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RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Solid business advice!
If you enjoy warm knitwear, this is an absolute bargain - men's large, 100% cashmere. ebay.us/m/VXXwrj
This is great, surely? A fantastic journalistic tool.
You can have it for a bob. Well, 99p. The #Bookish book is now a Kindle offer. www.amazon.co.uk/Bookish-warm...
Saturday girl in a newsagents, earning £1.30 an hour (in actual cash, in a brown paper wage packet):
One of the weirdnesses of TV series having been all kinds of lengths over the last few years is that I keep thinking I've seen the last episode, then another one appears in Next Up.
I'm white and middle class, and it still makes me look over my shoulder.
I can only imagine! Wishing you a happy new house and a MUCH more relaxing autumn.
The language of "illegal migration" is now entrenched, but will not illegal for asylum seekers to attempt small boat crossings until 2022, when the Conservative government changed the meaning of "illegal entry" in law This case was in 2021 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Mwah! Definitely a British indie movie.
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All now back in ORR custody: bsky.app/profile/anna...
Mondaying hard.
We've been a bit quiet for a while, but we've spent that time planning quite possibly the busiest season of work we've ever had! Read more about our plans for September onwards at www.chronicinsanity.co.uk/post/big-new...
Hooray - great news, Joe! 🙌
Update from ACE: applications for under £30k will re-open in mid-Sept, £30-100k "aiming for" end of September and DYCP not until late November. #ArtsCouncil
"Froglet is escaping containment - repeat, escaping containment!"
Instead of which, everything he's saying here can be read as affirmation of the riots. Hardly helps crowd control when people trying to burn down buildings can say "The Prime Minister doesn't want them here!".
Two things happening this summer: the Proms, one of the greatest things that the UK does culturally, all for free on the BBC, England women winning again, both things that the PM *actually likes* and are positive things about our country. Use them!
Latest update I've seen is this: bsky.app/profile/anna...
And if your plan is 2 or 3, you should absolutely say that - either of those would be a big step forward.
Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard is now OPEN at Melbourne Museum!! Thrilled for everyone to experience it in person. Head to their website for tickets and events, and I'll be here all weekend for lectures, and pop-up talks in the gallery! museumsvictoria.com.au/melbournemus...
The Galloway Hoard is astonishing and if you get the chance to see it, you definitely should. Loads more detail and images here, from National Museums Scotland: www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...
Unless you really enjoy moving house, that sounds less than ideal.
Rather enjoying the sound of the rain. From inside, obviously - I'm not getting wet in it.
And the plaintiffs rebutted that,with affidavits from the children.
Come and work for us. You can do from home it in your pyjamas, there are no work socials ever and we will never, ever, refer to our workplace as a family.
Just put a library hold on it, thanks!
Thinking of the inevitable Jezebels.
The ebony and ivory of murder stairs
Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, local restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.
Disabled writers: I just found out about this - #scriptsky #UKscriptsky #screenwriting
A Northern Irish songwriter I like a lot can rhyme "tower" with "are". Incredible scenes.
published my Guide To Reading More Books nearly exactly a year ago so I guess it's time to post it again youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/learning-h... [free to read!]
A small human (5?) wearing a dinosaur hoodie is telling his friends a VERY dramatic story. It involves a lot of arm waving, running about, bellowing... and falling over. Oh wait, the falling over isn't a part of it. But now it is! Yes! That's EXACTLY how it went! A master raconteur at work. (5)
Blimey!
Guy shouted “fucking lesbian” as I walked to the microphone tonight, and before I had chance to compliment him on his power of observation the entire audience went “No! You need to leave.” To him and wouldn’t let me start until they’d physically thrown him out.
I made a dad joke yesterday and my son said “How are you married?” and we realised we’d hit on a strange paradox: How come dads haven’t died out naturally?
I'm sorry what now?
Had a lovely roast dinner today, chez godsons, and while watching the younger one play Among Us made a very poor attempt at explaining The Traitors. Also talked about Marie Curie and her radioactive notebooks, then realised I don't really know what radioactivity is (beyond 💀).
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
I read about an owl sanctuary that took in an young injured male owl and after it was released it would drop by semi-regularly with mice and shrews for the owls being cared for there
Frustrating there's so little space for wheelchairs and buggies.
Charing Cross Road (mid-1970s) photograph by Anne Billson
Kemi Badenoch says a Tory government would squirt a bit of paraffin on the planet, to help it burn faster.
I picked a fight with some hydrogen that's 93 million miles away. I lost. On my hatred of the sun, and the horror of sunburn. observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Agreed; I don't really understand the decision-making there.
I hope there's a way around it for you (and Norway's rail traffic in general).
The BBC Sounds app is behaving like a needy pet, refusing to play unless I'm looking at it and giving it attention.
That looks like a sizeable spanner. 😯
Always satisfying to read a whole book in a day - even if it's technically tomorrow now - and I needed to know how Lady in the Lake (by Laura Lippmann) ended.
