Susan E Barsby
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Writer, reader, runner, mum, knitter. I like coffee, cake and conkers. I miss the sea.
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Dr Amy-Jane Beer
3 days ago
Good morning all. I’ve joined Substack, and am opening with a chapter length piece over which I have literally sweated: John Clare, Wild Service, and becoming a fly-tipper. Please visit, & subscribe!
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A desolate mystery at the shepherd’s bridge
Land, exclusion, refuge, Wild Service and impenetrable local council bureaucracy in the home of the peasant poet John Clare: can we restore collective responsibility and care to rural England?
https://substack.com/@amyjanebeer/note/p-203727530?r=b9tck&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
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Penelope Keith as Margo in The Good Life
Alt: Penelope Keith as Margo in The Good Life.
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4 days ago
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Clearly planning to listen to TMS until the inevitable by lunch was optimistic.
#TheCricket
#woeful
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Ed Morrish
5 days ago
i talked to joel a couple of years ago about the inspiring sincerity of sport - your best vs our best, here are the rules, let’s play - as exemplified by stokes’s heroics in leeds in 2019
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Devon Dympsy
5 days ago
Plans are afoot to site an AI Data Centre & Battery Storage Facility up the road from me in the North Devon countryside, there's a gazillion reasons why this is not welcome, and you all know what they are already. So if you'd like to help support our objections please sign (and share) the petition:
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SAY NO TO DEVON DATA CENTRE
https://c.org/b9L9Gs7JSz
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Genuinely don't understand Nottingham's attachment to jacket potatoes. Our workplace canteen has to offer them every day or there's a riot.
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8 days ago
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Apostrophes still matter, folks...
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Eleven
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Iron Spike
10 days ago
It is vital you buy your small child (or the small child you know) that cheap, shitty watercolor set and that cheap, shitty colored pencil set and that cheap, shitty sketchbook Don't even wait for a reason, just bring it home one night That stuff is transformative in ways you've totally forgotten
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It's Wednesday and I've had 10 emails from E's school this week, only two of which has been about the heatwave. We really have to offer comms training to schools before parents just break down altogether.
9 days ago
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Yes. This thread.
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Lev Parikian
12 days ago
Never mind AI data centres – when are we going to address the desperate waste of time, resources and energy caused by people NOT READING THE EMAIL AND THEN ASKING FOR INFORMATION THAT WAS ALREADY IN THE EMAIL it’s fine I’m fine
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SHOE ARMY!!!!! 🩶💛💚🩶💛💚🩶💛🩶💛💚
#TheRugby
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Jason Hazeley
13 days ago
I could listen to this for ever. It’s so beautiful. The combo of Waits and Gayle — their voices at their peak — Bob Alcivar’s velvety string arrangement, Jack Sheldon’s smoky trumpet… it’s fucking sublime. If you don’t know the One From The Heart soundtrack, you will.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=P40v...
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Tom Waits - "This One's From The Heart"
YouTube video by Tom Waits
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P40vLY45nQQ&pp=0gcJCUACo7VqN5tD&ra=m
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Does anyone have a link to a decent critique of Jonathan Haidt's Anxiety Generation book? I've tried googling and all it gives me is Reddit threads. I was hoping for something a little more credible. People are pressing the book on each other at work and I'd like to sugvest a little balance.
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Rachel Cunliffe
18 days ago
This. Plus the research showing that kids who are already struggling with mental health issues or dysfunctional home lives are the most likely to succumb to doomscrolling and other unhealthy habits. In other words, social media doesn't harm teenagers, already at-risk teenagers seek out social media
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Alex von Tunzelmann
18 days ago
Agree. There’s so much about media & social media that I think is absolutely urgent and essential for the government to get to grips with. “Ban it for kids” is the dumbest and least effective approach I can think of. The kids aren’t even the problem! Radicalisation is happening to older generations
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Jolyon Maugham KC
20 days ago
I've been asked to publish this statement from some of the families affected by NHS England's decision in Brighton.
