Ewan Spence
@ewanspence.co.uk
Scottish storyteller in online, media and tech; podcasting, smartphones, music, Eurovision, retro gaming, Scotland's baseball scorer, (he/him), #freelance #cats #podcaster #smartphones #forbes #eurovision #music #EliteDangerous ewanspence.co.uk/blog
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Ewan Spence
@ewanspence.co.uk
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Blog: ewanspence.co.uk/blog
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About Me: ewanspence.co.uk/blog/about-ewan-spence/
Signal: tinyurl.com/exs-signal
About Me: ewanspence.co.uk/blog/about-ewan-spence/
That cancelled show you’ll never stop thinking about. The time is surely right to bring back a long-form six-part British Cop show in space?
December 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
That cancelled show you’ll never stop thinking about. The time is surely right to bring back a long-form six-part British Cop show in space?
When did Chippys move from fryer at the back to fryer at the counter?
Just saw this excellent photo of a Glasgow High Street chippy from the 70s on the Lostglasgow FB page and felt the need to share it.
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
When did Chippys move from fryer at the back to fryer at the counter?
Hold on, why is Sanremo Artistic Director Carlo Conti singing at Melest?
Heat 1 #melfest
Junior Lerin
Copacabana Boy
Junior Lerin thinks this uptempo song is going to be hotter than a Finnish sauna
Junior Lerin
Copacabana Boy
Junior Lerin thinks this uptempo song is going to be hotter than a Finnish sauna
December 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Hold on, why is Sanremo Artistic Director Carlo Conti singing at Melest?
Who's up for a little festive podcast from myself and the @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social team. Join us for the pun-laden "We Three Things" show during December, as everyone in the pod-family talk about what makes their Christmas special. open.spotify.com/episode/6T8V...
KXP: Introducing "We Three Things, A Very Keep Watching Christmas Special."
open.spotify.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Who's up for a little festive podcast from myself and the @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social team. Join us for the pun-laden "We Three Things" show during December, as everyone in the pod-family talk about what makes their Christmas special. open.spotify.com/episode/6T8V...
This is not on individuals; this is the institutional approach to information and understanding in the machinery of government. And this is the level you can expect on investigation, understanding, and mitigating issues around, say, the implementation of the Online Safety Act.
OBR PDFgate investigation is out. obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
obr.uk
December 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This is not on individuals; this is the institutional approach to information and understanding in the machinery of government. And this is the level you can expect on investigation, understanding, and mitigating issues around, say, the implementation of the Online Safety Act.
$6.6 billion would let you hire a *lot* of translators, dubbers, and editors. And a lot more accuracy as well.
The new edition of Forbes magazine just dropped - the cover story is on two 30-year-old entrepreneurs from Poland, who sick of bad movie dubbing, built their own voice AI model. Today, it's worth $6.6 billion, they are new billionaires & are beating Silicon Valley's tech giants
December 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
$6.6 billion would let you hire a *lot* of translators, dubbers, and editors. And a lot more accuracy as well.
When you are convinced the answer is to add an AI feature to notepad.exe, you should look carefully in the mirror.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
When you are convinced the answer is to add an AI feature to notepad.exe, you should look carefully in the mirror.
December 1st. I guess it's time to"spoil the ballot paper" and listen to Last Christmas immediately.
a group of people are walking through the snow with skis .
Alt: a group of people are walking through the snow with skis .
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
December 1st. I guess it's time to"spoil the ballot paper" and listen to Last Christmas immediately.
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And now for some of my very favourite Smol Paul moments in no particular order, starting with the first ever yeet
November 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
And now for some of my very favourite Smol Paul moments in no particular order, starting with the first ever yeet
8pm GMT!
It's this Saturday!
Ahead of this weekend's Third Edition of Pan-ArcticVision, @philjdore.bsky.social invites artistic director Amund Sjœlle Sveen onto the podcast to talk about songs, politics, and representation. escinsight.com/2025/11/28/e...
November 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
8pm GMT!
There's more than one song contest to go around... especially i you head north this weekend! Phil Dore and @escinsight.com talk to the team behind Pan-ArcticVision to find out more.
Ahead of this weekend's Third Edition of Pan-ArcticVision, @philjdore.bsky.social invites artistic director Amund Sjœlle Sveen onto the podcast to talk about songs, politics, and representation. escinsight.com/2025/11/28/e...
Eurovision Chat Over Coffee, with Pan-ArcticVision's Amund Sjølie Sveen
Pan-ArcticVision logo; as ESC Insight interviews the artistic director Amund Sjølie Sveen.
escinsight.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
There's more than one song contest to go around... especially i you head north this weekend! Phil Dore and @escinsight.com talk to the team behind Pan-ArcticVision to find out more.
This is the establishment that has put all its faith in the Online Safety Act and "knows" that system is absolutely safe and secure.
wait that was it? I.....don't really think anyone from the OBR should be in trouble in that case?
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
This is the establishment that has put all its faith in the Online Safety Act and "knows" that system is absolutely safe and secure.
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Watching Columbo for the first time and as someone with a working class chip on his shoulder, seeing all these smug, monied elitists sneeringly underestimating and then being utterly destroyed by a shabby, brilliant little guy is absolutely cathartic.
