors overlooked. Except that 'mistake(s)' doesn't do this bullshit justice. And it's not remotely amusing.
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Culture Crave 🍿
5 days ago
How 2026 was depicted in the sci-fi classic 'Metropolis' (1927)
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Wow: great paragraph on the British obsession with graded music exams. This is piano teacher Alice Pinto quoting from
@jessicaduchen.bsky.social
's novel, Alicia's Gift, in an interview with
@crosseyedpianist.bsky.social
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crosseyedpianist.com/2014/09/22/a...
#PianoTeaching
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How I'm entering 2026:
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6 days ago
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This is exciting. Imagine the possibilities of
#Tidalpower
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#Tidalpower
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London Eye architect proposes 14-mile tidal power station off Somerset coast
West Somerset Lagoon would harness renewable energy for UK’s AI boom – and create ‘iconic’ arc around Bristol Channel
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/27/london-eye-architect-proposes-14-mile-tidal-power-station-off-somerset-coast
10 days ago
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Me, at a fascinating lecture. But I couldn't see the presentation.
14 days ago
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Epic vegetarian gravy from roasted vegetables. Never again.
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Alan Fisher
18 days ago
I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.
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William Shakespeare
18 days ago
As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch’d.
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#Newsnight
asks (rhetorically) if there is anything they should be focusing on next year that they havent been covering. irony is dead.
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Carole Cadwalladr
21 days ago
Do read this. It’s by Brian Eno for
@thenerve.news
& it’s about this generation’s BandAid. Lullaby is based on a traditional Palestinian melody, all proceeds go to Gaza, it would be amazing for it to be Xmas no 1, but more than that, buying it is a political act 👊
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The very definition of
#MiddleClassProblems
: Since scalding my fingertip while taking a polenta and orange cake out of the oven, I can't use the Touch Recognition button on my Mac.
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When in Rome... (By my nephew.)
#BlueSkyArtShow
23 days ago
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"He doesn't push the notes around. He just plays them," says my mum of Paul Lewis. I'm so looking forward to taking her to this in January.
www.saffronhall.com/whats-on/vie...
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Paul Lewis - What's On - Saffron Hall
Featuring works by Mozart, Poulenc and Debussy
https://www.saffronhall.com/whats-on/view/paul-lewis-8
23 days ago
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The Whimsical Muse
24 days ago
After years of being curious about my lineage, I finally received my ancestry results. Apparently I'm 12% Scottish Highlands cottage, 16% used bookstore, 9% October, 13% cat rescue, 11% rainswept cobblestone side street, 7% dimly-lit café in Prague, 17% scone, and 15% Oxford comma.
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I'm concerned about Shirley's make-up artist.
#Strictly
24 days ago
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Karen never screams. She never does that running-on-the-spot, squealing. No histrionics. She seems like a lovely person.
#strictly
24 days ago
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I asked an assistant in John Lewis if they had any fairy lights, just now, and she said, "Oh, THANK you!". People seem a bit distracted.
25 days ago
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This FIFA award actually looks like I feel: someone burying their head in their hands.
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27 days ago
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To borrow from Orwell: All of my students are my favourites. But some are more favourite than others, and I always feel the joy after Charlie's lessons on Wednesdays.
#PianoTeaching
27 days ago
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Colin Smith
30 days ago
The remarkable end-papers for 1966’s Rupert Annual, by Alfred Bestall.
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Colin Smith
about 2 months ago
The Backs of Houses, Harley Street, London, 1925, by Algernon Cecil Newton.
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30 days ago
'The Skate Girls of Kabul' photographic series by Jessica Fulford-Dobson featuring girls from the Afghan capital before the Taliban took control.
#womensart
#NeverForget
women and girls of Afghanistan
#HumanRights
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Just started watching
#bbcqt
with a hollow laugh at the idea of an 'immigration special'. They've all been immigration 'specials' since around 2011. This is the fulfilment of the BBC's own agenda for over a decade. How proud they must be.
about 1 month ago
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Robert Saunders
about 1 month ago
I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on. Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
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'We wouldn't have been able to strike any trade deals if it hadn't been for brexit' - we wouldn't have HAD to, you asinine Tory fool. What fitting end to a particularly stupid episode of
#Newsnight
about 1 month ago
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It's not "We" who are "talking about Rachel Reeves and her errors". It's YOU who are trying to get us to do that,
#Newsnight
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about 1 month ago
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I did. Me. I confess. I voted for a Party that would, I hoped, raise 450,000 children out of poverty.
