Barnaby Edwards
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Actor || Writer || Director || Painter || Dalek 🏳️🌈 He/Him. Acting - http://thebwhagency.co.uk Voice (home studio) - http://suzywoottonvoices.com
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Just seen ‘Weapons’. What a glorious film. If you haven’t seen it, I urge you not to find out anything about it and just watch it. A wonderful, scary romp and a metaphor for Western society. Brilliant.
January 9, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Just seen ‘Weapons’. What a glorious film. If you haven’t seen it, I urge you not to find out anything about it and just watch it. A wonderful, scary romp and a metaphor for Western society. Brilliant.
According to YouGov, 40% of Britons have not read or listened to a book in the past year. Of the remainder, 22% read 1-5 books per year and 4% (me) read more than 50 books.
If that's you, please stop doomscrolling and open a book. Let's each recommend a title.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
If that's you, please stop doomscrolling and open a book. Let's each recommend a title.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
New poll finds 40% of Britons have not read a book in the past year
The median British adult has read or listened to three books in the past 12 months with reading habits also split along gender, class and political divides
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:58 PM
According to YouGov, 40% of Britons have not read or listened to a book in the past year. Of the remainder, 22% read 1-5 books per year and 4% (me) read more than 50 books.
If that's you, please stop doomscrolling and open a book. Let's each recommend a title.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
If that's you, please stop doomscrolling and open a book. Let's each recommend a title.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Happy birthday to Nathaniel Curtis! Here’s my portrait of him.
December 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Happy birthday to Nathaniel Curtis! Here’s my portrait of him.
Oh that every month could be like October!
December 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Oh that every month could be like October!
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David Attenborough [whispering]:
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
December 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
David Attenborough [whispering]:
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
Has anyone broken it to The Mail that Postman Pat is fictional?
The Mail on Sunday crying that 'postmen' is being changed to 'postpersons' while also noting how the job title was the gender neutral 'letter carriers' before 1883.
December 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Has anyone broken it to The Mail that Postman Pat is fictional?
Don’t do interviews for the gutter press, especially not The Telegraph. They’ll either make you say something stupid or, worse, reveal that you are stupid.
December 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Don’t do interviews for the gutter press, especially not The Telegraph. They’ll either make you say something stupid or, worse, reveal that you are stupid.
One of the most beautiful films I’ve seen. I bawled my eyes out.
December 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
One of the most beautiful films I’ve seen. I bawled my eyes out.
Hope you all had a lovely Christmas. I shall be working my way through these for the next month or so.
December 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Hope you all had a lovely Christmas. I shall be working my way through these for the next month or so.
Really looking forward to tonight. We follow the Icelandic tradition of Jólabókaflóð, literally 'Christmas book flood'. Rather than watching regrettable repeats on TV, you give each other a book and then settle down with a nice hot chocolate to read them. It's fab! 📚
adventures.is/blog/iceland...
adventures.is/blog/iceland...
Iceland Christmas Eve Tradition | Arctic Adventures
Discover Jólabókaflóð: Iceland's unique Christmas tradition of book gifting. Learn about its history and how it reflects Iceland's love for reading!
adventures.is
December 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Really looking forward to tonight. We follow the Icelandic tradition of Jólabókaflóð, literally 'Christmas book flood'. Rather than watching regrettable repeats on TV, you give each other a book and then settle down with a nice hot chocolate to read them. It's fab! 📚
adventures.is/blog/iceland...
adventures.is/blog/iceland...
Just seen a ‘Monsters Size Comparison’ video and stopped quite early on when it suggested that a bronze Dalek - famously the same height as Billie Piper - was 6’6”.
Presumably all such size comparison videos are done by AI these days and are therefore fact-free drivel.
Presumably all such size comparison videos are done by AI these days and are therefore fact-free drivel.
December 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Just seen a ‘Monsters Size Comparison’ video and stopped quite early on when it suggested that a bronze Dalek - famously the same height as Billie Piper - was 6’6”.
Presumably all such size comparison videos are done by AI these days and are therefore fact-free drivel.
Presumably all such size comparison videos are done by AI these days and are therefore fact-free drivel.
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
December 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
I must say I’m loving Wikipedia’s new analysis of classic literature. It’s so helpful.
Here’s Christopher Isherwood’s Prater Violet for people who’ve not read it. Sorry, I meant BY people who’ve not read it.
Here’s Christopher Isherwood’s Prater Violet for people who’ve not read it. Sorry, I meant BY people who’ve not read it.
December 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I must say I’m loving Wikipedia’s new analysis of classic literature. It’s so helpful.
Here’s Christopher Isherwood’s Prater Violet for people who’ve not read it. Sorry, I meant BY people who’ve not read it.
Here’s Christopher Isherwood’s Prater Violet for people who’ve not read it. Sorry, I meant BY people who’ve not read it.
Reposted by Barnaby Edwards
This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙♀️🎄
December 11, 2024 at 2:40 AM
This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙♀️🎄
I’ve just found out about Iceland’s terrifying Yule Cat - Jólakötturinn - who looks in through house windows at Christmastime to see whether children have been good enough to be given new clothes as presents. If they haven’t, then the cat rips them to shreds and devours them. Happy Christmas, kids!
