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Richard Cookson
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Sometime writer / producer of TV. Views my own. He / him
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dapsdraws.bsky.social
Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚
October 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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dtmooreeditor.bsky.social
"we shat the bed so comprehensively, for so long, that just going back to the standards we used to adhere to in less than a generation is literally impossible" is a bold line to take for an business hoping to avoid going into administration
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Oct 2
Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules
Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules
Lenders say a ‘full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance’ under new rescue plan would not be completed until at least 2035-2040 * Business live – latest news Thames Water may not fully comply with rules on pollution of England’s waterways for as long as 15 years, according to a new plan by creditors who are scrambling to avoid the utility being forced into government administration. The creditors who in effect own Thames Water have said they will commit to paying fines for pollution, as well as writing off more of their loans and investing more in the company, in new proposals published on Thursday. Continue reading...
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October 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
September 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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threadinburgh.scot
Look what we have here then.
1817 map snipping, "Well. Well. Well."
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
These very true words from Steve Hely have given me tremendous comfort over the years.
Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.
September 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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justgronya.bsky.social
It is insane to me that we are not exploring the benefits of just making sure people have the basics, and how humanity thrives because of that.
scottsantens.com Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · Sep 23
This pilot experiment PAID FOR ITSELF. Ireland spent $105 million on artists providing them basic income, and saw that drop to $72 million after accounting for economic impacts, then with $80 million in psychological wellbeing impacts, that dropped to -$8 million.
Basic Income for the Arts pilot produced over €100 million in Social and Economic Benefits From: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport Published on: 22 September 2025 Last updated on: 23 September 2025
September 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
September 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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nerdiestviking.bsky.social
She really is the best to ever do it. I will always adore Le Guin.
A tumblr post that says The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well. Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.” She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable”. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.” Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire will fall. And I will help it along.”
August 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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barackobama.bsky.social
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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cpdinosaurs.bsky.social
🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨

We’ve just seen this, by creator “Menapian” - a 4,998-piece set of the Great Exhibition (1851) Crystal Palace - complete with a bonus Megalosaurus and Ichthyosaur…

beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Screenshot of part of the LEGO Ideas website, showing a side view of a diorama featuring both creatures
September 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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london.gov.uk
In London, hate will never win.
September 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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danielsugarman.bsky.social
My favourite Robert Redford story is the one about why he got rejected for the lead role in The Graduate. RIP to a real one.
An excerpt from an interview with the director of The Graduate, Mike Nichols. "I interviewed hundreds, maybe thousands of men", Nichols admitted of the casting process per Vanity Fair, before his conversation with Redford turned out to be a short one. "I said, 'You can't play it. You can never play a loser'. And Redford said, 'What do you mean? Of course I can play a loser'. And I said, 'OK, have you ever struck out with a girl'. And he said, 'What do you mean?' And he wasn't joking."
September 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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chrisporkerwebb.bsky.social
Did Taggart write this poster?
September 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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ofalafel.bsky.social
You join us live from Danny Dyer’s birthday drinks.
September 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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demontomatodave.bsky.social
Never became as popular as "ET Phone Home" did it
A drawing of ET waving at us on the cardboard packaging for a 1980s product called "E.T. Punch Balls" As this is a repost of a Feb 2023 tweet of mine, found here https://x.com/DemonTomatoDave/status/1623464715077795840?s=19 , I have taken this photo from the No Context E.T. account who posted it there, and who originally I retweeted.
September 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
adrianandshane.bsky.social Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · Sep 10
They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.
Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.
September 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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toygrind.bsky.social
Every fucking day
Daily Mash article reading "We need to look after our own first, say people who would never help anyone"
September 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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ffrancavilla.bsky.social
So you’re telling me these are the new iPods?
The babelfish from the hitchhiker guide to the galaxy
September 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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merriam-webster.com
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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misterabk.bsky.social
The start of every 80s movie:
September 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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doncardenasart.bsky.social
Obligatory repost
September 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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gailrenard.bsky.social
The BBC is about to shut its Written Archives to the public. Writers and researchers rely on these archives. They belong to the licence payers. Please sign and share this open letter.
August 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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thegaychingy.bsky.social
"I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKING STRANGERS ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING TRAIN"
August 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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jamesbluecat.bsky.social
I love our town fair day, but there's always one violent idiot who has to ruin it for everyone, trundling around making threats.
August 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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kierongillen.bsky.social
Dear Disney.

In Moana, we establish the sea is sentient.
In Frozen, the sea kills Elsa's parents.

ELSA VS MOANA is a revenge thriller where, etc, etc.
August 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM