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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 46m

*downs a glass of non-alcoholic fruit drink*

alright, let's fucking go

Bernie Sanders meme, with text as follows: I am once again updating my mega post about how awful the Cass Review is.

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 7h

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Jamie Johnson FC - Series 3: 2. Total Chaos

Charlie and Teri come up with a plan to split up the new Hawxborough U12s team, while Andrew goes in search of redemption.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 7h

Total chaos! My episode of Jamie Johnson FC is on CBBC tomorrow at 6pm - but is up on iPlayer now! Total dream working with this team, and lovely to get to help bring some of the series 3 newbies to screen - and very pleased with that Girl Thing music cue in the opening scene!

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 12h

The continued enshittification of the internet is so sad to watch. This place used to be cool!

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 12h

Writing the copy for an event I'm doing with my pal James and Google searched to see if he had a professional bio anywhere I could use and Google's AI is just all... wrong? It says he's a practicing NHS GP (he isn't) and that he's a brewer (he's not) - has a product ever been as defective as this?

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 12h

I know it was months ago but I still find myself talking about Denise Welch's appearance on Watch What Happens Live every couple of days

Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 12h

(One Direction don't count as 'boy singers', Harry sometimes wears a dress.)

Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 12h

Oh no (friends fear she's listening to One Direction's 'If I Could Fly' again).

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 12h

What am I listening to that half of my podcast adverts are for Luke Combs's Scotland gig? Sure he's a nice lad but I have a strict 'no boy singers' policy.

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Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 4d

Google's search results are, sadly, damaging lots of websites. What does #Google actually want? And is it what a human being would want?
filmstories.co.uk/features/oka...

Okay then, Google: tell us what to do | The future of entertainment websites

Google's search results are, sadly, damaging lots of websites. What does Google actually want? And is it what a human being would want?

filmstories.co.uk

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 22h

I’m sometimes wearing three layers and the girls are still reporting for duty.

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to find a picture of me for some presentation slides where my nipples don't look like they could cut glass challenge (impossible)

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should do a PhD on the influence of Miriam Toews on trans women's writers, the gals really do love that dark humour and sparse prose (I love Miriam Toews).

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 1d

God, I love... documentary film youtu.be/Cxe_YMJ4nUs?...

Are Dan and Phil in a Relationship?

YouTube video by Dan and Phil

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 1d

Shakira_-_she_wolf_hall.mp3

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 1d

Patrick Wolf Hall.

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 2d

The lads!

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 2d

It‘s all just… pseudo-insightful ChatGPT gubbins. Just promote your thing and show off about how well you’re doing so everyone is jealous of you like a normal person!

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 2d

There's no bollocks like the specific sort of bollocks you see on Screenwriting LinkedIn.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

Terrified he died but delighted that it’s just him talking about cocaine

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3d

Tim Curry was a 20-something stage actor living in London in the seedy, sex-drenched 1970s when he auditioned for a new B-movie musical called “The Rocky Horror Show.” In a new interview, Curry discusses the cult classic, David Bowie, Studio 54, and more. http://nyer.cm/Z9RkgrI

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 3d

Fellow Ozians! Our October offerings are out now - TWO Patreon only episodes of @onceuponavhs.bsky.social about The Wiz (1978) and the OG, the urtext, the great American fairy tale, The Wizard of Oz (1939) - there’s no place like home, bitch!
www.patreon.com/onceuponavhs

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 3d

They’re up!

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 3d

Have been looking forward to this one!

lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 7d

Just been made aware that the new documentary The Librarians is available for free on BBC iPlayer for the next 12 mths. It investigates what librarians in the US are going through right now as they unite to combat book banning & defend free speech. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Storyville - The Librarians

A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 3d

Currently editing the @onceuponavhs.bsky.social Patreon bonus episode on The Wiz (1978) and, baby, baby, baby - Jack Halberstam name drop in the first 15 minutes? Yes.

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 3d

My Avengers Endgame would be some museum doing an exhibition of all the iterations of the ruby slippers/silver shoes from cinematic history

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