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Maybe we weren’t meant to wake up and read 20 terrible things immediately.

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#Edinburgh #film: Space #Broomhouse is hosting their 3rd screening with Local Cinema Network: Sat., 8 March, Broomhouse Hub (79-89 Broomhouse Crescent): French community meal (12:30 p.m.) & 'Ratatouille' screening (1:30 p.m.) Supported by Film Hub Scotland, edinburghfg.bsky.social & WHALE Arts.

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Haya I hope it all worked out for you and you make it back to Glasgow.

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BIG thing i get teased about over the years (in playful ways, it is fine buckaroos, but a light tease none the less) is the DIRECTNESS of my titles. many who stumble upon my books will immediately comment 'the title is so long it just says what happens'. here are some of my thoughts on that...

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Let’s not go back to a time where trans people could not go to work safely, use services that met our needs, or use public spaces freely. Read our thoughts: www.scottishtrans.org/responding-t...

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A lot of people not reading my emails properly before replying today

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NEW: Just 6% of Gen Z say they actually want a dictator – not over half, as has been recently claimed. Our study finds only a very small minority of 13-27-yr-olds really feel this way, when their views and interpretations are tested with different questioning approaches 🧵⬇️

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“Beneath this political football are children who are in the most dire circumstances of their young lives. This is what must remain at the heart of this discussion.” artistsforpalestine.org.uk/2025/02/26/5...

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“So long and thanks for all the fish”…

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wrote about the existential stakes in Greenpeace's ongoing court battle with the Dakota Access Pipeline operators, the future of free expression in this country, and the long shadow of the Standing Rock protests: slate.com/technology/2...

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Stop doubting your creative worth and skill level! There are so many way worse people out there doing GREAT.

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I think what this shows is that most people aren't actually anti-vax, they're just extremely obstinate about being asked to do anything even slightly inconvenient when they don't see an immediate benefit for themselves

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Big AI news - in a joint statement, the culture and tech select committees call on the government NOT to proceed with an AI exception to copyright law for ‘text and data mining’ without greater safeguards. Comments here from both committee chairs:

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This is a disgrace. Hear the evidence in public. Our democracy is not a safe space for parasites www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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You know it’s spring when the roadworks start blossoming

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People laughed when Greg sued Greenpeace in Succession but it’s less funny when a real billionaire does it and gets to pick their own jury

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Don’t fall for this folks. The concessions will be pre planned bullshit, if they ever appear. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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If you have a device that CAN run Apple Intelligence you need to turn this off as well as the general Apple Intelligence setting. Settings > Screen Time > scroll down to Content and Privacy > turn on Restrictions > Intelligence and Siri > turn off the first three options

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1/ If the Government goes ahead with its proposals on AI, it will give tech companies the ability "to take what they like, when they like, without informing or compensating the writers of the work they use to train their models," says WGGB President Sandi Toksvig writersguild.org.uk/copyright-ai/

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Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn. www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...

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The prequel we didn't know we had

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i say this as someone who does research in this field: is it that "no one has any good idea of what to do about it" or that the people with good, effective ideas are ignored and drowned out by people with terrible ideas?

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Great move. Ideally something called Drama Of The Week would run for more than three weeks at a time, so I hope it does well enough for that to happen. LA Productions used to make Moving On for the BBC, so are experienced in low-budget standalone plays. www.advanced-television.com/2025/02/24/c...

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Every defence and security system we have is entangled with the US. Even GPS is wholly owned by the US Space Force. Our intelligence is automatically shared with the US, whose bases here are allowed to spy on our own citizens. So if the US is now an enemy power, the enemy is already here.

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Congratulations to Inverness-born Lesley Little whose story “The Risotto” has won this year’s Granite Noir competition. The grandmother-of-four, who lives in Aberdeen, was told to study something “more practical” than English Literature at university! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/entertain...

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I felt a large part of my remit as a BBC Radio Comedy Producer was to bring the next generation of UK writing talent (of any age). The steady attrition of BBC Radio Drama in recent times is an ominous sign that the BBC is losing sight of its essential mission. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

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Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.

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his mother tells him of me, of cannibal old me; how I am abroad upon the deep, but will yet come back to dance him again

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Tonight’s Sunday musing: Watching a lot of films means I have a much clearer idea of what the United States looked like in the recent past than my own country

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Madness that such an organisation as successful as Nottingham's TV Workshop should be struggling: "Running costs are £120,000 a year – a small figure, even in the charity sector – and £540 trains one child for a year, a minute fraction of drama school fees." www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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You know those people who the Left made go Right? No they didn’t

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Today is Observer Food Monthly Sunday. It's a great edition, so please do pick up a print copy. Here's my column, which went online on Thursday as a curtain raiser: as it says, all the grandiose things I have said across 180 columns, in summary.

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We really don’t. That’s a plain fact www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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#OtD 22 Feb 1943 three German White Rose activists, Christoph Probst, Hans and Sophie Scholl, were executed by guillotine for urging the overthrow of the Nazi government. As the blade fell, Hans called out "Let freedom live!" More on anti-Nazi youth: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-edelwe...

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Saturday mornings were made for horror and coffee #TheMonkey

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The UK's anti-protest laws pre-legitimise far right authoritarianism. Labour must repeal them now. My column today. www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

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