Always find it funny how there are only two types of film that get the prestige "we spent 300 hours cleaning every frame for this sparkling 4K restoration with 50 hours of extra features" reissue -- either all-time masterpieces of cinema or the schlockiest genre tat.

look not to say that she isn’t doing the right thing here but it is baffling to me that anyone three years ago let alone in the year of our Lord 2025 still uses Twitter

my thing is even I didn't have a fiery personal grudge against Twitter, I would not use it for the same reason I don't use Facebook - it's a miserable user experience. It's nothing but ads and ragebait and ai slop. It doesn't have to be a moral stance, it's just a shit product

you wanna see a dead body

Honestly sick of people telling me they "have to" stay on X "for the reach." "It's where the people I need to reach are." No, it's not. You can bring them here. "The people I want to follow are there." You can bring them here too. Lots of other people have. You can too.

There are plenty of obvious reasons to do this: Nobody under the age of 30 actually uses the site! You're rewarding Elon Musk! But the most important thing is that some politicians and consultants are stewing in bot-driven, expensive Nazi propaganda, and it's giving them really bad, cruel ideas.

Dear Gmail spam filter, Things that are spam: PR companies who keep offering me guests for my podcast (which has no guests), emails from the Revolutionary Communist Party, "offers" to build a website Things that are not spam: The Onion, a book I agreed to blurb for a friend. Hope this helps.

When I was in my early 20s. I fell into the 'make it darker' trap. I wanted Doctor Who to come back much darker. I was an idiot. Not everything needs to be 'darker'. And if you can't get darkness out of the Ghost of Christmas Future or 'Want' and 'Ignorance' then you shouldn't be making films.

I predict garbage. Also, what is it with these male morons reading Dickens and thinking "I want to go to the darker places he wasn’t allowed to write about." (Steven Knight, the twat). deadline.com/2025/10/john...

I'm really sorry but if you say something objectively stupid like "decreasing immigration will help with housing and eases pressure on infrastructure", by law I have to laugh at your face

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>> everything that works well about bsky works well precisely insofar as it's a single instance. the promise of atproto is the fediverse but shit. it's been two and a half fuckin years. jesus. //

>> that just happens to have a fuckload of central control points, over and over blacksky sets up an entire separate infra! bluesky bans a blacksky user. whoops they're banned on blacksky too shit like that that shows the whole thing as a lie, and these fucks keep saying "decentralised" >>

>> so they do a lot of openwashing theatre. they never shut the fuck up about how open and decentralised they are. while in practice being 99.99+% one single fucking app run by one company with an "open" protocol they're making up as they go along >>

i see the fucking bluesky openwashing is starting again if bsky/atproto isn't fashtech, it works just like fashtech (y'know apart from the bit where bsky corp is literally rationalists, coiners and neoreactionaries) >>

No, everyone doesn't use LLMs. I haven't used google search for years. I also use Ecosia, & while it's slightly slower than google, duckduckgo etc it gives me more useful results. I quit using duckduckgo - even with the AI shit turned off I still get a bunch of garbage in search results.

Just saw someone saying, in passing "everyone uses LLMs even if incidentally through Gemini-enabled stuff on Google". Don't want to dunk on that person, but... not "everyone". I have turned all the "AI" shit off on my phone and Google account, and on ecosia which I use rather than Google for search.

My kid appears to have passed a class purely on the strength of everybody getting 100% on the final exam due to finals being cancelled by a mass shooting. Which I'm not saying establishes motive

He's making a list, he's painting it black, no Commie should work as a Hollywood hack. Joe McCarthy's coming to town.

sure make your lazy jokes. don't even think about the ppl hurt by them. make your crack about "an egg fried this rice" not even thinking about that poor cook in the back of the restaurant making you a delicious meal. sweating half to death because she won't take off that oversized hoodie

I keep having exactly this conversation with AI proponents: “I need it to be accurate.” “How accurate?” “100%” “Uh. How about 85%? Good enough?” “No, 100%.” “Well, we can’t do that because [reason of the week].” “Okay, talk to me when you can, then.”

