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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 · 22d

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

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 7h

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 · 22h

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 · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

♪ #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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Thanks for having me. It was fun.

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 1d

Pulling up the drawbridge.

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 1d

What. A. Cock.

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like a full kit wanker as well.

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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 11d

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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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 3d

Wow, that’s a crunchy way to start the day!

Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 3d

What about cats?

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 5d

Also Chris Evans.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 6d

"Eamonn Mullally's wife snags top job."

Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 6d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 6d

Rats. In a sack.

Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 6d

Baroness Mone hits out at Kemi Badenoch over PPE VIP lanes:

‘I acted no differently than Matt Hancock who referred 4 companies…
And let’s not forget Michael Gove & his referral of 4 contracts to his friend David Meller’

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 6d

JUST IN: Former Trump spiritual adviser and Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl.

He will serve only 6 months in jail and pay $250,000 in restitution.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 7d

EXCLUSIVE: BrewDog has announced it has sold its 'Lost Forest' after 250,000 of the trees it planted on the Scottish estate died

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