Brian Edwards
@brianftang.bsky.social
Novelist, playwright, webmonkey, T1 diabetic. Fiction represented by David Grossman Literary Agency.
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I never noticed this either.
February 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I never noticed this either.
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Throwback to something worth repeating.
February 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Throwback to something worth repeating.
Love the BFI in its physical venue form and the online player version. Proud subscriber to both. Looking for something unusual and fun to watch at home this evening. The most popular title at the moment? A four hour long documentary about a French restaurant. No. I’m clearly a pretend film pseud.
February 7, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Love the BFI in its physical venue form and the online player version. Proud subscriber to both. Looking for something unusual and fun to watch at home this evening. The most popular title at the moment? A four hour long documentary about a French restaurant. No. I’m clearly a pretend film pseud.
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My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
February 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
Sybil Ruscoe is now the Farming & Countryside Advisor on The Archers. True fact.
February 6, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Sybil Ruscoe is now the Farming & Countryside Advisor on The Archers. True fact.
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If Doctor Who are giving old cast members another go then rather than continually wheeling out people from the Tenant era they should give Paul McGann a proper go. He'd be really good given some decent scripts.
February 5, 2026 at 11:55 PM
If Doctor Who are giving old cast members another go then rather than continually wheeling out people from the Tenant era they should give Paul McGann a proper go. He'd be really good given some decent scripts.
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Horror story in four words. I've done it.
Musk buys The Beatles
Musk buys The Beatles
February 4, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Horror story in four words. I've done it.
Musk buys The Beatles
Musk buys The Beatles
Coming to this photo with no other context other than thinking “what has he done now?” Can’t actually be bothered to find out.
February 4, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Coming to this photo with no other context other than thinking “what has he done now?” Can’t actually be bothered to find out.
Emma Siddi is in the writing/cast of the UK version of SNL. Which gives me hope for the first time. Because she is ace.
February 4, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Emma Siddi is in the writing/cast of the UK version of SNL. Which gives me hope for the first time. Because she is ace.
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TIL the original monolith created for 2001: A Space Odyssey is above a cashpoint near Tower Bridge maps.app.goo.gl/dnMyAc7kHGKQ...
(Kubrick decided against perspex, later Arthur Fleischmann sculpted it for the Silver Jubilee)
(Kubrick decided against perspex, later Arthur Fleischmann sculpted it for the Silver Jubilee)
February 3, 2026 at 5:29 PM
TIL the original monolith created for 2001: A Space Odyssey is above a cashpoint near Tower Bridge maps.app.goo.gl/dnMyAc7kHGKQ...
(Kubrick decided against perspex, later Arthur Fleischmann sculpted it for the Silver Jubilee)
(Kubrick decided against perspex, later Arthur Fleischmann sculpted it for the Silver Jubilee)
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Wow, nearly sixteen years ago since I was bored at work one day and did this in Windows Movie Maker.
youtu.be/aq0zxmL6jjI
youtu.be/aq0zxmL6jjI
Groundhog Day thriller spoof trailer
YouTube video by Joe Scaramanga
youtu.be
February 2, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Wow, nearly sixteen years ago since I was bored at work one day and did this in Windows Movie Maker.
youtu.be/aq0zxmL6jjI
youtu.be/aq0zxmL6jjI
New Zealanders normally laugh when I tell them my name is Brian Edwards, because apparently he basically is their Terry Wogan.
February 2, 2026 at 1:59 PM
New Zealanders normally laugh when I tell them my name is Brian Edwards, because apparently he basically is their Terry Wogan.
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My Wogan story - It was my first day of work at BBC Broadcasting House, I was 19 & quite nervous. I passed Wogan on the stairs & he gave me a cherry "Morning"
Later that week he stopped me & asked how I was getting on, which was lovely of him because he didn't know me at all.
A class act.
Later that week he stopped me & asked how I was getting on, which was lovely of him because he didn't know me at all.
A class act.
