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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 15h

I mean, as a venue this is hard to beat…

Masts and rigging of the Cutty Sark lit up against the night sky.

Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 15h

Last call for tonight’s absolute ship show at the magnificent Cutty Sark in Greenwich. 7pm kick off, tickets: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/cut...

Charlie Connelly - Attention All Shipping

Charlie Connelly's hilarious one-man show brings the legendary shipping forecast vividly to life

www.rmg.co.uk

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh!

Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 1d

The screenwriters behind Tim Burton's much-loved drama Ed Wood are working on a biopic about Bela Lugosi for Universal.
filmstories.co.uk/news/ed-wood...

Ed Wood's screenwriters are working on a biopic about Bela Lugosi

The screenwriters behind Tim Burton's much-loved drama Ed Wood are working on a biopic about Bela Lugosi for Universal.

filmstories.co.uk

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 1d

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

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David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social · 2d

On this day in 1940 the BBC’s London headquarters, Broadcasting House, was hit by a huge bomb dropped by the Luftwaffe. Seven died and there was huge destruction.

Using oral history accounts and documents from the BBC’s own archives, I’ve tried to piece together how events unfolded that night

The Bombing of Broadcasting House

Broadcasting House in London, suffered two direct hits in the Blitz – causing widespread damage, several deaths, and many injuries.

www.bbc.com

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aaaaandy @andysell.bsky.social · 2d

These motherfuckers are going to cook our whole goddamn planet because they don’t know how to daydream

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 4d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 3d

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 3d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 3d

Indecision over which picture to hang over the fireplace solved by pointing a £120 projector at the empty space instead. £25 Bluetooth speaker on the mantlepiece. Best thing we’ve done since moving in.

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Rich Neville @richneville.bsky.social · 4d

Where they send people to wean them off cockfighting.

Sudden Deth ☠️ @youreacuntmate.bsky.social · 5d

Found the worst playground in England

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 4d

This is great.

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 5d

'I grasp the top of one of the wooden posts, loosen the stake, and tear it from the soil. Then another. And again. It’s surprisingly easy. When I have cleared a way I stamp on the mesh. Over & over. It crumples like a flag.'

Unrecovered Time: a new post
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/unrecovere...

A field of sunflowers under a cloudy sky between Allerton Bywater and Castleton, West Yorkshire.

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 4d

Not only are these data centres devouring energy & water – and feeding the AI bubble that'll blow up our economy when it bursts – they're also wasting vast construction resources (human, materials & admin) that could instead be building homes, solar farms, wind farms etc.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 4d

Data centres costing €5.6bn have planning approval but no electricity, industry warns

Access to electricity and gas restricts because of risk of blackouts due to power-hungry sector

www.irishtimes.com

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 5d

Fascinating to learn of Brian Friel’s Translations being staged in Senegal.

Ireland's iconic play 'Translations' hits Dakar stage • FRANCE 24 English

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

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Dame Agnes Guano @agnes-guano.bsky.social · 6d

'Ow Do - Jack Howarth (aka Albert Tatlock out of off of Corrie)

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 6d

Sounds like that kind of English place that’s spelt ‘Fazackershaughstoneleigh’ but pronounced ‘Fawsley’. Have a good one, B!

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 6d

Happy landmark, Ma Johnston!

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 7d

The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement

The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time

www.theguardian.com

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 7d

It's a matinee bonanza, it seems - the evening show at The Spring in Havant on 6 November sold out sharpish so there's now the opportunity to see the show in the afternoon and still be home in time to eat your dinner in front of Eastenders. thespring.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 7d

While I’m the last in line to be the arbiter of cool - I collect Margaret Rutherford theatre programmes ffs - even I can see that this is an extraordinarily daft position to take.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 8d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 7d

My kid's Clacton nursery has cut hot lunches for toddlers to save money, and sent round leaflets to parents advising us on preparing packed lunches for around 90p per day.

They have no waiting list for places because there's so few jobs here worth doing once you've covered childcare.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8d

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 7d

A new museum dedicated to the life of the explorer Ernest Shackleton opens in Athy in Co Kildare today.

New museum on life of Ernest Shackleton opens in Kildare

A new museum dedicated to the life of the explorer Ernest Shackleton opens in Athy in Co Kildare today.

www.rte.ie

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 8d

AI advocates fundamentally have no understanding of creativity and my God, it’s grim to behold. Even on the days when hitting my book’s wordcount target is like drawing blood from a stone, I don’t want a fucking machine to do it for me. And not just because the result would be soulless shit.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 8d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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SilentFilmTitle @silentfilmtitle.bsky.social · 8d

An Even Break (1917). #SilentFilm

Intertitle from 1917 film ’An Even Break’ which reads “If you let these automatics come in, half of you will be looking for jobs”

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British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social · 9d

LANCASHIRE COAST (1957)

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 9d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 9d

Update: two book sales in eighteen days. "The end of the work is the possibility of connection, that the book, if it has been made well, might become 'a site of exchange', that it might have use and value to others, whether the others are many or few."

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 10d

One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, stacked on a diagonal, spines facing outwards.

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