Simon

this bird has flown

[Simon @sirobnik]

https://t.co/uRob4znpxz

Ex it is then

[Lewisham Council @LewishamCouncil]

📢Following the success of @WeAreLewisham, we're excited to have launched a Cultural Strategy so everyone can continue to enjoy access to arts and culture

📽️Pls watch as @JamesJWalsh explains why it's so important

👉Then head to the blog for more detail https://t.co/SlOMgwf7p9

[Oliver Alexander @OAlexanderDK]

How it started: How it is going:

[daniel norcross @norcrosscricket]

Stokes the first man to hit six sixes in a test innings at Lord’s. Seven now.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

instead of having a credit score everyone should be assigned a library card at birth, and the card is good for libraries all over the nation and there are prizes for having read a certain number of books.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

As we all know, there is nothing more dangerous than users on your post-making app wanting to view posts on your post-making app

[Andrew Snape @andrewsnape4]

Someone should tell the people @btsport that @WestHam won then #FACup in 1980 (and 1975), so it hasn't been 58 years since they won a major trophy. #UECLfinal #FiorentinaWestHam

[SHANE REACTION @imshanereaction]

*to the tune of Smooth Criminal*

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

Bob Dylan on Muhammad Ali who died on this day in 2016:

“If the measure of greatness is to gladden the heart of every human being on the face of the earth, then he truly was the greatest. In every way he was the bravest, the kindest and the most excellent of men.”

[Thomas Reis @peakaustria]

"No piece of art has ever emotionally affected me the way this robot arm piece has. It's programmed to try to contain the hydraulic fluid that’s constantly leaking out and required to keep itself running...if too much escapes, it will die so it's desperately trying to pull it back to continue to fight for another day. Saddest part is they gave the robot the ability to do these 'happy dances' to spectators. When the project was first launched it danced around spending most of its time interacting with the crowd since it could quickly pull back the small spillage. Many years later... (as you see it now in the video) it looks tired and hopeless as there isn't enough time to dance anymore.. It now only has enough time to try to keep itself alive as the amount of leaked hydraulic fluid became unmanageable as the spill grew over time. Living its last days in a never-ending cycle between sustaining life and simultaneously bleeding out... (Figuratively and literally as its hydraulic fluid was purposefully made to look like it's actual blood).
"The robot arm finally ran out of hydraulic fluid in 2019, slowly came to a halt and died - And I am now tearing up over a friggin robot arm 😭 It was programmed to live out this fate and no matter what it did or how hard it tried, there was no escaping it. Spectators watched as it slowly bled out until the day that it ceased to move forever. Saying that 'this resonates' doesn't even do it justice imo. Created by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, they named the piece, 'Can't Help Myself'. What a masterpiece. What a message."
Extended interpretations: the hydraulic fluid in relation to how we kill ourselves both mentally and physically for money just in an attempt to sustain life, how the system is set up for us to fail on purpose to essentially enslave us and to steal the best years of our lives to play the game that the richest people of the world have designed. How this robs us of our happiness, passion and our inner peace. How we are slowly drowning with more responsibilities, with more expected of us, less rewarding pay-offs and less free time to enjoy ourselves with as the years go by. How there's really no escaping the system and that we were destined at birth to follow a pretty specific path that was already laid out before us. How we can give and give and give and how easily we can be forgotten after we've gone.. How we are loved and respected when we are valuable, then one day we aren't any longer and we become a burden...and how our young, free-caring spirit gets stolen from us as we get churned out of the broken system that we are trapped inside of. Can also be seen to represent the human life cycle and the fact that none of us make it out of this world alive. But also can act as a reminder to allow yourself to heal, rest and love with all of your heart. That the endless chase for 'more' isn't necessary in finding your own inner happiness.”
- James Kricked Parr
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[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

There are times in life
when we have to face
a sad truth:
like when you realise
that you haven't left yourself
enough leftovers
from last night's takeaway curry.

[Simon @sirobnik]

@SpiritsBeacon Not always the case, I once supplied one supermarket chain (not this one and not spirits) with a new product that they discounted day one. When they came to place a second order we refused to supply them, but most suppliers are forced to go along with it.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Vanishing figurative sculptures - the genius of Julian Voss Andreae.

https://t.co/bqcK7JCfIR

[Simon @sirobnik]

It wouldn't be entirely true to say I enjoyed everything Martin Amis wrote, but London Fields is superb, a great work indeed. Sad news.

[Simon @sirobnik]

@JayBroadsword I don’t think it’s out yet. I’ve just heard snippets apart from the Fontaines track. All good snippets though. Love a snippet. May have now overused the word snippet. Snippet. Nice.

[Simon @sirobnik]

@JayBroadsword have you seen there is a new Nick Drake covers collection coming out? 'The Endless Coloured Ways' - Guy Garvey, John Grant, Let's Eat Grandma and others including an excellent cover of Cello Song by Fontaines D.C.

[Lewisham Council @LewishamCouncil]

Help shape the future of arts & culture in Lewisham

We’re developing a strategy to build on the success of #WeAreLewisham and we need your views

What would you like to see more of? Music? Performance? Street art?

▶️Fill in our survey to have your say https://t.co/16dT03ZXtq

[Simon @sirobnik]

Seymour Stein and Ryuichi Sakamoto - RIP both, my record collection would be quite different without your influence.

[Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde]

Every time Karren votes in favour of their legislation, government ministers should demand she is sacked by the BBC

[Simon @sirobnik]

@JayBroadsword You need to aim higher, that boy will anchor any show for a Big Mac