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Marc Settle

@marcsettle.bsky.social
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BBC trainer, not journalist — I train BBC staff (& others) how to use phones for newsgathering. Posts are on mobile journalism, apps, kit, The Wedding Present & Arsenal. My views ≠ BBC. RT = worth reading. Like = read later. Sharing apps ≠ endorse.

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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He’s a cult figure on social media but it’s a shame that whoever filmed this for the Japanese ambassador to the UK doesn’t know the basics of filming on a phone: audio without an external mic in a loud environment will be bad; not locking the focus gives that horrible pulsing effect. 
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’ll save that for future use, thank you very much
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ll take your word for that. It was quite impressive, all things considered.
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
At first, it’s an impressive waterfall…only to be revealed as a weir on the River Gade, on the outskirts of Watford.
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wincing at the prominent and respected broadcaster who says on a podcast released this week “I genuinely find that I make less mistakes when I am handwriting”
static.klipy.com
Game Of Thrones Got
ALT: Game Of Thrones Got
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Impressive from @vodafonegroup.bsky.social. This email about helping set up broadband arrived 1030 Friday…when the broadband service was installed Wednesday 1130 🙄 The guy installing it flagged up I needed the app, meaning I had service soon after. But if he hadn’t, would I still be waiting?
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We’re all just waiting for the chocolate episode, hoping it was filmed on a 35°c day 🥵
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Is the international break a) a good timing - plenty of time to put this right, another poor result in a mid-week game = “wheels coming off”; or b) too much time - better to have a game mid-week to put it behind us asap…but possibly not enough to analyse where it went wrong? #arsecastextra
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’m not sure it’s that good, is it? 
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I know I don’t use Instagram much but even so I was surprised to see this 11 year old video about Jeremy Clarkson so prominent on the BBC News page. Is there a logical reason for that?
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They don’t make them like this any more, do they? (Both the illuminated board and the programmes themselves)
The photo shows an illuminated display board outside a television studio with the words “studio 2” on the left. On the right are three sections, showing “rehearsal”, “transmission”, “audience entrance”. Stylistically, it’s from the 1960s or 70s
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That was a great show, wasn’t it?
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very surreal to be back at TVC, more than twenty years after I first worked here. It’s my first visit since 2010 (?) and while it’s changed a lot, there’s much still eerily familiar.
The main television centre buildingThe main entrance to TVCThe statue at TVC
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Blimey. For once, Dale *doesn’t* back the Ref/VAR.
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
thought you meant a telephone *box* for a minute there
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What does that kind of money get you…?
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Can I register my address in your spare room…?
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Does that mean you are entitled to free prescriptions & University tuition, despite being a newcomer..?
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Very tempted to enquire about the retail price for the canine in this shop’s glass-fronted display. (Or is there a better way to ask that question?)
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Once upon a time, I used to get excited about MFI. But then IKEA came along. Hope you’re doing well in Berwick. 
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Much as I love Arsenal, I cannot defend this. I dread to think how many people have received this email and the really terrible spelling error. 
The header of the email says “it starts in Napels”
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LightWeave @trylightweave.com · 09/09/2026
LightWeave Ravel is a new interactive video maker for iPhone and iPad, with Android on the way. We've written a short post about why we made Ravel and why we think you may like to use it! Read it here: prsmtc.link/48emmw #trylightweave #interactivevideo
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LightWeave Ravel is now available on the App Store!
Ravel is an interactive video maker available for iPhone and iPad (Android version is coming very soon!). As we launch our first public version, we’d like to talk about why we created Ravel, why you...
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wasn’t she famously an Arsenal fan? 
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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 05/09/2026
This photo has been doing the rounds for six years at least. See www.reddit.com/r/funny/comm... Took seconds to find that. Why would a BSky account with so many followers just pretend it was their own content? Do they think people dont know how to reverse image search?
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
That’s the thing - it’s such a vivid memory from my childhood. But it’s great my two are perfectly content to read in the back while I drive, as it also means they’re not fighting 🙄
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We also limit screens in the car, hence the kids read.
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’m genuinely surprised by how many people are saying they get car sick! My kids can read for hours in the back seats and just aren’t affected ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Blimey. Sorry to hear that. The replies I’m getting are showing that the anecdata i shared of my kids isn’t very representative!
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oh no- sorry to hear that!
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Is car sickness no longer a thing for kids (or even adults?) When I was young (some decades ago, sadly…) I was sick moderately often - after car journeys & occasionally during them. Yet my kids can merrily read books during a long journey with no ill effects. Maybe car suspension has improved…?
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s the start of the new school year & the 7am alarm caused a LOT of grumbling. “It’s really early, this is so unfair!” “Can I stay in bed for five more minutes?” “You can’t *make* me get out of bed” But my wife told me to stop whining & to get up and make sure the kids were ready for school.
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Following the news that the BBC is axing Ski Sunday, am I allowed to say that our critics might use this as an opportunity to say it’s proof that sport on the BBC is going downhill?
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Skiing Fail Skiing
ALT: Skiing Fail Skiing
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Disappointed that the shop wasn’t a lot smaller, to be honest. 
The photo shows the exterior of a shop in central London, with the words on the awning showing: homeopathic pharmacy 
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A clever cartoon in this week’s Private Eye… even if a pendant would point out that in order for the words on the clapperboard to be filmed by the glasses, the clapperboard would need to be at a very different angle and probably not visible by the woman. 
It’s a hand drawn cartoon showing on the left the woman looking angry and on the right a man wearing
 glasses designed to secretly film her. In his hands, he is holding a clapperboard with the words “random woman on street” written on the front. 
Text underneath reads “and what makes you think I’m covertly filming you?”
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Given the relentlessly hot, sunny and dry summer most of England has had, there must be brides, grooms and wedding parties across the country cursing their luck for scheduling their big day on the last Saturday of August, given it’s chucking it down almost everywhere for most of the day.
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I gather it’s raining in large parts of the UK today? I know it’s needed but i like my current view. 20°c and breezy - blissful
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yes it’s poor everywhere 😢
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I realise that Danes are broadly wealthy and they have a good social and healthcare system, but even so I was blown away by this emergency vehicle
The photo shows a Bentley with the registration number 999 
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Bonkers that I’ve got a 5G signal good enough to boast about having a good 5G signal…when it’s so often a challenge in central London.
The image shows a map of southern Norway and northern Denmark with the blue dot showing my location in the middle of the sea separating the two

