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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Look, writers know that everyone else thinks we're a terrible bunch of old whingers whenever we say this stuff, but Audible's blurb for ROBYN AHERN's adaptation of Dracula would be scandalous if it weren't typical: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Bram-Stok...

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you're designing a website for a restaurant, my tip would be: making it easy to find the menu is important, a 30-year breakdown of the founder's original vision and evolving philosophy less important.

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 05/08/2026

i don’t understand why the billionaires who want to build data centres don’t simply construct them on their own property

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Slightly amazing James Pond news, when you look at the rest of the Speakies Best Narrative Podcast shortlist (www.radiotimes.com/audio/the-sp...). (You can buy the relevant eps at www.patreon.com/listenandoften, subscribe to the show and find the eps, or subscribe to the James Pond feed on Apple)

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our discussion was at a laughable level for anyone *actually* interested in these things. I know enough, in this case at least, to know what I don't know...

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Tall Tales is at The North London Tavern, 7.30, Tuesday July 28th, WITH AIRCON. We have @johnfinnemore.bsky.social @alexfranklinhallo.bsky.social Susannah Pearse, Tim Sutton and Mike Westcott, and All New James Pond. £5, unbelievably. Email talltalesnight at gmail to get on the list.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

mandatory reading

"SAM NEILL
- If you were to commit a murder, how would you do it?
- It's got to be big! No slipping something into someone's drink, that's just pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a stain on the road. There's probably a couple of people I'd put under a steamroller, but I won't say who they are, otherwise when they see a steamroller coming their way they'll be on full alert. And steamrollers don't go very fast..."

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I've been participating in John Cornyn's focus groups for fifteen years. God knows how I ended up on that list but they never ask me if I'm a voter, just what I think of various issues

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Oh for God's sake, autocorrect. Brian Cant. Seriously, Cent is what you went for? Not Can't? I've just done it again and it went Can't. I refuse to believe it was a typing error, though.

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I'm going to ask you to stick with me for this but: it's like finding out that Tony Britton's two sons-in-law were Brian Cent and Rugby player Phil Vickery (about a year before someone told you there was another Phil Vickery and ruined it all).

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I'm in tomorrow. I have deadlines today but if England had been batting I would have worked-from-Lord's for this reason.

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If only the 250,000 academics and 150,000 total staff with their (hard to estimate, median-ish) £150b contribution to the economy were as valuable as the 6,500 fishermen and 30,000 total fishing chain employees and their £1b. (Theatre's crappy old 250,000 workers are obviously a lost cause)

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Couldn't agree more, about Liverpool and Arsenal. (I am that Liverpool fan, by the way. I don't use 'our' for a genuinely funny reason that I would tell you privately if you wanted to know it. I know it's funny because I am a professional in the field.)

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Now imagine being a Liverpool fan marinading in world where seemingly no one remembers their last two titles were won after summers of despair fuelled by LFC's failure to buy anyone.

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

(Plus a small bit for the danger of legal challenges. Decisions in sport can't be made to legal standards. Plus a small bit down to the general optimisation crisis.)

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The column inches and engagement online produced by VAR - measurables in a media economy that needs them - is what makes VAR irresistible. Every anti-VAR podcast is an economic argument for VAR. (I don't think the cynicism is this direct, exactly, but I think this is huge and real.)

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Harry Brook is just Barry Took with one of the new, modern bats

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Doctor Trivago

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

And people say evolution isn't real.

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Which one? Watergate? Westland? Duckhouse?

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

holy shit bsky has a water sealant expert that predicted the reflecting pool failure mode perfectly

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

@jdickerson.bsky.social #PoliticalGabfest (or anyone with an iPhone): I strongly recommend you text someone the words: pew pew

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I think it's one of the most destructive periods of recent history. I also think that's because of social media, foreign interference, AI and Trump, not Starmer. Sure, he's got flaws, and a genius might have been able to stand against that, but I don't want a political system that needs geniuses!

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Plus 2: and while we're on the subject of things people find boring: iIt takes forever to change anything in the real world and the fact that social media and podcasts don't operate on that timescale doesn't change it

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Plus: sure, we had plans, but we have hundreds and hundreds of millions of pounds less than we used to have to pay for all this stuff and we can't keep saying so because its too divisive to say why

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The thing Trump's Presidency shows (like, er, let's just say 'other historical autocrats who he is not the same as') is that big business likes to think it's more powerful than power, and sometimes lots of people think it is. But power is more powerful than big business.

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This is typical handwringing about the only President, IN HISTORY who has been able to OPEN THE STRAIGHTS OF HORMUZ

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Dave Jones @welshgasdoc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

As it’s #PrideCymru today, let’s remember this lovely Twitter exchange from years gone by…

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

[I am disappointed there aren't a lot of comments saying this is because people don't want to drive into the ULEZ and so they're dying at home.]

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

David Mitchell is Marrying Rosie Holt! Tamsin Greig is Taking the Piss! Episode 3 is Live: www.patreon.com/listenandoften

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Of all my various guesses, and I'm in sixth forms a lot, this is the main reason that sixth formers' written English is so bad. It's really, really bad. Much worse than you think, even from reading this (I mean, why would you believe me). Marking systems are designed to hide how bad it is.

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Another one who didn't know - God knows why - there were other novels than Karoo.

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

You did write The Book of Luis, though.

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

(Separate: take 6-10 average NBA players who are prepared to take a risk for the sake of an Olympic gold and, in their off time, teach them to row.)

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

(The greatest, most long-running clickbait in the world is my mates' WhatsApp about where along a wall of greatness different sportsmen lie, which is an old debate, obvs, but mainly focuses on Ronnie O'Sullivan (my opinion: put him on a different wall for little sports))

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I think they mostly do, this side of guys whose bodies are transparently built for something else

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 03/06/2026

Just listened to this again a couple of days ago and, yes, it gets ever more timely. Everyone should give it a spin.

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The more of the Pope's AI encyclical that I read, and the bits about truth, lies and power, the clearer it becomes that he's not just listening to Rossum's Universal Robots, but also to: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Magnitsky the Musical

The incredible story of an American capitalist, a Russian tax adviser and a crazy heist.

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Miss Turman @missturman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is the most wonderful musical ever written - smart, fun, catchy and serious, all at once

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We've mainly been wondering which of the anonymous sign-up emails to L&O is actually Pope Leo

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I'm not saying the Pope's encyclical about the meaning of life and AI was just an extended gloss on our robot musical because that's not for me to say: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Rossum's Universal Robots, Episode 1

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It's the attention economy monetising outrage that's the oxygen source. I think it again and again and again again. It sort of started with 24 hour news, but addictive social media is the cancer, and the people who made it know it. It's a Sackler level crime

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Oh, no reason.

The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting 'Heil, Spode!' and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer.
What the Voice of the People is saying is: 'Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?
P. G. Wodehouse

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I think it's natural but we should punish it.

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Robbie Hudson @roberthudson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Graham Dilley gave me his, speaking of the understudies in great 20th century achievements

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