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Phil Adams

@phil-adams.bsky.social

Lowfalutin® brand strategy. Your irresistible truth and how to tell it®: https://philadams.co/ Exec Producer: https://www.allhandsondoc.com/ Trustee: https://www.scottishdocinstitute.com/ Thinking out loud: https://newsletter.lowfalutin.co.uk/archive/

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Phil Adams@phil-adams.bsky.social · 2d ago

Loving, nostalgic back story to the Borland's Darts and Television shop on Leith walk. Includes a great story about Irvine Welsh and Damon Albarn visiting the store on an ill-fated Edinburgh pub crawl. HT the fabulous @edinburghminute.com threadinburgh.scot/2026/08/13/d...?

Darts and Television. The thread about Borlands of Croall Place

The closure and sale of Borlands of Croall Place marks the end of a 100 year chapter, but there’s much more to that story than just the sign above the door for Darts and Television.

threadinburgh.scot

Martin Calladine@uglygame.bsky.social · 5d ago

With his synapses ravaged by unlimited wealth, man who first had himself blasted into space and then hired the most beautiful city in the world for his wedding - but still found himself entirely unmoved - makes final desperate attempt to have a meaningful experience. news.sky.com/story/amazon...

Amazon founder Bezos nears deal to buy stake in Liverpool Football Club

An announcement about a deal with the consortium led by Amit Bhatia, and including Jeff Bezos and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, could come as soon as this week, Sky News learns.

news.sky.com

Phil Adams@phil-adams.bsky.social · 5d ago

Lovely personal message from @buttondown.com's founder, responding to my support query and updating me on work that he is doing personally on the backend analytics. This is how you do it. This is how you build advocacy (look at me advocating!) in a world of enshittification.

Phil Adams@phil-adams.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some much-needed balance and sense. In summary, why the rush? berthub.eu/articles/pos... "It’s remarkable how many AI pilots begin without anyone first deciding what the objective actually is." If you've worked for or with any organisations of a reasonable size, this isn't remarkable at all.

AI: Considerations for people who make decisions - Bert Hubert's writings

Recently I gave two presentations in quick succession to the Dutch Network of Government Service Providers and the Dutch Advisory Council for Science, Technology and Innovation about AI. In these two ...

berthub.eu

Sarah Drummond@rufflemuffin.bsky.social · last mo.

As much as we should really take this all seriously. Sometimes comedy and satire is the only way to fight fascists and bigots. Imagine if @countbinface.bsky.social really did beat Nigel Farage.

Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social · last mo.

In politics, we’re torn between ideals and practicalities, aspirations and realities, the world as we want it, and as we find it But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge. A rare moment of clarity and hope

Phil Adams@phil-adams.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Spent yesterday at Scottish Documentary Institute's Edinburgh Pitch. Twelve film projects pitching for funds, partners, and distribution to a panel of A-List funders, producers, and distributors. Each production team had received expert coaching on their pitch beforehand.

Photograph of various people on a stage in front of an audience. Three presenters and an MC are standing behind a lectern to the right of the stage as we look, and they are being questioned by a panel of three seated people in the centre. Above the stage is a large screen with a still from a film and a caption which says, "JOURNEY OF AN ARCHIVE: Hannah Papacek Harper, Francesco Amoruso & Yazeed Abu Khdeir"