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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Today I learned that an incredibly still body of water - this happens to be the Skaggerak south of Oslo and north of Denmark - both confuses the lens cleaning suggestion (it appeared even though my lens was scrupulously clean) and the level meter (check the horizon)
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Always look up. Things might not be as bad as they first appear.
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Marvelling again at the free WiFi at a Premier Inn
610Kbps0.90Mbps
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Have you noticed how the frame from a photo is quite low quality? I used the new feature on a 4k video shot on a 17pm and the still came out as only 750kb; using the screen grab method, it was 3.2mb
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This reply will make little sense to a random American on Twitter, but it amused me which is what it’s all about, I guess.
The text of the tweet reads: 
NATALIE HARP NEEDS TO SUE JON OSSOFF FOR DEFORMATION SUE SUE SUE
Underneath is a photo from the BBC tv comedy Ann Droid showing the main character who has a catchphrase of “Sue Sue Sue”
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Fair enough that when news breaks, you can’t expect interviewees to have good sound/acoustics in a well-lit room but why in 2026 are we allowing guests - some even co-presenting shows - to broadcast from their kitchens with huge lights overhead, and with cameras pointing up their noses?
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
While we’re expecting the weather to break FINALLY and see temperatures in London approaching normal for late August, this doesn’t seem to be wholly accurate?
It is a photo of a screen showing London temperature of -2°C which is predicted to go on for the next few days
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
How often during the game yesterday did you say to yourself “If that had been Kepa…” every time Raya made a half-decent save, or “If that had been Saka…” every time Madueke failed to do something properly? Does this indicate the gap between first and second choice remains too big? #arsecastextra
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’m on the Brittany Ferries ship Gallicia where passengers get 90 minutes free Wi-Fi - but only once per device, per crossing. Unless of course someone* is tech-savvy enough to know the incredibly convoluted workaround whereby…er tapping “forget this network” is sufficient to reset the clock. 😬 *me
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’m phlegmatic - it’s a ship in the middle of the sea and it’s free. The premier inn speed is shameful though!
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Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Quite something that the free WiFi on Brittany Ferries as we cross the Bay of Biscay, hundreds of miles from land, is faster than your average Premier Inn
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