10 years since we lost the great Terry Wogan who, if you didn't know, was the first person to play reggae music on mainstream radio in the UK. I mentioned him in this piece about Dawn Penn's No No No for the @thequietus.com a couple of years back thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
January 31, 2026 at 12:33 PM
My Wogan story - It was my first day of work at BBC Broadcasting House, I was 19 & quite nervous. I passed Wogan on the stairs & he gave me a cherry "Morning"
Later that week he stopped me & asked how I was getting on, which was lovely of him because he didn't know me at all.
A class act.
Later that week he stopped me & asked how I was getting on, which was lovely of him because he didn't know me at all.
A class act.
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I'm getting more than a little alarmed reading articles like this where the inventor behind it sounds so blissfully unaware of the consequences. "There's a few teething problems obviously. The android has to time travel naked but it can already ride a motorcycle"
January 31, 2026 at 12:08 PM
I'm getting more than a little alarmed reading articles like this where the inventor behind it sounds so blissfully unaware of the consequences. "There's a few teething problems obviously. The android has to time travel naked but it can already ride a motorcycle"
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I hate this. I hate that scholars and teachers are supposed to be digital fraud experts. I hate that this part of their job description is becoming larger and larger. I hate the widening distrust. I hate a culture that aggressively devalues the curiosity and humility required for ongoing learning.
New trick discovered today: an LLM-generated essay, saved as a PDF, with a tiny white space between each letter. This makes it impossible to paste quotes into a search engine, prevents text-matching in plagiarism checkers, & means URLs in bibliographies can't be clicked on. A lot of my time wasted.
January 30, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I hate this. I hate that scholars and teachers are supposed to be digital fraud experts. I hate that this part of their job description is becoming larger and larger. I hate the widening distrust. I hate a culture that aggressively devalues the curiosity and humility required for ongoing learning.
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Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Jim Pattison won't sell U.S. warehouse proposed as new ICE facility | CBC News
Jim Pattison Developments has announced it will not sell an industrial building in Ashland, Va., that was set to be turned into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility.
www.cbc.ca
January 30, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Really love this.
January 30, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Really love this.
I genuinely love the classification “possible film” - because that might also mean it’s a proper long form documentary about something unexpected. Good work @robmanuel.b3ta.com, thank you.
Do you want to know if you can watch a film on the BBC tonight?
IS THERE'S A FILM ON THE BBC AROUND 9PM TONIGHT?
A simple way to see if there’s a film on the BBC around 9pm tonight.
istheresafilmonthebbcaround9pmtonight.robmanuel.workers.dev
January 30, 2026 at 8:06 PM
I genuinely love the classification “possible film” - because that might also mean it’s a proper long form documentary about something unexpected. Good work @robmanuel.b3ta.com, thank you.
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Exeunt, leading Katherine.
January 30, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Exeunt, leading Katherine.
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Do you want to know if you can watch a film on the BBC tonight?
IS THERE'S A FILM ON THE BBC AROUND 9PM TONIGHT?
A simple way to see if there’s a film on the BBC around 9pm tonight.
istheresafilmonthebbcaround9pmtonight.robmanuel.workers.dev
January 30, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Do you want to know if you can watch a film on the BBC tonight?
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Finally we’ll see the story of how the nation of Aamerleda was founded
January 29, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Finally we’ll see the story of how the nation of Aamerleda was founded
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The Slop Heard Around The World 😑
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 6:40 PM
The Slop Heard Around The World 😑
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The first govt project I worked on was an initiative about reducing printed documentation, surely had a budget in the millions but that passed down from a big IT consultancy through a couple of companies until it got to me
I did the front-end work from my little flat in N Wales for around £500
I did the front-end work from my little flat in N Wales for around £500
January 29, 2026 at 12:49 PM
The first govt project I worked on was an initiative about reducing printed documentation, surely had a budget in the millions but that passed down from a big IT consultancy through a couple of companies until it got to me
I did the front-end work from my little flat in N Wales for around £500
I did the front-end work from my little flat in N Wales for around £500