NEW | On “mounting pressure”… UNDER PRESSURE: THE MEDIA PHYSICS OF POLITICAL SCANDALS brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/under-pres...

THE @robinince.bsky.social is a fucking delight and he has an amazing show every day at the fringe at 1.15pm. GO SEE IT, you will love it. TICKETS: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Ridiculous situation. A man who has spent the last thirty years being one of the most inventive, prolific and funniest stand-ups out there. You should make a beeline for this, I'd say.

I wrote about Epstein’s suicide and how the disbelief about it shows a lack of familiarity with how inhuman America’s prison’s are. It remains one of the things that made people maddest (not saying jail is bad, disbelieving he was murdered). www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

A memorable trip to Bo'ness last night for the opening of Sylvia Dow's impressive and moving new play Blinded By The Light at the remarkable Barony Theatre. The play is partly about the lost battle to save the local colliery in 1982 so fitting that the Kinneil Band were on hand to welcome folk in.

LAST CALL FOR #REMEMBEREDMUMS Please could I have any late mothers in by 8 pm tonight (Saturday 29th), so I can finalise the list and get it printed out for first thing tomorrow, cheers. DMs open until 8 pm. x

Farewell to Athol Fugard. I looked up the year that Valley Song came to the Royal Court, and memories of those shows came flooding back… royalcourttheatre.com/past-product...

This seems pretty rich considering the ink is still wet on the deal #TheGuardian has just signed with OpenAi www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The tech companies want this amendment to copyright because they’ve already stolen everything and want retrospective immunity, right? Exemption from the rules cos information wants to be free and all that BS. Have written to my MP and, again, explained the idea of “property”.

5 minutes on Radio 4 that will have felt like 5 years for all concerned at the Six o clock news, and an unflappable continuity announcer. Just about managing to avoid enough dead air to trigger a Trident Nuclear attack. We’re close enough to WW3 as it is. #Radio4 #Gremlins

“I knew someone on AA5432.” That was the subject of an email NPR host Adrian Ma sent to newsroom leaders in the hours after the DC plane crash. He trusted us with sharing his story — and her contagious energy. www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g...

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Just wrote about the UK Apple encryption mess. This is a BIG deal. It doesn't just apply to the UK. It would be an absolute disaster for online privacy and security. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/07/u...

My recent piece on #Musk in the Christmas @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

MELONS! My very sweaty and excited show about comedy is available NOW m.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Cc...

#ComfortBlanket is pretty much my perfect Xmas podcast, great guests talking about their treasured media. Nostalgia and kindness in equal measure and sprinkle of nerdery.. it’s reached peak comfort with the TMBG Flood & Fallen Idol eps. Thank you Joel Morris shows.acast.com/comfort-blan...

Here to support the Observer & Guardian journalists… to sell off the Observer would have appalled CP & John Scott. It would be a betrayal of their commitment to the truth.

Ok, it's time for another one of these "Swift concurrency step-by-step" posts. It explores working with types that are not Sendable. All based around reading a model from some data store. www.massicotte.org/step-by-step...

We opened Treasure Island at the Lyceum last night… super proud to be part of the pirate crew! #theatre #Edinburgh #lightingdesign

www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/n... Farewell Eileen. Inspirational and so much fun to work with. A genius and a fine artist. Greatly missed. Photos from Liverpool Ev production of The Caretaker.

Excited to see Randall Munroe in Edinburgh tonight- #xkcd

@samsmallman.bsky.social Welcome!

Noooooooooo www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This feels like an unfortunate brand name for safety footwear. Or perhaps there is extra strong padding at the back…

Opening night for Tao of Glass in Hong Kong - fantastic to be here. #theatre #lightingdesign #philipglass

@robertamock.bsky.social lovely to see a Royal Holloway drama presence here!