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Stuart Dredge

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I scribble a little. Music Ally; The Week Junior; MIPCOM Daily News...

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Genuinely intrigued by who's seemingly spending a LOT of money to blat AI-slop 'Farage fighting in a TV studio' videos into feeds on former-Twitter.
A screenshot of an ad on X that is a thumbnail of an AI-generated video showing Nigel Farage fighting in a TV studioA screenshot of an ad on X that is a thumbnail of an AI-generated video showing Nigel Farage fighting in a TV studioA screenshot of an ad on X that is a thumbnail of an AI-generated video showing Nigel Farage fighting in a TV studioA screenshot of an ad on X that is a thumbnail of an AI-generated video showing Nigel Farage fighting in a TV studio
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
tbf I was about to back the crackdown on speeches!
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Did not have 'alt-right banjoist suggests floating mine-wall in the English channel' on my 2026 predictions. More fool me. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
GB News owner’s son calls for mine-laden ‘floating wall’ to stop Channel crossings
Winston Marshall, former member of Mumford & Sons, says people crossing are ‘economic migrants’ not refugees
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
@zoekeating.com Hello! Nice to be connected again (not that I post much, I lost the habit...)
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This post slapped! I thank you.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Why the long-guine face? *needs work*
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Can I steal this for my gravestone pls?
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]

From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:

NEWSREADER:

Extraordinary images here 

of an expat in Dubai 

[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]

…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.

[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. 

CLIVE MYRIE:

To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent

DAVID JONES:

Clive, this is momentous

It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.

[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]

You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.

It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.

CLIVE MYRIE:

Which are…?

DAVID JONES:

You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, 
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.

CLIVE MYRIE:

And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?

DAVID JONES:

I think we can expect to see:

“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”

CLIVE MYRIE:

Mmm. 

[Ends]
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I think it was the name of a startup that they bought, maybe from Hong Kong? But maybe he also liked the name :)
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Yeah, I feel a pressure (I guess due to my job) to write Something Interesting And Meaningful about the things I like. Maybe just saying they're nice is enough though!
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Having said that, I recently read Slow Gods by Claire North; The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Among The Burning Flowers by Samantha Shannon and they were all FIVE-STAR. Next up: - City of Lost Chances (Adrian Tchaikovsky) - The Naked Light (Bridget Collins) - Helm (Sarah Hall)
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
What if... the CIA invented ad tech?
media.tenor.com
a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it .
ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it .
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Innit :(((
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I've quietly retreated from most social media in recent years. Not as a Big Decision: it just happened for various reasons. Figuring out how/why/where to post a bit more again, and in a way that isn't just one long howl about politics / the world, but also isn't just 'I read this nice book'
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I'd like a nice AI made by nice people that doesn't kill the planet. Starting to worry this is too much to ask for!
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I really enjoyed the interview when it dropped into my inbox - she sounds like a good egg!
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I didn't even know this was a thing! Very glad to have spotted your post - cheers :)
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
@aiannucci.bsky.social Maybe a phrase for the next episode? :) (from here: www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...)
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Maybe Kemi got the only printed copy then locked him out of his computer? He's had to rewrite it from memory with ChatGPT :)
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
"Both Labour and the Conservatives broke Britain," says Robert Jenrick. I hope he now holds to account any former secretaries of state for housing, communities and local government; ministers of state for health; and ministers of state for immigration for the Tory governments who did that, eh? 😉
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Maybe have another go at this one, Meta AI…
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
It can't be just me who tried to do the slider in that Bluesky post image, can it? It probably can :(
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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
always be there
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
a piece of advice I didn't put in here but I really wish to offer: if you see a friend 'posting through' some kind of horrible online pile-on event, reach out privately and say the words 'I love you and please stop posting. let's have a phonecall & see each other in person, shall I pop over?'
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Music Ally @musically.com · 19/11/2025
UK minister Ian Murray MP talks ticketing reform and grassroots venues levy Ian Murray MP is the UK's minister for creative industries, media and arts, appointed to that position in a September reshuffle.
musically.com
UK minister Ian Murray MP talks ticketing reform and grassroots venues levy
Ian Murray MP is the UK's minister for creative industries, media and arts, appointed to that position in a September reshuffle.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
(That's not to invalidate your point about the sadness, of course)
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Do you think this is partly Reserved-For-Settlements-And-Deals money though? I'm tempted to start counting down to announcements on that front...
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Music Ally @musically.com · 19/11/2025
GenAI music firm Suno raises $250m at $2.45bn valuation Being sued by the music industry's major labels is clearly no barrier to raising money. GenAI music startup Suno has just trousered $250m.
musically.com
GenAI music firm Suno raises $250m at $2.45bn valuation
Being sued by the music industry's major labels is clearly no barrier to raising money. GenAI music startup Suno has just trousered $250m.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
That's a bit harsh and that's not my nicknam... Oh wait yes.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
New book-arrival day! Claire North is a WONDERFUL writer. If I ever manage to tear myself away from this keyboard *eyes day's music industry news sadly* I can't wait to get stuck in.
My hand holding the new book by author Claire North, Slow Gods. It's a sci-fi book so the artwork has planets and a spaceship.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I salute you :)
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
There were bad people on BOTH sides of the cold-blooded, state-sanctioned bone-saw murder, y’say?
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Also I love Amorica, I know it's when they started to slide gently out of mainstream interest, but some of the songs are wonderful (to me)
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Haha, yes almost certainly
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
It's cool although I already have the Lost Crowes album they released, which had a lot of the Tall tracks on. Can't afford the box set but glad they're doing it!
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I mean, he met Prince Andrew so this is at least a ranking system of sorts
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I see Elon has hit the ‘promote anti-BBC tweets from rando accounts in push notifications’ button…
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Spent this afternoon writing about something I'm fascinated by: the world of micro-dramas – and what they could mean for music. I even came up with some ideas, and a TERRIBLE AI-generated teaser for one of them... musically.com/2025/11/07/m...
musically.com
Music Ally's guide to micro-dramas – and what they mean for music
Very few things wouldn't be improved by the addition of a nine-tailed fox demon, don't you think? It's certainly the case for TV romance.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Oh yes, agree. I just think it'll have made the famously Tory-dominated readership of the Telegraph choke on their cornflakes. Then again, maybe many of them are Reform now..
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Appreciate their principles, but not sure 'We refused to produce Rod Stewart because he's a TORY' is a take that will go down well with readers of an interview in *checks notes* the Daily Telegraph... www.telegraph.co.uk/music/interv...
telegraph.co.uk
Heaven 17: ‘We refused to produce Rod Stewart because he’s a Tory’
The Eighties synth band on kickstarting Tina Turner’s comeback and turning down ‘Rod the Mod’
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Music Ally @musically.com · 07/10/2025
ChatGPT reaches 800m weekly users and adds Spotify integration OpenAI has reached some significant new milestones with its ChatGPT service. “More than 800 million people use ChatGPT every week, and we process over six billion tokens per minute on the API,” CEO Sam Altman announced at the company’s…
musically.com
ChatGPT reaches 800m weekly users and adds Spotify integration
OpenAI has reached some significant new milestones with its ChatGPT service. “More than 800 million people use ChatGPT every week, and we process over six billion tokens per minute on the API,” CEO Sam Altman announced at the company’s ‘Dev Day’ yesterday. And, like so many big tech services before it – Facebook, Spotify and others included – ChatGPT is entering its ‘I’m a platform for third-party apps’ phase…
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I see Robert Jenrick just finished his speech at the Tory conference with "Let’s take our country back". Entirely accidentally *very* similar to an old BNP slogan, of course 🤔
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
@jamesrball.com d'you know anyone who's trying to dig into this from a data perspective?
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
It's a private company, Musk can do what he wants etc etc. But I wonder if people realise how much far-right stuff is being shoved at users – a lot of it seems to be happening below the surface of what's easily trackable publicly
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I didn't get round to turning off homescreen notifications either. I get one of these every few days - always far-right / pro-Trump things, despite everything its algo should know about me
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I don't use my Twitter account any more, but I had to log in to check something. The 'all notifications' column is 90% far-right tweets. Any basic algorithm analysing at my posting/following history would realise that's anathema to my views. 6 Tommy Robinson tweets in the top 30 served up to me...
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
YEAH! Email came in, clicked on the link and chose standing tix as fast as I could. Think I was lucky as friends literally 30 seconds behind me hit the sold-out wall.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
And perhaps once investigating imaginary terrorist networks is done, they'll get round to tackling the whole 'children getting shot in schools' thing... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A screenshot from a news report with a quote from an eejit politician.
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milo edwards @miloedwards.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.
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