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Watching Columbo for the first time and as someone with a working class chip on his shoulder, seeing all these smug, monied elitists sneeringly underestimating and then being utterly destroyed by a shabby, brilliant little guy is absolutely cathartic.
Missing your baseball? Why not join me in 1947 as I climb into the Press Booth to broadcast the St Louis Browns at the Philadelphia Athletics. This is the fourth pilot episode of Classic Baseball Radio, recreating games to listen to on your "modern AM radio" www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0P6...
Browns At Athletics, June 25, 1947 (Full game re-enactment, Pilot Episode)
YouTube video by Ewan Spence
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Missing your baseball? Why not join me in 1947 as I climb into the Press Booth to broadcast the St Louis Browns at the Philadelphia Athletics. This is the fourth pilot episode of Classic Baseball Radio, recreating games to listen to on your "modern AM radio" www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0P6...
I mean, if they wanted to have some fun, call it Heathrow...
The Dáil has heard a suggestion that Dublin Airport be named after the former Taoiseach Sean Lemass.
Any counteroffers?
Any counteroffers?
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I mean, if they wanted to have some fun, call it Heathrow...
Cliff, we'll remember you through your songs for a long time to come.
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Cliff, we'll remember you through your songs for a long time to come.
Perfect skeet, no notes.
Welp this is my new ringtone
Now we’re in 2025 😂
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Perfect skeet, no notes.
I am not Charlie Brown' he said. 'My name is Peter; I inherited the Charlie Brown Christmas Special from the previous Charlie Brown, just as you will inherit it from me.
Verify our range to target. One ping only please, Charlie Brown
Bullshit, I bet you could suck a golf ball through a garden hose, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I am not Charlie Brown' he said. 'My name is Peter; I inherited the Charlie Brown Christmas Special from the previous Charlie Brown, just as you will inherit it from me.
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
There are proposed rule changes for Eurovision 2026, designed to ease concern over the results and various actions in 2024. Will they be enough for the EBU members, broadcasters, delegations, and the wider community? Ben Robertson explores the changes and their potential impact.
New voting reforms introduced by the EBU promise stronger rules covering manipulation, promotion, enhanced security and expanded juries, all designed to protect the Eurovision Song Contest’s integrity. But will these changes be enough to rebuild confidence? escinsight.com/2025/11/22/e...
Eurovision's Voting Reform Overhaul: Is It Enough To Save The Contest?
Eurovision Song Contest Trophy, 2025 (Photo: EBU/Corrine Cumming)
escinsight.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
There are proposed rule changes for Eurovision 2026, designed to ease concern over the results and various actions in 2024. Will they be enough for the EBU members, broadcasters, delegations, and the wider community? Ben Robertson explores the changes and their potential impact.
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"Imagine the person you disagree with most in politics...
"Imagine what they could do with this type of [Digital ID] system if you didn't have the right safeguards in place."
"We don't have a written constitution that has privacy protections."
🗣️ ORG's James Baker
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
"Imagine what they could do with this type of [Digital ID] system if you didn't have the right safeguards in place."
"We don't have a written constitution that has privacy protections."
🗣️ ORG's James Baker
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Digital ID cannot be saved, MPs told - 'no one believes it's about immigration'
Campaigners told the Home Affairs Select Committee that voters are 'up in arms' about the proposals and do not believe it is just about tackling illegal migration
www.mirror.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"Imagine the person you disagree with most in politics...
"Imagine what they could do with this type of [Digital ID] system if you didn't have the right safeguards in place."
"We don't have a written constitution that has privacy protections."
🗣️ ORG's James Baker
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
"Imagine what they could do with this type of [Digital ID] system if you didn't have the right safeguards in place."
"We don't have a written constitution that has privacy protections."
🗣️ ORG's James Baker
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
"Even long shots make it in..." That they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T68...
Del Amitri - Don't Come Home Too Soon (Official Team Scotland Song World Cup '98)
YouTube video by DelAmitriVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
"Even long shots make it in..." That they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T68...
"Guaranteed paid work" FTW
Congratulations to Lilith Allen, the winner of this year's 2000 AD Writer Talent Search competition at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social! They'll get guaranteed paid work turning their "Creature Featurette" pitch into a Future Shock.
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"Guaranteed paid work" FTW
Today's exercise is to find the most "average" game of baseball between 1960 and 1964. Nothing spectacular, no first, no anolmalies, just a run-of-the-mill game. I'm still in the early stages of the baseball radio recreations, I don't want to 'burn' something interesting. Find me vanilla ball
November 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Today's exercise is to find the most "average" game of baseball between 1960 and 1964. Nothing spectacular, no first, no anolmalies, just a run-of-the-mill game. I'm still in the early stages of the baseball radio recreations, I don't want to 'burn' something interesting. Find me vanilla ball
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New #KeepDancingPodcast is here! Featuring vest semiotics, reasonable workplace adjustments and oops all lifts?
#SCD #Strictly
#SCD #Strictly
KDP S10 E8: Not One Of The Big Weeks
An unofficial fan podcast, celebrating the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing.
soundcloud.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
New #KeepDancingPodcast is here! Featuring vest semiotics, reasonable workplace adjustments and oops all lifts?
#SCD #Strictly
#SCD #Strictly