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Co-host of Nothing Is Real … a podcast about The Beatles. www.nothingisrealpod.com
Great to see that the Courts were colourblind in 1932. Otherwise … not so good.
13.10.2025 12:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’ve never made it past the first 10 minutes.
13.10.2025 06:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.
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That really moving Marseillaise scene in Casablanca is now 400% more moving youtu.be/CbWgOpG1988
11.10.2025 21:26 — 👍 180 🔁 78 💬 24 📌 24
This Steptoe & Son reboot looks promising …
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New at #18. It will peak at number two. It flies in the face of nearly every hit single which preceded it. It is the second-greatest single ever made and still only the second-best single in this chart. Laurie Anderson with the immortal "O Superman (For Massanet)":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfp...
Great idea! Count me in.
12.10.2025 13:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Looking at my list we seem to have neglected George so far this year. So as it’s 35 years ago this month that “Volume 3” by the Wilburys was released shall we have a listening party on Saturday?
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She was an incredible artist. I found myself standing next to her outside a gig in Dublin in the late 90s. We chatted for about 5 minutes or so and I’m not sure I’ve ever quite recovered.
If you don’t know it, I recommend her 2018 album ‘Negative Capability’; just stunning.
youtu.be/0LpD0H7Ggoo?...
![As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugcmot4f3ool6cottht63wx4/bafkreierpoqvjgg5hqx3zhtlfmvrfq3vaakb3h5wppcdzrvs5jh3zr7ce4@jpeg)
As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success". When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be. ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich. "Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."
This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
12.10.2025 07:57 — 👍 4101 🔁 758 💬 170 📌 548
UK travellers should expect "four-hour queues" as new EU border system comes into force. Brexit really is the gift that keeps giving
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
1: “Children should be included in the digital ID thing …”
2: “But we have said that smartphones can cause developmental issues …”
3: “Can we just tattoo a barcode on their foreheads …?”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Grateful Dead’s ‘Live Dead’. I was 15 and read about it in a second hand copy of an NME Encyclopaedia of Rock. Didn’t know anything about the band. Everyone around me was listening to Punk & New Wave and I - in my head - fled a decade back and to the West Coast.
11.10.2025 21:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.
Me in conversation with the incomparable Diane Keaton from 2017. It really does feel as if the evening is drawing in.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
I just stumbled across a link to the blog. Haven’t posted in years.
11.10.2025 21:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The worst book I ever read …
oldgodsmadenew.blogspot.com/2017/05/my-n...
Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79
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See more job postings from ICE, courtesy of New Yorker Humor: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/ice-job-postings
11.10.2025 19:30 — 👍 436 🔁 134 💬 10 📌 3Ha! I missed that.
11.10.2025 17:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And this painting is *also* now on display, and on sale, at The Yard Gallery in Sheffield. You can go in and look and buy it and everything. Hours of fun.
11.10.2025 17:44 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Lacking in new material? Beloved by a certain group of people pining for an imagined time long past? Not relevant but trying to cash in on some prior fame?
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The pirate known as “Blackbeard.” Probably because his beard was gray. That’a my initial thought at least
Blackbeard singing in the dead of night
11.10.2025 15:52 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0The hilarity continues, let's laugh the bastards out of power.
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Some Elton John music for your Saturday RS
youtu.be/tEP3m5hI_s4?...
