✍️ Writers of Bsky: Instead of “what IP do you want to write for” I have a better question — What NICHE IP do you want to write for? The IP that you’re sure no one cares about but you.
I have a list:
- Scarecrow and Mrs King
- The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
- Doyle’s The Lost World
- JAG (not NCIS)
Going through my phone photos, I never before got how much the bottom of my wifi router means to me.
I request that we return to being excited about ringtones.
![1 ‘There follows a public safety message from the Ministry of Taps.’
2 [Show a moustachioed man in a white coat, standing next to a sink with two taps.]
Hello.
3 Here are two beautiful, British taps.
4 Don’t they make you proud? Cold and hot, divided in modesty, as God intends!
5 But in recent years, more and more Britons are using ‘mixer taps’ - a highly addictive form of foreign tap.
6 The great British tradition of washing one’s hands via a weird sort of hot-to-cold dance is under threat. [Show someone doing this dance]
7 The 'mixer' is a gateway tap.
One minute you're dabbling with a dual faucet.
Next thing you know, you're 'dancing with the fisherman's hose'.
[Show one of those big bendy fishmonger’s hoses that people have these days]
8 See here the brain of a healthy, two-tap using Briton:
[Show diagram of a brain with two thirds of it devoted to ‘WASHING HANDS’]
9. And this... is the brain of a ‘mixhead’:
[Show same brain diagram, but the Washing Hands section is replaced with ‘FOREIGN THOUGHTS’]
Remember: Mixing can lead to foreignness and fishmongery.
BRITONS: DON’T MIX YOUR TAPS
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1 ‘There follows a public safety message from the Ministry of Taps.’ 2 [Show a moustachioed man in a white coat, standing next to a sink with two taps.] Hello. 3 Here are two beautiful, British taps. 4 Don’t they make you proud? Cold and hot, divided in modesty, as God intends! 5 But in recent years, more and more Britons are using ‘mixer taps’ - a highly addictive form of foreign tap. 6 The great British tradition of washing one’s hands via a weird sort of hot-to-cold dance is under threat. [Show someone doing this dance] 7 The 'mixer' is a gateway tap. One minute you're dabbling with a dual faucet. Next thing you know, you're 'dancing with the fisherman's hose'. [Show one of those big bendy fishmonger’s hoses that people have these days] 8 See here the brain of a healthy, two-tap using Briton: [Show diagram of a brain with two thirds of it devoted to ‘WASHING HANDS’] 9. And this... is the brain of a ‘mixhead’: [Show same brain diagram, but the Washing Hands section is replaced with ‘FOREIGN THOUGHTS’] Remember: Mixing can lead to foreignness and fishmongery. BRITONS: DON’T MIX YOUR TAPS [Ends]
TAPS
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I screenshotted the joy on my Bsky dash of Artemis II splashing down to remind me of this communal joy — It is a beautiful thing, to celebrate the wonder of human achievement and human emotion.
Reader, I cried.
Watching them move through a decaying orbit, hit the atmosphere and then deploy the Tunnocks Teacakes is pretty fab
Tom Crowley and Viz is the crossover I never knew I needed until this moment!
On the live feed, the Artemis crew and NASA are currently chatting over the radio about moon volcanos. It's a delight.
As good a time as any to say that if you HAVEN’T YET checked out the six episode horror-comedy murder mystery series I made with my friends… it’s all still free to watch on YouTube!
Make MURDER FOR DUMMIES your next evening binge-watch and find out who killed the world’s best loved ventriloquist! 👇
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
Crowley Time at the Soho Theatre! 9:15pm, Wednesday 6th May, it's Link's Gambit with special guests Margaret Cabourn-Smith and David Reed and live sound and music by Odinn Orn Hilmarsson. Hot thrusters! On sale NOW!
sohotheatre.com/events/crowl...
@mrdavidreed.bsky.social @odinnoh.bsky.social
A big industrial drill for boring
Boring
He's the ref.
The sign reads Be Brave Enough To Be Bad At Something New. The basketball looks like an extra from Steamboat Willy, complete with big eyes, white gloves, and blobby shoes. He walks jauntily towards his haunting fate.
My gym has put up motivational posters that feature a cheerful young basketball about to have the worst day of his life.
All the work I did last year was non-union and so my union healthcare hours ran out and now it’s going to cost me a lot of money every month to get my medication and 1) I’m not happy about it, America, and 2) if anyone would like to hire me for a TAG show I am very talented and polite
If anybody would like to commission the TV version of an award-winning independent British sitcom that ran for 4 x seasons, well, I've got one. It's a podcast, you can listen to it right now for free. We still get fan mail and donations every day.
Let's make more narrative comedy, please.
A black and gold cylinder of salted butter made by The Estate Dairy. On the main body of the butter, above 250g, is written CULTURED BUTTER.
New Bluesky bio just dropped.
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
If you were wondering, Marcus Wareing is an anagram of Cream Sugar Win, and Monica Galetti is Atomic Gelatin.
It was time for a little update. Here’s a refreshed Audio Drama Reel, featuring some new work!
It’s really hard to pick just a few clips, but this is some of the work I’m most proud of. Thanks for watching, listening, sharing, etc.
A graphic of a woman in Elizabethan garb that says “Emma Sherr-Ziarko Voice Actor OVCMMXXVI OneVoice Conference”
Sound trumpets! I am thrilled to announce that I’ll be a speaker at the UK One Voice Conference in May in Stratford-Upon-Avon! I will be giving a talk on Saturday, May 16 called- you guessed it- “Audio Drama Around the Globe” alongside rockstar creator and actor @allisoncossitt.bsky.social!
#ovc26
Dear induction hob,
I know you hate it, but sometimes I do need to lift the pan.
It's not personal.
It's pancakes.
We've got an emergency casting on our hands (unpaid)
Looking for:
- 1/F PoC (West/South Asian-North African, though not restricted)
- British Accent (London, RP)
Deadline Feb. 28th 11:59 pm CST
More info:
tinyurl.com/Wftvemergency
#voiceactor #castingcall #voiceover #indie
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For the purposes of this CAPTCHA, please consider the wheels on the bus unconnected from the concept of wheels, round and round, or bus. Please choose all the buses in this single picture of a bus. NO NOT THE WHEELS, YOU ROBOT.
This was a lovely final job for 2025, out now!
Happy Valentine's day to people called Valentine ONLY.
We see you.
You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
Our #newwriting celebration is #comingsoon
The Grandologues are monologues about having or being a grandparent and by some stellar folks-some new 2 writing 4 #audio🎉
Join us and host #jennyrunacre
And groovy VA’s @harrymyersvo.bsky.social @betheyre.bsky.social @felixtrench.com #robcudmore &more
