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Tara Conlan

@taraconlan.bsky.social

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Journalist writing about media for the Guardian & others since all this was just Gracie Fields. taraconlan.com

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Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · Nov 15

A starter pack for media and telly types of the content and media brands & platforms you know and might (or might not) love. Will add as more are verified. Excludes bots and bridges go.bsky.app/5uvdFgh

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chriswilks303.bsky.social @chriswilks303.bsky.social · 1d

Wow... So glad we're fucking up the climate for this shit

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Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry to hear & hope it gets resolved. Perhaps play this video to them down the phone til they relent

Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 2d

Creator AI comedy is on the rise. Interested to see how Ryanair responds vm.tiktok.com/ZNdWVVQdm/

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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 3d

'As the A.D.F.’s influence in Britain has grown since Mr. Trump’s re-election, Mr. Farage has suddenly started speaking out against abortion.'

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 5d

Now thinking I was insensitive after how she lost her sister so retracting that & casting Keira Knightly instead. Can see why Nina Gold deserves all the plaudits she gets

Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 5d

Inhaled this much-needed & triumphant piece. Assuming Joely Richardson will again play you for the video reconstruction of it as definitely a market for it among the Perfect Moment-clad mums

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Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 6d

Which Joe Marler has been practising

Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 6d

The traditional Traitors’ name misspelling joy has begun

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Jay Richardson @jayirichardson.bsky.social · 11d

Amandaland gets a Christmas special: www.comedy.co.uk/tv/fyi/913/a...

Amandaland gets a Christmas special - British Comedy Guide

Amandaland is returning for a Christmas special, Joanna Lumley has confirmed.

www.comedy.co.uk

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Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 12d

this involves an independent production company but Hat Trick hugely experienced & trusted. Plus, HIGNFY has a lawyer the panellists often refer to in the show. Would be awful if one of the greatest satirical shows & bulwarks against corruption & pomposity brought down by this

Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 12d

Suspect Have I Got News For You Multiverse error will follow usual BBC pattern of investigate, apologise, review, CMS grilling, new role to ensure doesn’t happen again. Or could it be subsumed into scope of James Stephenson, announced yesterday in role created by Gaza doc mistake review? Again tho..

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 12d

Here’s the clip (which I will once again note for out-of-context reposts, is a total bullshit conspiracy/fake news).

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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social · 12d

Absolutely astonished @hignfy.bsky.social just stated that Multiverse will be running the government's digital ID scheme

An incredibly basic failure of fact-checking

fullfact.org/technology/d...

Has Euan Blair’s company Multiverse been chosen to run the government’s new digital ID scheme? – Full Fact

Multiverse is an “upskilling company”, not a software developer, and both it and the government say there’s no truth to viral claims linking it to the scheme.

fullfact.org

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 12d

I regret to inform you that doing the thing I was putting off forever did not take very long and was not very hard.

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Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 14d

39% out of creative industry freelancers out of work and just 13% feel secure in their job, Bectu’s Big Survey reveals. Around a third have no savings & just 48% have a pension. Concerning now but also for the future bectu.org.uk/bectu-big-su...

Bectu’s Big Survey

The UK’s creative industries are a global success story.

bectu.org.uk

Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 14d

Ed Miliband’s Strictly audition tape revealed

Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 14d

Good lord.

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Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 15d

Been following Tilly Norwood for a few months to track the trajectory & the PR storm has boosted numbers; she’s on 32.4K followers so attractive for collabs but the comments (apart from those from
other AI artists) are mostly not so pretty

Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 16d

Only for those who’ve done a degree in it at Bamford University

Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 16d

If they’re anything like my children they’ll prefer a packet of Halloween Haribos anyway so advise not getting lured in by the Instaguilters!

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 16d

the funniest joke you’ll hear involved with the Bonesaw Fringe

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16d

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

Comedian Tim Dillon said on his podcast last month that he signed up for financial reasons.
He said he had been offered "a large sum of money" - $375,000 for one performance - and said that other comedians had been offered as much as $1.6 million. He told his detractors to "get over it," adding, "So what if they have slaves, they're paying me enough to look the other way."
But in an episode of the Tim Dillon Podcast last week, the comedian announced he'd been removed from the lineup for the comments he made about the country's record on slavery.

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Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 20d

I was wondering too when that plot line would re-emerge. Hoping it’s discovered on the Scottish holiday when one of them can’t stop humming “I’ve Got a Brand New Combine Harvester”

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Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 20d

The choreography of it was always going to be interesting but I liked that David’s questions were concise & he left Obama lots of time to answer

Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 21d

fair to say that 80% of [the world’s] problems involve old men hanging on and who are afraid of death.” Also huge laugh when said first met Mark Zuckerberg he thought he was “someone’s kid.”
The power of good intentions was palpable among the audience; felt like a moment & a movement

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Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 21d

underpinning” and cautioned about power AI brings being concentrated in the hands of just a few tech billionaires, reminding audience (which incl Sadiq Khan) “We have individuals who control more wealth than nation states”. Huge cheer when he said he was optimistic due to young people as “it's..

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