Adrian Clark
@mradrianclark.bsky.social
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Born at 4th, League Division 4
Born at 4th, League Division 4
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A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
emptycity.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
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Six-and-a-half years ago, while researching something else at Caversham, I happened across a little fact and thought, "Oh, that's interesting, I must do something with that some day..."
Today is that day!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Today is that day!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Great Yarmouth Town's 'amazing' place in TV football history
How a small, non-league team became the first football club from Norfolk ever to appear in a live TV game.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Six-and-a-half years ago, while researching something else at Caversham, I happened across a little fact and thought, "Oh, that's interesting, I must do something with that some day..."
Today is that day!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Today is that day!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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One strange thing about the BBC/Trump row is that the programme in question was actually made by an independent production company. Yes, the BBC producers and Panorama’s editor should have checked everything before it was broadcast. But…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
One strange thing about the BBC/Trump row is that the programme in question was actually made by an independent production company. Yes, the BBC producers and Panorama’s editor should have checked everything before it was broadcast. But…
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Watch to the end
November 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Watch to the end
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I think there's been a bit too much focus and pandering to these people now. 'legitimate concerns' 'silent majority' 'both sides' etc. Fuck 'em. Never known such a bunch of absolute fucking arseholes playing the victim and demanding everyone dances to their fucking tune. Fight fire with fire.
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I think there's been a bit too much focus and pandering to these people now. 'legitimate concerns' 'silent majority' 'both sides' etc. Fuck 'em. Never known such a bunch of absolute fucking arseholes playing the victim and demanding everyone dances to their fucking tune. Fight fire with fire.
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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Happy birthday to Sesame Street, which began exactly 56 years ago on the NET network. Possibly the most important programme ever created by American television.
Such trippy pre-titles. It really is a product of the late sixties.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPMA...
Such trippy pre-titles. It really is a product of the late sixties.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPMA...
Sesame Street: Episode 0001 (HD) (1969)
YouTube video by Treble Gnocchi
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Happy birthday to Sesame Street, which began exactly 56 years ago on the NET network. Possibly the most important programme ever created by American television.
Such trippy pre-titles. It really is a product of the late sixties.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPMA...
Such trippy pre-titles. It really is a product of the late sixties.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPMA...
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This has been an earworm for as long as I can remember. The Pointer Sistets, no less.
youtu.be/HUL4T8WcFdA?...
youtu.be/HUL4T8WcFdA?...
Sesame Street - Pinball Number Count
YouTube video by herman13s
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This has been an earworm for as long as I can remember. The Pointer Sistets, no less.
youtu.be/HUL4T8WcFdA?...
youtu.be/HUL4T8WcFdA?...
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When I was on @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social I chose this sequence from a 1979 Sesame Street episode - probably the first time I ever heard Philip Glass was this exclusive piece he wrote for this animated sequence, Geometry of Circles. It's never appeared anywhere else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles.mp4
YouTube video by SamCam2011
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
When I was on @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social I chose this sequence from a 1979 Sesame Street episode - probably the first time I ever heard Philip Glass was this exclusive piece he wrote for this animated sequence, Geometry of Circles. It's never appeared anywhere else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
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I’m surprised Davie has resigned over that Panorama edit (seems like a bit of a nothingburger to me) but I’m glad he’s gone. On his watch the BBC simply gave up the ghost on factual documentary TV, and decided the best way to serve its audience was to patronise it.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I’m surprised Davie has resigned over that Panorama edit (seems like a bit of a nothingburger to me) but I’m glad he’s gone. On his watch the BBC simply gave up the ghost on factual documentary TV, and decided the best way to serve its audience was to patronise it.
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Could we have a BBC DG again who has made a programme, please?
BREAKING: BBC has confirmed Tim Davie is to step down as BBC Director General
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Could we have a BBC DG again who has made a programme, please?
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The Great Enshittification continues: with audible simply removing loads of books from my library that I’ve paid for. Hundreds of bucks basically picked from my pocket
Fuck you, Bezos, you chrome-domed motherfucker. My last reason for using your hateful company just expired. Subscription cancelled
Fuck you, Bezos, you chrome-domed motherfucker. My last reason for using your hateful company just expired. Subscription cancelled
November 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The Great Enshittification continues: with audible simply removing loads of books from my library that I’ve paid for. Hundreds of bucks basically picked from my pocket
Fuck you, Bezos, you chrome-domed motherfucker. My last reason for using your hateful company just expired. Subscription cancelled
Fuck you, Bezos, you chrome-domed motherfucker. My last reason for using your hateful company just expired. Subscription cancelled
This is great, appropriately haunting and unsettling. I didn't know about the two types of Field Punishment (Wikipedia can help you).
