Mike Radcliffe
@artbizness.bsky.social
Still just about an artist and a poet. Mostly a plumber. Tired a lot.
Here to share knowledge & connect.
Here to share knowledge & connect.
That's one giant man for a moon leap.
i wish neil armstrong had brutally flubbed the moon landing line. that's one small step for moon. one small step ON moon. for a man. one giant man.. 's leap. one GIANT LEAP for moonkind. moon man. one giant moon for manmind. you can hear buzz rollin around in the lander, just howling
December 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
That's one giant man for a moon leap.
Another sleepless night FFS. So fed up with being ill...
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Another sleepless night FFS. So fed up with being ill...
Just ordered a load of Christmas cards from @gailmyerscough.co.uk whose cards are the best I've found. Still got some from previous years, but she does update the designs.
Support small businesses and all that.
Support small businesses and all that.
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Just ordered a load of Christmas cards from @gailmyerscough.co.uk whose cards are the best I've found. Still got some from previous years, but she does update the designs.
Support small businesses and all that.
Support small businesses and all that.
You're just imagining it Dr. Parnassus.
Films that are gaslighting you
🎬The Good, The Bad and The Don’t You Think You’re Overreacting
🎬Burn After Reading Way Too Much Into This
🎬Catch Me If You Can You Hear Yourself?
🎬The Unbearable Lightness of Being Way Too Sensitive
🎬Taken (Things the Wrong Way Again)
🎬Love Actually I Never Said That
🎬The Good, The Bad and The Don’t You Think You’re Overreacting
🎬Burn After Reading Way Too Much Into This
🎬Catch Me If You Can You Hear Yourself?
🎬The Unbearable Lightness of Being Way Too Sensitive
🎬Taken (Things the Wrong Way Again)
🎬Love Actually I Never Said That
December 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
You're just imagining it Dr. Parnassus.
If you see this, quite post with your model of positive masculinity
December 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If you see this, quite post with your model of positive masculinity
Reposted by Mike Radcliffe
The Matthew effect (or cumulative advantage) describes the tendency of people who already have money or status to accrue yet more money or status. A poetic German phrase that sums up the concept is der Teufel scheißt immer auf den größten Haufen. It means "the Devil always shits on the largest pile"
December 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The Matthew effect (or cumulative advantage) describes the tendency of people who already have money or status to accrue yet more money or status. A poetic German phrase that sums up the concept is der Teufel scheißt immer auf den größten Haufen. It means "the Devil always shits on the largest pile"
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Smack my ass and tell me I’m a pillar of this community.
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Smack my ass and tell me I’m a pillar of this community.
Sleepless in Streatham.
I don't do sleepless, but when I do, it's Marks & Spencer's waxing gibbous spangly anxiety fever dream racing demon sleeplessness.
I don't do sleepless, but when I do, it's Marks & Spencer's waxing gibbous spangly anxiety fever dream racing demon sleeplessness.
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Sleepless in Streatham.
I don't do sleepless, but when I do, it's Marks & Spencer's waxing gibbous spangly anxiety fever dream racing demon sleeplessness.
I don't do sleepless, but when I do, it's Marks & Spencer's waxing gibbous spangly anxiety fever dream racing demon sleeplessness.
Reposted by Mike Radcliffe
Reposted by Mike Radcliffe
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
No shit.
I've been utterly floored by this virus since last week. Haven't been at work for a week, I'm just too wiped out.
As a PSA, if you catch this don't try to push through. You won't do it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I've been utterly floored by this virus since last week. Haven't been at work for a week, I'm just too wiped out.
As a PSA, if you catch this don't try to push through. You won't do it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
London sees surge in 999 ambulance calls as flu season takes hold
The service says calls increased by 20% in the past week, fuelled illnesses such as the flu.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
No shit.
I've been utterly floored by this virus since last week. Haven't been at work for a week, I'm just too wiped out.
As a PSA, if you catch this don't try to push through. You won't do it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I've been utterly floored by this virus since last week. Haven't been at work for a week, I'm just too wiped out.
As a PSA, if you catch this don't try to push through. You won't do it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I think Madgwick is having an episode. #UniversityChallenge
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I think Madgwick is having an episode. #UniversityChallenge
I really hope the other team lose for just jabbing the buttons like lunatics. I had to leave the room, it was doing my head in. #OnlyConnect
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I really hope the other team lose for just jabbing the buttons like lunatics. I had to leave the room, it was doing my head in. #OnlyConnect
Watching "Love After Music" on Nettus Flickus. Been saving it for a rainy day and it's better than I'd hoped.
And yes I do know the back story.
And yes I do know the back story.
December 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Watching "Love After Music" on Nettus Flickus. Been saving it for a rainy day and it's better than I'd hoped.
And yes I do know the back story.
And yes I do know the back story.
Your regular reminder as you look out the window and curse the grey skies and sideways rain stair rods.
That is England.
That is what it's *supposed* to look like.
That is England.
That is what it's *supposed* to look like.
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Your regular reminder as you look out the window and curse the grey skies and sideways rain stair rods.
That is England.
That is what it's *supposed* to look like.
That is England.
That is what it's *supposed* to look like.
The judges decision on Strictly feels like a mercy killing TBH. Poor Alex pretty much stated that she was absolutely knackered and didn't have anything left in the tank.
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The judges decision on Strictly feels like a mercy killing TBH. Poor Alex pretty much stated that she was absolutely knackered and didn't have anything left in the tank.
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“I’m sorry Mr Betjeman, but I couldn’t find anything that would meet your requirements of friendliness and mass destruction. Which one would you like me to prioritise?”
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
“I’m sorry Mr Betjeman, but I couldn’t find anything that would meet your requirements of friendliness and mass destruction. Which one would you like me to prioritise?”
Dr. Who has not "gone woke".
It always was.
This is why we loved it.
It always was.
This is why we loved it.
"If I could leave, I would... if only to get away from people like you."
"Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos" episode 1 (1971). #DoctorWho
"Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos" episode 1 (1971). #DoctorWho
November 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Dr. Who has not "gone woke".
It always was.
This is why we loved it.
It always was.
This is why we loved it.
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Through his life and extraordinary talent, the immigrant and refugee child Tomáš Sträussler who became known to us all as Tom Stoppard made British theatre and this country a better place to be.
You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.
You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Through his life and extraordinary talent, the immigrant and refugee child Tomáš Sträussler who became known to us all as Tom Stoppard made British theatre and this country a better place to be.
You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.
You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.
Surprised they're still letting David Walliams on TV.
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Surprised they're still letting David Walliams on TV.
Not wrong.
So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Not wrong.