December 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I’ve just found out about Iceland’s terrifying Yule Cat - Jólakötturinn - who looks in through house windows at Christmastime to see whether children have been good enough to be given new clothes as presents. If they haven’t, then the cat rips them to shreds and devours them. Happy Christmas, kids!
Okay. I’m going to stop looking stuff up online. It’s getting too unreliable - AI inventing facts, Wikipedia being Wikipedia, Google deliberately making their search engine worse to get more ad clicks.
I have books. Lots of books. I shall use them instead.
I have books. Lots of books. I shall use them instead.
December 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Okay. I’m going to stop looking stuff up online. It’s getting too unreliable - AI inventing facts, Wikipedia being Wikipedia, Google deliberately making their search engine worse to get more ad clicks.
I have books. Lots of books. I shall use them instead.
I have books. Lots of books. I shall use them instead.
It’s a horrible day for news. So here’s something uplifting and precious instead. As we all know, Dick Van Dyke celebrated his 100th birthday over the weekend - what a man! - but here’s my favourite story about him. 🐬🐬🐬
www.theguardian.com/film/2010/no...
www.theguardian.com/film/2010/no...
Porpoises rescue Dick Van Dyke
Mary Poppins star feared death after apparently falling asleep on his surfboard but friendly sea creatures pushed him to shore
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It’s a horrible day for news. So here’s something uplifting and precious instead. As we all know, Dick Van Dyke celebrated his 100th birthday over the weekend - what a man! - but here’s my favourite story about him. 🐬🐬🐬
www.theguardian.com/film/2010/no...
www.theguardian.com/film/2010/no...
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Spoilers for War Between the Land and the Sea
December 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Spoilers for War Between the Land and the Sea
Just finished The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. What an astonishing piece of writing. It skewers the entirety of Western civilisation, takes it to its logical conclusion, destroys it and then offers a tiny atom of hope for the future. Perhaps even more relevant now than when it was written.
December 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Just finished The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. What an astonishing piece of writing. It skewers the entirety of Western civilisation, takes it to its logical conclusion, destroys it and then offers a tiny atom of hope for the future. Perhaps even more relevant now than when it was written.
Is it me or is it the ghastly new #iOS26? When I play any video (there’s a lovely one below), if I accidentally nudge it to the right by so much as a pixel, I lose all power to stop the video or get back to Bluesky. I have to exit the app and then reopen it. Does this happen to you too?
Christmas Ident Calendar Day 12. The first year of the BBC1 Balloon globe in 1997 but nowhere to be seen at Christmas. They went for a '12 Days Of Christmas' theme instead. Excluding the soap omnibuses, Men Behaving Badly was the most watched on Christmas Day with 16.34m.
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Is it me or is it the ghastly new #iOS26? When I play any video (there’s a lovely one below), if I accidentally nudge it to the right by so much as a pixel, I lose all power to stop the video or get back to Bluesky. I have to exit the app and then reopen it. Does this happen to you too?
Reposted by Barnaby Edwards
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
To absolutely nobody’s surprise, Nestlē products contain such poor quality ingredients that they can no longer be legally termed ‘chocolate’.
The company is claiming it can’t afford to pay the going rate for cocoa and for milk, despite making a profit of $49b last year.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The company is claiming it can’t afford to pay the going rate for cocoa and for milk, despite making a profit of $49b last year.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Toffee Crisp and Blue Riband can't be called chocolate any more
Nestle has used more vegetable oil in it recipes, meaning the treats no longer qualify as chocolate under UK law
www.bbc.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
To absolutely nobody’s surprise, Nestlē products contain such poor quality ingredients that they can no longer be legally termed ‘chocolate’.
The company is claiming it can’t afford to pay the going rate for cocoa and for milk, despite making a profit of $49b last year.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The company is claiming it can’t afford to pay the going rate for cocoa and for milk, despite making a profit of $49b last year.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
They stole a car, repainted it and passed it off as new. That’s all. There was nothing original or creative about ‘the process’.
And - worst of all - they have the gall to demand praise for inventing the petrol engine.
And - worst of all - they have the gall to demand praise for inventing the petrol engine.
The company behind the mcdonalds ad:
Imagine taking more time than it would take to do something traditionally. I bet it would take a builder longer to build a house out of jelly instead of brick, because jelly isn't brick.
Imagine taking more time than it would take to do something traditionally. I bet it would take a builder longer to build a house out of jelly instead of brick, because jelly isn't brick.
December 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
They stole a car, repainted it and passed it off as new. That’s all. There was nothing original or creative about ‘the process’.
And - worst of all - they have the gall to demand praise for inventing the petrol engine.
And - worst of all - they have the gall to demand praise for inventing the petrol engine.
Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised.
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon Is the World's Biggest Online Book Marketplace. It's Filled With AI Knockoffs
Authors say Amazon's knockoff book problem is leaving them frustrated — and making the internet worse in the process.
www.rollingstone.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised.
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...