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General geekery… In no particular order*: Cats, Theatre, Bicycles, Lighting Design, Swift, iOS dev stuff. *Apart from Cats https://lovely.lighting

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Wheelchair Access, Wheelchair Accessible Toilets, Audio Enhancement System

THE @robinince.bsky.social is a fucking delight and he has an amazing show every day at the fringe at 1.15pm. GO SEE IT, you will love it.

TICKETS: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

10.08.2025 21:30 — 👍 50    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0

Ridiculous situation. A man who has spent the last thirty years being one of the most inventive, prolific and funniest stand-ups out there. You should make a beeline for this, I'd say.

03.08.2025 15:45 — 👍 173    🔁 72    💬 1    📌 0
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Thirty-Two Short Stories About Death in Prison These stories don’t mention Jeffrey Epstein, but they are about him.

I wrote about Epstein’s suicide and how the disbelief about it shows a lack of familiarity with how inhuman America’s prison’s are. It remains one of the things that made people maddest (not saying jail is bad, disbelieving he was murdered).

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

07.07.2025 02:16 — 👍 2066    🔁 381    💬 98    📌 19

Congratulations!

13.06.2025 19:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dexter- the musical?

30.05.2025 19:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

160 years ago Clegg would probably have argued that abolishing the use of slaves would kill the sugar plantation industry in this country dead overnight. I mean it’s just not fair on the plantation owners is it?

26.05.2025 14:55 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Never thought I’d have to go to Wikipedia to check whether a labour prime minister was quoting Enoch Powell’s speech, but here we are: “For reasons which they could not comprehend…they found themselves made strangers in their own country” or Starmer’s “island of strangers.”

12.05.2025 13:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Kinneil brass band playing outside the Barony Theatre in Boness.

The Kinneil brass band playing outside the Barony Theatre in Boness.

A memorable trip to Bo'ness last night for the opening of Sylvia Dow's impressive and moving new play Blinded By The Light at the remarkable Barony Theatre. The play is partly about the lost battle to save the local colliery in 1982 so fitting that the Kinneil Band were on hand to welcome folk in.

07.05.2025 09:40 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Hi there! Would love to join some excellent company here..

07.05.2025 23:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m so terribly sorry for your loss..

06.04.2025 20:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Ian x

30.03.2025 09:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

LAST CALL FOR #REMEMBEREDMUMS

Please could I have any late mothers in by 8 pm tonight (Saturday 29th), so I can finalise the list and get it printed out for first thing tomorrow, cheers.

DMs open until 8 pm. x

29.03.2025 08:34 — 👍 59    🔁 36    💬 14    📌 1
A Polaroid photo from the 1970’s of my Mum wearing an orange jumper, loading hostas into the boot of an orange VW Golf

A Polaroid photo from the 1970’s of my Mum wearing an orange jumper, loading hostas into the boot of an orange VW Golf

Thank you so very much Ian, Mum would have celebrated her 90th birthday the day before Mother’s Day. She would also have been delighted to know that she was being remembered like this. There is such power, beauty and love in what you do each year.
Diana Grounds - Happy Mother’s Day #RememberedMums

23.03.2025 23:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Past Productions - Royal Court

Farewell to Athol Fugard. I looked up the year that Valley Song came to the Royal Court, and memories of those shows came flooding back… royalcourttheatre.com/past-product...

09.03.2025 18:08 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

for "will not be fully accessible" please read as "not even vaguely accessible"...

26.02.2025 16:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Guardian view on AI and copyright: creativity should be cherished, not given away | Editorial Editorial: The government’s consultation was weighted towards big tech. Now is the time for a rethink

This seems pretty rich considering the ink is still wet on the deal #TheGuardian has just signed with OpenAi www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

24.02.2025 19:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The tech companies want this amendment to copyright because they’ve already stolen everything and want retrospective immunity, right? Exemption from the rules cos information wants to be free and all that BS.

Have written to my MP and, again, explained the idea of “property”.

24.02.2025 17:10 — 👍 57    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0

5 minutes on Radio 4 that will have felt like 5 years for all concerned at the Six o clock news, and an unflappable continuity announcer. Just about managing to avoid enough dead air to trigger a Trident Nuclear attack. We’re close enough to WW3 as it is. #Radio4 #Gremlins

24.02.2025 18:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh I’m so sorry for your loss Dan

21.02.2025 23:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Happy Birthday Robin! x

20.02.2025 22:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NPR host Adrian Ma remembers his girlfriend who died in D.C. plane crash NPR host Adrian Ma's girlfriend, Kiah Duggins, was aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River. He spoke to NPR about that night and about his late girlfriend.

“I knew someone on AA5432.”
That was the subject of an email NPR host Adrian Ma sent to newsroom leaders in the hours after the DC plane crash. He trusted us with sharing his story — and her contagious energy.

www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g...

20.02.2025 18:02 — 👍 2025    🔁 385    💬 50    📌 36

We're on @bsky.app! 👋

Follow @cleanbrk.bsky.social for updates on our productions, Members programme, training sessions, campaigns and more...

13.02.2025 11:23 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted In a stunning escalation that confirms our worst fears, the UK government has finally shown its true hand on encryption — and it’s even worse than we predicted. According to a bombshell repor…

Just wrote about the UK Apple encryption mess. This is a BIG deal. It doesn't just apply to the UK. It would be an absolute disaster for online privacy and security. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/07/u...

07.02.2025 20:59 — 👍 772    🔁 386    💬 43    📌 40

Absolutely! The thing I love about your tutorials is how you start with seemingly simple concepts and then dive deep! There’s alway something to be learnt from them!

05.02.2025 22:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is this for universally pushing a message to all users, or for customizing each message per user? If the former you could watch for changes on a CloudKit public container?

05.02.2025 22:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Many happy memories working on the Cherry Orchard with Tom’s beautiful designs, Rory’s words and MB’s wondrous, revealing production.. the first time that I truly understood what all the fuss about Chekov was for.

04.02.2025 22:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Chile-Dish Generate your own completely real Chiles headline.

You can write your own using this site: dixonary.co.uk/static/chile...
Mine are too rude to publish

29.01.2025 23:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This Christmas, spare a thought for the world’s richest man For disruptors like Elon Musk, the statement of intent is all. What happens next – such as running a new US government department – is distressingly boring.

My recent piece on #Musk in the Christmas @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

02.01.2025 18:37 — 👍 510    🔁 148    💬 33    📌 25

Add this to the list, including: planning to allow AI companies to train their LLMs on © protected works for free; and the Online Safety Act that stops the open internet in its tracks, handing control of public discourse to big tech companies. Your private data (and I.P.) is not safe with #labour

02.01.2025 21:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Robin Ince - MELONS: A Love Letter to Stand Up Comedy [TRAILER] HD
YouTube video by The Cosmic Shambles Network Robin Ince - MELONS: A Love Letter to Stand Up Comedy [TRAILER] HD

MELONS! My very sweaty and excited show about comedy is available NOW

m.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Cc...

26.12.2024 18:31 — 👍 40    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 4

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