Charlie Connelly
@charlieconnelly.bsky.social
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Stage haunter, writer, Addick. Attention All Shipping live show coming to a theatre near you as long as you're near a theatre where it's on.
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keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Update: two book sales in eighteen days. "The end of the work is the possibility of connection, that the book, if it has been made well, might become 'a site of exchange', that it might have use and value to others, whether the others are many or few."
longbarrowpress.bsky.social
One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, stacked on a diagonal, spines facing outwards.
charlieconnelly.bsky.social
The Attention All Shipping show at Otley Courthouse on 28 November has sold out so quickly we’ve added a matinee. I know! Lots of people realising a longstanding ambition to see me in court, it seems. otleycourthouse.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
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davidandress.bsky.social
So much of political discourse now, across the West, boils down to "Be realistic, our policies have to have SOME evil in them!"

And if you say "No they don't", you're a dangerous extremist.
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charlieconnelly.bsky.social
Hitting the road with the absolute ship show again next week, kicking off with a return to the Cutty Sark next Friday. Not only a magnificant venue but the ONLY LONDON SHOW for the foreseeable. I'll accept no excuses for absence. So think on. www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/cut...
Charlie Connelly - Attention All Shipping
Charlie Connelly's hilarious one-man show brings the legendary shipping forecast vividly to life
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charlieconnelly.bsky.social
Ahh, thanks Nessa! Football for me is all about context and community and I certainly found that in Liechtenstein.
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Just realised that 24 years ago today I was in Bosnia watching the last Liechtenstein game of the 2002 World Cup qualifying group in Zenica for 'Stamping Grounds'. Nursed romantic hopes of a first point, at least a first goal. Ah well. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
2001 (October 7) Bosnia and Herzegovina 5-Liechtenstein 0 (World Cup Qualfiier)
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charlieconnelly.bsky.social
I have two in this category that I have long argued are absolutely perfect pop songs:

Safety Net - Shop Assistants
Feel A Whole Lot Better - The Byrds
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What is a song that likely doesn't make anyone's top lists, but that you think is a perfect song, or absolutely beautiful, or that you could listen to on repeat?
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alexvont.bsky.social
I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun
OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”
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chibdm.bsky.social
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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alexaray.bsky.social
It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.
charlieconnelly.bsky.social
Don’t knock it, my career is largely comprised of ‘ponderous flukes’.
mobydickatsea.bsky.social
the measureless crush and crash of the sperm whale's ponderous flukes
charlieconnelly.bsky.social
This is a fantastic piece.
lrb.co.uk
‘The great modern cellos, like the old, are that way because they are made by luthiers with deep knowledge of their craft; they have a gift as ineffable as the musicality of their players.’

Thomas Laqueur on the cello:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thomas Laqueur · A Different Life: Can cellos remember?
Cellists and violinists in particular are haunted by the musicians who played their instruments before them and those...
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msleedy.bsky.social
What kind of absolute ghoul sets fire to a bookshop? Glad to hear the damage was largely only to the outside but fucksake.
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Tbilisi, 🇬🇪 — thousands have taken to the streets right now and are marching toward the presidential palace.
charlieconnelly.bsky.social
“It was quite nice” giving strong Charlie-Brown-with-a-wavy-line-for-a-mouth vibes there.
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ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
You might want to start by reading _Leonard and Hungry Paul_ by Rónán Hession.
It is about those uncelebrated people who have the ability to change the world, not be effort or force, but through the appreciation of all that is special and overlooked in life.
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hiddeneurope.eu
In a recent #LetterfromEurope, we explored the quaysides of the Norwegian port of Bergen and reflected on the cultural, economic and social ties which enliven port cities across Europe.

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