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Nem @emmatypesstuff.bsky.social · 4d

"I want to go check how many people died in Hamlet" is the new code for 'after dinner snooze' #TheTraitors #Traitors #celebritytraitors

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Maddy Moore @chunchilla.bsky.social · 26d

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 27d

Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know)

Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 27d

Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know)

Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you

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Maddy Moore @chunchilla.bsky.social · 28d

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 28d

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 28d

Brilliant piece on the casual erasure of of a female artist from a landmark moment in pop culture. And the answer to the question, Why don’t Peter Blake’s other album covers have the power and impact of Sgt. Pepper?

Michele one L @michelehowarth.com · 29d

Years ago I wrote this piece about national treasure and dreadful old c**t Peter Blake. Have just dredged it up for my new best friend @typetheclouds.bsky.social who had the good sense to buy my fucking book™ at the Hastings book fair.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/ja...

The Curious Case of the Disappearing Artist

We all have pet causes. Mine include Amnesty International, Yorkshire Cat Rescue and re-writing the artist Jann Haworth back into art history.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · Sep 6

Saw Ben Wheatley's new film Bulk last night, made in secret, using obsolete S-VHS cameras, iPhones & VFX made from Airfix kits ordered off the internet. The end credits, hand-drawn by Wheatley, offer instructions on how to do the same at home if you want to. This is the anti-AI art we need.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Sep 5

How media works: In its haste to fawn over and elevate far-right agitators, the BBC yesterday platformed a high profile insurance fraudster.

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Maddy Moore @chunchilla.bsky.social · Sep 3

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/we-...

WE SHOULD HAVE NEVER WALKED ON THE MOON | Southbank Centre

www.southbankcentre.co.uk

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · Aug 26

On the set of 1968’s “Planet Of The Apes”, Hollywood 1967, by Dennis Stock.

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Maddy Moore @chunchilla.bsky.social · Aug 19

Criminal 😒

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · Aug 19

On BBC Breakfast shortly to talk about the National TV Awards nominations.

Adolescence is up for New Drama, with Stephen Graham and Owen Cooper up for Drama Performance.

Nothing for Erin Doherty, though.

Maddy Moore @chunchilla.bsky.social · Aug 14

But why are they not all by open submission? Just yet again perpetuates the same gatekeeping/who you know culture that is so limiting.

Maddy Moore @chunchilla.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · Aug 13

Sex-reversal in birds (genetically male/female but appear female/male) is surprisingly common. Best detail: A genetically male bird called a laughing kookaburra had recently laid an egg. (1/2)

By @phiejacobs.bsky.social on @science.org

‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests

Survey of five Australian avians finds numerous discordant individuals, including a genetically male bird that had laid an egg

www.science.org

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Maddy Moore @chunchilla.bsky.social · Aug 14

Five years on, we look at the state of arts funding and realise that this wasn’t a suggestion… it was a threat.

Maddy Moore @chunchilla.bsky.social · Aug 14

2020:

2025:

Young Global Majority woman sitting on a bench putting on her ballet shoes. Caption says ‘Fatima’s next job could be in cyber… (She just doesn’t know it yet)’

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Maddy Moore @chunchilla.bsky.social · Aug 14

2020:

2025:

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Maddy Moore @chunchilla.bsky.social · Aug 14

As usual… Lyn is bang on the money… if there was any money left. 😓

The Stage @thestage.co.uk · Aug 11

“Starved of investment, British theatre has been cut to the bone. On the fringe, you can see the bones, and you can see them crumbling in front of your eyes.”

Polished fringe shows from overseas shine an ugly light on UK arts funding, says Lyn Gardner 👇

Lyn Gardner on underfunded home-grown shows at Edinburgh Fringe

At Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the gap in financial support between overseas and home-grown companies is increasingly evident in production values, says Lyn Gardner

www.thestage.co.uk

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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · Aug 8

Something I've been thinking about AI recently is that it is actually solving a problem that human beings have been wrestling with for centuries or maybe more.
It's filling in the gaps.
Blank page, it fills in the gaps.
Don't understand, it fills in the gaps.
Bored? It fills in the gaps.
But..1/

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Aug 8

You know that classic Edward Hopper painting evoking isolation and despair? We used AI to make it look terrible for no reason

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Maddy Moore @chunchilla.bsky.social · Aug 6

So sorry for your loss. She was brilliant.

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Maddy Moore @chunchilla.bsky.social · Aug 6

Oh gosh! An absolute legend and one of my favourite lecturers at Central. How sad. RIP Sally 💔

Ross Brown @profrossbrown.bsky.social · Aug 6

Sally Mackey — dear friend and colleague for 30+ years. A driving force in Drama Ed and Applied Theatre and one of the architects of Central as a modern HE drama school that trains practitioners, educators and thinkers under one roof. I’ll miss the long calls, the wine, the cookery tips. RIP.

Maddy Moore @chunchilla.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · Aug 5

I snorted

r/NoStupidQuestions u/Brief-Cut-1228
Who is actually against women being topless if they want to be?
It has always puzzled me why it is illegal for women to be topless if they want to be especially in the correct settings like at the beach or pool and or other places where generally it is ok for guys to not wear a shirt.

RedSonGamble
My pastor said we only cover women's breasts in public be god made the areolas to appear like giant eyes to ward off predators. Since women usually have larger ones this can cause panic and fear in horses

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Aug 2

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

$[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]$

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · Jul 29

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

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Maddy Moore @chunchilla.bsky.social · Jul 30

Writers connected to Hull assemble! 🥳

Middle Child @middlechildhull.bsky.social · Jul 29

New! ⚡ Applications are now open for seven paid commissions at Fresh Ink: Hull Playwriting Festival 2026, for any writer with a meaningful connection to Hull: freshinkhull.co.uk/apply

Apply Now. Fresh Ink Hull Playwriting Festival 2026.

70-min: For experienced playwrights, who have had at least one 30-minute show professionally produced. Two commissions available. Fee: £5,155

30-min: For writers who have not yet had a play of over 30-minutes professionally produced. Two commissions available. Fee: £2,578

Monologue: For writers who have not yet had a play of over 30-minutes professionally produced. Three commissions available. Fee: £750

Who can apply?

Any writer over the age of 18 with a meaningful connection to the city of Hull, who can demonstrate why their script makes sense appearing in a festival that develops grassroots work in the city.

Deadline

Friday 12 September 2025

Find out more

freshinkhull.co.uk/apply

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Stephen Joseph Theatre @thesjt.bsky.social · Jul 30

Brilliant writers opp - applications for the 2026 @middlechildhull.bsky.social Fresh Ink: Hull Playwriting Festival are now open! 💥

Middle Child @middlechildhull.bsky.social · Jul 29

New! ⚡ Applications are now open for seven paid commissions at Fresh Ink: Hull Playwriting Festival 2026, for any writer with a meaningful connection to Hull: freshinkhull.co.uk/apply

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · Jul 30

I know it is probably mean to go on about this but I am obsessed with this quote, now being deployed in the Godot publicity! truly nothing against Sam Mendes but he’s not a particularly important theatre director!!

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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · Jul 29

Ireland can be a country IF south east London pubs stop serving Tayto.

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