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This from the BBC will have John Arlott off-spinning in his grave: “England's pace bowling attack was supposed to provide new hope of winning in Australia. Luke Skywalker would have been better at holding a line and length.”
January 5, 2026 at 10:48 AM
This from the BBC will have John Arlott off-spinning in his grave: “England's pace bowling attack was supposed to provide new hope of winning in Australia. Luke Skywalker would have been better at holding a line and length.”
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The trouble with a visionary artist being a massive arsehole is that too often we give them a pass for their terrible views due to the overwhelming cultural heft of their body of work and their creative genius and this is clearly the case with Biggins.
December 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The trouble with a visionary artist being a massive arsehole is that too often we give them a pass for their terrible views due to the overwhelming cultural heft of their body of work and their creative genius and this is clearly the case with Biggins.
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Reminded of the immortal letter from Nöel Coward to Rebecca West when the Nazi round-up-and-execute list for their planned invasion was published, "...my dear, the *people* we'd have been seen dead with".
Thinking of the actor Ernest Thesiger, who, when asked what it had been like in the trenches of World War One, replied "my dear, the noise! And the PEOPLE!"
December 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Reminded of the immortal letter from Nöel Coward to Rebecca West when the Nazi round-up-and-execute list for their planned invasion was published, "...my dear, the *people* we'd have been seen dead with".
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yeah I would love to see the polls after say a month of the greens and lib dems getting as much airtime as reform do
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 33% (-1)
LAB: 17% (+1)
LDM: 16% (+3)
CON: 14% (-2)
GRN: 12% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 24 Sep.
Changes w/ 17 Sep.
RFM: 33% (-1)
LAB: 17% (+1)
LDM: 16% (+3)
CON: 14% (-2)
GRN: 12% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 24 Sep.
Changes w/ 17 Sep.
September 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
yeah I would love to see the polls after say a month of the greens and lib dems getting as much airtime as reform do
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This also happened at the Tarkovsky retrospective when they had the wrong aspect ratio for Andrei Rublev
Delightful to see Tommy Ten Names' Stone Island Guild sweep through BFI Southbank today. I'm sure this was integral to having a dump.
September 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This also happened at the Tarkovsky retrospective when they had the wrong aspect ratio for Andrei Rublev
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god I hate this I hate this I hate it I hate it, I hate that the mainstream right has gone this mad and racist and radicalised, I hate that no one seems to know how to stop it from getting worse, it worries me so much and I hate it all
August 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
god I hate this I hate this I hate it I hate it, I hate that the mainstream right has gone this mad and racist and radicalised, I hate that no one seems to know how to stop it from getting worse, it worries me so much and I hate it all
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Imagine writing this sentence. *MY HATRED OF MYTHBUSTING*???
August 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Imagine writing this sentence. *MY HATRED OF MYTHBUSTING*???
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Margaret Boden, a British philosopher and cognitive scientist who used the language of computers to explore the nature of thought and creativity, leading her to prescient insights about the possibilities and limitations of artificial intelligence, died last month at 88.
Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
A cognitive scientist, she used the language of computers to explore the nature of human thought and creativity, offering prescient insights about A.I.
nyti.ms
August 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Margaret Boden, a British philosopher and cognitive scientist who used the language of computers to explore the nature of thought and creativity, leading her to prescient insights about the possibilities and limitations of artificial intelligence, died last month at 88.
FFS, Crawley!
(I’m on a train with patchy coverage so just getting this done now.)
(I’m on a train with patchy coverage so just getting this done now.)
July 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
FFS, Crawley!
(I’m on a train with patchy coverage so just getting this done now.)
(I’m on a train with patchy coverage so just getting this done now.)
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9. A 'Life Coach' is a ridiculous proposition. Taking fundamental life advice from someone who's own life is has amounted to them being a Life Coach is not a sensible move.
July 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
9. A 'Life Coach' is a ridiculous proposition. Taking fundamental life advice from someone who's own life is has amounted to them being a Life Coach is not a sensible move.
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The Kickstarter for the beautiful printed collection of @dickon-edwards.bsky.social diaries (vol. I) is now LIVE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/435... You can possess this beautiful object, read his words of wisdom and get some lovely postcards, too!
