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John Douglas 1963-2026. Sending all my love to Eddi, Frank, Stephen, Paul, Davy and all of John's co-travellers in life.
“Robert Burns said, ‘You’ve got to rivet words together just to hear them clang.’ That always stuck with me.” John Douglas (1963-2026) | Pete Paphides
Oh God. Not John? Surely not John? To the best of my knowledge John had never done anything as shocking, anything as dramatic as this. Low-k
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One fine building reflected in another - the stone-clad Oxford University Humanities Building seen in the blue-tinted glass Blavatnik Building.
I had no idea how far Mr Rumbold fell when Grace Brothers was closed.
Gosunkugi@gosunkugi.bsky.social · 2d agoIt's a good thing he's got the name of the country on his shirt, otherwise how would we know?
Message in Adobe Lightroom - you can't do something simple, something you've done thousands of times, "because an AI process is running". I'm just trying to save a photograph. Perhaps "blame AI" is now Adobe's standard error message for every instance of botched coding. Not us, Guv, it's AI's fault
The dead children represented on the children's panel of our national covid memorial will never have any life at all. ❤️
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d agoThere are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?
My wife has an autoimmune disease and had to shield. My daughter came home from primary school every day panicking that she might be responsible for killing her mother. It was a tough time.
NEW Trump merch alert: The Presidential Neck Vag is the MAGA accessory you've been waiting for!
Three successive dogs on the same beach in 1988, 2014, and 2026. One of us first went there when Mr Eden was PM. Continuity in the breed of dog, as well as the place.
If you can bet on wildfires on Polymarket, you are now financially incentivised to start fires. This is the endgame. We are fucked.
My wife wants me to buy some light coloured chinos but I can't tell her that they won't hide the piss dribbles that I often make on the front of all of my trousers these days. I'm pushing 60 and it ain't getting easier.
Coffee after tea in the same mug is acceptable, tea after a coffee in the same mug is not, whether it's rinsed out or not
Surely anyone can increase the font size?
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Linda Ronstadt - Blue Bayou (@ The Muppets Show) youtu.be/XBmIKfm5iz4?...
Linda Ronstadt - Blue Bayou (@ The Muppets Show)
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Bill Oddie, what a lovely bloke. He wrote us a letter when we started making The Young Ones, wishing us the very best, and warning us against interference from higher up. He didn’t know anyone in the cast personally. It just came out of the blue. Lovely thing to do.
It's a bit rich of Romesh Ranganathan to keep asking 'What has the BBC ever done for me?', because it has given him his entire career.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains.
DerkHerkenbersh@dochackenbush.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains. I didn’t appreciate it until much later but BBFB is banger after banger
Ofcom should step in and do something about all the Guardian articles which leave you guessing for several borderline-illiterate paragraphs before confirming in passing that it is aimed at their Australian readers
BBC News - Carly Simon reveals Parkinson's diagnosis www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Carly Simon reveals Parkinson's diagnosis
The singer also reveals she has received treatment for skin cancer, but vows to keep singing.
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You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
Almost as if the article was written by AI.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoThe AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon
This is exactly what I run into with conspiracy theorists — a stray, unverified claim gets treated as if it debunks the real story, and it almost always falls apart under scrutiny. Wild to hear that pattern showing up at 60 Minutes as Cecilia Vega describes it.
This isn’t just happening to the wacky tin-foil-hat folks, clearly. In some ways it’s happening to all of us, dozens or hundreds of times a day, on our social media feeds. Algorithms serve us the things they know we want to hear, shaping our perceptions of everything.
