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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 1d

So proud to have been involved in Close, the Citizens' Young Company show about the legendary Close Theatre.

On until Saturday.

Close | Citizens Theatre citz.co.uk/whats-on/clo...

Close | Citizens Theatre

Young Co. takes you on a journey back to the legendary Close Theatre as we look at the heritage of the Citizens Theatre.

citz.co.uk

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 2d

Drinking the @stfermentations.bsky.social Foreign Extra Stout I've been saving. Crikey that's a good beer.

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 20d

Listening to Dubnobasswithmyheadman by @underworldlive.bsky.social
One of my favourite albums of the 90s
So many memories
Mostly wasted

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Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 25d

Here's a thing that's probably right up your Straße, you big mad oddball.x

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 28d

This poem made me laugh:

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

@strangehorizons.bsky.social

A Distressing Absence of Eyes

Hello! Impoliteness is not intended.

strangehorizons.com

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · Sep 7

I just re-read The Shield of Achilles by WH Auden. My god that is a great poem.

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · Sep 3

Applications open for Company of Wolves' Autumn ongoing training group:

Movement and Voice Lab - Autumn 2025

Movement and Voice Lab - Autumn 2025

MOVEMENT & VOICE LAB AUTUMN 2025 Five evening sessions of weekly training Tuesdays 30 Sept, 7, 14, 21 & 28 Oct from 18:30-20:30 Queen's Park Govanhill Parish Church 170 Queen's Drive, Glasgow G42 8QZ

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · Sep 2

What a gent he was.

Giles Havergal obituary

Giles Havergal obituary

Artistic director of the Glasgow Citizens theatre with a reputation for extravagant productions and a daring repertoire

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · Aug 31

Frankly if he wants to eat 'bread' that is mainly composed of flour enhancers and xanthan gum, he's welcome to it.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · Aug 31

The Stupid-title of Stupid-titles.

Dan Brown's new novel will be called THE SECRET OF SECRETS. What is he, nine?

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · Aug 29

Lyn Gardner on the difficulty of building on EdFringe success buff.ly/b6MTU6F

Lyn Gardner on the difficulty of building on EdFringe success

Every year there is truly excellent work on the fringe, which deserves to be widely seen. But that’s getting harder, says Lyn Gardner.

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · Aug 28

Yes. The change is that back then this claim sounded less cuckoo than now, not that it was true!

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · Aug 28

When buying an apartment is becoming impossible, we need to start discussing what went wrong.

"The main argument defending
capitalism is that the poorest
of every generation are doing
better than they were before,
and living standards always
increase. That is no longer the
case as now we have the first
generation where everybody
is expected to be poorer
than their parents."
.
- David Graeber

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · Aug 28

Nearly finished reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss; near the end, this:

"the key virtues of the internet are that it is not controlled by anyone, cannot be used as an instrument of oppression and is endlessly inclusive"

Written in 2003.

Times have changed a bit.

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · Aug 28

"reckless moral dwarves looking to make money off a convincing mimicry of thought and feeling."

Brilliant, furious and incisive; from @albertburneko.bsky.social

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Butlerian Jihad Now | Defector

Maybe some things should not be simulated. That is my takeaway—one of them, anyway—from a Tuesday New York Times story by Kashmir Hill about the death by suicide of a California teenager named Adam Ra...

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · Aug 28

What idiot called it a bikini wax and not Bush Administration

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · Aug 28

I suspect that if they sell AI agents to enough people, the tech companies will degrade or impede direct internet access: so those who don't use AI agents can't conduct their lives; in the way that people who don't use the internet now can't conduct their lives.

Am I wrong?

@edzitron.com

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Aug 15

Data, striving to represent, can never keep up

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · Aug 15

Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice. Life – evolution – the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy – existence itself – is essentially change.

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · Aug 24

The Fringe 12:

Going home on the train, humphing a giant duffel bag, looking forward to being home for a while.

It's been fun.

Now I need a rest.

Look out for The Bacchae on tour next year.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Sep 22

The creative team of ALIEN (1979) were bound together by the film’s central question, first posed by H.R. Giger while he was getting double-teamed by two trans girls on acid:

𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙗𝙤𝙮 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙩?

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · Aug 22

Overheard at the interval of Figures in Extinction:

"Did you like that? It was sort of depressing."

Possibly the title should have been a clue?

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · Aug 22

The Fringe 11:

I have been reading The Dispossessed, by @ursulakleguin.com, a novel that contrasts a capitalistic, authoritarian world with an anarchist one.

Both these systems: anarchist freedom, and capitalist exploitation, are present in the Fringe itself.

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · Aug 21

I saw this yesterday.
Absolutely brilliant.
Go. See. This. Show.

Josie long @josielong.bsky.social · Feb 28

My new show NOW IS THE TIME OF MONSTERS is touring this autumn. Tickets are onsale now at josielong.com and you should come. It’s going to be really good:

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · Aug 20

The Fringe 10:

Is it just me, or is it weirdly quiet this week?

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · Aug 18

Thanks for this article today
@lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social
It has definitely felt like a struggle for audience this year, and it is useful to hear that this is something a lot of companies are feeling.

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