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I got a PhD and somehow I ended up live streaming Dark Souls. Living the dream in west London. He/him and Welsh. (Profile pic is my black cat.)
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All too easy to tap on the wrong part of the screen. Now Reddit thinks I want weight loss ads.

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I once sat next to a surgeon at a dinner, who was upbeat about Brexit because it made international recruitment easier.

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I saw the headline and thought, bollocks. Then I saw the source and thought it again.

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It takes four days of shooting, two weeks of editing, two more weeks of colour grading and visual effects editing, and several weeks of submission to festivals for you to see that seven-minute film you didn’t like very much.

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One of the best holidays I’ve had in recent years was a summer trip through Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Even then Copenhagen was really hot. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Ah, Brendel leaves us. What a brilliant man. RIP.

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Me: The ‘curiosities’ in this antiques shop are interesting. *takes a closer look* Oh. Well.

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A rare copy of the first complete translation of the Bible into the Welsh language, printed in 1588, is to go on display in Wales for the first time

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@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com You were asking about pre-Code Hollywood, and I just remembered Cecil B DeMille’s ‘The Sign of the Cross’ (1932) which in its original cut contains enough nudity and violence to send Will Hays into paroxysms.

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It is our worst tradition, I'll grant you, narrowly edging out white musicians stealing constantly from Black musicians and men pretending that women aren't good at music because the estrogen gets all over their guitar strings and corrodes them prematurely.

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Difficult, as I tend to spread my net wide rather than deep. Also I’m counting “more than five” as five. Italo Calvino Douglas Adams Dickens Enid Blyton (I was young) Bill Bryson Brontë Sisters (I don’t care if that’s cheating) Dorothy Rowe Shakespeare (it counts) Hardy er…

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Michael Sheen was on the cross-trainer next to me once. I wanted to have a chat with him in Welsh, but I don’t know if he speaks Welsh and in any case I don’t speak it very well, so it wouldn’t have been anything but very awkward.

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It would be nice if I could log onto a service provider without seeing a very-very-obviously-AI ‘chat’ dialogue box pop up. Sometimes I feel like typing bollocks into it to throw off the algorithm. “How can I help you today?” “Fishcake Wembley hoity-toity scrunch duckface wank” “….”

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A creepy man steals some papers from a couple of motorcyclists. He is murdered by the police. Meanwhile other stuff happens.

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This can’t possibly go badly.

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Imagine being the woman who posed for this (presumably stock) photo, and seeing where you ended up.

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I absolutely definitely completely didn’t expect this to happen. Nope. Who would have foreseen this? (I’ve muted both their names, but you know who I mean.)

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