Barnaby Edwards
@barnabyedwards.bsky.social
Actor || Writer || Director || Painter || Dalek 🏳️🌈 He/Him. Acting - http://thebwhagency.co.uk Voice (home studio) - http://suzywoottonvoices.com
🎨 Portrait • Landscape • Figure • Animals • Queer Art 🎨 https://barnabyedwards.co.uk/artist/commissions
🎨 Portrait • Landscape • Figure • Animals • Queer Art 🎨 https://barnabyedwards.co.uk/artist/commissions
This morning’s adventure at the doctor’s surgery:
Me: I had a Covid jab yesterday at Boots and they gave me this slip to hand to you.
Nurse (looking at it): Well, I must say you’re in excellent shape for your age.
Me: Gosh, thank you.
(The nurse points out the year of my birth on the slip: 1669)
Me: I had a Covid jab yesterday at Boots and they gave me this slip to hand to you.
Nurse (looking at it): Well, I must say you’re in excellent shape for your age.
Me: Gosh, thank you.
(The nurse points out the year of my birth on the slip: 1669)
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
This morning’s adventure at the doctor’s surgery:
Me: I had a Covid jab yesterday at Boots and they gave me this slip to hand to you.
Nurse (looking at it): Well, I must say you’re in excellent shape for your age.
Me: Gosh, thank you.
(The nurse points out the year of my birth on the slip: 1669)
Me: I had a Covid jab yesterday at Boots and they gave me this slip to hand to you.
Nurse (looking at it): Well, I must say you’re in excellent shape for your age.
Me: Gosh, thank you.
(The nurse points out the year of my birth on the slip: 1669)
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Well, this is deeply depressing.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
I Set A Trap To Catch Students Cheating With AI. The Result Was Deflating
"I am no stranger to students trying to cut corners by copying and pasting from Wikipedia, but the introduction of generative AI has enabled them to cheat in startling new ways."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Well, this is deeply depressing.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
Happy Doctor Who Day!
On the left: my first time as a Dalek operator (for the BBC’s ‘30 Years in the TARDIS’ in 1993).
On the right: me, still doing it.
62 years for the show. 32 years for me.
On the left: my first time as a Dalek operator (for the BBC’s ‘30 Years in the TARDIS’ in 1993).
On the right: me, still doing it.
62 years for the show. 32 years for me.
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Happy Doctor Who Day!
On the left: my first time as a Dalek operator (for the BBC’s ‘30 Years in the TARDIS’ in 1993).
On the right: me, still doing it.
62 years for the show. 32 years for me.
On the left: my first time as a Dalek operator (for the BBC’s ‘30 Years in the TARDIS’ in 1993).
On the right: me, still doing it.
62 years for the show. 32 years for me.
Remembering the great Ingrid Pitt, who died on this day in 2010.
Here's my portrait of her as Countess Dracula. The original - glazed, mounted and framed - is available to buy from here:
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-cul...
Here's my portrait of her as Countess Dracula. The original - glazed, mounted and framed - is available to buy from here:
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-cul...
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Remembering the great Ingrid Pitt, who died on this day in 2010.
Here's my portrait of her as Countess Dracula. The original - glazed, mounted and framed - is available to buy from here:
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-cul...
Here's my portrait of her as Countess Dracula. The original - glazed, mounted and framed - is available to buy from here:
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-cul...
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Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Nigel Farage next, please.
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes - BBC News
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes - BBC News
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes
The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Nigel Farage next, please.
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We all feel it and here is the technical explanation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwP...
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
We all feel it and here is the technical explanation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwP...
If you use AI, you are destroying the planet - regardless of the human cost. ChatGPT alone consumes almost a million bathtubs' worth of water every day and more electricity per year than 117 countries consume. And that's just one AI company.
www.businessenergyuk.com/knowledge-hu...
www.businessenergyuk.com/knowledge-hu...
ChatGPT Energy Consumption Visualized - BEUK
www.businessenergyuk.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
If you use AI, you are destroying the planet - regardless of the human cost. ChatGPT alone consumes almost a million bathtubs' worth of water every day and more electricity per year than 117 countries consume. And that's just one AI company.
www.businessenergyuk.com/knowledge-hu...
www.businessenergyuk.com/knowledge-hu...
Reskeet with a time when you looked cool.
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Reskeet with a time when you looked cool.
