Deputy head of audience at the Guardian. Personal account. The best song is Little Lamb Dragonfly #blocktheblue
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My amazing dad died two weeks ago. He scoffed at Father's Day as a made-up thing but the Guardian published my obit of him today all the same
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The Telegraph did a good one too telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2…
Paywall-free version here
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Today and tomorrow I'll be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours. For more information please follow bsky.app/profile/gonuj.org or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver
The best thing you'll see on TV all year is probably the six 40 Minutes documentaries from the 80s that the BBC has put on iPlayer. I've watched three of them now and they've all been works of art. Some only available till next Tuesday
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Loosely based on a Two Ronnies sketch, more like
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Garry Watson, the last living actor from Hollywood's silent era, is 96 today: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson…
Reading the replies to this it's quite something that nostalgia among people of a certain age is all for an absence of something (smartphones and social media) and for inconvenience. We're such contrary creatures
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How did people describe the brain before computer metaphors? Charles S. Sherrington in 1942 called it "that enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern."
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Ever punctilious, Leonard Barden tells me that the record for newspaper columnising is held by Sid Hartman, who wrote for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis from 1945 until his death at the age of 100 in 2020. 74 years and 140 days, according to Leonard
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There's a trend on Chinese social media where they imitate AI videos and it's beautiful
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Happy birthday to chess player and writer Leonard Barden, 95 today. He has been Guardian chess correspondent since 1954. Any longer journalistic stints, or is 70 years a world record?
Funny how Richie Havens' dad kind of looks younger than him. I guess it's down to his style of dress (and glasses!) now being coded as more youthful in today's terms
ALT Richie Havens leaning on a xylophone with parents Richard and Mildred in the background in their home in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York.
More rock stars with their parents (plus Eric Clapton with his grandma) here mashable.com/archive/rock-st…
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The disproportionate hate for Scrappy Doo is reflective of society's prejudice against small people who have the gall to be confident and assertive rather than "knowing their place."
