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Gareth Edwards

@garethmedwards.bsky.social

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Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping producer, writer, passionate defender of nuanced complexity, skilled pancake artisan.

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 11h

This is such a valuable public service.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 20h

I saw this and immediately thought, this film has got me written all over it.

Photo of a piece of cling film which I have written the word 'me' all over.
Sorry.

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 6d

This is magnificent!

Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 8d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 7d

Surely nobody expects the Spanish explanation of the origins of the C of E?

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 9d

www.worldofmoose.com/products/the...

Cartoon. William Shakespeare stands proudly in front of rows of shelves presenting a number of woks. Caption: The Complete Woks of Shakespeare

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 9d

Moose, shhh! You can’t say anything these days because of wok.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 11d

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 14d

Ruin a book with a car:

A Prius for Owen Meany

Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 15d

Gwych!

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 15d

“I’m trying to find a monastery where all the monks are over six foot five”
“That’s a tall order”

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 15d

But surely also yes!!!

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15d

These very true words from Steve Hely have given me tremendous comfort over the years.

Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 16d

Also check out the story of when the Wye Parish church fell down.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 21d

Coming soon from @christhebarker.bsky.social and me...

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Pickwick The Dodo @lesleyhustler.bsky.social · 18d

This is very powerful. #MentalHealth

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18d

The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 21d

Weirdly the third foot has the stress reversed. “bloom the”.

Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 21d

Such a breathtakingly beautiful poem.
Do you read it as “barred” or “barrèd”?

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 21d

Written 206 years ago today.

• John Keats •

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 22d

Aardman presumably gutted to have missed out on this title.

"It's a smashing machine, Gromit!"

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 25d

The IMAX poster for Benny Safdie's ‘THE SMASHING MACHINE’ starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt.

Early access screenings September 22, expanding everywhere October 3.

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 22d

Excellent! Thank you.

Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 22d

Which brand is best do you think?
(I appreciate in an already fractured world you may not want to polarise vegan sausage opinion).

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 24d

In London, hate will never win.

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 23d

“When you’re getting in the way, call it a day.” As per Mitchell and Webb… share.google/SaBZYXxgck31...

share.google

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 26d

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.

As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

Letter from Ed Davey to Keir Starmer condemning Elon Musk for inciting violence and urging unity to defend democracy.

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