Me, defending a PhD chapter draft: “my prose is floppy on purpose so as to remain ungovernable”…

This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely

I’ve mulled over posting this for months now. But yesterday it came to a head. And I’m aware that the people who need to see it will either not be here, or will suggest that I’m lying.

I live near an asylum hotel. The reason I didn’t post earlier is that I didn’t want to raise undue attention

Brilliant yes I had just listened to the podcast with Gary when I saw this post, hence the comment! 🙌🙌

I wonder if much of the joy I feel reading your novels comes from how rarely you seem to agree with your own politics, and how present I think those disagreements are in the books. Anyway, nice that you are on here!

Oh hi Iris!

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Hang on, I thought AI’s were going to create unfathomably riches for everyone involved?! Beyond the dreams of avarice?! And they can’t get someone to invest and help them remunerate copyright holders? Weird.
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Iris Murdoch

They're arresting 90 year olds for holding placards on the same day that the leader of a political party is proudly doing Nazi salutes

What has become of this country? 🇬🇧😥

(2/2)… at which point Clooney turned to the young actor and whispered “I’m… a GOOD cunt”.

I have a very reliable source says that Mr George Clooney was once in a car on the way to work on a film set in Glasgow, with a nervous younger actor. They overheard the local driver saying into his phone “yeah yeah I’ve got that cunt Clooney in the back… no… no he’s a good cunt…” (1/2)

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

Amsterdam: sound of children playing not a valid reason for complaint, say experts Sports advisory group says outdoor activity is vital for health and calls for bylaws to be changed to silence moaning neighbours

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Some news from Wick: last weekend we held the first public sharing of the Toll project, an exploration of the impact of COVID on the Highlands, through an archive of inscribed hand bells. Here we see David Snoo Wilson revealing the final bell of the project, cast from Bronze on the harbour front.

What a jar!

A friend of mine, while studying architecture, was in a lecture hall that was told by a famous visiting architect that “all really great buildings leak”

Don’t know that one I’ll look it up!

Totally. I think some folk seem to just be done with the format altogether as well and just want to move to insta or something rather than a Twitter2. Which I can understand.

Still very echoey in here but not much feedback.

Ah yes Richard X!

That was when unlikely cover versions and mashups were very in. Bands like Nouvelle Vague… but I have files from then of the vox from “I wanna dance with somebody” laid over Kraftwerk or an amazing one of “rock with you” over “under pressure” which is bizarrely excellent.

I know at least one guy who would definitely buy a book about how you can stop 5G with coconut oil.

Of course. Of course.

Incredible “soon to feature in live broadcast helicopter footage with troopers from three states and a ‘Bruce if you’re listening we just want you to come home’ press conference from a desperate wife” vibes.

Ice

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Dunning Kruger?