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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 3d

Recently realised I had inadvertently given the Cat in the Hat the voice of Boris and the fish the voice of Keir, which given we’ve seen the former make a massive mess and the latter point at it and moan ineffectually, I fear portends Boris‘ return promising he always picks up all his playthings

Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 3d

I try to give every character their own voice, but am defeated by the litany of random fish getting their own distinct speaking part in Tiddler

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 3d

This (fascinating) audiobook thread reminding me of the hardest choices you have to make as a parent, “how many characters in this book are getting funny voices?” b/w “can I actually do the accent I am attempting?”

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Dec 26

“May your favourite authors get big enough that their audiobooks get a cast of more than one actor.” - ancient Cockney curse.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 3d

Now I’ve seen everything

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 13d

@lukeedwardstele.bsky.social says he’s coming home

Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 13d

Joffrey Baratheon‘s style icon is the Northern Irish lad from bake off

The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 13d

Jack Gleeson, the actor who played Joffrey, kinda now looks like if Jeff Foxworthy was a Fremen

Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 14d

“We’ve tried not calling it racist and people still don’t think it’s racist. We’re all out of ideas.”

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 19d

He’ll stick at Forest until J7 ages out in 2-3 years, then come home as clear first choice in his prime. You heard it here first #cope

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Sawn Bones KC @seanjones.org · Sep 15

Why would they believe that? Their problem has been that the consensus that racism is bad created a social cost for them. They hd to be careful whom they spoke to; a reputation for racism could be ruinous. Even in my lifetime that wasn’t always true. People worked hard to build that consensus. /3

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · Sep 15

So so much want this to be true, but pretty sure that transfer predates the existence of Wikipedia. Now need an entire podcast on how that extremely specific factoid came to be

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Sep 14

There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die"

= Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Sep 13

The common sense meaning should make this Elon Musk's "rivers of blood" moment

Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Sep 13

Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.

"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · Sep 11

Again, I really do have concerns about exactly how Justin Webb is acquiring his knowledge of US politics or what prompted him to make this exact point.

Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · Sep 11

Justin Webb just referred on Today to "platforms like Bluesky, where you can see the celebration of the killing" of Charlie Kirk.

What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.

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Adam Drummond @adamdrummond.bsky.social · Sep 10

I increasingly wonder if this is down to so many government people still using X and mistaking that for an actual measure of public opinion.

Poll after poll after poll has shown that British voters don't like small boats but they hate street violence and open racism much more.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Sep 10

A debate Labour badly needs to have:

Labour must champion inclusivity to tackle advance of far right, says deputy leadership hopeful

Exclusive: Alison McGovern says party needs emotive storyteller to fight against division promoted by Reform

www.theguardian.com

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Ben @benpageresearch.bsky.social · Sep 10

Sir Robert Worcester, legendary pollster and founder of MORI (now Ipsos UK) has died at 91. He taught so many people so much about the value and importance of opinion polls in modern democracies - everyone in our industry and politics owes him a debt of gratitude.

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