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Rewatching Twlight Zone this month, and last night rewatched Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, and it mildly saddened me that Rod Serling never got to see Close Encounters. The joy, wonder and hope feels exactly him.

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce: I have invented a most extraordinary thing Everyone else: pictures or it didn’t happen

Armando Iannucci (‘The Death of Stalin’) and Simon Blackwell (‘Veep’) are writing the script for ‘PADDINGTON 4’.

June sees the return of DROP IN IMPROV CLASSES in Brighton, and ACTING CLASSES in Hove! It’s a great way to meet fellow creatives, exercise (or start up) those performance skills, and get involved with Cast Iron Theatre ahead of any future productions! cast-iron-theatre.weebly.com

When washing machines became household items, the line was that they weren’t taking away jobs, they were giving individuals more time in their day to day lives, a claim that was not borne out by the evidence. This is not a post about washing machines.

The ADHD joy of wondering where I’ve put the coffee cup and discovering exactly where via the method of kicking over said coffee cup

Found this 94-year-old copy of The Architectural Review at last weekend’s garage safari in Kingsdown. It’s focused on the BBC’s Broadcasting House in London and contains some great photos and adverts. Will share some in this thread and more over the days ahead 🧵

Spent the week binging AmandaLand which I hadn’t watched until now. And I’m savagely jealous of the airtight writing in each episode.

The completist geek in me would like to see Linda Thorson in a Bond movie. And possibly Elizabeth Shepherd, to be *really* complete. Anyone wanna guess why?

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My carefully curated echo chamber is clearly echoing correctly because for at least the last thirty days, without me writing or searching for those words, my feed has offered me up variations of ‘whimsy’ and ‘whimsical’ every single day.

‘I also wrote pesto is the quiche of the 80s’

Cope, Dia Cope

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Oh that’s an *excellent* Celebrity Traitors line up

Read a review of an album this morning describing the artist as ‘self indulgent’ and it’s been mildly bothering me ever since. I’m not a singer or a musician so maybe I don’t know, but what else is a self written album meant to be other than indulgent? It’s literally the point

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HEGSETH: I know that there is no country on planet earth that takes more measures to ensure that civilian harm or casualties are minimized than the United States of America and this War Department. And that is a fact. TOKUDA: You eliminated the department's civilian harm reduction staff

They’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along

Archeologist discovers an entirely eroded wall of barely visible hieroglyphics: this is a beautiful example of the Middle Kingdom depicting celebrations during transfer of dynasties Theatre Director reading their own notes of this afternoon’s rehearsal: I have honestly no idea what the hell this is

Sixteen years ago. I remember this gig was on a Good Friday, which meant I was contractually obliged to acknowledge my long hair and say ‘well at least if I die on stage tonight, then by Sunday ..’ (1/2)

No Duolingo I don’t believe that I’m 8th in the League just by doing a panicked 3 minute session in the last half hour of the day

The budget for the rest of this season of SNLUK just got spent

I admit I don’t know much about Star Trek lore, but presumably there will eventually be a USS Hansen USS Koch USS Wiseman and a USS Glover, right? (and obviously the IRL equivalents too)

Anyone who is Gen X, raised catholic, and quite possibly ADHD knows exactly what is wrong with this picture, taken four days after Easter ..

Generally speaking, I need to put some soothing noise on to sleep better: rainstorms, muted cafe chatter, that kind of thing. Inevitably for the last few nights it’s been the live feed of Artemis II

Oh good I don’t have to binge watch 17 different unfinished TV shows in the next six hours

If only the boss of Wireless had followed up his ‘Kayne’s comments were abhorrent’ with the words ‘and that’s why we’re replacing him’ A shame for all the other unconnected artists who have lost a high profile gig this summer.

Dr Pepper’s new slogan is a choice

One thing I am certain of: if I was on the team responsible for the safety of those four humans out in space, I really wouldn’t want to leave any decisions up to ai

There are many important and serious reasons to cut people out of your life or social media feed. But I’m willing to bet that a low stakes simple way to achieve much the same result is to absolutely ignore anyone who sneered at Shelagh Fogarty’s photo.

I’m very pleased that I knew nothing - nothing - about Project Hail Mary going in

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The mildly irritating thing about leaving twitter was that Barack Obama’s personal account followed mine. I know it was a pre-election hustle and there were a few million of us, but still it’s a pity to have left that behind.

SNLUK OHHH There’s a not zero chance he’s gonna go full Kind Hearts & Coronets by the finale isn’t there

On this day, 10 years ago. We all look up to him.

Car Boot season is kicking in and I pity the seller who genuinely has a legitimate stack of cheap KitKats to sell

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The turn the clocks back sketch from SNLUK was a perfect litmus test: exactly the kind of sketch the US version would’ve done years ago (in fact I’m pretty sure they did), flavoured with the local knowledge that would be incomprehensible to most non-Brits.

Project Hail Mary Out of context

They’re gonna get BTS on the last episode of SNLUK, aren’t they

See, people *say* they don’t like Sci-fi, but stick Gosling in good knitwear and slutty little glasses and they’ll come along for the ride.