My great-grandad was a piano tuner from Huddersfield. He was conscripted into the army during the First World War, and had an awful time. After I found out a bit about what he went through, I wrote a short story. I thought today might be a good day to share it. richarddsmyth.com/2025/11/09/n...
New short story: ‘FP Number Two’
The sky shivers with fever and there are devils on the roofs of the public houses.
richarddsmyth.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This is great, appropriately haunting and unsettling. I didn't know about the two types of Field Punishment (Wikipedia can help you).
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My textcast - where you read it, but there's also an accompanying playlist - is BACK. Some remarkable choices from @joannawyld.bsky.social that were new to me. Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Thank you. #FirstLastAnything
NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 32: We are back each Sunday, till Christmas, and my guest today - versatile and fascinating music writer and musician Joanna Wyld (@joannawyld.bsky.social) - talks about bellringing, Queen, liner notes, Molly Drake and much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/09/f...
FLA 32: Joanna Wyld (09/11/2025)
Of all the guests I’ve had on First Last Anything so far, Kent-born Joanna Wyld might have worn the most musical hats. Writer, musician, composer, librettist, teacher and administrator, she’s playe…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
My textcast - where you read it, but there's also an accompanying playlist - is BACK. Some remarkable choices from @joannawyld.bsky.social that were new to me. Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Thank you. #FirstLastAnything
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
"Spare a couple of quid mate? I need to get a taxi to the nearest branch of my bank because I've lost my phone with all my banking stuff on it, and I can't get into my car because... "
Ford wants you to stash it in your belt buckle, but there’s absolutely no need to be lugging around a bulky fob. Trouble is, phone-as-a-key tech could be superseded before it even gets going. www.wired.com/story/why-ar...
Why Are We All Still Carrying Around Car Keys?
Ford wants you to stash it in your belt buckle, but there’s absolutely no need to be lugging around a bulky fob. Trouble is, phone-as-a-key tech could be superseded before it even gets going.
www.wired.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Spare a couple of quid mate? I need to get a taxi to the nearest branch of my bank because I've lost my phone with all my banking stuff on it, and I can't get into my car because... "
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congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
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OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Hello yes I was wondering how I can apply to be increasingly isolated at a royal lodge, please? I assume I can bring my own books and cats?
November 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Hello yes I was wondering how I can apply to be increasingly isolated at a royal lodge, please? I assume I can bring my own books and cats?
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ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky.
Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock.
CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.
Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock.
CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.
ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky
The talks focus on ITV's Media and Entertainment division, which include its TV channels as well as its streaming service, ITV X.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky.
Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock.
CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.
Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock.
CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.
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WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
As a person with quite erratic handwriting, requiring concentration and a favourable wind to write neatly, I'm going to suggest that Guy Fawkes just got lucky the first time round.
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
As a person with quite erratic handwriting, requiring concentration and a favourable wind to write neatly, I'm going to suggest that Guy Fawkes just got lucky the first time round.
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Exactly 50 yrs ago tonight, the Sex Pistols' first gig, supporting Bazooka Joe at St Martin's College of Art.
Bazooka Joe's frontman was Stuart Goddard (later Adam Ant), but also in the group were Danny Kleinman (later director of Smashie & Nicey - End of an Era) and backing singer Arabella Weir.
Bazooka Joe's frontman was Stuart Goddard (later Adam Ant), but also in the group were Danny Kleinman (later director of Smashie & Nicey - End of an Era) and backing singer Arabella Weir.
November 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Exactly 50 yrs ago tonight, the Sex Pistols' first gig, supporting Bazooka Joe at St Martin's College of Art.
Bazooka Joe's frontman was Stuart Goddard (later Adam Ant), but also in the group were Danny Kleinman (later director of Smashie & Nicey - End of an Era) and backing singer Arabella Weir.
Bazooka Joe's frontman was Stuart Goddard (later Adam Ant), but also in the group were Danny Kleinman (later director of Smashie & Nicey - End of an Era) and backing singer Arabella Weir.
I regularly walk along a chunk of Stane Street (now a chalky dirt track roughly between Epsom and Dorking) and it's always impressive to think how old that route is.
We love how this new fabulous resource has been greeted by everyone looking up their local Roman road or site and asking us why it isn't on the map.
It's not our map, people. We just produce banging social media content. We don't make maps. 🙄
It's not our map, people. We just produce banging social media content. We don't make maps. 🙄
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I regularly walk along a chunk of Stane Street (now a chalky dirt track roughly between Epsom and Dorking) and it's always impressive to think how old that route is.