Mel Selfe

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Lots to love in this list. Particularly, a well deserved Silent Film Hero win for HippFest’s Alison Strauss!

Hippfest’s Sweet 16: Check out the lineup Great news from the north, as Hippfest today launches the lineup for its 16th festival, taking place next month: five days of silent film, live music, workshops, talks and a chance to do the Charle…

Whoop whoop it’s Hippfest lineup announcement day! silentlondon.co.uk/2026/02/04/h...

It’s a really lovely festival, with a unique venue and atmosphere. Looking forward to meeting you.

Oh fabulous! I saw you in the programme, but didn’t realise you were coming in person.

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

These are lovely. I’m sure the bookshop I worked in the early 90s still had some of the main jacket style. The things you dust regularly and count in multiple stock checks lodge firmly in your brain.

Happy Birthday to TV. Television turns 100 today!

Excellent decision! You don’t need a lamp. You most certainly do need that lamp.

Entire bus busnapped! You just know this started with an argument between the driver and his supervisor about this not being the shift he agreed to.

Tank Man - Wikipedia

The use of AI is one issue, and this image could be made in other ways. But no, this image does not need to be labelled as ‘fake’. It is explicitly referencing its extremely famous source and is not trying to pass as real. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

Sad news: Gregory de Polnay, Dixon of Dock Green regular and the incomparable D84 in Doctor Who’s Robots of Death has died aged 82. He was a lovely man and an excellent actor and renowned drama teacher.

the innovative thing about "ai" is that you no longer need a real chortlemuffin to get started

There’s always Alan Clarke’s original. The killings don’t have a classroom setting and it clocks in at under 40mins. www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/439410...

This is utterly depressing. It’s bad enough finding AI hallucinations in the reference lists in my marking pile.

Wales’ first UNESCO City of Literature: Aberystwyth Ceredigion joins global network of Creative Cities | UNESCO in the UK Today, 31 October 2025, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, has become Wales’ first UNESCO City of Literature…

The glory that is my hometown—Aberystwyth. Wales’s first UNESCO City of Literature. Y peth gorau!

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Sorry to hear that. Bad grandma!

Same. Also, I think you are underestimating grandmas here!

When you’re done, cleanse your soul by watching Jane the Virgin. It fixes everything that is rotten at the heart of GG.

Official Top 40 best-selling songs of 1989 1989 saw 18 songs reach the summit of the Official Singles Chart, and the biggest of them all was Ride On Time by Black Box. The Italo-house group topped the chart for six weeks with their breakout hi...

Curious to see that the only point of overlap between the 1989 UK and US top 20s was Milli Vanilli. www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...

Caught both of these at a film noir festival in Weston-super-Mare last November. A total revelation.

On tonight at the Bo’ness Hippodrome! www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/whats-on/tas...

And yes, Scotrail Wifi is indeed shit.

The Cloud is not our friend.

Oh no. By the end if a PhD it’s much more suspicious if someone isn’t talking to themselves in filenames, margins and Post It notes plastered on the wall in front of their desk.

YouTube video by MariVision Parody Song by Elaine C Smith & the cast of Naked Video ''Sell Your Cardboard Box'' from 1989

Given the H&I connection, I think you definitely need this. m.youtube.com/watch?v=hbc7...

Humanities and social sciences are being systematically gutted while STEM disciplines rediscover their half a century-old research insights and pass them off as their own

Highlighted quotation: “As an economist, Low searched for a more precise term to describe how she and other working moms often find themselves stretched for time and energy. She came up with “the squeeze”, and it’s backed by data that shows how women often get burnt out trying to manage competing demands at home and work, especially when they are parenting young children.”

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

PPC Commentary: How Much Television Have We Lost? Over the last few days friends, I’ve been down a deep, dark and honestly, fairly mysterious rabbit hole. I suppose, I should also add, it’s a bit of a depressing one too. You’ve been warned. The current state of the world leaves plenty of room for this column to take a detour, but fear not, I’m onto my usual wackiness. …

PPC Commentary: How Much Television Have We Lost?

Over the last few days friends, I’ve been down a deep, dark and honestly, fairly mysterious rabbit hole. I suppose, I should also add, it’s a bit of a depressing one too. You’ve been warned. The current state of the world leaves plenty of room for…

I feel your pain. Once we know The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong existed, we can never not ache to see it.