Not yet (ended up going to the cinema with a friend, who was keen to see The Roses), but think I will.
Ha! I hope so.
Trials don't feature particularly heavily in her work, except of course in Witness for the Prosecution.
Sad to have seen it, and still not seen it.
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Oh wow; happy birthday to her! I used to go clubbing at the Scala in my 20s - glad that's still happening.
The BBC Marples are of course cosy crime and so depend on not being too sad about the murder. But in this one, Anna Stravinska's murder does get a moment of someone realising how sad it is that no-one cares she's dead. (Similar moment in Nemesis with Nora Brent and some orange squash.)
The first big industry event I went to, someone squatted down, looked at my name tag, and straight up walked away because I wasn't important enough. I hid in the corner and muttered to some guy there about how much I hated it and he hated it and we had an amazing time. That guy was Terry Pratchett.
Mine too; a lot to enjoy.
One of the many joys of the Joan Hickson Miss Marples is the LOOK on Inspector Slack's face every time he realises he's going to have to deal with her (solving his case) again.
Marple klaxon!! 🚨 4.50 From Paddington is on BBC FOUR, now (you've missed the first 50 minutes, sorry) and presumably iPlayer later.
"Best" as in least likely to be found, or leaving most archaeological evidence?
I stayed on Giudecca about a million years ago, at a hostel run by nuns; they would wake all the guests up every morning and tell us who we had to pray to today (presumably based on the saint's day).
Hi Odette - do you have a sister called Odile?
Isabelle wrote a piece about our @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Edinburgh Comedy Awards win.
Today I have: seen The Roses (laughed, winced, would very much recommend), had excellent noodles for lunch, bought three books (by Edmund Crispin, Jane Bowles and Elmore - thanks Oxfam!), read 120 pages of a book I already had. And now I'm contemplating olives and salami. Not bad, Saturday.
A man (20s?) is talking to a friend as they wander through the crowd. He says: "My spending is outa control lately, bro." His friend replies: "So, you wanna come to my place for lunch instead then?" He says: "It's outa control, but it's not missin' out on a bacon roll outa control!" (2)
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Ach, sorry; hope it settles down soon.
We have been witnessing the fear, sadness & disappointment among the people we support over the last few weeks. The horrific attacks on asylum hotels are a direct outcome of the constant scapegoating of people seeking safety in our politics & the media. This must stop immediately. Our response 👇
What's that? The sound of Italian tailors, dancing for joy! 🕺
I've recycled a whole bin bag of old paperwork today, so have awarded myself an ice lolly.
Welcome to a strange local delicacy: www.visitcalderdale.com/event/the-wo...
For anyone who loves reading, loves books, loves INDEPENDENT bookshops (whether you're in south London or not), if you have a book you plan to buy this weekend - you might want to buy it via @booksellercrow.bsky.social - see this thread and support an indy that needs your love and custom just now. x
Ach, sorry. Moar ships!
Moar ships?
The work of a Master of d'Orcs.
Here's to him.
Levitating with happiness! Happy Friday to you.
Humans can be so tricky.
I'm stuck on how dystopian a 'Library simulation suite ' sounds.
She's great.
That mail will be a pleasure to receive.
@robinince.bsky.social Found this, from 2009 - I /think/ it was the second year of Nine Lessons and Carols. We Are Klang in the same brochure.
Gosh!Fest is TOMORROW! So many amazing artists are joining us throughout the day (we’ve reached 50)! On the day, they’ll be signings, window painting, zine-making and so many amazing comics, many of which are new and launching specially for Gosh!Fest! goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...
It's a special #buyastrangerabook day! @lancslass.bsky.social is offering to buy someone the book of their choice, up to £15! So, if there's a particular book you're after (any book), let us know. UK only.
Look! Here's ANOTHER #buyastrangerabook day offer. @redwellyfeats.bsky.social will buy someone the book of their choice (any book, not just what's on my website), up to £15. So, if there's a book you'd like, get in touch! UK only.
Poised; so poised.
Due to an unexpected council tax bill I am opening up ten slots for Silly Little Guys. DM me to secure a slot! Usual rules apply: ⭐️ £25 each ⭐️ No portraits ⭐️ Just simple, silly stuff.
Watching a lunchtime black and white movie, which is charming except for its overly dramatic soundtrack. I get that they're trying to amp up the tension, but a man on a phone call to Canada is getting music fit for the climax of North by Northwest.
The Home Office and hotel owners Somani have won the second part of the appeal, which was against the granting of the interim injunction That means the injunction has been quashed and asylum seekers do not have to be moved out by 12 September. The full case will be heard in October
Me too; I'm not always 100% sure I know what's deductable and think I'd rather not claim not get something wrong.
Forthcoming statutory guidance could have a profound impact on trans people's lives. I've written to the Women and Equalities Minister to urge her to reject anything that undermines trans people's rights, inclusion, privacy or safety, and for Parliament to have proper oversight.
Read an article earlier that said this; accountants quoted think most freelancers under-claim expenses rather than income.
This is unfair cardboard trickery.