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Craig Brown

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Senior BBC journalist. For the sake of clarity, not *that* Craig Brown. All views stated are my own.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Going to make my own AI start-up, I just need a massive stack of encyclopaedias.
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Craig Brown @sloan1874.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
*puts Easter eggs back in box*
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 13/04/2025
Sunday, April 13, 2025 Today missed being Easter by 22 minutes. Gregorian Calendar’s definition: First Sunday after the first Full Moon after the March Equinox. If the Full Moon had occurred 22 minutes earlier, landing yesterday (GMT), then today would have been that first Sunday.
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Olthwaite @olthwaite.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Gail's Preston Bus Station mask saw me through Covid (other Preston Bus Station products are available). I also bought a lovely Lido notebook and typewriter print.
Gail's Preston Bus Station mask
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
More silent albums, please. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Kate Bush and other artists protest AI copyright laws with silent album
Music stars including Kate Bush and Damon Albarn say law changes would damage people's livelihoods.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Worst. Episode. EVER.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 15/02/2025
👇🏻👇🏻
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Craig Brown @sloan1874.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The gentlest of snow is falling on Glasgow tonight
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I may or may not walk five hundred miles And I may or may not walk five hundred more Just to be the man who may or may not have walked a thousand miles to fall or not fall down at your door - The Disclaimers
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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Get thee to a nunnery ✝️
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Beatings will continue until morale improves.
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Siobhan Synnot @siobhansynnot.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I'm talking to Caroline Wyatt about film dubbing on Radio 4's PM at 1730 today and it's a joy. May contain Wallace and Gromit, Ukrainian Paddington and the German Bruce Willis
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🌴✨🦋 Kathryn 🦋✨🌴 @kathrynkatiekwrites.substack.com · 09/01/2025
If you ever get lonely, just remember that the Mars rover is programmed to sing happy birthday to itself every year.
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Maureen Cleave describing the Rolling Stones to Evening Standard readers in 1964. I think this is my favourite passage in all music writing. It's packed with detail and tension, but nothing is unnecessary.
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Siobhan Synnot @siobhansynnot.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Nettflix has released Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl to the USA, and if they can cope with the localisms of Great British Bakeoff, they can probably navigate 'Yorkshire Border - No Parkin' And gives me a chance to revisit the fact that Feathers' pet seal is called Ron
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Craig Brown @sloan1874.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Decorations coming down today, but back garden decided to up its game for the new year.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 04/01/2025
The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
This is exemplary work on an unspeakable killing - the complexities in reporting and editing a story like this. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/n...
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Friends From Debrina Kawam’s Happy Past Aghast After Subway Burning
Debbie Kawam, as she was known in high school, was a cheerleader and a sunny presence. As the decades went on, she fell into an abyss.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
in the article of former North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry:
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
my friends, I know this sounds like arrant nonsense but: in the northern hemisphere we are now *done* with the darkest three weeks in the year. (the darkest day was ten days ago. we did it. the next 49 weeks are lighter than this.)
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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Craig Brown @sloan1874.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Interestingly, half-way through the middle of season six of Mad Men, and it's skipped from Prime to Netflix.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Don't destroy their home and wonder why they invade yours. 💚
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Siobhan Synnot @siobhansynnot.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Enjoy your Hogmanay. May the night be more joyful than a schnauzer who has been made to wear her Christmas present for the first time today XoX
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Siobhan Synnot @siobhansynnot.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I am quite happy to provide lists of favourite TV and film of 2024, but a bit of insight into what's been happening to TV and film in 2024 goes some way to explaining what we will be watching in 2025.
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
This is gloomy. There's a pulse to neon that LEDs can never quite replicate. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/r...
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Last Call for Neon in New York City
Signs at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and the Apollo Theater are among the latest to lose their vintage glow in favor of LED lighting.
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Forty-third anniversary of me not getting this for Christmas.
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JOHN NIVEN @nivenj1.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
When the pampas grass just isn’t getting it across.
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Craig Brown @sloan1874.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Was that incredibly heavy rain or a brief snow flurry that just blew past my window. Either way, woof!
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Siobhan Synnot @siobhansynnot.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I will be reviewing the telly year on Dec 26 and 27 for @bbc5live and they've given me time for proper kickabout Your nominations for best and worst of 2024?
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Duglas BMX Bandits @bmxbanditsduglas.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
This was released when I was 15 and at that time it felt pretty much like the coolest and greatest thing ever. It’s still way up there for me. And talking of cool, Cindy Wilson’s performance in this clip is so brilliant. youtu.be/swBDlOk0V6Y?...
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B 52's - Give Me Back My Man • TopPop
YouTube video by TopPop
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 13/12/2024
Yup
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Craig Brown @sloan1874.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Guitar lesson this afternoon. We discussed guitar pedals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwEs...
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Hitler struggles to nail Stevie Ray's tone.
YouTube video by Malcolm Barclay
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
BREAKING 🚨: NASA dropped a new James Webb telescope deep space image 💫💫💫 All the eight-sided features are stars in the Milky Way, everything else is a galaxy 🤯
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Craig Brown @sloan1874.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Whole new level of threat added to the Telly Tubbies theme tune: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcvL...
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28 YEARS LATER – Official Trailer (HD)
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Craig Brown @sloan1874.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Glasgow looking very Stephen King-esque tonight…
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Craig Brown @sloan1874.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
And so the season returns. New record, four hours of sustained cursing to get this finished…
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Craig Brown @sloan1874.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Raygun: the musical cancelled after viral Olympian's legal threat
Creator Steph Broadbridge says lawyers for Rachael Gunn sent a cease and desist letter.
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Kyle Ian @kyleian.cool · 08/12/2024
Nailed it
image of a puzzle of a horse but the pieces are roughly jumbled together to appear in the shape of a horse... roughly
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Craig Brown @sloan1874.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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A Man Was Murdered in Cold Blood and You’re Laughing?
What the death of a health-insurance C.E.O. means to America.
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Craig Brown @sloan1874.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Traffic aside, it never fails to surprise me how little Edinburgh's old town as changed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-nI...
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Edinburgh, Scotland 1930s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design Added
YouTube video by NASS
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Someone just told me their annual Christmas tree reference point is Ronald and Nancy Reagan's 1987 White House tree, so I googled it.
Ronald and Nancy Reagan with an absurdly large, overdecorated Christmas tree in 1987.
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The Secret DJ. @thesecretdj.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I love a grim British Christmas. I've got a special advent calendar every day for you of sad trees in public spaces.
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Joe McAlinden @joemcalinden.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 04/12/2024
They Did Everything Together.
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Pets Fun House @petsfunhouse.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Catastrophe starts with "cat" for a reason. 😹😹😹
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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Sounds like a couple who’ve written a letter to the Telegraph about how they can only go skiing once a year because school fees have gone up
My hand holding a jar of Tesco Finest ‘Alphonso Mango & Apricot
Chutney’. I didn’t subsequently buy the jar of chutney, I only took this photo of it for comedy purposes. I do this quite a lot in supermarkets and it annoys my partner.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Good Morning SKIES of BLUE Hope these two bring you a Sunday Smile We rescued these adorable twins from Ruff Rescue in Arizona Surrounded now by so much love and joy PLEASE ADOPT DONT SHOP this holiday season So many need loving forever homes. Meet TARA and TYMMIE Tis the season 🌲
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Craig Brown @sloan1874.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
GW's PR team this morning...
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