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Writer, uncle, recuperative multi-generic hybrid, working on lots of things, managing some crap health things, steps and swims at a time. One-time Heffers SF buyer, in another life. London. Home is a WIP, with Shelves and shots and books and stuff. Blimey.
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Whenever listening to someone in the tech world talk about the inevitable dominance of some tech or product, it's helpful to remember that 5 years ago every single one of them said that we were on the verge of everyone wearing VR headsets for work and play.

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Opening up the pod and it’s just Katy Perry and five empty seats.

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Scientists Find Interesting Discovery Oversold Again

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A film shot where I’m from? In 1985 the hospital scenes from Clockwise were shot around what is now Diana Princess of Wales hospital and across the road in the long driveway to the cemetery. The Scartho Road entrance was blocked off for a day or two for the duration of this cinematic feast.

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'Window.' (1856) Anton Dieffenbach was twenty-five years old and still a student at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf when he made this work. It's an extraordinary painting; possibly it is his response to a momentary light effect.

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A 450-yo oak is felled without permission by a Toby Carvery (don’t eat there), who falsely claimed it was "dead". A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces. Legal protection for heritage trees needed. enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...

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As the London event has sold out even though it has been moved to a bigger space I thought I'd flag that there are still a few tickets available for the Manchester launch of my book The Quatermass Experiment which will be hosted by Blue Peter's Abby Cook. May 11th. wegottickets.com/event/654142/

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Had fun interviewing the Sparks bros for this month's Classic Pop cover feature. Out now, if it so please you. #BuyMagazines

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Ok, so managed to miss this yesterday. Again.

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Next time a troll tells you disabled people should get a job, don’t bother typing a reply - just send them this quote from Who Wants Normal? and go and take a nap.

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It’s one of the best, funniest and most poignant opening chapters too, everything growing from and explaining that sentence.

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I just emailed my MP. It was easy and transparent. I urge you to do the same.

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@reecedinsdale.bsky.social Just seen Take Me Home 1989.Beautiful crafted story about clash between industrial Britain and the Thatcherite vision. The inherent dislocation bleeds into the lives of a 50+ taxi driver and a younger woman unsure of her role.Keith Barron, Maggie O’Neil, RD star. Fab.

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Final plug of the day. How Doomwatch could have merged into its television antithesis The Troubleshooters and become a UN agency dedicated to save the environment - and us - (while Doctor Who and UNIT saves us from aliens I guess...) michaelseely.substack.com/p/john-ellio...

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Bring something back.

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Jean Marsh has died at the age of 90. Brian Shuel's 1961 photograph of the actor hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery and is one of the most striking images in the collection

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The New York Times reports that Jean Marsh has died. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/o...

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R.I.P. Jean Marsh. Seen here with Simon Williams in Upstairs Downstairs - The Glorious Dead (22nd November 1974).

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I’ve just lost my lovely gig as TV columnist with The Lady Magazine (which has gone into liquidation). If anyone knows of any writing jobs going, my CV can be found within the realms of my website www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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The only use I’ve seen people defend strongly for LLM generative AI is help with coding. But this looks like a fairly obvious reason not to use AI for coding. Because it doesn’t give a shit about integrity or safety or security, and why should it. And so… what next?

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