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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Given the effort involved I think you earned them.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That edition was the one which kickstarted the BBC Radio series.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you - I do love print but the artwork really pops on these versions.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love seeing these classics jump off the page freed of smudged half tones and blurred edges. Is this from a particular classic collection?

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’d love to see where the voice actors’ contracts freely allow this little wheeze.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here’s hopefully a comforting reply - most awards are bought as much as won - entry fees / advertising campaigns / membership fees. Winning awards is great but it’s not the be all and end all. Making work you are proud of is a pretty good reward in itself.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You jest but people weren’t just given spot fx jobs on those programmes. There was a skill in even the most straightforward-seeming production.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

… tho’ in keeping with *not* being a dogsbody, the triangle player is a trained multi-instrumental sight reader.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tbh Radio/Audio has always been treated as a poor relation which is ironic given how powerful an imaginative tool it really is, the amount of skill it requires to excel at and how much more fun it is to work in than the grievously over subscribed visual media.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From The Times obit for Esther Rantzen. Nothing against Ms Rantzen but us dogsbodies trained for 9 months to “do the chores” and would like to see the obit writer survive “Red Light Fever” and operate the panel in a busy studio live on air or create believable sound effects for a convincing drama.

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AbiGezunt @abigezunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meidas is doing something unusual. To ensure all have access to news, they've taken down their pay wall until election. Quite impressive, putting voters before profits.

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Wednesday Updates: Record Diesel, Rigged Inflation Math, and Meta's AI Tax Scheme – 9/30/26

Important news. Paywall free.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God what a pain. Second and last dumb q - might you have a Patreon backer who is also an accountant who might do you a solid? (Sadly I don’t qualify)

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

… do Patreon have a mechanism which can confirm to the bank you are a small trader or whatever the necessary term is? (Rhetorical, possibly dumb q.)

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Very very sad news. We have lost Tony De Meur - aka Ronnie Golden, he of The Fabulous Poodles, all round lovely human - and the world is a sadder place. Surely right now he is in a celestial bar swapping parrot jokes with Baz Cryer over a double.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Still a bit blown away to see copies of ‘Hookland Fragments’ in the wild. Here is a signed copy available from @treadwells-books.bsky.social

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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mitch Benn presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s DRACULA Lost for 120 years, restored, recreated and completely made up by MITCH BENN STRICTLY LIMITED RUN - FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY 24/25 October www.tickettailor.com/events/circl... #dracula #gilbertandsullivan #operetta #mitchbenn

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You don’t need video, it kills the vibe.

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Tom Jenkins @tomoljenkins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here is the trailer for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ launch on 9October that has been banned by YouTube, TikTok and Meta, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFTf...

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MUSK | Official Trailer HD

YouTube video by Elevation Pictures

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've written Joe Harkness's obituary for the Guardian. I hope it pays good tribute to a wonderful man who was brave, honest and made the world a better place. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Joe Harkness obituary

Writer, teacher and naturalist who explored the effects of the natural world on neurodivergency

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thank you I do appreciate the kind offer but can’t take you up on it :)

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Try Pond 5 maybe. There are several sound fx libraries online. You may have to buy the effect tho.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

She was the only person I put up for the role.

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Richard Harris @beeblebrox.com · 21/09/2026

Lest we forget: there are still real journalists at the BBC. Global Eye demonstrates that, and Steve Rosenberg does a masterly job of reporting from Russia, treading the line twixt factual journalism and being summarily thrown out of the country. youtu.be/SebfRk_0jzg?...

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Russia's "Special Election Operation" and growing pessimism in Russia

YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

(As soon as I left the show, the six-piece became a trio, and the atmospheric dynamic was the lesser for it).

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Your point about the band is vital. I spent my Light Ent career fighting to book or keep live bands in the studio. They added energy, warmth and cohesion to the night, let alone the show. The only time I came near to falling out with Roy Hudd was about not losing the Huddlines band horn section.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Crikey - I don’t have copies of some of these titles

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You can pre-order THE HYENA for your own devices: www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-hy...

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ukjarry.bsky.social @ukjarry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Have you seen the original artist Russ Heath's comic strip reply to Lichtenstein:

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Once you see it, you never forgive, er-forget it.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dave Gibbons making this point about Lichtenstein made me very happy.

A copy of Roy Lichtenstein’s “pop art” comic book panel painting where the text and sound effects make it clear that the work was not original nor created by Lichtenstein.

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a frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe @supermathskid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I really need a job, if anybody knows of somewhere looking to hire a good writer with connections in scientific academia and a few random folks in government please lemme know

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The irony of Canada and the EU talking about free movement and a closer association while the nation that created the “British Commonwealth” conned itself into self-imposed exile and sits alone on the bench, sulking.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’ll believe you rather than waste any more of my life playing dodge-the-paywall-ad on this link.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Simply put, no, though I’m curious as to which Fables you refer.

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My new exhibition of paintings opens on Monday! I'll post the online version of the exhibition that evening. Here's hoping it goes down well. 🤞 Aside from Labyrinth, can you guess any of the other fantasy classics from the last 100 years which I've chosen? There are 22 of them in all.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh no. This is very sad. RIP Bonnie.

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Darlings, witches, nerds—have YOU snagged my witchy, tarot-filled, myth/fairytale-laden poetry collection, Offerings for Ordinary Gods from @clashbooks.bsky.social ? Handy links for purchase: www.alitrotta.com/recent-works Fun post I did at @scalzi.com : whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/21/t...

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Episode 684 – Ali Trotta

Virtual Memories Show 684: Ali Trotta “I think mythology and fairy tales provide a good baseline, because almost everyone has read a subset of those stories, and the symbolism is something mo…

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