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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3h

Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about Rocko's Modern Life, Party Animals, the Tazo craze, Cargo by Men At Work and Solitary Fitness - an exercise guide by Britain's most notorious prisoner Charles Bronson...

timworthington.org/2024/11/13/l...

Looks Unfamiliar: Mic Wright – This Is The Kind Of Thing You Do Not Get From Jane Fonda

Looks Unfamiliar with Mic Wright talking to Tim Worthington about Cargo by Men At Work, Rocko’s Modern Life, Party Animals, Solitary Fitness by Charles Bronson, Tazos and more…!

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 16h

This is a really beautiful piece of writing. www.vulture.com/article/wedn...

‘I’m Poking Roadkill With a Stick. Making It Twitch.’

Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman and MJ Lenderman broke up. A month later, she writes in this personal essay, she had to record a love song for him.

www.vulture.com

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 18h

Ha!

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 22h

NEW | On the latest story about students (and sex):

THE KINK IN THE TIMES’ POSITION ON UNIVERSITIES AND FREE SPEECH

Why is a national newspaper obsessing about student societies and quoting extreme pressure groups? I think we all know the answer...

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-kink-i...

The kink in the Times' position on universities and free speech...

Why is a national newspaper obsessing about student societies and quoting extreme pressure groups? I think we all know the answer...

brokenbottleboy.substack.com

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah, I was having fun there!

Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 22h

NEW | On the latest story about students (and sex):

THE KINK IN THE TIMES’ POSITION ON UNIVERSITIES AND FREE SPEECH

Why is a national newspaper obsessing about student societies and quoting extreme pressure groups? I think we all know the answer...

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-kink-i...

The kink in the Times' position on universities and free speech...

Why is a national newspaper obsessing about student societies and quoting extreme pressure groups? I think we all know the answer...

brokenbottleboy.substack.com

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 2d

📜 From the Archives Alert 📜

Seeing how the transphobe charter is now running one of the biggest newsrooms left in America, we invite you to brush up with this old episode we did on Bari Weiss with @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social

E190 - Weiss Pride www.podbean.com/ea/pb-4zzbs-...

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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 5d

This is not just about me or my book. This is about respecting and valuing actual journalism. Our ideas, our contacts, our ethics, our reputations, our hard work – that’s how stories like those in my book first come to light. If you don’t respect or value any of that, what do you respect and value?

Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 6d

A post about Novel Audio, Chris Atkins and their podcast on EMI and Terra Firma.

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Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 5d

The process is the thing. I find it infuriating that people don't understand that. The point of summarising something isn't just to produce an object called a summary, it's to drive your own understanding, and apply your values to the information you're summarising.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 6d

Joanne Sheppard joins me for a chat about Go For It!, What-A-Mess, My Pretty Pony, The Water Babies, The Magnificent Race, Amazon Adventure by Willard Price, Snapper Crocodiles and lots more... including Danny Kendall?

timworthington.org/2024/04/02/l...

Looks Unfamiliar: Joanne Sheppard – A Speaking Wall For Our Times

Looks Unfamiliar with Joanne Sheppard talking to Tim Worthington about Go For It!, What-A-Mess, My Pretty Pony, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, The Water Babies, The Magnificent Race, Amazon Adventure…

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Soluble @solpadeine.bsky.social · 5d

The irony of AI mimicking a 'Leger' painting to illustrate the point. 🤦 Here's "Dans L'Usine" from 1918, where people become machines:

Fernand Leger painting, Dans L'Usine (Inside The Factory) from 1918 where people become machines:

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 6d

Fair point!

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 6d

(Of course, they used AI to write that article too.)

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 6d

This is a list of ways to do a really shoddy job as a journalist. As a friend just said to me, if you get AI to summarise a big report you’re almost guaranteed to miss any story that might be lurking in the detail. www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-can...

15 essential tasks GPTs can do for journalists

No, AI cannot replace original journalism. But it can remove some of the everyday tedium so you can focus on what you do best

www.journalism.co.uk

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 6d

I love that.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 6d

I am not dissing it at all. I LOVE it.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 6d

Walked past a pub tonight where a band of young guys where hacking their way through It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock’N’Roll) and it was a truly glorious thing. You’ve got to especially appreciate how they stuff way too many syllables into a line.

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 6d

How the Boat Race became another chance to bash the BBC - @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social
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How the Boat Race became another chance to bash the BBC

When a simple sports rights story is reborn as an opportunity to misuse the word 'woke'...

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 6d

She was my friend and this is an absolutely disgusting comparison to make.

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 7d

Shame on you for publishing this @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Like Lyra Mckee, firebrand US activist Charlie Kirk died totally unaware of how many ‘best friends’ he had in the world...
Belfast Telegraph 2 Oct 2025 JOHN LAVERTY

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 7d

Shame on you for publishing this @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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JohnnyD @johnnystardust.bsky.social · 7d

Systems failing ordinary people are now a feature not a bug.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve long been fascinated by how employment tribunal awards are reported in the mainstream press. This is a brilliant investigation into how the system is utterly failing people.

Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.

This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards

The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 7d

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 7d

“And now, with five minutes left of the Today programme, we’re going to discuss the nature of the self and whether we have free will…”

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 7d

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