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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 9h

Think s5 would have been fine if the preceding 4 hadn’t been so mould-shatteringly outstanding. It only felt weak by comparison.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 13h

We can but hope……

Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 13h

Lack of Heat……

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 1d

PS - Ex-English-as-a-Second Language instructor here (14 year CV). This is, in industry technical terms, absolute fucking bollocks.

Perfectly tailored ESL exams exist - UCLES First Certificate and/or Advanced for general usage (90% of cases); UCLES Proficiency or IELTS for University/academic.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 1d

Not even if they have A level English........???

Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 1d

Bury this in a Blue Peter time capsule. 2025 Britain in all its glory.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands together .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands together .

media.tenor.com

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Reposted by Richard K Morgan

Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 1d

Simon Jones on a boat in the Channel tomorrow morning screaming questions at people in life jackets about Jane Austen’s use of free indirect speech.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 1d

Near as I recall, I was one of the Couldn't Give A Flying Fuck If I'm Cool Or Not Kids.....

Haven't changed much either, come to think of it.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

A nation of inbetweeners: Britons tend to recall being neither cool nor uncool when they were at school, following news that The Inbetweeners is set to return to screens

Cool: 10%
Uncool: 32%
Inbetween: 49%

yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 1d

Preach, brother!

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 1d

Also indelible: 2 of the finest 1-liners ever to grace cartoons, still fresh in my mind some 50 years later -

- "Night fell" - BONK! (sight gag is a block of darkness dropped over the scene so hard it bounces when it hits the ground line)

- "Sound travels further at night - it's cheaper, you see."

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 1d

For sure true of Motorhead - their sound (at least in their heyday - didn't follow the later stuff) was almost entirely backbeat.....

Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 1d

Reznor himself? Did not know that. Hats off to him, then!

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 1d

Dunno, they look more like Chicago School economists to me.......

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 1d

Bet you can hear the theme tune even now......

That's your ear-worm for today. You're welcome.

Meanwhile, for the newbies -

Roobarb and Custard | Original Full Theme Song! | Classic Cartoons | Wizz

YouTube video by Wizz

www.youtube.com

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 1d

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 1d

Oxygum!

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 1d

Sacrilege, I know, but I’ve always thought this is better than the NIN original.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 2d

post-birthday haul.

*licks lips mentally* - where to start?

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 2d

Surely you can't mean that????

What about CelebrityBigBrotherIslandSurvivorWho-WantsToHumiliateTraitorsGoggleBoxResponse......Season 18???

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 3d

Count titles for *at least* a half dozen steampunk/alternate history novels, one smug self-help manual for the modern era, a couple of feminist polemics, and a handful of mournful Scandinavian Booker Prize nominees in translation......

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 3d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 3d

a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands together .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands together .

media.tenor.com

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 3d

So it appears the Green Party's policy on Violence Against Women and Girls is "You was gagging for it, look what you made them do." 🙄

Luuuuvvely people!

Brap @brap.bsky.social · 5d

@sianberry.bsky.social
Green MP blames women for being attacked by men.

The Green Party is a men’s rights party.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 5d

Oh - Their Own Private Idaho......

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 5d

IIRC Moore's character doesn't even exist in the book the movie's based on - they just wanted a bankable chocolate box good looks star to pull in audience, so split the character of Rafer into two - wily old merc Harris and young heart-throb tearaway Moore.

Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 5d

I'm sorry? "Soros paid for" ???

Jesus fucking Christ, Rog, why not just come right out and strap the swastika on your arm for us all to see?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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