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I’d like to play a game on here that my pals & I thought up years ago (it may have existed in some form but we weren’t aware of it). Before I try to encourage you to play, here’s how it came about:

When house sharing, being often intoxicated we did a lot of ‘riffing’ as friends do…
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In a discussion on increasing defence spending Mordaunt boasts about all the aid the British military has delivered to Gaza

James Schneider: "The RAF has also flown more surveillance flights over Gaza so Israel can obliterate it than even the Israeli air force or the US air force"
March 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
I had a great English teacher at high school, but I can’t help feel if I’d had Susie Dent, I’d have emerged with a little more linguistic sass to go with my better-than-expected GCSE grade.
November 22, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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[noticing a group of people having a nice time at the park] enjoy your echo chamber
November 18, 2024 at 4:03 AM
The unbridled joy I felt when I coincidentally saw this man, Marcel, who taught me #BSL, signing on-screen on Platform 1 at Wakefield station.
November 14, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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Had the honour of hosting a panel at Soho Theatre where we were reflecting on Playwriting Prizes and their role in the wider ecology...

Check it out here...

@suzbelldramaturg.bsky.social

www.thestage.co.uk/news/theatre...
Theatres need 'thriving' literary departments not just writing prizes – bosses
Theatres must maintain thriving literary departments and welcome unsolicited commissions in a new-writing landscape that increasingly relies on prizes, leaders of playwriting awards have claimed
www.thestage.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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google spreadsheet for black artists and theatre professionals to put their name to which was created on twitter when it was a nicer place.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Black artists & creatives open source list
docs.google.com
November 13, 2024 at 8:16 PM
I’d like to play a game on here that my pals & I thought up years ago (it may have existed in some form but we weren’t aware of it). Before I try to encourage you to play, here’s how it came about:

When house sharing, being often intoxicated we did a lot of ‘riffing’ as friends do…
November 14, 2024 at 10:31 AM
@bsky.app hey, am I missing something or is there no bookmark / save for later feature? thank you!
November 13, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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Couple of highlights from the @suttontrust.bsky.social new report 'A Class Act: Social mobility and the creative industries' www.suttontrust.com/our-research...
I'll focus on Higher Education (which @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social & I worked on)
November 13, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Nobody has been able to answer this on any other platform on which I’ve posted it - why is a time travelling younger Johnny Vaughn in the opening credits to #Sherwood episode 1?
November 12, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Such a tragedy that the tips on starting out here included “(re)post your best tweets to generate some initial content & liven up your account” and I couldn’t find a single one since 2011 that felt right
November 12, 2024 at 5:28 PM