Adrian Clark
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Likes cake Born at 4th, League Division 4
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Whitney Trettien
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
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So when did Trump learn that this was about to come out? About five minutes before he instructed his lawyers to threaten the BBC?
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New Epstein emails that mention Trump released by House Democrats - live updates
President Trump has previously said allegations about him relating to Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died in 2019, are a "hoax".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2dr3z9egljt?post=asset%3A5cebb334-612b-41a4-85be-75d199445f2c#post
about 22 hours ago
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NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter-the-bbc-could-send-back
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Jon Worth
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Manic day, so no time for a full analysis of the European Sleeper to run Paris-Berlin night trains from Spring 2026, so just this quick thread Important: chances this happens are GOOD, upwards of 80% Chances it can’t launch in spring and start is delayed is higher than it not happening at all
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Can't believe the official Bluesky app still doesn't have repost muting - it's such an easy way (as when Twitter allowed 3rd-party apps) to trim your timeline without completely unfollowing interesting people.
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Glad to be reminded that we got a few episodes into this, but must have got sidetracked. It's a LOT more interesting than the "forgotten curio with big names" reputation.
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Word Family Friday
2 days ago
The number of English words from one Late Latin word is ridiculous 😆
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NEW A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo...
(Substack) (Non-Substack link to follow.)
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A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-look-at-trumps-1-billion
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The Life of Sharks 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
2 days ago
Let’s make these two assholes famous.
news.sky.com/story/police...
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Police want to identify two people after woman racially abused and assaulted at Bond Street station
The man allegedly sprayed a substance he said was pepper spray - but the victims reported no ill effects.
https://news.sky.com/story/police-want-to-identify-two-people-after-woman-racially-abused-and-assaulted-at-bond-street-station-13468393
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Paul Hayes
2 days ago
Six-and-a-half years ago, while researching something else at Caversham, I happened across a little fact and thought, "Oh, that's interesting, I must do something with that some day..." Today is that day!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Great Yarmouth Town's 'amazing' place in TV football history
How a small, non-league team became the first football club from Norfolk ever to appear in a live TV game.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yl7pg13y3o
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS
3 days ago
One strange thing about the BBC/Trump row is that the programme in question was actually made by an independent production company. Yes, the BBC producers and Panorama’s editor should have checked everything before it was broadcast. But… 1/3
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Laura Ashe
6 days ago
Watch to the end
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Ian Wade
3 days ago
I think there's been a bit too much focus and pandering to these people now. 'legitimate concerns' 'silent majority' 'both sides' etc. Fuck 'em. Never known such a bunch of absolute fucking arseholes playing the victim and demanding everyone dances to their fucking tune. Fight fire with fire.
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Ian Dunt
3 days ago
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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Justin Lewis
3 days ago
Happy birthday to Sesame Street, which began exactly 56 years ago on the NET network. Possibly the most important programme ever created by American television. Such trippy pre-titles. It really is a product of the late sixties.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPMA...
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Sesame Street: Episode 0001 (HD) (1969)
YouTube video by Treble Gnocchi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPMACQJR-KE&t=5s
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Martin W
3 days ago
This has been an earworm for as long as I can remember. The Pointer Sistets, no less.
youtu.be/HUL4T8WcFdA?...
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Sesame Street - Pinball Number Count
YouTube video by herman13s
https://youtu.be/HUL4T8WcFdA?feature=shared
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Justin Lewis
3 days ago
When I was on
@looksunfamiliar.bsky.social
I chose this sequence from a 1979 Sesame Street episode - probably the first time I ever heard Philip Glass was this exclusive piece he wrote for this animated sequence, Geometry of Circles. It's never appeared anywhere else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
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Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles.mp4
YouTube video by SamCam2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWwOzEDGss&list=RD4JWwOzEDGss&start_radio=1
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS
4 days ago
I’m surprised Davie has resigned over that Panorama edit (seems like a bit of a nothingburger to me) but I’m glad he’s gone. On his watch the BBC simply gave up the ghost on factual documentary TV, and decided the best way to serve its audience was to patronise it. 1/2
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Justin Lewis
4 days ago
Could we have a BBC DG again who has made a programme, please?
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Neil Mackay
5 days ago
The Great Enshittification continues: with audible simply removing loads of books from my library that I’ve paid for. Hundreds of bucks basically picked from my pocket Fuck you, Bezos, you chrome-domed motherfucker. My last reason for using your hateful company just expired. Subscription cancelled
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This is great, appropriately haunting and unsettling. I didn't know about the two types of Field Punishment (Wikipedia can help you).
