Penny Kiley
@pennykiley.bsky.social
Oxford-based writer and editor, working mostly in digital and mostly for non-profits. Former music journo. Autistic. Memoir 'Atypical Girl' published by Polygon March 2026. https://linktr.ee/pennykiley
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No, we need to shut down the companies that generate them, destroy the industry, and salt the earth.
As deepfakes blur the line between truth and fiction, we’ll need a new class of forensic experts to determine what’s real, what’s fake and what can be proved in court
How digital forensics could prove what’s real in the age of deepfakes
As deepfakes blur the line between truth and fiction, we’ll need a new class of forensic experts to determine what’s real, what’s fake and what can be proved in court
www.scientificamerican.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:18 PM
No, we need to shut down the companies that generate them, destroy the industry, and salt the earth.
It’s 2026, and apparently it’s the “50th anniversary of punk”. There’s going to be a lot of Media Stuff about it this year, and most of it will be wrong. A People's History of Punk, fronted by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social, gets it right. Here's my review.
olderthanelvis.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-pe...
olderthanelvis.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-pe...
A People's History of Punk: radio review
A review of Chris Packham's BBC radio series A People's History of Punk
olderthanelvis.blogspot.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:53 PM
It’s 2026, and apparently it’s the “50th anniversary of punk”. There’s going to be a lot of Media Stuff about it this year, and most of it will be wrong. A People's History of Punk, fronted by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social, gets it right. Here's my review.
olderthanelvis.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-pe...
olderthanelvis.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-pe...
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"There’s a soulfulness to country music that can elude you if you just look at the big picture." Emmylou is right. Listen to the good stuff, not the "corny" stuff.
Today's Film & Music cover! My interview with the incomparable Emmylou Harris: we talked about dogs, Gram Parson, Dolly, Pete Seeger, the strain of writing a memoir and why she's embarking on her European farewell tour. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
‘There’s serendipity to my story’: Emmylou Harris on Gram Parsons, her garlanded career – and her dog rescue centre
Ahead of her final European tour, the US songwriter discusses her unlikely life as a country star, seeking advice from Pete Seeger – and why retirement isn’t on the cards just yet
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:38 AM
"There’s a soulfulness to country music that can elude you if you just look at the big picture." Emmylou is right. Listen to the good stuff, not the "corny" stuff.
This just arrived. Excited.
January 22, 2026 at 10:21 AM
This just arrived. Excited.
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I have a PhD in Creative Writing and I can’t see the point of AI.
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
January 21, 2026 at 9:46 PM
I have a PhD in Creative Writing and I can’t see the point of AI.
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One thing I've learned from having a family member in the forestry business is that trees explode a lot more often than you'd think.
I've lived in Minnesota my whole life and have experienced some major cold snaps but this is the first time I've heard about exploding trees.
January 21, 2026 at 9:45 PM
One thing I've learned from having a family member in the forestry business is that trees explode a lot more often than you'd think.
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One of them, SURELY there had to be one who has the tiniest bit of self-awareness to think ‘I’m not the right person for this’.
Rob Brydon becomes a children's author
Rob Brydon becomes a children's author
Picture book based on the exploits of his own family cat
dlvr.it
January 21, 2026 at 1:56 PM
One of them, SURELY there had to be one who has the tiniest bit of self-awareness to think ‘I’m not the right person for this’.
I was reading it on the train today. Re-reading, please note.
When you see someone reading Leonard and Hungry Paul on the train…
January 20, 2026 at 10:05 PM
I was reading it on the train today. Re-reading, please note.
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Here's a playlist of seven great versions of Roadrunner going back to 1972. Roadrunner Thrice is a particular fave
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
And this article by @ladymissbarton.bsky.social about "rock's most thrilling song" is a fantastic read (THREAD)
👀 www.theguardian.com/music/2007/j...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
And this article by @ladymissbarton.bsky.social about "rock's most thrilling song" is a fantastic read (THREAD)
👀 www.theguardian.com/music/2007/j...
Roadrunner - Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers - YouTube
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May 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Here's a playlist of seven great versions of Roadrunner going back to 1972. Roadrunner Thrice is a particular fave
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
And this article by @ladymissbarton.bsky.social about "rock's most thrilling song" is a fantastic read (THREAD)
👀 www.theguardian.com/music/2007/j...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
And this article by @ladymissbarton.bsky.social about "rock's most thrilling song" is a fantastic read (THREAD)
👀 www.theguardian.com/music/2007/j...
Today's Nice Thing. A fabulous building.
#BlueMonday
The wonderful #Liverpool Catholic (metropolitan) cathedral. Designed in 1959. You can feel the 1950s vibe.
#CeilingsonSunday
The wonderful #Liverpool Catholic (metropolitan) cathedral. Designed in 1959. You can feel the 1950s vibe.
#CeilingsonSunday
January 19, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Today's Nice Thing. A fabulous building.
And a very nice blurb too!
Three read for the first time and blurbed , one returned to, one just begun - it has been a reading weekend
January 18, 2026 at 10:10 PM
And a very nice blurb too!
