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Richard Littler

@richardlittler.bsky.social

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Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system. https://www.richardlittler.com

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 3h

#NowPlaying an autumny album for me. Heading toward halloween.
Miles Davis loved a nod toward the supernatural with track/album titles such as ESP, Prince of Darkness, Sorcerer, The Serpent's Tooth, Live-Evil, Dr. Jeykll, Dark Magus, Bitches Brew, Miles Runs the Voodoo Down...

#jazz

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 7h

From what I recall, the scripted sitcom/comedy characters, particularly Inman's Mr Humphries (and Dick Emery) were quite candid about their sexual preferences.

Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 7h

Enshittification.
Default typeface; logo created in Word in 3.6 seconds; a name that rolls off the tongue about as smoothly as if you were trying to say it with a snow globe in your mouth. Teejyjo, Teajeedjo, Teagueyjones.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 7h

After 110 years on Cornmarket, stationery shop W.H. Smith has been rebranded T.G. Jones – a name invented by investment company Modella Capital, which acquired the high street shops in June. The Abingdon branch was renamed in August. www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/cornmarket/e...

The new frontage on Cornmarket - alas, not Smith but Jones

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 7h

Oh, absolutely. Culture at the time, from TV shows down to the playground, was rife with derogatory epithets.

Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 8h

Orwell is a deity.

Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 8h

The UK has a tradition of camp comedians/comedy actors, so I would have been 7 or 8 years old in the mid-late 70s watching John Inman in 'Are You Being Served', Larry Grayson on 'The Generation Game', or Melvyn Hayes in 'It Ain't Half Hot, Mum'. All mainstream Saturday evening family shows.

Indige Tea 🦬🧡 @colouredwilde.bsky.social · 1d

Serious question, when did you find out a sexuality other than heterosexual existed?

Media, year, situation is what I'm getting at.

I'm so genuinely curious about this

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 8h

#NowPlaying Living Time by Bill Evans and George Russell.
Like someone spiked the BBC Concert Orchestra with an amphetamine/LSD cocktail then locked them in a dark hall full of wild, starving apex predators.
An overlooked #jazz classic.

Record cover: Living Time by Bill Evans and the George Russell Orchestra

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 21h

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 21h

Only Connect and University Challenge automatically having to make way for a football match reminds me that I was born into a culture with questionable morals.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 21h

Joyce and Ulysses are tedious. An unhinged opinion I share with Woolf (I pefer her To the Lighthouse). Proust is better than Joyce. An unhinged opinion I share with Proust.
Oh, and Dickens is shit.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

Post you from a different era

1992, working on the set of horror film Dark Waters, shot in Ukraine.

Old pics of me with clapperboards on a film set

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

#NowPlaying the Torn Curtain score by John Addison (incl the rejected score by Bernard Herrmann).
#cinema #soundtrack

Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

Ha. Tell me about it.
I've got lost down similar rabbit holes before.

Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

Not mine to sell!

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

Family making a model. TV on in the background

Girl opening presents. TV on in the background

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

A few in which the TV is incidental, back when the TV set was almost an extra family member.

People raising a toast. TV on in the background

Woman at a party. TV on in the background

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

A few randoms

TV screen: Coronation? wedding? Funeral?

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

Station ident tele-snaps

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

Same!

Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

A few extras:
The ever popular Test Card F

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

There was a guy called in the 60s called John Cura who took 250k 'tele-snaps', up to 80s shots per programme, which he sold to actors/directors. In some cases, his shots are all that remain of lost TV episodes, including Doctor Who.