Daniel Livingstone

LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

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In hindsight, constructing all the historic buildings in Glasgow out of balsa wood and phosphorus was a mistake.

In this case, it seems like a genuine accident -a faulty electronic vape started a fire in a vape shop.
Lithium battery fire that couldn't be extinguished 😞

Justin Fox Deposition (Part 4) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH YouTube video by ModernLanguageAssoc

It gets… worse somehow youtu.be/VATymXTpT1s?...

According to DOGE flunky, a documentary about the experiences of Jewish women's slave labor during the Holocaust is "inherently discriminatory." Come ON.

But, hey, I'm not a political historian, it's maybe just the surface appearances...

...the history of groups that overtly combine patriotic nationalism with economic socialism.
There's a reason the SNP put so much effort to try and define 'civic nationalism' which I don't see here.
I'm left wondering if Blue Labour know they are trying to make a case for National(ist) Socialism.

I'm far from a political historian but it read like motivated-reasoning post-factual justification.
But whenever I read about Blue Labour I always find myself wondering about...

Sad to see the Dome on the corner of Union street perish in the fire last night. It appeared in Stramash and the Crimson Devil a few times it hadn’t had neon advertising on it for decades but it was still a prominent view looking down the street.

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Good advice. Be human, prioritise other humans rather than ‘celebs’, respect your weak human body.

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The VFX school is closing. All their shit is free. Torrent files and everything

grab it while you can

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Two firefighters resting, sitting on the plinth of the "Citizen Firefighter" statue.

Quite an image on the BBC live page (www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...; no photographer credited).

Sounds as if they've saved the station and the hotel, and more importantly, without loss of life.

Citizens; heroes.

This is so viscerally distressing, in all honesty. I passed through here literally every day for years and years. It's a historic, iconic building in the city and it's heartbreaking to see this happen, not to mention the impact it's going to have on actual people

I don't know Gemma, Aimee or Zara but I just gave £20 to this because the Union St fire is a horrific nightmare and while I can't help everyone who's been wrecked by it I can help one person a little bit. If you can, you might also want to, whether it's this or someone else who's been affected

Glasgow - latest. Building near Central Station very on fire.

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

This is awful. Building had been on fire for hours, sadly the blaze wasn't contained earlier and it had consumed a major building in the city center.

All correct *and* fast(ish)
Best result yet
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Mar 8th 2026 (Hard), in less than 9 minutes
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Worth remembering, reading the absolute horror show that Pixar was under Lasseter, that he was unemployed because of this for a grand total of 6 months before Larry Ellison put him in charge of an animation company again, presumably to recreate this nightmare atmosphere there. Still has that job btw

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Popping this here for anyone wanting to attend a small science fiction con in Glasgow in May...
nine.satellitex.org.uk/about/news/141 (I'm not affiliated in any way, but considering attending if I'm not away elsewhere!)

I might be.

Laptop screen with screensaver. In background, living room TV with Chloe Price (Life is Strange) smoking a cigarette and looking out of her bedroom window - from a 10 hour loop music video on YouTube

Setting up office in the living room, hanging out with Chloe to get some emails done on a Sunday.
#LifeIsStrange

How Pixar’s Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column) A former Pixar employee writes that after John Lasseter's departure, the company still has a lot of work to do to fix its sexist culture.

If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.

Electronic music is a genre that was started and shaped by women, so on International Women's Day, here are some Bandcamp recommendations for women making some of the best electronic music you can get today. 🧵

Just thinking about a few of the absolute queens who’ve been a constant inspiration today ❤️

I was really hoping the audio had been modded too. "DONKEY!!!"
Disappointed. 6/10

St Patrick's Day Steam Sale Brings Irish Games to a Global Audience — Imirt Imirt - The Irish Game Makers Association is proud to present the Games from Ireland Steam Event , a week-long digital showcase celebrating games made in Ireland or shaped by Irish creative talent an...

We’re delighted to reveal the Irish Games art-piece we commissioned from acclaimed Irish artist and game developer @denmanrooke.com, showcasing some of the incredible games and characters from across Irish games, alongside touchpoints of Irish culture.

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