PhloggingAnOrse
@phlogginganorse.bsky.social
Posting from where the trickle down congeals.
Polymaths r us - except for maths & grammar, obvs.
Knackered, so not dancing & mostly just minding the drinks nowadays.
#FBPE #FND #MCAS #LC was a maker of music/writage/art/video/politics/n'stuff
Polymaths r us - except for maths & grammar, obvs.
Knackered, so not dancing & mostly just minding the drinks nowadays.
#FBPE #FND #MCAS #LC was a maker of music/writage/art/video/politics/n'stuff
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have heard from the 28 people my client definitely burgled, but in mitigation I have a letter from one person my client DIDN'T burgle.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage turns on broadcasters over racism allegations as number of claims hits 28
Reform leader suggests he would boycott BBC, saying he has had letter from Dulwich pupils defending him
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have heard from the 28 people my client definitely burgled, but in mitigation I have a letter from one person my client DIDN'T burgle.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Restricting access to social media has been a main talking point for many European families b/c smartphone use among one in 4 minors is comparable to addiction.
The EU strikes back. The European Parliament just approved a proposal calling for a ban on social media for people under the age of 16.
The EU strikes back. The European Parliament just approved a proposal calling for a ban on social media for people under the age of 16.
Will the EU ban social media for teens?
Restricting access to social media for teenagers has been one of the main talking points for many families in Europe. "We are in the middle of a cognitive war," said France's President Emmanuel Macron...
www.euronews.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Restricting access to social media has been a main talking point for many European families b/c smartphone use among one in 4 minors is comparable to addiction.
The EU strikes back. The European Parliament just approved a proposal calling for a ban on social media for people under the age of 16.
The EU strikes back. The European Parliament just approved a proposal calling for a ban on social media for people under the age of 16.
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While living at Netherne hospital, George Buday created illustrations for books, cards, pamphlets & programmes & his woodcuts appeared in a 1976 BBC Omnibus about Hungarian poetry.
Art therapist Edward Adamson gained permission for Buday to have his carving tools & studio space in which to use them
Art therapist Edward Adamson gained permission for Buday to have his carving tools & studio space in which to use them
December 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
While living at Netherne hospital, George Buday created illustrations for books, cards, pamphlets & programmes & his woodcuts appeared in a 1976 BBC Omnibus about Hungarian poetry.
Art therapist Edward Adamson gained permission for Buday to have his carving tools & studio space in which to use them
Art therapist Edward Adamson gained permission for Buday to have his carving tools & studio space in which to use them
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Please share widely!!!
December 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Please share widely!!!
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Some of my editorial work comes via Reedsy. Over the past year it's become completely overrun by people (I can't call them authors) who are asking for editorial help on manuscripts that have been generated by #AI. Often, what they want is for someone to make the text sound more human.
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Some of my editorial work comes via Reedsy. Over the past year it's become completely overrun by people (I can't call them authors) who are asking for editorial help on manuscripts that have been generated by #AI. Often, what they want is for someone to make the text sound more human.
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But also creatively, intellectually, personally.
Where's the reward? Where's the pleasure, where's the pain? Just like the text it generates, the experience, too, is frictionless, humourless, effortless, dull, unfelt, literally predictable. The whole thing frigid as a robot's bare metal arsecheek.
Where's the reward? Where's the pleasure, where's the pain? Just like the text it generates, the experience, too, is frictionless, humourless, effortless, dull, unfelt, literally predictable. The whole thing frigid as a robot's bare metal arsecheek.
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
But also creatively, intellectually, personally.
Where's the reward? Where's the pleasure, where's the pain? Just like the text it generates, the experience, too, is frictionless, humourless, effortless, dull, unfelt, literally predictable. The whole thing frigid as a robot's bare metal arsecheek.
Where's the reward? Where's the pleasure, where's the pain? Just like the text it generates, the experience, too, is frictionless, humourless, effortless, dull, unfelt, literally predictable. The whole thing frigid as a robot's bare metal arsecheek.
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News! The Sacred Memory Bank is an exhibition of assemblage, collage and word at Kirkby Gallery. It’s a joint exhibition with the mighty Mike Badger and we open on 19th January. We would love to see you there! @mikebadger.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
News! The Sacred Memory Bank is an exhibition of assemblage, collage and word at Kirkby Gallery. It’s a joint exhibition with the mighty Mike Badger and we open on 19th January. We would love to see you there! @mikebadger.bsky.social
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Perfect! that's the day I come up to Liverpool for my talk on Melville and Hawthorne, at the Adelphi on the 20th!
November 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Perfect! that's the day I come up to Liverpool for my talk on Melville and Hawthorne, at the Adelphi on the 20th!
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That 12 million pounds worth of wonky block paving not increased it then ?
Value of Birkenhead town centre shopping centres unchanged since last year www.birkenhead.news/value-of-bir...
Value of Birkenhead town centre shopping centres unchanged since last year
The market value of two shopping centres bought for £10.5m by Wirral Council has been revealed. The Pyramids and the Grange shopping centres in Birkenhead were bought by the council…
www.birkenhead.news
December 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
That 12 million pounds worth of wonky block paving not increased it then ?
