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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 12h

These people got rich off us during the heights of Thatcherite economics (the economics of greed). Now they’re squealing as they’re being asked to put something more back. Let them go, and rebuild what we have. apple.news/A_4UZAai5QOa...

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Britain’s second richest person leaves UK for Monaco — The Independent

His departure is the latest among several since Labour came into power

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 13h

The Interview Room - latest poem from my book "Not Yet" which is available on Amazon. it began when i interviewed apprentices and I got to thinking about how we treat young colleagues entering the workforce. #poetry youtu.be/s1gpavyuJ00

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The Interview Room

YouTube video by Richard F Adams

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 18h

I occasionally write fiction. usually short stories that let me explore something i've just thought of. this was written in 2015 when i was thinking about social media a lot. richardfadams.substack.com/p/paradise-l...

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Paradise Lost

Humanity rediscovered

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 18h

Things need to be more sophisticated than simply a tax. State clearly where the money goes and ringfence it for only that. Make it transparent they are contributing to social care etc. Then they have no excuses for not contributing, they are doing visible good and if they leave then good riddance.

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Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 19h

According to Badenoch, earning more money (over £100,000) is equal to "working harder". That's her problem, right there #bbclaurak

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 18h

For me, today is the first day of autumn - woke up and its foggy.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 20h

This is very British culture. vm.tiktok.com/ZN8h7f3Sp/

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The guy who’s got 15 years for that incident with the ULEZ camera, needs putting away but also needs help. In some ways he’s a casualty of this war that’s happening in our brain spaces. A lot more are being led to just cause civil disorder, the screaming sheep threatening the RNLI are an eg.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My #poetry book is getting a few sales - don't miss out. its not as miserable as I sound. I haven't got any celebrity endorsements, I'm starting right from the beginning. It's very English and is based on things from my life - which has been quite bumpy in retrospect. amzn.eu/d/0bitMNRl

The cover of my book of poems. Its called Not Yet.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

updated the website to include the poetry book and i've added the claude analysis of my substack content under the atlas menu richardfadams.com

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Richard F Adams — Art / Writing / Architecture

Richard F Adams. Antiselfies, essays, poetry, technology architecture.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Watching the Grand Tour, the new presenters are all capable and likeable but it’s just more of the same but without the edge that Clarkson scripts had. It feels like those 80s extended 12” mixes of great pop songs that did nothing for the song. Definitely a niche programme now,

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

She’s right. Feminism IS a result of the man problem. Similarly the right also hate socialism in all its forms but can’t see it as an emergent result them being selfish greedy bastards. The right will smash rather than accelt. apple.news/ACcNkJ4IsSr-...

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The Commons: ‘Feminism Is the Consequence of the “Man Problem,” Not Its Cause’ — The Atlantic

Readers respond to our June 2026 cover story and more.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just had my flu jab. i got given a bonus, a pneumonia jab. last for life apparently.

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Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Late with day 1 of inktober ‘apple’ But I have always had a somewhat scattershot approach to this challenge and this year I have some challenges of my own I will draw whenever I can though. Its one of the things that takes me into other worlds where time passes differently and I am most me

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A year ago my massive cat Finn died and we had him cremated. Still this keeps showing up on my timelines on Facebook. They need to work on those algos.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Easy with hindsight but it should have ended after Hell bent, had 5-10 years off and then come back with someone like Jodie in the hot seat. It doesnt need budget. It could easily survive as a Ludwig style drama. Its folly to think of it as Star Wars apple.news/A0hnwKZaMSrG...

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The sad, slow death of Doctor Who — The i Paper

The last Doctor has departed, the Christmas special has been cancelled and the deal with Disney+ is off. Where did it all go wrong?

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

TBF those extra channels are a product of the multichannel era of 20 years ago. Plus we no longer are told what public service media should be in the approaching era of hyper personalised, generated on the fly, media. We need a cultural touchstone but the century old BBC model most likely isn’t it.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every single deck has a Claude/copilot design aesthetic. No one thinks about that. Ai producing standardisation not exception.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What are schools actually for? And what do they need to be for? richardfadams.substack.com/p/what-are-s...

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What Are Schools For?

