Stuart Douglas
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Stuart Douglas
@stuartdouglas.com
· Jul 30
I have three novels to write, all different styles, and I'm worried they bleed into each other, as would whatever I'm reading - but none of them are SF, so I'm going to read the EDAs from the start, as a palette cleanser as I go along.
First up - the 8 Docs, which I remember as being shite.
First up - the 8 Docs, which I remember as being shite.
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Watch anything filmed in London in the '70s. It looks like a bombsite they've tried to camouflage by spraying it all with soot from a hose and then dumping rubbish all over it.
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Watch anything filmed in London in the '70s. It looks like a bombsite they've tried to camouflage by spraying it all with soot from a hose and then dumping rubbish all over it.
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"You wouldn't know him, he goes to another paedophile's island"
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"You wouldn't know him, he goes to another paedophile's island"
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being racist to defend a paedophile might be a new low for a man who has been plumbing record depths for the better part of a decade
(the scored out word is ‘nonce’, not sure who did that but it’s not on Linehan’s original post)
(the scored out word is ‘nonce’, not sure who did that but it’s not on Linehan’s original post)
im not on the nazi app. screenshot is from a forum i use.
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
being racist to defend a paedophile might be a new low for a man who has been plumbing record depths for the better part of a decade
(the scored out word is ‘nonce’, not sure who did that but it’s not on Linehan’s original post)
(the scored out word is ‘nonce’, not sure who did that but it’s not on Linehan’s original post)
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In a shocking trove of emails released by House Democrats, Jeffrey Epstein alleged that President Trump “spent hours” at his home with a victim and “knew about the girls.”
Epstein: Trump knew
In a shocking trove of emails released by House Democrats, Jeffrey Epstein alleged that President Trump "spent hours" at his home with a victim and "knew about the girls."
www.motherjones.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
In a shocking trove of emails released by House Democrats, Jeffrey Epstein alleged that President Trump “spent hours” at his home with a victim and “knew about the girls.”
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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No, using AI generated stuff as a "placeholder" on your crowdfunding campaign is not OK either.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
No, using AI generated stuff as a "placeholder" on your crowdfunding campaign is not OK either.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
Recent records listened to...
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Recent records listened to...
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
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Sorry to hear the BBC forced loads of mad Trump lads to invade the Capital Building and try and kill Mike Pence.
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Sorry to hear the BBC forced loads of mad Trump lads to invade the Capital Building and try and kill Mike Pence.
The first Obverse Books Doctor Who Non-Fiction Bundle!
The perfect Christmas* gift for the Doctor Who fan in your family!
* I know, it's only November, but if @marksandspencers.bsky.social can do it...
DOWNTIME by Dylan Rees
THE ANNUAL YEARS by @paulmagrs.bsky.social
RADIOPHONIC TIMES by Peter Howell
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* I know, it's only November, but if @marksandspencers.bsky.social can do it...
DOWNTIME by Dylan Rees
THE ANNUAL YEARS by @paulmagrs.bsky.social
RADIOPHONIC TIMES by Peter Howell
obversebooks.co.uk/product/doct...
Doctor Who Non Fiction Bundle – Obverse Books
obversebooks.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The first Obverse Books Doctor Who Non-Fiction Bundle!
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Tim Davie resigning from the BBC over the edited Trump video is like Al Capone being jailed for tax evasion: sometimes the right thing happens for the wrong reason.
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Tim Davie resigning from the BBC over the edited Trump video is like Al Capone being jailed for tax evasion: sometimes the right thing happens for the wrong reason.
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Derek McInnes admitted Hearts missed Beni Baningime and expressed frustration at the stoppage time.
🗣️ "If that was Rangers or Celtic at the top of the league, rest assured, there'd be six, seven, eight minutes gone up there. That's a fact."
🗣️ "If that was Rangers or Celtic at the top of the league, rest assured, there'd be six, seven, eight minutes gone up there. That's a fact."
Derek McInnes reveals Beni Baningime timeline and frustration over stoppage time
Derek McInnes admitted that Hearts didn't deserve more than a point in the 1-1 draw with Dundee United.
www.heartsstandard.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Derek McInnes admitted Hearts missed Beni Baningime and expressed frustration at the stoppage time.
🗣️ "If that was Rangers or Celtic at the top of the league, rest assured, there'd be six, seven, eight minutes gone up there. That's a fact."
🗣️ "If that was Rangers or Celtic at the top of the league, rest assured, there'd be six, seven, eight minutes gone up there. That's a fact."
Is it true that Beni is out for two months, @heartsstandard.bsky.social #hmfc
November 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Is it true that Beni is out for two months, @heartsstandard.bsky.social #hmfc
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I recall around 1990 an elderly supply teacher explaining to my class what war is actually like, macho mythology aside. The sound bullets make. Men crying for their mummys as they die on the battlefield. It's haunted me ever since, and certainly played a role in politicising me.
As a teen or young adult in the 1990s you had constant encounters with people in their 50s-80s who were combatants, victims or perpetrators during catastrophes of the mid-20th century
That direct link to realities of Nazism and other forms of oppression such as Stalinism or colonialism is now gone
That direct link to realities of Nazism and other forms of oppression such as Stalinism or colonialism is now gone
November 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I recall around 1990 an elderly supply teacher explaining to my class what war is actually like, macho mythology aside. The sound bullets make. Men crying for their mummys as they die on the battlefield. It's haunted me ever since, and certainly played a role in politicising me.
There are some very bad-tempered American Janet Jackson fans on here.
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
There are some very bad-tempered American Janet Jackson fans on here.
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
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Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
I assume Janet Jackson is much bigger in the States than in the UK, because of the idea of voting for Just Another Jackson over one of the 20th century's greatest bands seems insane to me.
The Best Album of 1989 Round 4 Match #115
#4 The Cure, DISINTEGRATION
vs.
#13 Janet Jackson, JANET JACKSON'S RHYTHM NATION 1814
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#4 The Cure, DISINTEGRATION
vs.
#13 Janet Jackson, JANET JACKSON'S RHYTHM NATION 1814
forms.gle/6JdeijC5ttNQ...
The Best Album of 1989 Round 4 Match #115: The Cure vs. Janet Jackson
This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Friday, November 7th, 9am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will move onto Round 5 (Top 8) of the bracket. If you haven’t heard either album, I...
forms.gle
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I assume Janet Jackson is much bigger in the States than in the UK, because of the idea of voting for Just Another Jackson over one of the 20th century's greatest bands seems insane to me.
Weird how hard Infantino tries to make us all think better of Sepp Blatter.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
We love football because of moments like Van de Ven’s goal, not the Fifa Peace Prize | Max Rushden
Gianni Infantino has a new idea, and like most of his ideas it’s not one many are going to like, except maybe Donald Trump
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Weird how hard Infantino tries to make us all think better of Sepp Blatter.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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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...