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Watching Hitchcock’s The Birds again, and I’m reminded what a great film it is.

Booooo. No Radiohead tickets for me. :-(

Poor sod.

Blimey. Just stopped off for lunch at The Peterboat at Leigh-on-sea. Not only was the food excellent but the service was incredible. This sizeable restaurant was packed and yet the service was like clockwork. Honestly, everything ran like a well oiled machine. Highly recommended

Sitting in #Tiffany & Co. in Knightsbridge. Check out this ropey mural–it looks like it was drawn with dry marker pens during someone’s lunch break. They could’ve hired a student off Fiverr with a 30-day trial of Adobe Illustrator and ended up with something better. #adobe

Happy birthday, Hunter S. Thompson, born 18 July 1937 ‘Until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says, ‘you are nothing’, I will be a writer.’ —Hunter S. Thompson.

UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI III. 1. 14. ‘No human being or human community should be harmed or subordinated, whether physically, economically, socially, politically, culturally or mentally during any phase of the life cycle of AI systems.’ unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/4822…

Spotted a prototype of the new VLC icon.

On one hand, this advertisement makes me really want to drink Kirin Beer, on the other I’d rather give it a miss. I’ll let you sort left from right. #ad #design

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On the prohibited behaviours list at the entrance of teamLabs Planets interactive art museum in Toyosu, Tokyo, I spotted this rather lovely icon. There’s design poetry if ever I saw it.

29 years ago today, I was in Hyde Park watching The Who play Quadraphenia Also on the bill: Jools Holland and his Big Band, Alanis Morissette, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton.

AI is lowering the creative barrier for newcomers—but red tape is slowing down the big players. Could the next great screenwriter be an indie armed with ChatGPT, while studios get stuck in legal traffic? #AI #Screenwriting #Creativity #TechEthics theguardian.com/technology/2…

Blimey. #WWDC25 is dull. What happened to all those charismatic tech rock stars? These jokers are drab.

My wife hates me wearing my dressing gown around the house. I presented her with the following: Sherlock Holmes Clark Gable Tony Curtis Frank Sinatra Prince Ozzy Osbourne Hugh Hefner Doctor Who (Tom Baker) Winston Churchill Karl Lagerfeld Noel Coward I lost her at Hugh Hefner.

Next time you’re in Oxfam looking for a summer read, don’t forget to check for arsenic. You never can be too careful. #Book #WritingCommunity #WritersOfTwitter #IndieAuthor #WritingTips theguardian.com/books/2025/j…

Who’s burping on the seat behind? Issuing belches of a fruity kind. Garam masala? Tamarind paste? When does aroma become a taste? This vile miasma upsets me. A burped up breakfast from last night’s tea. Please, I beg, have some tact Keep last nights dinner in your digestive tract