Today's Nice Thing.
January 16, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Today's Nice Thing.
Great bit of advertising placement on the @snopes.com website.
January 16, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Great bit of advertising placement on the @snopes.com website.
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Book people/Kent people: due to my own idiocy I have 3 tickets to see the author Andrew Miller at Faversham Literary Festival at 1pm on Fri 20 Feb. If you would like one, please contact me. They’re £12.50 each but will take whatever you can afford www.favershamliteraryfestival.org/2026/events/...
Andrew Miller
Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize and winner of the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Andrew Miller's novel The Land In Winter, set in a remote English community during the big...
www.favershamliteraryfestival.org
January 16, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Book people/Kent people: due to my own idiocy I have 3 tickets to see the author Andrew Miller at Faversham Literary Festival at 1pm on Fri 20 Feb. If you would like one, please contact me. They’re £12.50 each but will take whatever you can afford www.favershamliteraryfestival.org/2026/events/...
Hahahahaha
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X has stopped working
www.independent.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Hahahahaha
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Similarly, I’ve never asked my fucking dishwasher.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
January 16, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Similarly, I’ve never asked my fucking dishwasher.
A key to all this is "the media enjoying the story". They have to take a lot of responsibility for the rise of Reform. BBC News trailed an interview with Jenrick this morning as if it was some kind of journalistic coup and not just PR for him.
It's now received wisdom that Farage is taking on too many Tories. But is that really the case: especially when you remember that what he really wants to do is not differentiate from them, but to take their place. My piece on the Jenrick defection.
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/jenrick-wa...
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/jenrick-wa...
Jenrick wants to be Vance. He can't be.
What the defection tells us about the fight for the right.
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:44 PM
A key to all this is "the media enjoying the story". They have to take a lot of responsibility for the rise of Reform. BBC News trailed an interview with Jenrick this morning as if it was some kind of journalistic coup and not just PR for him.
It's awful. @metoffice.gov.uk please make it stop.
Note to UK weather app users. Please time travel back to yesterday and stop your Met Office app from updating. It has dropped the single-screen view and clear design in favour of a long-scroll monstrosity which looks like every other shitty overcrowded weather app. WITH ADS.
January 16, 2026 at 2:16 PM
It's awful. @metoffice.gov.uk please make it stop.
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"I was a toilet cleaner, then five minutes later I’m trashing a guitar on stage and girls find me attractive."
So many great lines in this.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
So many great lines in this.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
‘We wouldn’t still be playing if we’d got stinking rich’: the Damned celebrate 50 years of punk, goth and holy grail hunting
An appetite for self-destruction left Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies hugely influential but financially insecure. They’re back with a big show and their first album together since 1995
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:04 PM
"I was a toilet cleaner, then five minutes later I’m trashing a guitar on stage and girls find me attractive."
So many great lines in this.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
So many great lines in this.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
Been reading an acclaimed recent literary novel. It was OK until I got to this throwaway sentence about an #autistic person.
Ignorant, stereotyped and using outdated language. Thoughtless, and pointless too as it didn't affect the narrative.
You can go off people.
Ignorant, stereotyped and using outdated language. Thoughtless, and pointless too as it didn't affect the narrative.
You can go off people.
January 16, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Been reading an acclaimed recent literary novel. It was OK until I got to this throwaway sentence about an #autistic person.
Ignorant, stereotyped and using outdated language. Thoughtless, and pointless too as it didn't affect the narrative.
You can go off people.
Ignorant, stereotyped and using outdated language. Thoughtless, and pointless too as it didn't affect the narrative.
You can go off people.
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Flying to Minneapolis tomorrow to cover the ICE raids for News Agents, what is unfolding and the politics which flows from it. If you’re there or know the city and know people/organisations we should be speaking to, please get in touch.
DMs open.
DMs open.
January 15, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Flying to Minneapolis tomorrow to cover the ICE raids for News Agents, what is unfolding and the politics which flows from it. If you’re there or know the city and know people/organisations we should be speaking to, please get in touch.
DMs open.
DMs open.
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This is our part in the fight against fascism. We don't have to put up with the dishonesty in our media and politics that is tearing us apart. The great news is that there is plenty we can do. Please join us.
Anyone up for "an open, intelligent conversation about how political deception has shaped our democracy... and what we can do to restore honesty, #accountability and #trust"? @mikebernerslee.bsky.social and Jennifer Nadel will be at The North Wall Oxford Jan 27 & the Kenton Theatre, Henley, Jan 28
January 14, 2026 at 1:55 PM
This is our part in the fight against fascism. We don't have to put up with the dishonesty in our media and politics that is tearing us apart. The great news is that there is plenty we can do. Please join us.
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I think this is important, statistically speaking a large number of Barbies have been left undiagnosed because of what are seen as feminine special interests like horses, beauty, and being a mermaid.
January 15, 2026 at 11:27 AM
I think this is important, statistically speaking a large number of Barbies have been left undiagnosed because of what are seen as feminine special interests like horses, beauty, and being a mermaid.