I’ve just given money to a musician who is so successful he was hugely ripped off for years and doesn’t own his songs and yet he’s still a billionaire. The band the Beatles could have been. The other is a book about dying that will help me with my own book about that.

London Kings Cross #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening

James Watson obituary: Nobel prizewinner who discovered DNA structure - The Times and The Sunday Times This also addresses the Franklin story in some depth, apple.news/AQkDmCUo3SsO...

This last episode of Alan Partridge is bloody dark.

With the news of the ITV takeover we have never needed strong PSB more. Sack BBC management, fund it, get it back in the hands of programme makers, tell new British stories. Sack BBC News management & put that to be run by journalists to deliver news in a straightforward way. Too much discussion.

Got this for the arm of the sofa.

This is what Farage has done www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Spot on of course and from a foundational text. The arch capitalists of our time will strip the planet bare for an extra one pence per transaction. In doing so hey will take your freedoms so that you can’t fight back.

I’m appalled at the lack of representation in Trumpton. vm.tiktok.com/ZNdwkuQxq/

Looking forward to reading this and quietly tearing it apart in my head, or not. Depends on what it says.

Two CDs waiting for me when it home - more physical media.

Top scientist! Richard Tice apple.news/AcIBxVM-xRJq...

I bet they said the same thing about the great vowel shift, apple.news/AjK7FLSf9Rz-...

On a panel shortly at #ConnectingtheNorth and am looking good, lol. 🔥

A monologue about reciprocation open.substack.com/pub/richardf...

Winter walking music.youtube.com/watch?v=OC9K...

I also wrote a defiant reflection on creating true art in an indifferent, superficial world, where I find meaning in making, despite being unseen. My work, like a mayfly, burns briefly but brilliantly against the void. I think it’s also funny. open.substack.com/pub/richardf...

I wrote this about abuse and control. open.substack.com/pub/richardf...

I wrote this about how us oldies can stay employable and how the up and coming might approach their “career.” open.substack.com/pub/richardf...

Buying vinyl & CD has revitalised my music listening. I’d almost forgotten about the power of the ritual of physical selection & placement and its power in physical media. Physical media demands you listen but streaming is just a wallpaper soundtrack to a distracted life. Just ordered these.

An apology is simply not good enough. It says these people are here on Bluesky. apple.news/A7-G-y_csToe...

I get 35 days a year holiday and I think I have twenty to use before the end of year. Shit, better book them.

Here’s my Substack on being employable when older. open.substack.com/pub/richardf...

Physics

Spoiled myself in the sales. Gold red adidas and glow in the dark leopard skin Converse.

I wrote about aging and remaining employable richardfadams.substack.com/p/still-here...

When we had the death penalty there were more violent crimes per capita and a number of people died that were innocent. I suppose he knows he’ll kill innocents does he? These ppl like Rupert Lowe are insane as they realise they themselves will soon be gone having done nothing of any real value.

A while ago I wrote my desert island discs out as a post here. richardfadams.substack.com/p/i-will-nev... Here are my recent vinyl listens. Btw Some music sounds great on vinyl, some doesn’t.

A while ago I bought one of these Squier Classic Vibe '70s Telecaster Thinline - 3-Tone Sunburst for £170 second hand. And I’m practically living on it. Wish I’d got one years ago.

Just watching the Christmas Tree, a Children’s Film Foundation film from 1966. It makes one wonder why PSB money isn’t fundings. Modern equivalent? CBBC doesn’t really hit the mark. Great though BBC can be , 100 years on a discussion on its shape ought to be had.

Don’t think I’ve ever quite seen anything like this film. www.imdb.com/title/tt0064...

How utterly divisive and forces conformity. Typical west coast US attitude behind this.

Just seen an ad with the goddess Gillian Anderson saying “we don’t age we just upgrade.” What a load of bollocks cosmetics firms spout.

This photo is straight out of the camera. I cropped it but that’s it. It’s a shot of the girders in the roof of Waterloo station reflected in the screen of my iPhone, #photography

Renewable energy is the future and most countries are really using it. Except USA and here, Reform and the @conservatives.bsky.social want to stop it, utter stupidity. apple.news/Apr7ABQt8Sry...

TBH i can’t help feel they just look for stuff to write. I may be wrong but can’t help feeling that more women are staying single because they choose to. apple.news/Axkm6_q30RZ2...

I think that’s my Christmas present sorted.

Autumnal walk #Autumn #blueskyartshow #photography

Autumnal Edinburgh #Autumn #blueskyartshow #photography

He was indeed real. Yes, Roland the Farter was a real person who lived in 12th-century England. He was a professional flatulist, or “farter,” who performed for the royal court. Back to Mad World #Totp www.perplexity.ai/search/6cb12...

I see from these figures that devoutly white county Derbyshire has the worst problem. apple.news/AMlFyY1AfS0G...

Is this a massively underrated track or what? music.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Xq...

I didnt see or feel anything. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It’s a whole different epoch of history now, #WheelTappersAndShunters

Speaking at Trans City Rail North next week on AI in rail. On the 20th I’m chairing AI in business in London. aibusinessconference.co.uk

The Moffat Era and some Chibnall episodes looked fantastic on much less money. Get the right lead and slow down the narratives - stop trying cram everything in - and it should be fine. Get next gen show runner OR give JMS his long deserved shot.

Cyclists have been getting away with doing sun for years so when they get in their cars they do the same. apple.news/AEPjdWrnESk-...

So boring,

Three randoms #photography

Substack promotion - incoming. My most Beckettian piece yet. open.substack.com/pub/richardf...