Dirk Maggs

“If you have nothing positive to say, say nothing” which is why I’m not posting much at present. Also I’m working, hurrah (this photo was taken a couple of weeks back). More on that to come.

This looks like a really cool service for people who want to hire artists who don't use AI. Check it out! hirehumanartists.com

The risk here is that Radio Comedy - a distinct art in its own right with its own discipline and method - is relegated to another layer of television's development substrata.

Keep pushing this guys. The people who love this station the most probably aren't chronically online like we are so we need to spread this about a bit you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Do not trust the polls. Do not allow yourself to become complacent. Vote early — and get your friends and family to vote. Do not let Elon, Big Tech, Big Oil, AI, and the billionaire class buy this election. We outnumber them — and we're the only ones that can put an end to this nightmare.

Hear Hear.

If closing surely the least expensive radio channel the BBC has (run by a tiny number of people, broadcasting the work of mainly dead people), bothers you, then why not sign this petition you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Hey Scottish voice actors! If you're interested in auditioning for this, DM me for the deets!

I’m “SNF” - Staff No Fee for Radio 4 Extra repeats of stuff like Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel but I’d pay £22 a year towards keeping R4Extra going.

Alison says it all. Radio 4 Extra wasn’t an apocryphal service for superannuated listeners. It was a cultural resource and a reminder of a braver, expertly curated BBC.

Wednesday evening! Have you ever wanted to have a go at sitcom writing? Or maybe you just want to know how they work - come and join my sitcom 101 online workshop! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intro-to-s...

TOMORROW! THE OCTOBER GIRL Book Three. From me and @maverickogn.bsky.social. In stores October 20th, 2026.

Since leaving full-time employment a year and a bit ago, I have made – created, edited, designed, introduced, recorded, audio-edited – FIVE multimedia releases: HISTORIES OF BRITAIN VOL 1-4: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FZ3ZB61.... SHAKESPEARE'S MUSES OF FIRE: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HJH3X5W....

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like. Climbing aloft to reef the mainsail on the now sadly mothballed tall ship Tenacious, 40 feet above a rolling deck and scared shitless.

The coolest thing you’ll see today.

Hear Hear

Odds narrowing

I don’t want something that demented nazi has a controlling interest in. I want this. With this pilot.

Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia

Man of Steel at 40 continues on It All Comes Back to Superman with the (admittedly delayed) conversation with @andwhynotpod.bsky.social about the BBC Adventures of Superman, written, directed, and produced by @dirkmaggs.bsky.social ! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

This is AWFUL — it’s exhausting being an author in the age of mass AI copyright fraud. If you can, support Alex (a real historian) against the fake copy 👇

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

This is one of the most terrifying interviews I’ve ever seen. The slow reveal of the mental landscape at work here. If you don’t end up thinking we should stop these people with as much force as we can muster, I’d be very surprised. youtu.be/lnLDjXy2kRA?...

Important if you've published anything (poetry or prose) in a U.K.-based print journal or mag with an ISSN in the past three years! The deadline to add it to your ALCS account is 31/10 this year. And if you haven't joined yet, do so for free. Get paid for your writing...! www.alcs.co.uk/join-alcs/

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I’d love to see where the voice actors’ contracts freely allow this little wheeze.

From The Times obit for Esther Rantzen. Nothing against Ms Rantzen but us dogsbodies trained for 9 months to “do the chores” and would like to see the obit writer survive “Red Light Fever” and operate the panel in a busy studio live on air or create believable sound effects for a convincing drama.

Very very sad news. We have lost Tony De Meur - aka Ronnie Golden, he of The Fabulous Poodles, all round lovely human - and the world is a sadder place. Surely right now he is in a celestial bar swapping parrot jokes with Baz Cryer over a double.

Still a bit blown away to see copies of ‘Hookland Fragments’ in the wild. Here is a signed copy available from @treadwells-books.bsky.social

Mitch Benn presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s DRACULA Lost for 120 years, restored, recreated and completely made up by MITCH BENN STRICTLY LIMITED RUN - FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY 24/25 October www.tickettailor.com/events/circl... #dracula #gilbertandsullivan #operetta #mitchbenn

Here is the trailer for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ launch on 9October that has been banned by YouTube, TikTok and Meta, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFTf...

I've written Joe Harkness's obituary for the Guardian. I hope it pays good tribute to a wonderful man who was brave, honest and made the world a better place. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lest we forget: there are still real journalists at the BBC. Global Eye demonstrates that, and Steve Rosenberg does a masterly job of reporting from Russia, treading the line twixt factual journalism and being summarily thrown out of the country. youtu.be/SebfRk_0jzg?...

Crikey - I don’t have copies of some of these titles

Have you seen the original artist Russ Heath's comic strip reply to Lichtenstein:

Dave Gibbons making this point about Lichtenstein made me very happy.

I really need a job, if anybody knows of somewhere looking to hire a good writer with connections in scientific academia and a few random folks in government please lemme know

The irony of Canada and the EU talking about free movement and a closer association while the nation that created the “British Commonwealth” conned itself into self-imposed exile and sits alone on the bench, sulking.

My new exhibition of paintings opens on Monday! I'll post the online version of the exhibition that evening. Here's hoping it goes down well. 🤞 Aside from Labyrinth, can you guess any of the other fantasy classics from the last 100 years which I've chosen? There are 22 of them in all.

rip annie dillard

Oh no. This is very sad. RIP Bonnie.