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Mattzki

@mattzki.bsky.social

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Audiohead. Video refusenik. Formerly BBC/SE/Guardian/News UK. The man in the hills. Yes, I’ve turned off auto correct. Can you till?

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 23d

Hidden Food Tours was featured on Radio 4’s The Food Programme last Friday. It was great hosting Sheila Dillon (the doyenne of UK food journalists) on our #MeltonMowbray tour, and brilliant that she got what we do. Have a listen & come see for yourselves! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Food Programme - Follow the Food: The Rise of Food Tourism - BBC Sounds

Sheila Dillon investigates the growing number of food tours and trails.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 9h

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 8h

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 9h

In today’s Guardian over Ratcliffe’s “You can’t run a club like Manchester United on kneejerk reactions to some journalist who goes off on one every week “” comments is actually quite hilarious. Did he mean you Jamie? Yes, he surely did.

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 9h

Really don’t care what ex-players, bedroom YouTubers, self aggrandising journalists, etc, etc have to say. It’s all about eyeballs and clicks. I follow a few fansites that put everything in proportion, but that’s about it. So to read Jamie Jackson getting his knickers in a twist 2/3

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 9h

I’m a Manchester United supporter. I’ve worked in sports media, managed some of the biggest football podcasts and been responsible for whole station’s podcast output. But I just can’t be bothered with the incessant drama around football any more. Hardly consume any of the crap that comes with it 1/🧵

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Danny @recordsandradio.bsky.social · 20h

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 1d

FAO; @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social www.lincsonline.co.uk/grantham/new...

Drivers warned as bollards cause lorry to become stuck near Asda

A lorry has become the latest victim of metal bollards near Asda today (Thursday).

www.lincsonline.co.uk

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

One of Trump's biggest financial supporters, Timothy Mellon, is obsessed with Earhart .... hence this.

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/u...

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 2d

Opinion | In his commitment to creating a show that puts clickbait and ad sales ahead of public service, he is teaching the rest of the media an important lesson. The great fear is that they learn something from it

🖋 @nickfthilton.bsky.social

Read more: trib.al/JbsdMhl

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 2d

Why did you feel able to nick the original work of a talented journalist? And why did the BBC let you?

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 2d

My favourite Jon Lucien track - purely for his brilliant pronunciation of ‘leisure’ as ‘leeeesure’, which totally throws the rhyme scheme all to cock. And he just doesn’t care.

FIP en direct @fipnowplays.bsky.social · 2d

♪ #nowplaying Who will buy - Jon Lucien (The vibe/Ultimate rare grooves series / Vol5 - 1970) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for having me. It was fun.

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 2d

Pulling up the drawbridge.

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 3d

What. A. Cock.

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 3d

Does it? I made radio docs for the BBC for decades, and podcasts for ages as well. I can only think of a couple of times when I heard of people being ripped off (not by me, I stress).

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 3d

It’s so shit, isn't it? Where in the process did they think ‘fuck it, no one will care/notice if we cut out the guy that actually wrote the book’?

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 3d

Messaged you on Linked In (the platform all the cool kids are using).

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 3d

Looks like a full kit wanker as well.

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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 3d

You *could* listen to a podcast that somehow fails to acknowledge me or my book. But if you value actual research and proper journalism, you can read the definitive account of EMI and Terra Firma here. (Hem hem.) uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 3d

I should point out that these are my responses to the book. D’s writing is entertaining and even handed throughout. Blame posting before coffee. Also; If he consumed all the mad (and no doubt overwrought) media referenced in the book, how his mind’s not rotted competely is a miracle.

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 3d

Finally got round to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social’s excellent history of the ways mankind has been convinced the world will end. First three quarters of the book; weirdly optimistic. Last bit; “Oh my God! What are we doing? We’re all going to die!” #conflicted

Cover of Dorian Lynskey’s book ‘Everything Must Go - why we are obsessed with the end of the world’

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 3d

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 3d

Every local authority has been cut to the bone for years – this is common knowledge - but Grimey and his Reform chums swore blind that £millions were being wasted through incompetence and laziness. DOGE found fuck all - welcome to reality, dickhead.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 13d

There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them

“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”

“But, but he was in UKIP”

“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”

So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵

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