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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 13m

Can't believe Ronald Dump didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize.
Turns out that silencing people isn't the kind of peace they were after.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 49m

I generally avoid reality TV, but last night I watched #TheTraitors for the 1st time. It's essentially a sexless Eyes Wide Shut, baroque hotel murder mystery weekend with tons of money chucked at it, right? Also, celebrities dragging a Trojan horse through rural Scotland is classed as... reality?

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1h

Autumn. #NowPlaying Bernard Herrmann film scores.

#cinema #soundtrack #hitchcock

Shot from The Trouble with Harry. Autumn landscape.

Shot from The Trouble with Harry. Autumn forest. Kid approaches with toy gun

Shot from The Trouble with Harry. Autumn forest. Kid approaches closer with toy gun

Shot from The Trouble with Harry. Autumn forest. Kid with toy gun stands over a corpse

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, forgot Yoko Ogawa (loved The Memory Police) and Hiromi Kawakami.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 16h

Just watched Perfect Pub Walks on Channel 4 with Alexander Armstrong (and Chris Packham). Didn't know Armstrong's son is #autistic.
The programme narrator's voice drives me absolutely bonkers, though. He has an intonation range of 1, and it's like he's talking to toddlers.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 21h

#NowPlaying more string 4tet stuff.

Record on a stand: Kronos Quartet performs Philip Glass

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 22h

...Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Leigh Brackett; Hilary Mantel; Elizabeth Strout; Angela Carter; Susanna Clarke; Fran Lebowitz; Sally Rooney; Svetlana Alexievich; Doris Lessing; Gwendoline Riley; Anna Funder; Karen Armstrong; Martha Gelhorn...

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 22h

"Name 20 female authors you admire 1 per day"

I never have the patience for these '1 per day' things, but here's my 20:
Colette; Edith Wharton; Donna Tartt; Olga Tokarczuk; Patricia Highsmith; Margaret Atwood; Virginia Woolf; Joan Didion; Zadie Smith; Dorothy Parker; Iris Murdoch; Mary Shelley...

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

#NowPlaying Bartók. I'm actually listening to the string quartets, but I just love this sleeve #design from the 1950s.

Decca album cover. Abstract black/white/cream shapes with blue lines. Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 1d

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

A handful of big tweeters caused #Scarfolk to go viral and within 6 months I had the first book deal.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 2d

#NowPlaying Vaughan Williams' score for 49th Parallel, which contains a jarring passage that coincidentally sounds like it's quoting 'We've Only Just Begun' by The Carpenters.
There should be a word for this.
Another springs to mind: Sweep (as in Sooty & Sweep) talking in a Herbie Hancock track.

movie poster: 49th Parallel with Leslie Howard and Olivier

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 2d

Every year, without fail, people post birthday messages to a guy I know on Facebook, despite the fact that he has neither posted nor responded to their greetings, in 16 years. One always says, 'maybe we'll finally get to meet up again this year'.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 2d

So, even if your books were exploited by #Anthropic, you're only eligible for a payout if your work was registered in the US.
Typical. The rest of the world doesn't exist.
$1.5billion is going somewhere, but it ain't to millions of non-American authors.

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 3d

A few of Strasbourg cathedral's gargoyles keeping an eye on things yesterday...

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 3d

#NowPlaying "Please Touch My Horn, Lady"

#jazz #milesdavis

Record on a shelf: Miles Davis - Porgy and Bess

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 3d

My music app's auto-tagging function thinks this guy is avant-garde, minimalist composer Terry Riley (or free jazz trumpeter Don Cherry).
Terry looks about right, though.
Terry Coxbottoms from Wigan, whose pub-circuit/wedding singer name is Terry Cherry.

Some middle-aged cross-eyed country-looking dude with black acoustic guitar

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, I'm aware of that, but if he had received a diagnosis back then, it would more likely have been named as asperger's. Even my official diagnosis letter (from 2021) mentions the term asperger's.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 5d

I just watched a documentary on Edward Hopper. Couldn't make eye contact; isolated himself; detail focused; experienced social discomfort; signs of depression.
Another one for team aspergers/ #autism?
#asd

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 5d

Good night from sleazy Camelot

purple motel room with fake beams, fake windows and coats of arms

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 5d

ouch

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 6d

You've no idea how painful it is for me to admit these things, how deeply guilty I feel. I feel like I'm a destroyer of cultural heritage. They are impossibly lucky/rare finds that have survived the decades/centuries... until I came along

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 6d

I'm a bit of a jinx in this regard.
I recently picked up a cheap print from a flea market. The seller didn't realise it's an original 1930 cinema window card worth 100s. As I was carefully removing it from the damaged frame, it snapped and crumbled with the lightest touch (high acid content).

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 6d

Life gives you things then takes them away.
- Found a large, old travel poster in a charity shop. 5 quid.
- Turns out it's a 1905 original. One sold in 2012 for nearly 3 grand.
- I stored it to await framing.
- Silverfish/paperfish ate it.
- Now it's worth 5 quid. At a push.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 6d

You know you're getting old when the dream job you wanted as a teenager is now on the list of Critically Endangered Crafts (matte painting, filmmaking)

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