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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 1h

It’s my uncle’s — my mother’s brother’s — birthday today. His surname is Barton and in 1951 — 1951, mind — my grandparents decided to call him Dick.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 1h

It was fine. I lost my voice more or less straightaway, herding kids into the hall for their school photos.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 6h

My ability to wake up this morning was seriously impacted by bronchitis so I kinda slapped my iPad & half-listened to YouTube. After a while I shot upright! I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. It was a vile US antisemitic channel! [1]

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 12h

Going out out to work today. Seems very strange.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 12h

The soundtrack for the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV show is now available. I loved the music in the show so I'm delighted this is out. By the hugely talented Oli Julian. open.spotify.com/album/4twL7m...

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Leonard and Hungry Paul (Music from the Programme) - Compilation by Oli Julian | Spotify

Oli Julian · compilation · 2026 · 14 songs

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 29/09/2026

Today in "decisions in kerning"

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Ian Waites @ianwaites.bsky.social · 12h

Oh my gawd, Greta Garbo, at my window again, tap tap tap

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 21h

Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 23h

Nice Easter egg in The Marble Hall Murders.

Portrait of Michael Elphick in reception.

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Last of the forgotten line.

An overgrown railway line taking a smooth curve out of sight. It is framed by trees, and the line itself is finally free of the undergrowth, running as clear as a newspaper headline, before once again succumbing to a gobbledegook of bracken.

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amazing contrast to Starmer's buttoned up style as Burnham delivers his speech stripped to the waist and covered in peanut butter, repeatedly diving into the audience

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just sent extensively revised draft to publisher, so stupid bloody melancholy of course.

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Seán MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Because it's a consumer product specifically designed to woo Jo and Josephine public, I'm begging people not to use Muse, or any of its likely competitors

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Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house

The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can’t understand the story of rock music without following the main and side plots together. For example, I don’t even WANT to know about Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart without the proper context of the accompanying episodes on the GTOs and The Banana Splits. That’s how good this is.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just as nobody really escapes a childhood lived in poverty, no one escapes entrenched privilege. Eventually it sneaks out, like bubbles in the bath.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rupert Lowe is coming for your parents on Facebook; blow to the campaign against SLAPPs; the rise of America's Jim Crow theobros; trauma-informed care in schools; how TV covered social change back in the day; Network (1976) - are we all mad as hell now?

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The New World warns that Rupert Lowe is coming for your parents: "Lowe’s success exemplifies how Facebook has weaponised the anxieties and ...

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Final point on this. There’s nothing new to HO wanting lower numbers and HMT wanting higher numbers. Was ever thus (eg May vs Osborne). What is more surprising is that Mahmood never gets asked about this and the relative silence of Govt ministers (other than Rayner) on positive side of immigration.

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James McConnachie @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every time this happens – the accusation, the doubt – it erodes trust in every human author. The industry needs to get a grip. Stop using algorithmic analysis / Pangram. Stop relying on 'trust'.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This came up on FB memories today. I snapped it in the classroom of a teacher I was covering two years ago. For not entirely unrelated reasons, I requested I not be sent back to that school.

I AM READING...
"Hillbilly
Elegy
by
J.D. Vance

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el camino acid @sexdracula.rocks · 25/09/2026

the "don't bring iced coffee to an interview" discourse is great bc it's such a succinct and clarifying example of how private businesses aren't efficient & logical enterprises, they're just arbitrary in-groups ruled by sociopaths, power tripping on their ability to enforce pointless bullshit norms

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At book launch for Andrew Davies’s memoirs in his local bookshop — Kenilworth Books. Couldn’t stay, which is a shame because he’s always so generous. Remember chatting with him for ages after a talk he gave at Warwick Uni on adaptations, around the time he was working on Bleak House.

An
Unsuitable
Boy
A Life in Scripts
Andrew
Davies

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every politician choosing to be part of that fucking Wargames thing has just proven themselves to be deeply unserious, haven’t they?

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On iPlayer, the final episode of The Good Life rolls into the first episode of To the Manor Born. Not nearly as good so far and Mrs fforbes-Hamilton a shadow of Margo Leadbetter. But I enjoyed her Kate Chopin “The Story of an Hour” moment.

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dipping into the BFI's Chabrol season tonight with Le Boucher (1970).

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These are surprisingly good. Howard a donnish Holmes. Marion-Crawford’s non-bumbling Watson pre-dating Granada by decades. Stories largely based on Doyle despite new titles.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/09/2026

Fuck "A.i." Keep this garbage away from your kids and out of education. These tech overlords don't care about you or any of us; they just want to extract as much of our data and money as they possibly can and then discard us.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I see operation "just give these people what they want and they'll go away" is continuing as expected.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW ONLINE WRITING / COMEDY COURSE A few spaces left… Starts Sunday Oct 18th www.gralefrit.co.uk/writers-room

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I’m Dave Williams. You’re probably not @skirwingle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If raised in England, would Superman be Spiffingchap? If raised in Australia, would he be Bonzerbloke?

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Eddington’s snigger is up there with Sid James’s dirty laugh. Funnier every time you hear it.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think of this cartoon every time Sky recommends this monstrosity to me. I also think of Ken Clarke saying Gove was given to making “wild” warmongering statements in Cabinet meetings. Also, that students are still sweltering under his miserable GCSE reforms. It’s been 11 bloody years!

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 22/09/2026

Why does Euston Station filled me with such… melancholy? Sadness? I’m not quite sure which word is more appropriate, but every time I walk into the main hall, it feels like a small part of just whimpers.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve been demolishing The Good Life on iPlayer during my early morning baby tending shifts. Is it too obvious to say that Paul Eddington was a genius at comic reaction? Also, “The Windbreak War” (S3E5) is one of the most sublime half hours of sitcom ever.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Impermanences: All these falling autumn leaves And this haiku’s words

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 20/09/2026

Saying "in general, voting for the lesser of two evils is the right thing to do" is something a reasonable person can do. Saying "you, specifically, need to vote for someone who will kill you, personally, in order to protect people like me" is vile.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Collapsing two chapters into one and watching the word count drop. Satisfying. Also, a boon to the storytelling. Inch by inch, I’m getting these edits done.

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 20/09/2026

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh I missed this news. She was wonderful.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Found myself marvelling at twins’ curiosity & at all those neural pathways being created. Said aloud, “O brave new world that has such people in’t!” Then I thought how Miranda, who I’ve always considered a cipher, is a universal child, with every stage of childhood present at once. Clever old Bill.

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Authors! If you must respond to your bad reviews, do it as graciously as Oliver Hardy when Walter Winchell trashed the film 'Nothing But Trouble' in 1945. (Bookmarking this post in case I need it in November.)

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

LESSONS IN HARMONY, my novel about the friendship between Ravel and Vaughan Williams, will be published in November. This thread is for anyone who's bought, or is thinking of buying, one of the signed editions available from Waterstones or an indie bookshop. (They won't be available from Amazon.)

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Drama at The Oval as a pigeon fielding at extra cover saves a certain four off a Ben Foakes drive. #TheCricket

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hello new followers! I've removed the paywall from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you probably won't... www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...

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The Village Message Board

Its authenticity was discredited because of his reputation, but also because he was quick with gin at the time and wearing an item of knitwear back to front.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I had to work harder at recreating 1975 than 1933 in my latest novel. I imagine setting something in the 90s or 00s would be very tricky.

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Labour government: "The protestors have made their point and we're listening to their legitimate concerns."

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Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have placed my votes for the greatest Australian novels of all time. I'm pretty biased because I published a bunch of these in the UK, but I still think it's a great list.

This is a graphic that I downloaded from the website that lists my votes. There are various illustrations in the background involving books and Australian-related images.

My votes are for:
- Their Brilliant Careers by Ryan O'Neill
- The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt by Tracy Far
- Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
- A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle
- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
- Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
- Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
- Grant and I by Robert Forster
- The Weaver Fish by Robert Edson
- The Drover's Wife by Ryan O'Neill

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