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David Quantick

@quantick.bsky.social

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE AUSTEN? (French & Saunders, BBC Radio 4) writer. Author of RICKY'S HAND, ALL MY COLORS, ETC. Emmy (Veep). Website: www.davidquantick.com. AND OTHER STORIES collection - preorder here: https://tinyurl.com/msmv7amc

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Nick Worrall @heathensquirrel.bsky.social · 1h

OUT NOW. Consider it a 'best of' if you prefer, or just a 'sampler', whatever it is, you can buy a CD and/or digital download from here and I really hope that you do. Not a bad introduction to my oeuvre. Love to you all. nickworrall.bandcamp.com/album/nick-w...

Nick Worrall's Commercial Grab, by Nick Worrall

14 track album

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Martin @martin67.bsky.social · 1h

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... This morning’s random episode of TOF reminds us that the World was equally mad a year ago… @quantick.bsky.social @ianmartin.bsky.social @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social

8. The Hot Hit Man; The Observer strike; Hawk Tuah Coin; Marching; When martial Law goes wrong; Outdoor eating

Podcast Episode · The Old Fools · 09/12/2024 · 30m

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 56m

THIS IS TONIGHT. Please come if you can! #IntoTheGroove

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 21h

If you’re in or near Swansea, we’re doing this in Mumbles tomorrow night (Wed at 7pm, Mumbles Tabernacle). Come and see @juderogers.bsky.social talk to me about 80s pop history and my new book, #IntoTheGroove!

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Justin Lewis
Into the Groove: The 1980s

In conversation with Jude Rogers
Wed 15 Oct 7.00pm
Mumbles Tabernacle
Tickets £7.50

‘Justin Lewis tells pop’s never ending story brilliantly’
David Quantick

‘Like a treasure chest of pop riches… I loved this book!’
Samira Ahmed

‘Forensic, forthright and downright unputdownable’
Ian Wade

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 2h

IT'S BETTER TO BE A GOOD PERSON THAN A FAMOUS PERSON

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 14h

FACEBOOK DOWN

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ALT: a man with glasses and a beard is standing next to another man with a beard smoking a pipe .

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 16h

The smile.

David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 16h

This is amazing if you never saw those shit ads with dead celebs in back in the day.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 22h

An episode of Call My Bluff with Tom Baker is on BBC4 tonight at 9pm

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BBC Two - Call My Bluff, 27/05/1977

Robert Robinson hosts a game of word definitions and deceptions. With Tom Baker.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 17h

A British remake of Squid Game where adults don't play deadly children's games, we just go on Channel 5 and reminisce about them #SpanglesGame

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 23h

Looks like we got ourselves an asshole. This ickle bot is very much pretending to be me. Only *I* get to pretend to be me. Please report and block. Ta.

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 23h

The T-Rex infantry only go into battle with small arms.

No, you shut up.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 1d

'Sister Wendy's gonna play now."

David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · Jul 31

Verified my age not my shoe size.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 1d

I loved PD James' Fifty Shades of Cordelia Grey.

#comeon

Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 1d

E. L. James’s The Children of Men…

Quote post: “While the film Children of Men is one of the best SF films of the past 30 years, the EL James novel upon which it is based is pretty terrible.
Also, as a bonus opinion: Novellas are criminally underrated as an art form. Give me a fluff-free story taken to its logical end point and walk away.”
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Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat”

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 1d

Any book that the author received a grant or a prize to write should be boiled and fed to thirst swans.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 1d

There is no greater literatary figure than the hack paperback author, and our culture has foolishly allowed them to die out.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 1d

Only the best for you.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Instead, we just have this solitary nightly journey wading through mediocre half-written US streamer sludge. It is more convenient, but it doesn't necessarily feel like an improvement.