"The story we received is not the one the original writers intended to tell. It’s garbled, like a scratchy transmission on a ham radio, but I still heard it: You’re not alone."
@dodgyboffin.com on Pixar's Elio as a story on community and coming out sanded down by corporate interests:
"While it’s easy to despair about the whole AI epoch, with Norwood being held up as the freckled face of progress, at least there are the YouTube comments to cheer us up..."
This feels like MORE WORK
FOR MOTHER by Ruth Schwartz Cowan, which explored the irony that many of the technical advances in housework and the kitchen did nothing to ease the burden on women but instead increased it.
My humble submission to the new Bank of England with concepts for the new bank notes to please both sides.
Fuck AI. Write an absolutely banging short story with your own glorious brain.
The Writers' HQ Write A Short Story Festival is in April and you should definitely join us writershq.co.uk/festivals-ch...
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How do we alert the international space station that their piss tank has a slow leak? 😳🛰️💛
“Theatre is about its workforce"
Equity has responded to a report from the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre which shows the West End generated £1.08 billion in revenue and an increase in audiences last year. 👇
www.equity.org.uk/news/2026/un...
They've realised they have no hope of it performing convincingly alongside actors, so they've pivoted to novelty music act?
we dare you to find a museum more ready
Blow me down with a feather, seems the government are leaning on the scales to justify denying treatment to trans people. It’s Cass all over again.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-nhs-en...
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I think every single day about “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”
I mean, in Campbell’s case the thing to really fear is being hit by his plate when he hurls it at you in the studio because he’s in a mood and thinks BAs and runners are acceptable targets. Odious arsehole of a man, treats junior staff like shit and - as so often with ‘talent’ - gets away with it.
The troubles
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If you know or encounter any disabled people who might be considering using AI to fill out their PIP claim paperwork, please do them a favour and pass on that this is NOT a good idea
"Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Met an auld lad earlier who told me his family dog ran out on to the set of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965) during filming in Smithfield, Dublin, and his family all went to see it to see their dog on the big screen.
Excellent. Now let's tackle the real problems kids are facing. Putting back all those closed youth clubs, sports centres, arts projects etc would be a good first step...
Gee, and you would have expected that She Who Must Not Be Named would attract only the best people 🤷♀️
Very funny that there's a typo in this describing it as "the steaming event of the decade".
Peter Bradshaw is unimpressed by PHM, which means I will love it. He's truly the most useful film critic [for me] in the U.K., since we have unfailingly opposite tastes. Anything he likes, I'm guaranteed to hate, and vice versa. 🤷♀️😂
I spoke too soon...
So sad. And yet so uplifting.
this is the most Not Fucking Around anything has ever been. I can’t wait to see it, but I ALREADY agree that crypto is a massive scam, so I also can’t wait until the people this movie is trying to convince also see it and at least some of them hopefully rethink everything about themselves
If I was working for a site that tackled entertainment news like this... look, I know jobs are scarce, but I'd be thinking very carefully about my choices in life.