Still raging about the fact the self-employed have to submit records four times a year now to HMRC but very grateful to @directors-uk.bsky.social for their comprehensive webinar about MTD.

How many children could possibly affect? Just wanton meanness to appease a group of adults roleplaying that they're being oppressed by a small minority of people

I regret to tell you I now know what a terrified toad sounds like.

This looks awesome - join me why not and raise some money for a great cause while having a fun and not at all competitive time!

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

#Mums26 Once again, I implore you to send me your mother's name and include the hashtag #Mums26. Please please please, otherwise it's difficult to track. #Mums26

In a recent interview, Professor Karen Hoyland argued that women who claim to be autistic are just angling for a diagnosis, since researchers like her have made the prospect of autism so attractive.

Still seeking volunteers to help renovate! Lovely seaside town on the west coast of Scotland. 1 hr from Glasgow. All board and meals covered. Maximum 4 hours work a day. 3 day, 1 week and 2 week placements available. Go on, do some good this summer! Apply: essehouse.co.uk/working-holi... 🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Deadline today at 5pm! If you are a parent or carer in the UK screen industry who would like a week of time away please do apply. CV and a cover letter saying what you’d do with the week. #raisingfilms @raisingfilms.bsky.social

Apologies for the mistake but the deadline for this residency is Friday 6 March, not 3 March... - that's a week today! Send us your applications as per the below.

Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

I always think I’m Michael Douglas whenever i wear my dressing gown thanks to this movie

Bookseller Scrambles To Hide All The Classics After Seeing Emerald Fennell Approaching Door

Requiescat, Frederick Wiseman. My man had Foucault-levels of things to say about the role of institutions in our lives, but was also a hugely talented filmmaker on top of it. If you have not seen Titicut Follies (1967), prioritise it: right out the gate, our guy was NOT here to fuck around

RIP Frederick Wiseman <3 <3

Life goal- to be mentioned in same article as Santantango - unlocked. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

Very happy to announce the @raisingfilms.bsky.social creative residency is back again this year! uk based writers, directors & producers with caring responsibilities who would benefit from a week with fellow residents in the Yorkshire Dales please apply. All info in the cards attached. #RaisingFilms

Later, King Charles and Camilla try the luge in Bruges.

Introducing my new identity, crime writer Amelia Hope. So proud to be part of this shortlist thanks to the Caledonia Novel Award and if you like you can read the first 10 pages of my first book The Dirty Work here: thecaledonianovelaward.com/2026-winner-...

Excited to sneak that the Raising Films residency is back this year... more details coming soon... @raisingfilms.bsky.social

A few years ago I got to direct an amazing cast led by Glenda Jackson in a radio adaptation of Alexander Mackendrick’s screenplay of this historic assassination. You can listen to it now on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/Unmade-Mo...

Just learnt about Richard Wawro on #AntiquesRoadshow and will immediately be finding out more about him. Just incredible work. Could a Scottish gallery please organise a retrospective? Thank you!

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

Please will someone write a story about the impact of the Beatles movies on the rest of the independent British film sector? Hottest British actors tied up for months and months and months. Everyone having to schedule around them.

A bit late posting this because every time I look at it I pass out or go temporarily blind. I think we can all agree the whole phenomenon has now peaked and nobody ever needs to walk a red carpet again.

On the hunt for a bit of joy this week when the wonderful news that I have been shortlisted for the #CaledoniaNovelAward for my first attempt at writing a book! Over the moon doesn't even begin... thecaledonianovelaward.com/2026-award/

We've lost the great Allan Massie. An absolute giant of Scottish literature and journalism, and an inspirational, kind and generous man, too. I think his son @alexmassie.bsky.social is only sporadically on Bluesky, but he has written a beautiful obituary. alexmassie.substack.com/p/allan-mass...

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

Disney Exec Reminds Toddler Only IP Goes On Fridge https://theonion.com/disney-exec-reminds-toddler-only-ip-goes-on-fridge/

Tmw is my last day at Filmmaker, and it’s also the last day for our estimable director of editorial operations Vadim Rizov, who has been a valued partner for 11 of my 33 years. Here, he curates some of his best work that we’ve had the privilege of publishing. filmmakermagazine.com/132962-vadim...

It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.

Seems right

I love this film. Jealous of New Yorkers who get to see this.

How I will be getting through Christmas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-yG...

My brilliant husband's trilogy of books, the latest of which (The Diary of Lies) is on Airmail and The FT's books of the year lists. Available at all good bookstores... guardianbookshop.com/the-diary-of...

I rewatched when Harry met Sally last night. I saw it so many times when it first came out as a young teen and wondered if, when I started having sex, someone would make me meow. Thank you for the high bar, Mr Reiner.

Anne Coates, Ozu and Dick Van Dyke sharing a birthday - 13 December turns out to be a blessed day for cinema.

I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future. Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.

If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.

John Krasinski told this story about being at some party and ripping apart some new “artsy” (his word) movie and PTA took him aside and was like “what are you doing man? We’ve gotta support each other, or we’re just giving them reasons not to make the stuff we want.”

This is absolutely real. The current HBO Max version of this "Mad Men" episode "remastered for 4K" did not include an updated visual effects shot, which originally painted out the crew and equipment. Not just that, the HBO Max episode titles/order is jumbled for s01.

Not sure she had the lead role in her penultimate year primary nativity either, as claimed. Yes she was Mary but that year the narrator had more lines and thus was quite clearly the lead, not Reeves.

MY FIRST INTERNATIONAL BYLINE is out today in @bristol247.bsky.social with @zarananu.bsky.social! We discuss U.K. equal pay day, how #TheDoubleTax shows up for Black women in the UK, and why caregiving is a an economic crisis OR economic opportunity in waiting. #blacksky #uk

Oooh, I've just heard my first novel has been longlisted for something - now to finish it so they can read the whole thing!

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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Hi @creativescots.bsky.social. please can you update your website with the correct information about script development and funds for emerging talent in Scotland? The information is now years out of date.

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Looking for stories of outageous Scottish footballing success? Asif Kapadia’s superdoc pulls together the inspirational footage required to help soccer King Kenny Dalglish tell his story in his own famously terse and unpretentious words, streaming now in the UK 4/5 film-authority.com/2025/11/19/k...