Satsuki Kusakabe Bright, brave and responsible 🌱 Tag your Satsuki in the comments! 💚 #FindYourSpirit © Manuel Harlan

So glad this show is getting the praise it deserves. It’s a beautiful piece made by some of my favourite people.

Sarah Hemming@sarahhemm.bsky.social · 3d ago

LOVED Tao of Glass at Soho Place Theatre giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Tao of Glass review — Philip Glass inspires a piece of theatrical magic

Jodrell Bank is scientifically, historically and culturally unique - a reason for immense pride in our ingenuity and skill. It would be gross negligence to cut its funding in this way.

Artists, writers and scientists urge UK government to save Jodrell Bank Observatory

New Order and Simon Armitage among more than 100 signatories to criticise ‘foolish and shortsighted’ cuts

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Hey! I wrote this! Or at least this specific English language variation of it. 💚💚💚

@totoroshow.bsky.social · 6d ago

A little reminder to look up every now and then. 🌳✨ #FindYourSpirit

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

In the Mood for Love - Eating Together

Alt: In the Mood for Love - Eating Together

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BOGLUDDITE@brucemackay.bsky.social · 7d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

I saw one of these books (a friend was given it as a gift for his kids) and it was so ugly and banal, I can’t imagine anyone reading it even once. Whereas great children’s books by real writers & illustrators live in your head forever. And for heaven’s sake do not feed pictures of kids into genAI

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · last wk.

Parents are fed up with friends and relatives giving their kids “personalized” AI-generated storybooks with characters resembling their kids. Apart from data privacy concerns, literacy experts say these garbled and convoluted narratives could be an impediment to learning how to read.

Medusa but her hair is an anaconda

The forest spirits are treating you to an extra matinee performance next week! 💚 Book now to experience the magic. ✨ totoroshow.com #FindYourSpirit

My son is excitedly telling me about dwarf planets and shows me this video, and now I’ve got ‘Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, Eris, Pluto’ stuck in my head. Hell of an earworm.

The Dwarf Planet Song (feat. Jessica Pace Lyells, Loki Alohikea, Jan van der Beek, and Sophia Oaks)

YouTube video by Hopscotch Songs

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Hobbyless behaviour.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last wk.

Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.

This isn’t the only Nolan film this works for.

Howard Sherman@hesherman.bsky.social · 2w ago

There may be only a handful of films of "The Odyssey." But on live stages, plays and musicals have been exploring Homer's tale for decades.

They’re filming Batman in Runcorn. 🦇

Silver Jubilee Bridge covered in snow for scenes in new Batman movie

The Silver Jubilee Bridge turned wintry as Hollywood movie makers created snowy scenes for the new Batman movie.

runcornandwidnesworld.co.uk

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

It’s taken longer than expected - mostly due to the godawful heatwave and building/decorating turmoil at home - but I have finished Act One of the current project. Forgive me whilst I do a tiny victory lap of my desk.

I’ve just finished The Murderbot Diaries: Artificial Condition by @marthawells.com. Insanely enjoyable series with a lead character who is a winning combination of competency and social dysfunction - somewhere between Bender, Data and Marvin the Paranoid Android.

Fledgling jay in the back garden today. Worried about how unbothered it was by us. It was trying to eat the unripe raspberries from the bush, so we picked a ripe one for it. We’re going to have to keep an eye on the cat. 😼

For real. #noai #art

Deeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling

Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.

bbc.co.uk

Trying to write the end of Act One whilst struggling with a summer cold is an absolute PAIN IN THE ARSE.

I hate when that one guy has a film out.

The Labour Party has long been an institutionally stupid organisation

The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.

SlacktivistFred@slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Luddites were “clinging to horses and carts” because it was the early 19th century and cars hadn’t been invented yet.

The moment you hear those first few notes. 🎶💚 #FindYourSpirit

Just finished Brigands and Breadknives by @travisbaldree.bsky.social. The fantasy adventure in these books is great - really enjoyable - but the reason I love them so much is the gentle, everyday philosophy of the writing - it’s like having a deep conversation with a good friend.

Sam Neill (1947–2026)

Just a reminder that the Gillian Lynne Theatre has air conditioning.

@totoroshow.bsky.social · last mo.

Thanks to our magical auditorium air cooling, it's always cool in the forest! ❄️✨ #FindYourSpirit

The Sheep Detectives was fun. It’s like Chicken Run and Hot Fuzz had a fluffy little lamb baby.

"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

Greg Iwinski@garyjackson.bsky.social · 4w ago

TV writers were right in 2023 and are being proven more right every day — there was a stable television model that made everyone lots of money and put out good shows. Then execs with no understanding of the industry confused the production model and the distribution model, and they blew it all up.

As someone who has written plays about both the Manhattan Project and the Large Hadron Collider, it is fascinating to read a review of my least science-y play through a scientific lens.

A Forest Breathes: My Neighbour Totoro at the Gillian Lynne Theatre

Children bring a particular quality of attention to the natural world, an openness to the idea that a tree might be inhabited, that the boundary between the living and the spiritual is thinner than…

isciencemag.co.uk