leedsjourno.bsky.social
Former radio news ed. Proud to have *trained* 400+ journos. Reviewer, traveller, observer. Loves #radio. Likes wine, art & sunshine. Needs coffee
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We defected to the International for a while .. as I said to Ralph, the Kash hit a rocky patch just after the pandemic .. but found we were routinely outfaced by big portions and we missed the simplicity across the road
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Can't beat it. Went through a rough patch but recent visits have been excellent.
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Nationwide
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Depends on the mood of the crowd in Wetherspoons
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But there'll be a bike shed so everything's good
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True. They're going to have another pointless expanse of concrete very soon with the taxis banished under the dark arches .. and foreign tourists can have fun playing the "find the airport bus" game half way to the Corn Exchange
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Does have a "we knocked the station down so you're getting off your train through the fire exit" vibe about it, tho? Now with added security gates.
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Eventually .. and too late .. we'll all realise Vampire Big Tech can only exist by stealing and monitising other people's creative effort. It's too late now for journalism. Let's not lose music too.
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Cracking move! Booked.
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Surprise!
bsky.app/profile/brad...
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Very few museums in the country that represent the life of 'normal people' in history. Such an important museum in my view to understand our society.
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Yep .. three out of four were Dickie alumni :).
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Hard to conceive now .. but for all its faults LOP/Northern Star was the *only* consistently available platform for alternative voices in Leeds at the time.
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Because it's intrinsic to prioritising the individual and personal over the collective .. "People can't park there but I can because I'll only be a couple of minutes".
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Well it's very pretty (and I'm going to be there on Friday) but the video gives me no idea what to expect ....
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People used to put all kinds of bullshit in (paper) press releases and journos were rightly castigated by critics if we just reproduced the contents parrot fashion without interrogating the source.
A tweet is no different.
This special status for anything posted on the internet has to stop.
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Mine was only pensioned off on Christmas day. Only six years old and on its second battery but I can't begin to express how much I dislike touchscreens.
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I mean they've also knackered chocolate oranges by hollowing out the segments and I'll never forgive them for that but this is fresh indignity.
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The most BBC thing about that exchange is assuming (correctly?) there will be a policy document somewhere