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@itsjoels.bsky.social

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I wore a tie like Richard Gere.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · Mar 31

Harvey Price time then.

In 2016, I had an ill fated stint as the Social Media Producer on Loose Women on ITV. It was a disaster, I should never have applied for the job, I certainly shouldn’t have been given it. I could do the actual job standing on my head, but the politics of the place…woof.

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IanE1111 @iane1111.bsky.social · 1h

No Boro match on Saturday, so Boro fans get yerself over to Redcar and watch the local free-scoring table toppers. #UTB #UTS

Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 2h

Where are they playing?

Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 3h

Give him a Wotsit. Works with Denis.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 3h

Here’s the Divine Comedy doing it. youtu.be/D5SqO5xDcjY?...

Divine Comedy - I've Been To A Marvellous Party

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 3h

It enabled me to eat for about ten years. I have had long term girlfriends from it. Friendships I wouldn’t have had. Discovered music I wouldn’t have known. Had my ego stroked. Helped others. Got a cat via social media. Laughed a lot.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13h

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

Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 3h

“I only went with your mother cos she’s dirty”.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 18h

Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 3h

Bet they were happy the day George Michaels sampled it.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 18h

Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 3h

Coca-Cola wanted to license it for a football themed advert. Pulp said no. So they commissioned a soundalike and made the advert anyway.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 18h

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Johnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · 4h

Moki Karlsson Cherry and Neneh Cherry in their home in Gamla Stan, Stockholm, late 1960s.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 12h

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 4h

Get you!

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 4h

“I’ve made a cake that looks like an arse”.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 5h

It’s good.

Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 5h

It’s the luvvy part that is stuck in their heads.

Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 5h

It’s a banger.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 5h

They’ve convinced themselves that it’s poncey and that it doesn’t make money. You graft harder in telly than in any other job I’ve done, and it makes a fortune.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 5h

They don’t understand the soft power that the arts bring to Britain, starting with the obvious ones, The Beatles and Shakespeare. Then everything else. They denigrate it because it’s not a “real job”, like being down the pit (no pits), working in a shipyard (no yards) or in industry (no industry).

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 5h

I was in Highgate one day, and I saw Simon Callow. He stopped in his tracks, looked at the church and gasped “the spire!”, watched it for a moment and then carried on with his day. I’d love to see beauty like that in anything.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 5h

The arts are worthless, I see. Well, try watching telly, listening to the radio or to podcasts, wearing clothes, reading books, decorating your homes, dancing to music, driving a nice car or in fact doing anything fun, without the arts. Besides from animals, there would be no joy anywhere.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

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.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 5h

It’s cooked now.

Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 5h

That genuinely hadn’t crossed my mind.

Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 5h

Yes.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 6h

Tony Adams of Arsenal and Jilly Cooper were pals?

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 6h

SHE IS SO STUPID. (Not this poster, I mean the leader of the Conservatives.)

Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 7h

Kemi complains about Labour's magic money tree on spending then less than a minute later makes three pledges to cut taxes without explaining how it'll be paid for.

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