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07.03.2026 08:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AN 8+ SCORE IS RARE (AS IT SHOULD BE.) 128,020 evaluations. Five years. Here's what the score distribution actually looks like.

How rare is an 8+ overall score from a Black List website reader? Quite rare. (As it should be.)

New data study. open.substack.com/pub/blcklst/...

06.03.2026 17:10 👍 34 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 7

I’m nostalgic for the time when this would have made me laugh.

06.03.2026 19:25 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Very best to you. I’m on about the third overall draft of my current project and *still* adding new scenes and beats. It can be maddening.

05.03.2026 17:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Interesting. Have you determined a time and locale for the next project? Really appreciate your posts on how you go about your craft.

04.03.2026 12:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you.

03.03.2026 22:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is so very true.

01.03.2026 20:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for sharing this. There’s something about starting early and fresh that makes such a difference.

25.02.2026 19:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rxd7.

24.02.2026 19:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A long time coming.

24.02.2026 14:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#caturday

21.02.2026 03:23 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow. Glorious.

19.02.2026 20:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📸REUTERS / MIKE SEGER

📸REUTERS / MIKE SEGER

BREAKING

Serena Williams will be eligible to return to tennis in 13 days… if she chooses

The ITIA has updated its list of reinstatements, indicating her 6 months of re-entry in the anti-doping testing pool will be completed by Feb 22nd

Smells like a comeback 🐐

Source

itia.tennis/anti-doping/re…

09.02.2026 17:30 👍 39 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 3

Outrageous.

10.02.2026 05:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth, says Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel

If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

07.02.2026 08:21 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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If you’re in London this Saturday come and join me at Dingwalls for a night of punk, rock and blues—all in support of Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity. Final tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/vintage-centrist-dad-at-dingwalls-tickets-1974816922576

05.02.2026 09:03 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

05.02.2026 11:50 👍 32278 🔁 13863 💬 589 📌 1595
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Oops we did it again.

05.02.2026 21:08 👍 50 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

Where abouts are those cliffs in the pic? Thanks!

31.01.2026 01:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Congratulations!

29.01.2026 05:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of an X post by Acyn quoting Pete Buttigieg. The text says that in a country that amended its Constitution to ban alcohol and later reversed it, the U.S. could also pass an amendment clarifying that corporations are not people and money is not speech. Below the text is a photo of Buttigieg standing on a stage holding a microphone, speaking to an audience seated behind him.

Screenshot of an X post by Acyn quoting Pete Buttigieg. The text says that in a country that amended its Constitution to ban alcohol and later reversed it, the U.S. could also pass an amendment clarifying that corporations are not people and money is not speech. Below the text is a photo of Buttigieg standing on a stage holding a microphone, speaking to an audience seated behind him.

Well said. And if the federal laws won't do this, the states, which grant corporate status, can and should.

21.01.2026 15:02 👍 5371 🔁 1562 💬 124 📌 76

Great post. Thank you for this. Is it purely a matter of budget spend - how much one has - or is it also a matter of access? To brick and mortars, airports, libraries, etc.?

21.01.2026 12:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Eager to hear what world leaders say, and are willing to do, about military and economic adventurism.

21.01.2026 12:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wrote a cozy mystery at age 50. Someone said to me-older people are better writers because they've seen some stuff. True?

14.01.2026 16:28 👍 1244 🔁 42 💬 205 📌 12

If you get a chance, #HighNoon is highly entertaining at Harold Pinter Theatre.

12.01.2026 18:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How much of your total work in a project is breaking the story? Fifty percent of? More? Less? Thank you.

12.01.2026 18:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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🇺🇦Marta Kostyuk delivered a powerful speech at the WTA tournament final in Brisbane

“I play every day with pain in my heart. Right now, thousands of people are without electricity and warm water. It’s -20 degrees Celsius. I was deeply moved and happy to see so many Ukrainian flags here this week.”

11.01.2026 13:30 👍 1230 🔁 325 💬 20 📌 10

Great catch.

11.01.2026 12:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great question. My humble take is that nothing can take the place of human creativity. Human vision and lived experience inform our choices, no? Whether it’s the frame, the focus, the light - all those choices. Maybe it’s the romantic in me.

04.01.2026 16:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Second kick of a mule.

04.01.2026 15:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0