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Nick Acheson
21 days ago
My lovely friend Mary Colwell has fought for a Natural History GCSE, supported by many, including Caroline. For it to be proper natural history, we need lots of naturalists to give their opinions on the proposed framework. Please consider visiting the public consultation
www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Graeme Swanson
21 days ago
I hope this doesn't sound patronising but go and see art. The Hockney talk has reminded me again that seeing art in the flesh is a very different experience to seeing it on a screen. You understand why people cry in art galleries. It's not just the gift shop prices.
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I'm not an art person so was genuinely surprised by the strength of my emotions on seeing David Hockney's Splash in the flesh. I didn't expect to be moved by it. And he put so much humour in his work. RIP.
21 days ago
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Dear me.
#TheWomensPrize
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One of my slip on ones came off in the sea and was lost. I send apologies to all marine creatures with ingested plastic. I had to go barefoot through town back to the car park. Never had any more.
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24 days ago
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Ian Dunt
29 days ago
This was a groundbreaking piece of work. A work so good it means a life well spent. Millions of people understand Iran, the diaspora and the weird bittersweet details of the immigrant experience through the work she did.
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Oh no! How terribly sad.
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29 days ago
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Vibes
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Operation Eric Furry
30 days ago
I maintain that Muppet Casablanca is a solid winner. Kermit and Piggy as Rick and Ilse, obviously. Gonzo as Lazslo, Fozzie as Louis, Rolf as Sam. The cafe scenes are basically Muppet scenes already - tell me you can't imagine the "Vot Votch" couple as Muppets.
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Oliver Brackenbury
about 1 month ago
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Hooray! How exciting - thank you. But either I'm doing something wrong or Bluesky is being weird but I can't seem to DM you?
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about 1 month ago
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Before I go back to work next week, can we normalise not asking people if they've had a good week off?
about 1 month ago
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Brian Phillips
about 1 month ago
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
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Brian Phillips
about 1 month ago
And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible
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I like the look of both of these but will say Cradle for this.
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about 1 month ago
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Standing in Kent right now. My 76-year old mother's house has no running water but you get your priorities straight, eh? It's not like it's hot here at all.
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This is indeed a piece of wonder.
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Trish Greenhalgh
about 1 month ago
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html
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Scott Pack
about 1 month ago
I want to mention something nice that happened to me today, in part to document, for my own sake, that good things still happen in this horrible world. It involves the London Underground, an escalator, a small boy and some rubber ducks.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
about 1 month ago
Woman in a large hat, by Mary Cassatt, born on this day 1844. It was the age of the hat, & she painted them.
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madeline odent
about 1 month ago
This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push
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Oh I loved this book! You're in for a treat. I wonder if I can get to London for the signing.
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Comfortably Numb
about 2 months ago
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Supposed to be in London this afternoon but Mr B in hospital suddenly means I will miss the Helene Hanff event at Foyles tonight
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which I'm v sad about. But will also miss all the fascists which I'm not sad about at all.
about 2 months ago
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I've read 47 and 3 that I didn't finish out of 100 on the list. Not fussed by reading many of the rest, tbh.
www.theguardian.com/p/x4f9v5
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The 100 best novels of all time
The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?
https://www.theguardian.com/p/x4f9v5
about 2 months ago
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John Bull
about 2 months ago
"Earlier today the Prime Minister spent 17 minutes with Wes Streeting" The poor bastard. I feel a lot more sympathy for Starmer now.
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The girl has tried a sleepover at a friend's house & homesickness has won. We need to find a solution before 3 separate overnight school trips. I feel bad suggesting she should just suck it up cos things are never as bad as she thinks, but I don't know the other mum enough to let her deal with it.
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Albert Pinto
about 2 months ago
now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett
www.ft.com/content/c0ae...
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Dave Nelsen
2 months ago
When I began my editing career, I often changed “utilize” to “use.” For the past eight years or so, I’ve been changing “leverage” to “use.” Now I’m changing “use case” to the noun “use.” What do you people have against “use” in its various forms? It’s a perfectly fine word.
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