"But what was it like, this near-death experience? What did you see?" "I felt so safe. There was this tunnel of light. I heard music. I felt a soft touch on my hand. A small bear with a marmalade sandwich between his ears guided me to heaven. And accidentally knocked St Peter into a pond".

Yeah, it’s almost as if “virtue signaling” was a good way to publicly reinforce the values and behaviors that society should find virtuous, and therefore was never a bad thing to do.

So burned out. Going to have to write and record this year's Xmas bonus tomorrow, because I have absolutely no spoons today.

I mean us lot loves nothing more than *checks notes* constantly changing immigration rules

i've been thinking recently about why i have a reflexive dislike of the 'comedy needs balance' line, and i think it's because political comedy is the act of saying "hey, you're not mad, the world really does look like THIS", and that doesn't need "balancing" because *the rest of society* does that

I found the original deck plans and purchase order for the HMS Bounty that had been misfiled and "lost", which wasn't even the thing I was looking for.

I'm sorry, why is this episode being broadcast at all.

Sad news about Chris Rea. I’ve got his old studio door in my shed, signed by Timmy Mallet*. Maybe I should give it a respectful polish. *Anecdote too complicated to retell here. Actually, that is the anecdote. It doesn’t get any clearer with details.

Oh thank Christ, I thought that was Capaldi. I hope the Paddington as Grim Reaper thing endures. Centuries from now, he'll be a being of folklore, they'll think the kids' stories came after. Bonus points if he outlives Christianity, so people think he's guardian of the afterlife. The Peru-y Gates.

This is how I found out, and maybe it is how you did too

My “London is falling” moment: some company called Until has hung giant shiny letters spelling out their name in a curved window on Charing Cross Road so the UNT really stands out as you walk down and nobody, not one of you, has added a C. For shame, London. For shame ☹️

We've got a book of toxic wallpaper that can kill (arsenic I think). It was made as a reference to avoid toxic wallpaper but I guess when they made it they didn't think about the fact that the samples were also toxic

Would have done this but I don't have Instagram and never will. Really expected better from The Daily Tism if I'm honest. Will be getting all my satire from the haunted porcelain doll in my attic from now on, you sheep

If you’re on Instagram, can I be cheeky and ask people to pop onto The Daily Tism’s profile and like / repost / comment on our pinned videos to please the algorithm? (Note - I don’t need people to reply to tell me they aren’t on Instagram)

So implicit goatse imagery is fine.

Making a fruit salad for the BlueSky moderation team

We make a great Christmas gift! And a great distraction from how underwhelming Christmas is once you reach adulthood!

once again: if you are a cartoonist and suffer from impostor syndrome, I offer you the early christmas gift of a universal cure, in the form of the syndicated-which-means-the-creator-gets-money-for-this-to-appear-in-newspapers strip Alice

I really don't like systems that force libraries to pay-per-use and I wish libraries themselves were more upfront with users about how much every movie you take out from Hoopla or Kanopy is costing the library.

A certain amount of hot dog man energy about this story in the Graun www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Welcome to 60 Minutes. Our top story tonight is Snakes: Nature’s Spaghetti

Was truly unprepared for this to NOT be a bit

Happy family-tech-support-mas to my fellow geeks who observe this fascinating holiday tradition. Scholars believe that today’s festive new phone transfers, Bluetooth hearing aid pairings and wifi extender setups date back to the 1980s teenager fixing the 12:00 VCR, and possibly even further.

This is the issue I have, is that essentially ALL of the legitimate uses of machine learning function nothing like an LLM, but they're still getting called AI because that's the buzzword. Training a computer to identify coral reefs and track their bleaching from satellite photos is a good use, 1/2

Parisot (the Director) tells a story about how Tim Allen just started crying after a scene one day "I don't like these feelings i'm having." Says Tim. "I'm going back to my trailor" and walks off. There's silence for a second. "Oh my god." Says Rickman. "I think Tim just experienced acting."

two of the least likable men in public life — amazing though that we have a figure in JD to make one kind of mutter under one’s breath go ted www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

At last, scientists believe they have an answer to 'why did the Minidisc fail'

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