Remembering historian, travel writer and trans rights campaigner, Jan Morris, who died on this day in 2020. Among her many claims to fame, she was part of the team which conquered Everest in 1953.
Here's my portrait of her (on sale this month!):
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-lgb...
#LGBTQ+ 🏳️⚧️
Here's my portrait of her (on sale this month!):
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-lgb...
#LGBTQ+ 🏳️⚧️
November 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Remembering historian, travel writer and trans rights campaigner, Jan Morris, who died on this day in 2020. Among her many claims to fame, she was part of the team which conquered Everest in 1953.
Here's my portrait of her (on sale this month!):
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-lgb...
#LGBTQ+ 🏳️⚧️
Here's my portrait of her (on sale this month!):
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-lgb...
#LGBTQ+ 🏳️⚧️
Cost of abolishing university tuition fees = £17bn
Cost of making care homes free = £8.3bn
Cost of making trains free to use = £11bn
Cost of hitting net zero = £30.7bn
The annual cost of the above is £67bn, which happens to be the amount of money given in tax relief to the richest 20% of the UK.
Cost of making care homes free = £8.3bn
Cost of making trains free to use = £11bn
Cost of hitting net zero = £30.7bn
The annual cost of the above is £67bn, which happens to be the amount of money given in tax relief to the richest 20% of the UK.
November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Cost of abolishing university tuition fees = £17bn
Cost of making care homes free = £8.3bn
Cost of making trains free to use = £11bn
Cost of hitting net zero = £30.7bn
The annual cost of the above is £67bn, which happens to be the amount of money given in tax relief to the richest 20% of the UK.
Cost of making care homes free = £8.3bn
Cost of making trains free to use = £11bn
Cost of hitting net zero = £30.7bn
The annual cost of the above is £67bn, which happens to be the amount of money given in tax relief to the richest 20% of the UK.
Remembering feminist, writer and activist Audre Lorde, who died on this day in 1992.
Here’s my pen and ink portrait of her.
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-lgb...
Here’s my pen and ink portrait of her.
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-lgb...
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Remembering feminist, writer and activist Audre Lorde, who died on this day in 1992.
Here’s my pen and ink portrait of her.
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-lgb...
Here’s my pen and ink portrait of her.
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-lgb...
Do NOT license your voice to ElevenLabs.
Their highest-paid actor made $30k last year. Sounds a lot, but that’s from 1.2 bn paid uses - $0.000025 per job. ElevenLabs charge 20 cents per 1,000 words. So they’re making at least 8,000 times what their artists are.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Their highest-paid actor made $30k last year. Sounds a lot, but that’s from 1.2 bn paid uses - $0.000025 per job. ElevenLabs charge 20 cents per 1,000 words. So they’re making at least 8,000 times what their artists are.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine sign voice deal with AI company
The voices of the Oscar-winning actors can now be used to create AI-generated versions in a new deal with ElevenLabs
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Do NOT license your voice to ElevenLabs.
Their highest-paid actor made $30k last year. Sounds a lot, but that’s from 1.2 bn paid uses - $0.000025 per job. ElevenLabs charge 20 cents per 1,000 words. So they’re making at least 8,000 times what their artists are.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Their highest-paid actor made $30k last year. Sounds a lot, but that’s from 1.2 bn paid uses - $0.000025 per job. ElevenLabs charge 20 cents per 1,000 words. So they’re making at least 8,000 times what their artists are.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Happy birthday to the wonderful Bonnie Greer. We once had lunch together and she was pure heaven - funny, warm, generous and intelligent. When we parted, she kissed me on the lips and hugged me. I felt blessed.
Here’s my charcoal portrait of her.
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-peo...
Here’s my charcoal portrait of her.
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-peo...
November 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Happy birthday to the wonderful Bonnie Greer. We once had lunch together and she was pure heaven - funny, warm, generous and intelligent. When we parted, she kissed me on the lips and hugged me. I felt blessed.
Here’s my charcoal portrait of her.
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-peo...
Here’s my charcoal portrait of her.
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-peo...
I’ve just watched the Royal Ballet’s 2016 production of Frankenstein. It’s absolutely marvellous. If you’re expecting prettiness and frivolity, think again. It’s dark and brutal with hangings and child-murdering on stage. Wonderful stuff!