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Sad to hear guitar legend Steve Cropper has died at 84. A member of Booker T & the M.G.’s , he also wrote “In the Midnight Hour” & produced “Sittin’on the Dock of the Bay”. When asked what he thought of Cropper, Keith Richards replied “Perfect, man”. #RIPSteveCropper m.youtube.com/watch?v=iFQE...
(1967) GREEN ONIONS - Live - Booker T. and MG's
YouTube video by LeeEstradaMusic
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December 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Sad to hear guitar legend Steve Cropper has died at 84. A member of Booker T & the M.G.’s , he also wrote “In the Midnight Hour” & produced “Sittin’on the Dock of the Bay”. When asked what he thought of Cropper, Keith Richards replied “Perfect, man”. #RIPSteveCropper m.youtube.com/watch?v=iFQE...
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Today’s Submittable Deadlines: December 3rd
wildsoundfestivalreview.com/2025/12/03/t...
Some contests
Some guaranteed acceptances
Novels
Poems
Short Stories
Screenplays
#submittable #writing
wildsoundfestivalreview.com/2025/12/03/t...
Some contests
Some guaranteed acceptances
Novels
Poems
Short Stories
Screenplays
#submittable #writing
Today’s Submittable Deadlines: December 3rd
1pg. PSYCHO-DRAMA SCREENPLAY Contest (everyone wins) 1pg. SCI-FI SHORT STORY Contest (everyone wins) DRAMA STAGE PLAY Writing Contest (get play performed by professional actors) BIOGRAPHY Screenpla…
wildsoundfestivalreview.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Today’s Submittable Deadlines: December 3rd
wildsoundfestivalreview.com/2025/12/03/t...
Some contests
Some guaranteed acceptances
Novels
Poems
Short Stories
Screenplays
#submittable #writing
wildsoundfestivalreview.com/2025/12/03/t...
Some contests
Some guaranteed acceptances
Novels
Poems
Short Stories
Screenplays
#submittable #writing
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Value of Birkenhead town centre shopping centres unchanged since last year www.birkenhead.news/value-of-bir...
Value of Birkenhead town centre shopping centres unchanged since last year
The market value of two shopping centres bought for £10.5m by Wirral Council has been revealed. The Pyramids and the Grange shopping centres in Birkenhead were bought by the council…
www.birkenhead.news
December 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Value of Birkenhead town centre shopping centres unchanged since last year www.birkenhead.news/value-of-bir...
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"Well the song's all there, so all you need now is the star shaped glasses and sparkly platform boots, Reg."
December 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"Well the song's all there, so all you need now is the star shaped glasses and sparkly platform boots, Reg."
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All the ingredients of a Nut Roast...
But we'll welcome former Tories Jonathan Gullis, Danny Kruger, Lee Anderson, Nadine Dorries, Ann Widdecombe, Lucy Allen, Jake Berry - the former chair of the Tories, for God's sake - Andrea Jenkyns, Maria Caufield, Lia Nici ... 20 of them so far.
They should never be forgiven. Except those ones.
They should never be forgiven. Except those ones.
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
All the ingredients of a Nut Roast...
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Fuck, this one hurts, for me the greatest guitarist, a musician in the service of the band and the song, who played on and helped create a wild succession of the finest records ever made. RIP Steve Cropper.
December 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Fuck, this one hurts, for me the greatest guitarist, a musician in the service of the band and the song, who played on and helped create a wild succession of the finest records ever made. RIP Steve Cropper.
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New Brighton RNLI celebrates crew pass outs www.birkenhead.news/new-brighton...
New Brighton RNLI celebrates crew pass outs
New Brighton RNLI had reason to celebrate this last week, as a number of volunteer crew pass outs were successfully completed. Beginning on Monday, 24 November, two crew were put…
www.birkenhead.news
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
New Brighton RNLI celebrates crew pass outs www.birkenhead.news/new-brighton...
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My tape recorder broke yesterday and it chewed up my ultravox tape so you will have to do me a new one as it is completely ruined.
December 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My tape recorder broke yesterday and it chewed up my ultravox tape so you will have to do me a new one as it is completely ruined.
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Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.
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This is unforgivable. It will happen with Grenfell too.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Final Hillsborough report ends investigation with no consequences
Failings of legal system mean 97 people were unlawfully killed, but no one will be held accountable
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This is unforgivable. It will happen with Grenfell too.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Never share the limelight with Mama, mistress Worthington.
December 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Never share the limelight with Mama, mistress Worthington.
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It is sad that by your persistent idleness and throwing away of the advantages afforded you at her cost, you should disappoint and even anger your mother.
December 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It is sad that by your persistent idleness and throwing away of the advantages afforded you at her cost, you should disappoint and even anger your mother.
All the ingredients of a Nut Roast...
But we'll welcome former Tories Jonathan Gullis, Danny Kruger, Lee Anderson, Nadine Dorries, Ann Widdecombe, Lucy Allen, Jake Berry - the former chair of the Tories, for God's sake - Andrea Jenkyns, Maria Caufield, Lia Nici ... 20 of them so far.
They should never be forgiven. Except those ones.
They should never be forgiven. Except those ones.
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
All the ingredients of a Nut Roast...