What is the point of schools - future purpose in a new epoch

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No matter how you dress it up it’s still state sanctioned killing of people. US death row inmate Christa Pike taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections, says lawyer www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike taken to hospital after attempted execution, lawyer says

Her lawyer says Pike is being "provided life-saving measures" after two syringes of pentobarbital.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The first publication by my new occasional publishing press "Shut Thee Cake Oyle", next year is likely to be an anthology in support of Powerful South Yorkshire's "Homes For People Not Profit" Campaign. More details to come.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was just asked about switching to doing poetry. I haven’t. I’m a highly skilled creative person who can operate across media and domains from dealing with advanced tech right through to being a decent oil painter. Along the way I learned to read and I’ve read voraciously and constantly…#poetry

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 29/09/2026

I’m Gail, a one woman (and a feline assistant) business, based in Manchester. I create prints, homewares, T-shirts & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk

A grid of twelve illustrations featuring music designs, architecture designs, books, retro abstract designs and swimmers. Bold and colourful.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sobering when one looks at a list of London travel projects and one is hit by the fact that one will be dead by the time some are finished. apple.news/A0XA-JovxRT6...

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All the major transport projects being planned in London — The Standard

Projects currently underway include HS2, a Piccadilly line upgrade, and a number of new Superloop services

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here’s a YouTube playlist of me reading my #poetry. I post one of these per week. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Poetry from my book called Not Yet - YouTube

My poems - read out loud.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just to remind you I have my first collection of #poetry is available to buy via Amazon. amzn.eu/d/0bqkC24D yes the art is by me. It’s really really started to capture my voice and the poems cover joy, anguish, humour and sadness as well as death, recovery, Barnsley and Weybridge.

Ten in the morning, on an NHS ward, the poet's heart stopped. Someone on a twelve-hour shift knew what to do with her hands. Nobody asked what he was worth first.
Not Yet is a first collection, written over 15 years, in hospitals, on trains, & in the ordinary hours when something insisted on being written down & wouldn't take a polite no. These are poems built from scenes rather than arguments: coffee shops, supermarkets, chip shops, train platforms, hospital corridors, Barnsley backyards & Weybridge drives.
It begins in the town that made him. Defoe called Barnsley black for its soot; it stands now in glass, built over the capped shafts of the pits that paid for it. From there the book moves through a Yorkshire childhood, a Triang bike, a father who never said much to your face but never stopped bragging about you in the working men's club, a system of affection that took forty years to decode. Then out to the clipped lawns & idling engines of the commuter belt, the interview room, the supermarket aisle & finally back to the ward.
The range is wide and not always solemn. There are sonnets, free verse & poems in broad Yorkshire. There is a mock-scholarly critical edition of Kubla Khan set in a Tesco Express. There is a long poem about the NHS that doesn't argue its case so much as leave it on your doorstep & ring the bell. There is a red-&-white cat who knew what was coming a week before he went, and had the good manners not to mention it.
At the centre is death, not as metaphor, which is how poetry usually prefers it, safely on a leash, but as something witnessed, endured & returned from.
Not Yet is for anyone who has sat in a waiting room and not known how it ends. For anyone who has lost a parent and found themselves promoted, without interview, to a different place in the world. For anyone who has wondered what it actually means to still be here, and would quite like the answer before closing time.
Direct, dry, occasionally furious, and unwilling to look away.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just to remind you I have my first collection of #poetry is available to buy via Amazon. amzn.eu/d/0bqkC24D yes the art is by me. It’s really really started to capture my voice and cover joy, anguish, humour and sadness as well as death, recovery, Barnsley and Weybridge.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just bumped into @cybersal.bsky.social in my local coffee shop. Lovely to meet IRL.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#onlyconnect Victoria There once was a queen named Victoria, Whose jokes failed to bring any gloria. Though her posture was grand, Her humor felt bland, And the crowd fell asleep in the audia.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The death of someone close never leaves you. It’s like adding new colour to your palette which fades a bit over time but never totally goes away www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...

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What no one tells you about grief: the loss doesn’t heal with time

When the Times writer Ann Treneman was told her husband’s cancer was inoperable, she couldn’t believe that he was going to die

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Strangely nice place for lunch

My legs on a curved public bench and a view down to the Waterloo concourse.

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm thrilled that A History of England in 25 Poems has been chosen as one of the Waterstones Paperbacks of the Year! I'm so grateful for this support - and especially to the booksellers in shops across the country who've championed the book. It's on offer too: www.waterstones.com/campaign/pap...

Social media card reading 'Waterstones Paperbacks of the Year' with an image of the cover of A History of England in 25 Poems. Also reads 'Available from your local Waterestones or Waterstones.com'

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My book of English #poetry is here amzn.eu/d/0dm0yF4T please leave reviews

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My son gave me three hugs unprompted on Friday. He was returning to university on Saturday. Must have had that feeling.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

240,000 academics in the UK, 40% in social science. I don’t know what the definition of “academic” is in these numbers. Quite some numbers.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I always say that the cause of all our problems now is this prevailing orthodoxy that business IS society rather than one of the engines of it. But it’s not even that it’s pure fucking greed that’s the issue. These people are immoral.

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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thinking about childhood. I still feel honoured to have had Darth Vader teach me to cross roads safely.

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