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I’ve just watched the Royal Ballet’s 2016 production of Frankenstein. It’s absolutely marvellous. If you’re expecting prettiness and frivolity, think again. It’s dark and brutal with hangings and child-murdering on stage. Wonderful stuff!
AI ‘artist’ creates portrait of King Charles. To no one’s surprise, it looks like a bad photo that a dog who’s eaten some putrid spaghetti has vomited all over.
AI is incapable of art. It’s an expensive photocopier, nothing more. Stop pretending it can replace humans.
www.bbc.com/newsround/ar...
AI is incapable of art. It’s an expensive photocopier, nothing more. Stop pretending it can replace humans.
www.bbc.com/newsround/ar...
King Charles III gets new AI portrait by robot artist Ai-Da
In 2024, Ai-Da made history when she became the first humanoid robot to sell her painting of Alan Turing for $1,084,800.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
AI ‘artist’ creates portrait of King Charles. To no one’s surprise, it looks like a bad photo that a dog who’s eaten some putrid spaghetti has vomited all over.
AI is incapable of art. It’s an expensive photocopier, nothing more. Stop pretending it can replace humans.
www.bbc.com/newsround/ar...
AI is incapable of art. It’s an expensive photocopier, nothing more. Stop pretending it can replace humans.
www.bbc.com/newsround/ar...
Now, what to spend my royalty cheque on… 🤔
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Now, what to spend my royalty cheque on… 🤔
I always find it weird when someone replies to my message or email to say that they don’t know what a word I’ve just used - say ‘obviate’ - means. Surely looking it up in a dictionary is quicker than (and obviates the need for) sending me a query?
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I always find it weird when someone replies to my message or email to say that they don’t know what a word I’ve just used - say ‘obviate’ - means. Surely looking it up in a dictionary is quicker than (and obviates the need for) sending me a query?
When he sets his mind to it, Wordsworth can be pretty much the worst poet who ever lived, can’t he?
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
When he sets his mind to it, Wordsworth can be pretty much the worst poet who ever lived, can’t he?
I’ve just received a sensational job offer.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I’ve just received a sensational job offer.
The great Claude Rains was born on this day in 1889. Here's my portrait of him as Sir John Talbot in The Wolf Man (1941).
What's your favourite Rains movie?
Incidentally, the original portrait is available to buy here:
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-cul...
What's your favourite Rains movie?
Incidentally, the original portrait is available to buy here:
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-cul...
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The great Claude Rains was born on this day in 1889. Here's my portrait of him as Sir John Talbot in The Wolf Man (1941).
What's your favourite Rains movie?
Incidentally, the original portrait is available to buy here:
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-cul...
What's your favourite Rains movie?
Incidentally, the original portrait is available to buy here:
barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-cul...
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It’s ironic to resign over editing a bunch of lies to reflect the truth.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It’s ironic to resign over editing a bunch of lies to reflect the truth.
Currently watching old episodes of The Dick Cavett Show. I’m fascinated by how absolutely hopeless he is as an interviewer. He makes Jerry Hall look polished. I mean all power to his elbow and that, but how on earth did he get the job?
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Currently watching old episodes of The Dick Cavett Show. I’m fascinated by how absolutely hopeless he is as an interviewer. He makes Jerry Hall look polished. I mean all power to his elbow and that, but how on earth did he get the job?
Now we know where all that Spotify money is going. Not to the artists - perish the thought. No, the CEO has invested it all in AI weaponry designed to kill humans. I wish this were a joke.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Spotify boycott: Artists leave 'garbage hole' platform after CEO invests in AI weapons
Daniel Ek's investments in AI dronemaker Helsing have unnerved artists. One called Spotify a "violent armageddon portal."
www.latimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Now we know where all that Spotify money is going. Not to the artists - perish the thought. No, the CEO has invested it all in AI weaponry designed to kill humans. I wish this were a joke.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Free power? How awful. Thankfully, the UK understands how harmful to billionaires all this eco nonsense is - hence why the government is dedicated to removing the laws protecting natural habitats and to building on greenfield sites. Dead birds can’t crap on your Maserati.
#irony
#irony
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Free power? How awful. Thankfully, the UK understands how harmful to billionaires all this eco nonsense is - hence why the government is dedicated to removing the laws protecting natural habitats and to building on greenfield sites. Dead birds can’t crap on your Maserati.
#irony
#irony