Chris Roberts

Sadly everyone should probs read this. Personally I'd have the people responsible locked up but is, coincidentally, the very worst example of stuff Ms Virginia Woolf wrote about (as mentioned earlier) in connection with fascist enablers in the 1930s. And I was having such a nice Sunday.

A peerless bit of wireless (Guy Garvey's second half interview with Lisa O'Neil) that made me v jealous of him. Also on peerless stuff pages 194-198 in copy of Ms Woolf's Room of Own / Three Guineas that address the modern social media / media condition perfectly. Feeling mildly humbled tbh

Nah it's just an advert for writers who've run out of ideas for their next story. Where is it again?

Cycled down Wyndham Road past the art "phenomenon" to Sainsbros b/c COOP out of lea & perrin sauce. Saw a bunch of latin American types hopping with umbrellas outstretched practising a folk dance under a walkway of Castlemead Estate. SE5 all life is here etc.

Thinking Allowed - The go-along research method - BBC Sounds Laurie Taylor explores the value of research done in informal settings and on the move.

Oh and more boss wireless from this Koppite horror..worth it for the "politics of getting lost"
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I read that Rossiteroty and went to happy place of Miss Jones & Reggie Perrin is missing so, er, ta for that.

dog smiles and barks

I know I stole this and I know it means I was tricked onto that site but this properly gets it right.

John Cooper Clarke – Euro communist/gucci socialist for a modern home and cheap electricity / streamlined functional neat simplicity / put yourself on the slum clearance / dial a dialectical materialist / find out what your net

Again found self using phrase cultural hegemony (shoot me now) Made me think of this excellent poem by John Cooper Clarke
i like to visit all the big cities
museums and municipal facilities
i strive for critical ability
i'm alive in a new society
i arrive quickly quietly
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Oh shame did think pretty unlikely tbh but will scan through at some point. Thanks again for link overall though. On a rainy day in Camberwell it'll provide some entertainment.

London After Midnight (film) - Wikipedia

more on etc JR Hartley writes mildly disappointed that no one picked up on the story written up in One Eye Grey mag about a (fictional) showing in Notting Hill this century...
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oh my ( vis @victorianlondon.bsky.social ) in the sci fi bit there claims to be a copy of the legendary lost film by Tod Browning London after midnight. *plans viewing*
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fair point on the radio school but doesn't stop children accessing web, using email or forming discussion groups online. It does pause the dangers and manipulations of globally powerful companies to do harm. I think there is enough evidence of the danger to act (however imperfectly).

ohh ta my mum had the Manchester version of that early this century via a foaf "don't travel to Manchester on etc". Yours is earliest version I've heard.

railton road from my great LTNs of South London series of postcards

Atlantic Road Brixton

Ohh lovely. May reissue my postcard series....

Shallow bit of me earlier reflected that maybe the 6/7 minutes of "my" slot on C4 Bridges of LDN prog edited out b/c they got last minute chat from Mandelson on his grandfather & Waterloo Bridge will be restored. #mundaneunderthecircumstances

nothing says welcome home better than heavy rain from a darkening sky over Croydon after leaving the pristine blue sky and shimmering white caps of the Atlas mountains this morning.

Then again have just got out of v hot, v deep stand alone bath where I nursed a large Jameson whisky, read a bit of Virginia Woolf ( 3 Guineas lit types) whilst idly listening to call to prayer so, you roundabouts & swings.

Any of you vexed at my snide Marrakech post recently might enjoy the fact that it is pissing down and cold I got soaked in the Souk b4 and after going to the really very good photo museum and (attn foodie types) ace Cafe Nomad. Whose staff on seeing our soaked bedraggled entrance offered blankets

The days are filled with birdsong and the nights enlivened by a pack of wild dogs raving outside the walls of our 'compound'. Inside cats and politer dogs roam alongside two donkeys and our gaff seems to have a "pet" locust. All life is here etc.

Sitting on balcony looking at the snow covered Atlas mountains whose cold breath I can feel on my toes yet only a few minutes ago on other balcony, better located for sun at this time of day, nearly fell asleep in the heat. All in all not too shabby.

I feared that. It's b/c minxy didn't get her say isn't it?

Victims of Algorithmic Hyperreality: AI, Disinformation, and Violence — Repro Uncensored How algorithms, disinformation, and generative AI distort reality after state violence, rewriting truth and turning victims into targets.

There I was happily feeding foxes and my mate (proud father Julian) sends me article by his daughter. It's v clever and well researched but saddened me when I learned fellah* that shot Ms Good has a gofundme going. *Jonathan Ross traitors baddy & murderer.
www.reprouncensored.org/research-ove...

Bluesky decides. Just threw some old meat* & bones out front for foxes but mostly aimed for next door b/c they have slate covered bramble patch and we have bulbs coming up. Missed mostly tbh but am I totally evil, totally not or a mix?
#mundane

*not suitable for Minxy despite her opinions.

Also for phrases "wine mum" and "vodka aunt".

Strong Message Here - Are You a Stupid Person? (with Natalie Haynes) - BBC Sounds Blaring subtext, flimsy reasoning and hypocrisy - do politicians think we're stupid?

This is good radio but from 20 minutes in comparing Carney Speech to Trump's is world class. From Eurydice to wood chip mulched by hamsters.

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Whereas if it was a lee anderson kind of day you'd be in the teeth of etc

*unfollows* you'll be telling us next why elephants have big ears.

*He's not late he's a red from Liverpool 8 and both of us had 'friends' who took NF leaflets then rounded on ppl giving them out when they had a go at us.
**New M&S, regular restaurent/fast food shuffle but Socialist Party GB HQ still there shouting (gently) revolution

5 from (rtn to SW4 work edition) 1) ran into old student by coincidence b4 even got there 2) still cold and staff grumbling 3) happy to see some ppl I'm really proud to know 4) bonded with L8s* Paul Smith over going to footy on Merseyside in 80s with NF outside ground 5) High Street changed loads**