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Patrick Kincaid

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Doctor of Shakespeare, Master of Writing. Author of THE CONTINUITY GIRL. Novelist, editor, teacher. Never AI.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · Nov 2

Oh, this is a great endorsement of my little debut. Nicolas is preparing a BFI Classics volume on Billy Wilder’s masterpiece The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, the film behind the book. A new edition of The Continuity Girl will be available in 2025. Meanwhile, I’m working on a sorta prequel.

Instagram story from Nicolas Pillai. Image of my novel The Continuity Girl. “Thoroughly enjoyed this charming, clever novel by @patrickkincaidauthor”

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 3h

You’d have to wouldn’t you? An oddly stressful watch!

Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 3h

At Dad’s today because he rang to say he wasn’t well. He was fine in the end, thank goodness, but we sat together for the day watching telly.

Tenable featured a family with an Iron Claw-style patriarch. I don’t think the three children eliminated in the final round will see any of the £8K prize.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, well, very tote bag like 😆

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 5h

Ha ha! Well, I can only laugh because this seems predestined to happen to me given the proximity of the places I keep shopping bags and tea towels.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 5h

FFS. Walking into the shop, reached into my back pocket and discovered the canvas tote i'd been organised enough to bring for once, was in fact a scrunched up teatowel. Is there such a thing as apathetic rage? There is now.

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 6h

The new film Plainclothes is very good I think. Almost like a melodrama, a Bette Davis film in a way - a letter at the centre of the story fuels it, disrupts.
Bit it's also so impressionistic, so much about looking, especially at the start. Very fragmented and real visual thinking

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LiberalLens @annieburns.bsky.social · 1d

Australia has passed a Bill that will limit the total spending on a party by billionaires like Elon Musk to Just $50,000

This will ban billionaires from single-handedly buying Elections in Australia.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 13h

Me, in The Guardian, wanging on about migration. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Country diary: Eyes to the skies for autumn’s mass migration | Lev Parikian

Hampstead, London: Spring has the dawn chorus, autumn has ‘vismig’, the changing of the guard of millions of birds – an early start for me, then, to try and glimpse this remarkable phenomenon

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 11h

The report on the use of AI in UK schools, commissioned by Oxford University Press (OUP), found that just 2% of students aged between 13 and 18 said they did not use AI for their schoolwork, while 80% said they regularly used it.

Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds

One in four students say AI ‘makes it too easy’ for them to find answers

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 1d

Two 70s shows and two Patricks. I am truly a child of that decade.

Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 1d

I had one that didn’t survive a trip to the dry cleaners. It was russet coloured. It was my author’s event jacket. I’ve never liked an item of clothing more…

Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 1d

Face the Music now.

It’s a night of velvet jackets.

I want a velvet jacket.

Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 1d

Call My Bluff on BBC 4 with Alan Coren, Gabrielle Drake, Tom Baker and Dr Miriam Stoppard (along with Muir, Campbell & Robinson). Ace.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 1d

Oh bloody hell — Frank Muir is only a little older than me here. And Robert Robinson is *younger* than me.

Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 1d

Everything Tom Baker says sounds like nonsense so you just can’t trust him.

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 1d

Come for Tom Baker, stay for (*slaps back of neck in manner of Eric Morecambe*) Gabrielle Drake.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 1d

Call My Bluff on BBC 4 with Alan Coren, Gabrielle Drake, Tom Baker and Dr Miriam Stoppard (along with Muir, Campbell & Robinson). Ace.

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 1d

It’s #CallMyBluff featuring Tom Baker now on BBC Four if you’re interested. Followed by #FaceTheMusic

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 1d

Clearly the best.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 1d

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · May 23

DW Griffith directed BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), a virulently racist film (and neither his first nor his last one of those) that saw racist violence follow wherever it was screened.

So, naturally, there are film bros and gals who think we should "ignore the racism" and keep it in the canon.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 1d

I’d love to go to Frankfurt Book Fair. In, like, 1610.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

I hope he’s drained to the point where the only thing he owns is his underpants.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

BREAKING | Alex Jones loses Supreme Court bid to avoid paying $1.4B to Sandy Hook families

Alex Jones loses Supreme Court bid to avoid paying $1.4B to Sandy Hook families

www.independent.co.uk

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 1d

Nice kids, one on one. But class dynamics post lockdown bear no resemblance to those pre lockdown. Kids’ social facility is wired differently now.

Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 1d

One of those days in a primary school where I have to admit that I’m getting too old for this shit. The middle-aged teacher I was covering was doing Senior Leader training to escape the classroom. Canny woman.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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