"Give my home away cheaply". Christ.

"Formerly respected" would be more correct.

Airlines demand UK relax noise rules and cut flight tax as fuel shortage looms Ministers also asked to alter compensation rights and suspend emissions trading scheme amid Middle East war

Seriously, get stuffed airlines.

An AI-free OS for an AI-free product line with a written guarantee from Apple not to insert AI into users’ devices at a later date.

And a robot ran a marathon. Do humans stop running?

Stories are founded in humans, not in machines.

As a dramatist I was aware mobiles suddenly became a story element, but never really helped the story, always a lazy device. Writers often avoid the necessity of employing them. LLMs will go the same way. There'll be a year or so of ubiquity, then writers will edge away and find routes around them.

I'd like him more if he'd said sure come on over and had the handcuffs waiting as he got off the plane.

Buying a new laptop for what I mentioned was a "European tour" I got incredible attention from the young sales assistant. Understanding that I was being projected on as maybe a bass player on a comeback gig for some 90s troupe, I confessed it was a writing tour. The attention diminished rapidly.

list of the top grossing movies of 1972: 1 The Godfather Paramount $86,300,000 2 The Poseidon Adventure 20th Century Fox $42,000,000 3 What's Up, Doc? Warner Bros. $28,000,000 4 Deliverance $22,500,000 5 Jeremiah Johnson $21,900,000 6 Cabaret Allied Artists $20,250,000 7 Deep Throat Bryanston $20,000,000 8 The Getaway National General $18,000,000 9 Brother of the Wind Sun International $12,000,000 10 Lady Sings the Blues Paramount $9,666,000

i want people to look at this. look at the kind of movie that used to be successful mainstream, middlebrow entertainment.

A bit of joy for ye.

But that's a good thing to those guys, no?

These are great tips which I will carry with me through the day.

Some of the fantastic comments on YouTube for our award winning short film #Safe. It’s great to get this from out to a wider audience. Thanks for watching and sharing.

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Today. Bring on the punks.

Rachel Reeves warns other budgets may be cut to lift defence spending Chancellor says she is ‘working through a range of options’ to boost the armed forces but does not want to put up taxes

Rachel Reeves warns other budgets may be cut to lift defence spending.

Hitting the old, sick, disabled, public services doesn't produce a resilient society. How many will die?

Govt created £895bn QE to rescue banks, why not the same to rebuild society?

2010-2025: HMRC didn't collect £500bn tax.

BlueSky HQ right now.

Bluesky HQ right now

Trevor was a terrific writer. I met him twice, the first time as a young writer to whom he was very encouraging, the second as an established writer with whom he was very pissy. Kind of loved him both ways.

Another way of framing this is that a system of universal healthcare, irrespective of its great cost, is actually economically beneficial.

Please do, enjoying them hugely.

If just one gets it, that's job done.

Here's hoping. I need to do Bicycle Thieves with him on celluloid before I shuffle my coil, that's a hard line for me.

Ha. Yes there are limits.
I've managed to engage with some YouTube clips of Lol Chaney as wolf man, but a whole film of grey? Not a chance. Tried Hard Day's Night recently but was on the lego within minutes.

Oh man, I'm on this with my 7 year old. How do we get them there? He doesn't even see them as B&W. Anything not colour he sees as "grey". "But it's grey, Daddy.".

Good call.

I'm guessing Gordon Brown?

Edinburgh (from Salisbury Crags), 1927, painting by William Crozier (National Gallery of Scotland).

A heart-breaking moment captured in an SS photograph of a group of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz II-Birkenau in or around May 1944.

A child found a flower & is giving or showing it to an older boy.

All the people in the picture were murdered in a gas chamber moments later.

#YomHaShoah

Thank you thank you x