I Just Wanna Be A Winner Never mind Blur and Oasis – the real chart battle was between Swap Shop and Tiswas…

Never mind Blur and Oasis - the real chart battle was between Tiswas and Swap Shop...

timworthington.org/2024/11/11/i...

BBC Radio 2 11h• Bet you never thought you'd see Bob Mortimer doing the conga with THE Gloria Estefan Gloria Estefan celebrates 40 years of The Conga

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I’m a neurology ICU nurse. The creep of AI in our hospitals terrifies me - Coda Story The healthcare landscape is changing fast thanks to the introduction of artificial intelligence. These technologies have shifted decision-making power away from nurses and on to the robots. Michael Ke...

here's the blog post
www.codastory.com/surveillance...

Joan is fundraising to help support this trial taking place in Norway

The people behind it are sound and the science looks promising so whatever the results we will learn more about ME/CFS. From the pilot it looks there may also be a real chance of a treatment for some

They get *everywhere*. Hoicks bosom.

Thank you, I am.

Is that Brighton? I once* lost my footing in Brighton.
*many times.

our cat Charles with Villager, shortly after it was published

How A Publisher Almost Killed The Book I Waited My Whole Life To Write: a thread

My novel Villager came out in 2022. It was published by Unbound, who had little marketing/sales power. But I was excited & proud, since I worked so f-ing hard on it.

Here's an extract: www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...

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Or, if that’s too challenging, watching it on catch-up just before the next episode.

🚨WOS’ response to the recent Senedd debated petition calling on the installation of Swift bricks in all new buildings in Wales.🚨

The Annals of the TERF-Wars So, yesterday this turned up in my feed, which struck me as something of an, um, mispresentation… and somehow, I ended up writing my own version of how this whole thing went down… &nbsp…

The annals of the TERF wars
janeclarejones.com/2018/11/13/t...

teashoesandhair on tumblr: "Stellar conversation on BBC Wales today" Caller: I live in America now, since the '80s, but I'm visiting family in Wales this week, and I thought I'd ring in. Host: Why did you move from Wales to America? Caller: I actually moved because of a woman. Host: Who's the lucky lady? Caller: Margaret Thatcher.

WW2 Spitfire had to do emergency landing as engine stopped A safety notice is now in place following the emergency landing in West Hythe.

Bit amazed by this bit:

'Investigators said they found a degraded gasket had created a fuel system leak, which caused the power loss.

The agency found the system was "at least 70-years-old and its last overhaul date was unknown"'

My family & I are still processing the events of the past 24hrs. There is so much to say; for now I will keep it brief:

Juan was observing the situation at the ICE detention facility alongside other elected officials. He was in a designated protesting area & was standing peacefully when video shows

Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming is a long, hard slog The Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, who sounds like a sneeze and reads like a fever, is on a mission to build our collective stamina. His novels have always resisted easy interpretation, with t...

And here’s the also excellent @john-self.bsky.social from our pages

The trapper and the trapped The Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai has only lately become known to Anglophone audiences, through the masterly translations of George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet. Work written and published in ...

Nobel to Laszlo Krasznahorkai! Want to know what the fuss is about? Here’s the excellent @harikunzru.bsky.social writing about him in the Spectator a few years back

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THE • LONDON ECONOMIC If you want your country back, go ahead and take it, There are signs up in every street about what your town needs help with, Local litter picking groups are always on the lookout, The library needs volunteers, the youth clubs need a paint job, The community centre's desperate for folk to come on weekdays To play board games with older residents and help out in the café, The rape crisis centres need fundraisers and donors, And drivers are in dire need to get non-drivers to doctors, The library needed volunteers all summer, did you go there? The local football clubs need coaches and lines-folk and referees, The allotments need looked after, the local parks need planted, And if you don't want to help with anything above, Just admit you do not give a sh*t, and shut the f*ck up.

This 👇🏻is what people should be promoting; Community. Not fighting over ownership of a flag that represents one part of the UK

Fascinating & delightful stuff from @nicwilson.bsky.social!

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Ian Dury - England's Glory
"Frankie Howerd, Noel Coward and garden gnomes
Frankie Vaughan, Kenneth Horne, Sherlock Holmes
Monty, Biggles and Old King Cole
In the pink or on the dole
Oliver Twist and Long John Silver
Captain Cook and Nelly Dean
Enid Blyton, Gilbert Harding"
#IanDury

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

'London, a view of Somerset House seen through an arch of Waterloo Bridge' (c.1865) by Henry Pether

(Private collection)

Used to sell broken biscuits by weight in Woolworths. Came in a big, square metal tin with a glass window in so you could see how broken they actually were, which was usually not very. Until we weighed them out, anyway.

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Higher Than The Sun Higher Than The Sun by Tim Worthington – the story of Screamadelica by Primal Scream, Foxbase Alpha by Saint Etienne, Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub, and Loveless by My Bloody Valentine &#…

Higher Than The Sun. The story of four albums released late in 1991, and how long before Britpop, Creation Records took on the world and almost won. Paperback (15% off code PRINTPROJECT15) or Kindle from here.

timworthington.org/books/higher...

'Across from Battersea Park (Autumn)' by Jonathan Stewardson
jonathanstewardson.com

👤 @jonathanstewardson.bsky.social