#Newsnight
about 1 month ago
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Chris Mason feels misled. He wishes he could trust politicians. I know the feeling. I wish I could trust
#bbcnews
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about 1 month ago
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richard mortimer
about 1 month ago
Lost Album Covers of the 90s
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The men braying in the House of Commons when a woman speaks is a very ugly sound.
#budget
#pmqs
about 1 month ago
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I'm sure BBC staff will be reassured that there is a 'metric' in place to assess their plummeting morale: an annual staff survey. And what's more, the Chair wil also "speak" to some of them.
#bbc
about 1 month ago
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Don't know which is more fanciful: Clive Lewis stepping down for Andy Burnham; Burnham winning the seat; or Burnham proving to be a saviour given that he can't hold a consistent line in a 2-minute i/view. Not that I am not longing to vote for for a new Labour leader, but Burnham is not the answer.
about 2 months ago
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Teenage pianist S's deeply-felt lyrics to help get the rhythm of a jazz piece. Other lyrics will involve Donald Trump, climate change, having to fill the dishwasher and fold her clothes. (I can't reveal her 1st name as that's apparently 'so cringe'.)
about 2 months ago
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I have no time for Ken Clark, but euw, Fiona Bruce, chuckling patronisingly at the old person and shutting him up.
#bbcqt
about 2 months ago
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James
about 2 months ago
A second BBC has hit the BBC
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Well that was peculiar - an entire
#newsnight
based around a leadership challenge that hasn’t happened, with 3 panellists who couldn’t be more peripheral - and 1 enormous elephant sitting in the room.
about 2 months ago
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Not now, Universe.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Universe expansion may be slowing, not accelerating, study suggests
Astronomers cast doubt on Nobel prize-winning theory and suggest universe could end in ‘big crunch’
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/06/universe-expansion-slowing-not-accelerating-nobel-prize
2 months ago
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Perry Areolar
2 months ago
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"
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*How* does testing 8yos improve their literacy? How does *telling* teachers to provide enrichment activity *enable* them to fund it? This sounds like McSweeney playing to the union-bashing gallery + checking Starmer's Music 'to do' item.
@lucympowell.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Bridget Phillipson ‘ready to take on unions’ over year 8 reading tests
Education secretary says mandatory test needed to tackle ‘shocking outcomes’ for many working-class children
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/01/bridget-phillipson-unions-oppose-reading-tests-year-8s
2 months ago
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Now that's what i call a treat-ise.
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2 months ago
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In Peterborough Cathedral today, unexpectedly, I found heart-wrenching poetry by children from Gaza. Part of a project by (I think)
@handsupproject.bsky.social
. One is about (our) silence being worse than war so i thought I'd share, even tho' people may know about this
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
2 months ago
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Amazing light! Looks like a demented giant woodpecker is rapping its beak on the railway bridge.
2 months ago
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Oh please. Make it stop.
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Frank Norman
2 months ago
I'm driven mad by the over-representation of Reform MPs and spokespeople in the media.
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Just did an income-tax-rise calculator thing that shows I'd be £16.06 worse off a month if Rachel Reeves puts up income tax by a penny. So we'd all be £16.06 better off. Do it! Do it!
#ProgressiveTaxation
2 months ago
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
3 months ago
I sense Jess Phillips is becoming the new Angela Rayner, a strong recognisable Labour voice – a strong recognisable FEMALE Labour voice – who is the focus of an orchestrated campaign by others to neuter the government. We won't even mention "Rachel from Accounts". The next target – Lucy Powell.
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John Self
2 months ago
Margaret Atwood writing The Handmaid’s Tale, West Berlin, 1984 (Photo by Isolde Ohlbaum)
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"“Our solidarity with Palestinians is not a betrayal of Judaism, but a fulfillment of it... We shall not rest until this ceasefire carries forward into an end of occupation and apartheid.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel
Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/22/jewish-notables-open-letter-un-sanction-israel
3 months ago
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Still triggering to hear Boris Johnson spluttering in unbearably smug Etonianese.
3 months ago
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