Rob Fraser (he/him)

Reading this landed a little differently right after watching @lastweektonight.com on ‘all that Hitler shit.’

This is a remarkable book. A couple of sequences felt a bit repetitive but the characters are so vivid it earns any minor indulgence. Like a lot of the stuff I enjoy these days it’s the humanity that hits home. #BookSky

This is terrific. I love his writing.

‘Wildwood’ director Travis Knight on AI: “A pencil is a tool. A paintbrush is a tool. A 3D printer is a tool. A digital capture is a tool. AI is not a tool. AI can go fuck itself.”

Man U basically getting gubbed by Lake Windermere Athletic. Keswick FC. Coniston Water Rovers.

None more Scouse billboards outside Lime Street Station

I was at Anfield tonight. First time this season and though we were far from perfect there are worse games to be on the Kop for.

That cunt Matt Hancock got £300,000 for I'm A Celebrity, £40,000 for Celebrity SAS. He should be in the jail. We do not live in a serious society.

Finally watching East of Eden - Tracy Letts is so good it’s unsettling. Unbearable almost. Immediately it finished I saw five minutes of Divorce where he’s an entirely different but equally credible kind of flawed American male. The guy can act, I’m saying.

Not sure MOTD should be using Etihad apologist Joe Hart as a pundit until all the City stuff is sorted out by which I mean they are kicked out the fucking league

www.thebookseller.com/news/faber-t... Jesus.

Tony Blair’s on the Skydance board then. Cool, cool.

Foolishly I read this during my working day. Now I am incredibly depressed and pessimistic. But soon I’ll have an AI character called Iggy to help me find something cheery to watch on iPlayer, so, y’know.

Just saw an ad for an AI screenplay analysis service which, as an example of its product, offered a bullet point analysis of how Taxi Driver could be improved. Taxi. Driver. (Wonder what AI’s number one fan Paul Schrader would make of that.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5nh... Eva Marie Saint RIP

Well #ExtraGeography is a delight. Wonderful work from the young cast, an elegant and surprising script from Miriam Battye, unshowy but beautifully judged direction by Molly Manners.

Listening to the new record by The Durutti Column and it’s as good as everyone says.

Jeffrey A passing reminds me I need to seize the day. Like one time I saw him in Edinburgh and didn’t call him a prick. Whereas my brother in law once saw Leon Brittan in London and ran after his ministerial car to flick the vs at him. Makes you think.

After not much thought and with inevitable omissions…

Tonight’s Freak Zone featuring Pet Shop Boys’ Alan Turing project was glorious. Thanks @stuartmaconie.bsky.social - I can’t wait to listen again

Exc: Abu Dhabi has held talks with at least one minister since reports of the Man City verdict first surfaced Foreign office minister Stephen Doughty is among those understood to have been called by UAE officials, along with some of the UK's most senior diplomats observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Watched The Bone Temple. Ralph is great and the Jimmies are scary but it misses the emotional depth Jodie Comer brought to the previous film. For all the talk of it being a trilogy the boy’s story is sidelined. Good enough that I’ll be watching the final one, like.

It is a colossal political failure to have encouraged the UAE to buy up swathes of the British economy and prized cultural assets like Manchester City while evidence of its greed and brutality and contempt for the rule of law was all around. Two @fairsqprojects.bsky.social reports worth reading 👇

He’s concerned because he welcomed investment from an obviously corrupt foreign state backed operation.

Went to a packed screening of Cruising at Glasgow Film Theatre tonight. Five minutes in a young guy stood up, proclaimed loudly ‘nah, this is too gay for me’ and left to laughter and a smattering of applause.

#Mastermind1977 is the real deal.

Whoever called it #AppleMusicHall didn’t grow up watching The Good Old Days.

Saw a work in progress cut of this today. Funny and beautiful. Made with love, wit and passion.

This is wonderful. I’m guessing you’d enjoy @ianrsalmon.bsky.social

Dawn Penn is on 6 Music about as often as Sally Traffic is on Radio 2.

Also worth noting that every success they’ve enjoyed since is fruit of the poison tree. Nothing they’ve won is legitimate. Not a single thing. The Lance Armstrong of football.

Had my one and - so far - only proper job the summer You Can Call Me Al was a hit. And yet I still love it. #TOTP

I was living in Manchester when City went down to the ‘third tier.’ Remember fans - good friends of mine - singing ‘are the Reds going to Grimsby are they fuck?’ Those guys’ll be fine. Fuck everyone else involved.

I’m assuming @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social equivalent of the Bat Signal is visible in the sky over Liverpool about now

Another novel that kept me up past 2am to finish. It’s stunning. Literary fiction that drifts into Patricia Highsmith and James M Cain territory, even melodrama. #BookSky

Oh. Oh good.

youtu.be/s79tVdT2jUs I love this song. It’s like a 70s Sidney Lumet movie packed into six minutes. Happy Birthday

Wonder if Google and Apple will adopt the term Special Intelligence? Or are they just mealy mouthed weasels when it comes to geography?

Fitting that Charlotte Church’s cover of California Uber Alles is out there the day Gavin Newsom has fucked over Hollywood and the news.

Saint Etienne were tremendous at Barrowlands last night. A band me and my OH loved even before we loved each other, and have seen together many times over the last three decades, none of them better than this, their last ever show in Scotland.

Child: I’ve made a playlist for when you drive me to university Me: Good idea Child: loads of Beatles on it for mum Me: Also smart. Child: Track one, She’s Leaving Home - Me: (Choke sob) Are you out of your fucking mind?

Just in from seeing PP Arnold. Man alive. 80 in a couple of weeks and still note perfect, full of tales about the Stones, Small Faces, Traffic, Bee Gees, KLF, Ike & Tina…Wondrous.

Maybe Ed should ask Billy Nomates?

This is a strange novel - the relentless precision of the writing makes it an uncomfortable, even chilling experience throughout. The central characters are a little younger than me, like a half a generation away, but they feel incredibly true to life. #BookSky

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I am bloody proud to be an #RNLI supporter and member! These brilliant men and women have quite enough to cope with without being harassed by the scum of the earth. Their only concern is to help people in danger at sea - not check passports first! Which is how it should be. Please RT if you agree🙏

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm... Favourite Kaiser Chiefs song? Maybe I Predict a Protest. Fave Sly Stone? Probably There’s A Protest Goin’ On. Best early Don Siegel movie? Protest In Cell Block 11.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This is a depressing article because a) it’s a reminder that AI slop is hurtful as well as shit and b) the journalist and whoever subbed the piece thinks Robin Williams died last year.

Paul Schrader has been doing "AI isn't going away so get used to it" on his Facebook feed for sometime now--but this is so, so, so much worse. I don't think we'll ever see this movie. I hope we don't. theplaylist.net/paul-schrade...

Come Moff It, someone is Tarkin the piss.