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Marc Burrows

@20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk

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Writer/musician/comic. Pratchett biographer.✏️: Guardian, New Statesman, Big Issue, Independent, Radio Times & more. Used to work at Twitter. Always writing a book. NIRVANA — A detailed guide to the band changed everything OUT NOV 30! He/Him 🏳️‍🌈

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Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 5d

I can only speak for myself. But I do, indeed, know Birdhouse In Your Soul. Obviously I do. Although I don't think that proves anything.

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Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 5d

The first write up of Mistletoe & Vinyl was in, and it's LOVELY. You know where to go if you want to get hold of one. www.hintonmagazine.com/post/the-sto...

The Story of the Christmas Number One – A Cultural Obsession in Vinyl and Glitter

Every December, Britain turns its gaze towards the charts. For a few weeks, the pursuit of the Christmas number one single becomes a national sport. It is a competition that has drawn in rock icons, m...

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 6d

Sophie Ellis-Bextor hits out at transphobia: “These people make trans people their whole personality and spend their entire day being angry” 💯

“There was a time when Pride felt like a celebration of the shoulders people were able to stand on, but now it feels like an absolute political necessity”

Sophie Ellis-Bextor hits out at transphobia: "These people make trans people their whole personality"

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has criticised increasing levels of transphobia in the UK and overseas in a new interview.

www.nme.com

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Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 6d

I keep reading that em dashes are a “big AI tell” and now i’m worried everything I have ever written is AI because I bloody love an em dash.

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Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 9d

“Did you like Andor? No, it was Star Wars. Really good to be fair”.

Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 9d

“Have you got ChatGPT?”

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Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 9d

MAFS but it’s for men over 35 looking for other men to be friends with.

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Dining Table Discworld @dtdiscworld.bsky.social · 9d

Our Hogfather episode references:
- @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk 's Terry Pratchett show, since 2 quotes he uses early on are from this book
-How to stop future humans from tampering with nuclear waste
-Nightmare Before Christmas
-Live Aid, which might have aged badly
-so much Christmas stuff

Dining Table Discworld @dtdiscworld.bsky.social · 17d

Hogfather
Death is covering for a festive figure. Despite wanting to be normal, Susan investigates the Hogfather's disappearance. Meanwhile the wizards find household spirits popping into existence. We discuss Christmas - er Hogswatch- traditions, & cool mythic stuff.
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Dining Table Discworld - Hogfather

Death is covering for a festive anthropomorphic personification, coming down the chimney with presents, a cushion up his robe and attempted jollity. Despite wanting to be normal, Susan investigates wh...

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Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 11d

Drums. Drums in the deep.

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Joanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social · 14d

Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the railway by travelling via Euston

Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights. Depiction of utter chaos, a hellish mass of bodies careering into each other

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Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 18d

TBH, if it was going to happen anywhere, Holland and Barrett is probably the safest space to drop a conker.

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Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 19d

In England we call it Paracetemautism.

Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 23d

Although I'm tempted to boycott it if they don't bring Steve Whitmore back.

Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 23d

Like all Muppet revivals (except the 2011 movie, oddly) this will be roundly panned as sub-par when it comes out, and then about five years later everyone will realise it was genius. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t...

Seth Rogen Revives ‘The Muppet Show’ as a Disney+ Special Starring Sabrina Carpenter

The 2026 event is meant to serve as a backdoor pilot.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 26d

This thread tells me we, perhaps unsurprisingly, have exactly the same taste in Suede songs.

Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 28d

Although every time he refers to Starmer as a “slaaaaag” it does endear him to me a bit.

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Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 28d

“All the great unwashed as I call em, the lefties, they’re all calling us Nazis when who’s the ones who want to kill all the Jews? It’s them”. This is fascinating.

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Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 28d

“That Charlie Kirk, what a shame”

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Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 28d

On a train from Victoria into Kent for my gig. Wall to wall rancid gammon from the march on here. Cockney geez in the next seat keeps talking about “leftist slags”, “the mainstream are covering up the march”, “the Daily Mail let us down when it turned on the Southport protesters”. Proper funny.

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Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · Sep 11

Turns out that one can both abhor political violence and also be pretty pleased that a cunt is dead. Human brains, eh?

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Frankensorrel @sorrelish.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · Sep 6

Linehan is a very specific case of internet derangement syndrome where peoples brains are boiled by being terminally online. I've seen a lot of this over the 20 years of social media. Where people seem to take a turn at some point and fall down a deep well. Gemma is another example 2/

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Sep 6

muppetebbtide on tumblr: "scrolled past the new chappell look too fast and thought it was rincewind"

fortjester replies: "hang on lemme look smth up"

fortjester then posts side by side images of chapell roan in yellow and pink and Discworld's Rincewind.

"yea alright that's funny"

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Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · Sep 6

Glinner is actively insane. He's a literal mentalist.

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Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · Sep 5

And Eugene Levy, obviously