Dickon Edwards: Diary at the Centre of the Earth. Vol. 1
Bringing Dickon's celebrated diary to print: a long-overdue literary misadventure.
www.kickstarter.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The Kickstarter for the beautiful printed collection of @dickon-edwards.bsky.social diaries (vol. I) is now LIVE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/435... You can possess this beautiful object, read his words of wisdom and get some lovely postcards, too!
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Swish to see you can still get a knighthood after taking millions from a state that imprisons and executes gay men. Time really does wipe the slate entirely clean. Because he said that funny thing about his wife’s dad driving a Rolls Royce. #GreatGuy
June 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Swish to see you can still get a knighthood after taking millions from a state that imprisons and executes gay men. Time really does wipe the slate entirely clean. Because he said that funny thing about his wife’s dad driving a Rolls Royce. #GreatGuy
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Again, I cannot express how little I expected someone would usurp my position as "guy who takes ketamine in the company of a president".
May 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Again, I cannot express how little I expected someone would usurp my position as "guy who takes ketamine in the company of a president".
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A 53-year-old man losing his job, much of which he spent arguing about whether he was good at video games, in front of the world's television cameras, with a black eye, a string of failed marriages, and a very public ketamine habit.
This guy used to be cited in quotation dictionaries.
This guy used to be cited in quotation dictionaries.
May 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
A 53-year-old man losing his job, much of which he spent arguing about whether he was good at video games, in front of the world's television cameras, with a black eye, a string of failed marriages, and a very public ketamine habit.
This guy used to be cited in quotation dictionaries.
This guy used to be cited in quotation dictionaries.
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I fled the country before the repercussions could repercuss.
May 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I fled the country before the repercussions could repercuss.
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“Sorry I said all those slurs in response to someone making fun of my car, in my defense I was drunk driving” is a @dril.bsky.social post come to life
a guy was getting heckled bc he was driving his company cybertruck so he did a tesla salute (sieg heil) at them and said a bunch of gay slurs. anyway his apology is awesome
May 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“Sorry I said all those slurs in response to someone making fun of my car, in my defense I was drunk driving” is a @dril.bsky.social post come to life
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A certain way of assessing the racism of a news outlet is to see if their top headline about the Notting Hill Carnival is the number of arrests.
April 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A certain way of assessing the racism of a news outlet is to see if their top headline about the Notting Hill Carnival is the number of arrests.
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"relax, it's just for a stock photo - they'll probably use it for a new herbal tea brand or something"
April 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
"relax, it's just for a stock photo - they'll probably use it for a new herbal tea brand or something"
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white smoke emanates from a wetherspoons indicating that a new archbishop of banterbury has been appointed
April 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
white smoke emanates from a wetherspoons indicating that a new archbishop of banterbury has been appointed
Some clarification on who was doing the torturing may have been helpful here…
April 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Some clarification on who was doing the torturing may have been helpful here…
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Just saw a white guy with dreadlocks crash his unicycle. It’s the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me
June 25, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Just saw a white guy with dreadlocks crash his unicycle. It’s the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me
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One of my proudest achievements: working as a volunteer at the Tate, organising and preserving their paper files, I rediscovered the instructions Rothko wrote for how the Seagram Murals should be displayed, including a scrap of paper painted with the required wall colour. Yes, that grey 👇
To Tate Modern this morning, to see their newest acquisition and talk to Jorge and Darlene Perez, who donated it. “Iva” by Joan Mitchell. Now face to face with Rothko’s Seagram paintings and deep in conversation with them. On tonight’s Front Row.
April 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
One of my proudest achievements: working as a volunteer at the Tate, organising and preserving their paper files, I rediscovered the instructions Rothko wrote for how the Seagram Murals should be displayed, including a scrap of paper painted with the required wall colour. Yes, that grey 👇
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the problem with Tim Stanley is he can say anything and all I can think of is this load-bearing tweet
April 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
the problem with Tim Stanley is he can say anything and all I can think of is this load-bearing tweet
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Yep, battered women are such rich comic fodder, aren’t they
Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
April 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Yep, battered women are such rich comic fodder, aren’t they
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Swipe right on Timber.
March 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Swipe right on Timber.