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4 days ago
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Justin Lewis
4 days ago
My textcast - where you read it, but there's also an accompanying playlist - is BACK. Some remarkable choices from
@joannawyld.bsky.social
that were new to me. Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Thank you.
#FirstLastAnything
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
6 days ago
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
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"Spare a couple of quid mate? I need to get a taxi to the nearest branch of my bank because I've lost my phone with all my banking stuff on it, and I can't get into my car because... "
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public health guy 🦃
6 days ago
congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
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Colin Carlson
6 days ago
OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here
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Hello yes I was wondering how I can apply to be increasingly isolated at a royal lodge, please? I assume I can bring my own books and cats?
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Prem Sikka
6 days ago
ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky. Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock. CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.
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ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky
The talks focus on ITV's Media and Entertainment division, which include its TV channels as well as its streaming service, ITV X.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxk7j87xd0o
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Illuminations
6 days ago
WAC wrong-headedness (that's the BBC Written Archives Centre) I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
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WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
https://www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-headedness/
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As a person with quite erratic handwriting, requiring concentration and a favourable wind to write neatly, I'm going to suggest that Guy Fawkes just got lucky the first time round.
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Justin Lewis
7 days ago
Exactly 50 yrs ago tonight, the Sex Pistols' first gig, supporting Bazooka Joe at St Martin's College of Art. Bazooka Joe's frontman was Stuart Goddard (later Adam Ant), but also in the group were Danny Kleinman (later director of Smashie & Nicey - End of an Era) and backing singer Arabella Weir.
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I regularly walk along a chunk of Stane Street (now a chalky dirt track roughly between Epsom and Dorking) and it's always impressive to think how old that route is.
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Fishbourne Roman Palace
7 days ago
Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
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Be interesting to see what kind of unpleasant reaction Australia gets from certain countries (with and without demented orange presidents) but I hope they hold firm.
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Dan Sheehan
7 days ago
Incredible as it may seem, today is the birthday of TWO men who each invented a musical instrument that was named after them by adding "phone" to the end of their name. John Philip Sousa (1854-1932): the Sousaphone Adolphe Sax (1814-1894): the Saxophone
#musicsky
#conicindence
#synchronicity
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Evil Bat Witch
8 days ago
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
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You'll learn more about football in 30 seconds of listening to Lucy Ward than anything Joey Barton has ever said in his 20-year career. Always a pleasure when she's on the
@footballweekly.bsky.social
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Jason
7 days ago
Joey Barton’s lawyer questioning Lucy Ward about his posts likening her and Eni Aluko to Fred and Rose West. Just about the most perfect response I have heard in a very long time.
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Simon Lewis
8 days ago
This is such poor politics. The contribution is a loan at slightly below market rates, with a very modest risk attached (into a Facility managed by the World Bank). So it’s really modest. And could be a game-changer for forest protection. V. odd that the UK is burning its political capital on this.
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Gary Brannan
8 days ago
ITS A COYOTE! CHASING A ROAD RUNNER!
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Stan Carey
8 days ago
"Mamdani" as a crash course in English phonotactics with sociolinguistics on the side, all in 101 seconds) 🐦🐦
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Scarred For Life
8 days ago
Fireworks PIF countdown: number one! HAND (1976) This all-time classic PIF featured bandages that haunted a million nightmares and turned sparklers into something to be feared. It worked on me. Happy Bonfire Night!
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I know it does happen occasionally, but given the general 10-year trend, it's quite a thing to wake up to some global political good news, isn't it? Well done, New Yorkers!
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Oldfirmfacts
9 days ago
“Relentlessly campaigning for this honour was harder work than building a stadium in intense heat for 45p an hour”, quipped the multimillionaire
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Coates is Odd This Day
9 days ago
In important news from history today, it is (although I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you) the joyful 10th birthday of this unimprovable tweet
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Michael Shaw
10 days ago
It’s fascinating comparing the front page coverage of the Huntingdon train attack (below) with how the British press treated another case 30 years ago. I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
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SABRE Maps
10 days ago
London's Ringways are a whole network of unbuilt urban motorways threaded through the capital. There's never been a complete map of them,not even one made by their designers, until now. Today we're publishing the Ringways Map from
@roads.org.uk
to let you see in the city that London nearly became.
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Bruce Gorrie
10 days ago
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
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Strictly speaking, my first single (45p, Woolworths, Lincoln) was bought for me. I can only remember the first album I bought with my own money (£3.99, WH Smith, Lincoln).
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Dorian Lynskey
10 days ago
Disappointed a politician won’t make an extreme and hasty decision in the immediate wake of a shockingly unusual event
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