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TV Screenwriter, Leeds - THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR (C4/Starz) Agent/bio: https://www.jtmanagement.co.uk/clients/david-allison/ International Disco King. Presenter of Mondo Pop radio show: http://mondopop.uk
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This is an absolutely brilliant, essential read. How is Baroness Falkner still in a job?

Morley continuing to prove itself as the worst place in Leeds. MBI btw is 'Morley Borough Independents' - yup, it's that kind of awful suburb that thinks it's an independent republic. Urgh.

Marines Raise American Flag Outside Cell Phone Store After Defeating Skateboarding Teenagers theonion.com/marines...

@badmachinery.com Creates stories for a living? Surname Allison? Lives in Leeds? Wait a minute...

The unique thing about Brian Wilson is that he totally defined the musical culture of his era while feeling completely outside of it. Pop is full of oddballs but they tend to live on the margins. His music soundtracked the entire world. RIP dude, surf's up x open.spotify.com/track/7Jljbi...

Feels like a good day to post this. It would've almost certainly been terrible, given the state of Hanna-Barbera in 1977.

Why not cheer yourself up this morning by watching Charli XCX singing Cherry Blossom Girl with Air in Paris a few days ago? The audience's reaction nearly made me cry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XDU...

RIP Sly Stone. For a little while, he was the greatest pop star in the world — a musical revolution who psychedelicised soul and embodied the utopian diversity of the late 60s. This performance, especially when he dances into the crowd, is one of the best things ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sQb...

My wife handed me a clean towel and asked me to “put it in its place.” So, I looked at it and said, “Don’t forget that you’re only a towel,” and I was reminded yet again of just how lucky this woman was to be married to me.

There’s tone deaf…and then there’s the (white male) Times chief music critic bemoaning that the UK’s biggest and best female rap artist should lighten up and stop being so angry cos it’s killing his vibe. How did this get published in 2025? 🤯 www.thetimes.com/article/3a23...

There’s tone deaf…and then there’s the (white male) Times chief music critic bemoaning that the UK’s biggest and best female rap artist should lighten up and stop being so angry cos it’s killing his vibe. How did this get published in 2025? 🤯 www.thetimes.com/article/3a23...

So when do we get @danielgray.com's analysis of this seminal list? (I'd have Murmur at #1, Document at #2 & Automatic For the People quite a bit lower) www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

I know this is bleak news in many ways, and I hate to keep having to say it, but Red stopped being a creative powerhouse years ago when Nicola Shindler and its core creative team left. Red is now essentially Quay Street Productions, who continue to thrive. So it's not quite the news it seems to be.

AI is programmed to lie to us. One of the most disturbing and dystopian things I've ever read about Chat GPT and that's saying something.

arguing that having babies makes you more of a woman, feministly

every year as the median age at which someone is more likely than not to be a transphobe rises, it gets funnier and funnier to claim that the non-transphobes are lacking in life experience

June is Pride Month. Let's call out companies who show support for LGBTQ+ people while also advertising on GB News, a channel that pumps out LGBTQ+ hate. Tell these companies to pick a side - hate or Pride: action.goodlawproject.org/pick-side-ha...

It is worth remembering that the UK press is quite genuinely mad.

If removing queer visibility stopped people being queer, there would be no queer people.

"I've got a brand new content harvester"

but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine

It is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that the new Wes Anderson is a deathly boring, meandering load of piffle. It may well be his worst film :-(

You think you've read bleak AI stories? Well check this one out Google AI essentially prioritises random AI written garbage over genuine reviews from respected critical sources. We have pressed the red button on something that relegates all human endeavour to the bottom of a sludge pile 🤯

Sweet Jesus H Christ, why didn't anyone tell me that one of my favourite directors has made a film about one of my favourite films? Inject very frame of this into my veins. www.youtube.com/watch?v=795B...

Tone deaf to the fact that, for some of us, the hoisting of the bisexual flag is one of the highlights of the political calendar.