Guy Fawkes signature when he was arrested. Guy Fawkes signature when he was a load of old clothes stuffed with newspaper.

“in the future ai will provide the world with so much money that no-one will need to work and everyone will have what they need but RIGHT NOW i personally should not have to pay any taxes to pay for food for starving children” - every ai ceo

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🎬 The arts aren’t a luxury - they’re an export. At #Lab25, @aiannucci.bsky.social reminds us that the UK’s Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy and 7% of our workforce - the GDP equivalent of oil + car industries combined. 🎥 Watch more clips from the Creative UK Pavilion hubs.ly/Q03QVhV90

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha They could borrow some money to pay all the artists and writers whose stuff they’ve nicked while they’re at it.

lol

Life can get pretty complicated but, this week, while I was sitting at my desk, a very very green parakeet landed on a branch outside and was watched for a while by a very very orange cat, against the mottled autumn leaves and i tried to take a photo and it was awful, but I’ve kept it in my mind.

Next, they’re going to make all the newspapers look like they’ve been made by an overstretched art department, with centred headlines in the wrong font, legislate that everyday is one word even when it means every day, and send ICE agents round to turn everyone’s motion smoothing back on.

Do you think John Lewis knew how tempting and easy it would be to replace the music cue in their ad, so that it could go viral and get their logo shared every time someone does a spoof version? I’d love that to be a consideration when they make these things now. Factor in parody.

Remember remember, the 5th of November. Teabag. Kettle. And pot. #FramleyExamimer

Honestly TELL THE STORY. Won’t someone just tell the fucking story of how Brexit created this economic hardship, how a Muslim immigrant just saved the lives of those commuters on that train, won’t someone in politics or even media just connect the fucking dots and TELL THE STORY. IT’S RIGHT THERE

Travelling to the US recently, it can be shocking how poor governmental graphic design is. A lot of very weak, serifed body text fonts used for display, in red and blue, superimposed onto busy photographic backgrounds. It’s no wonder this sort of stuff, and Obama’s, stands out.

In particular Aneesh Bhoopathy, from the design coop Forge, who designed the identity. A brilliant reminder to *employ human creatives!* www.curbed.com/article/zohr...

Well done Zohran! And of course the real victor of the day - typography.

The Loch Ness Mobster. Happy to write this as a series now I have the idea. Can probably use Chat GPT. Offers welcome.

Daft question, but does John Lewis have a record department now?

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(People arguing that lots of shows don’t have big names in them are definitely coming from a viewing standpoint. Try pitching something. Sheesh.)

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The other thing I love is that because television is kind of shit at the time, the only thing the characters watch is old movies. The constant viewing of old media would be a character note now. But they all do it, and because it’s *about* tropes and behaviour based in fiction, it’s perfect.

I’m watching the Sopranos at the moment, for the first time, and the most remarkable part of it (as a timepiece) is it being a prestige piece of television with a cast list of names you don’t know. When’s the last time that happened? The Wire? We stopped doing that. We got timid.

Knackered. Broken Veil research and planning is currently full-on and exhausting. But it’s so exciting. Thanks to everyone for supporting the new series. It’s going to be good. That’s the update.

It's here! Joel and I discuss Fall Out, the to-this-day still gobsmacking final episode of the ultimate cult TV show, The Prisoner. The bones is yours, my daddy.

Pastems just pivoted to video.

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Duttas du statuaryYAQ YOU SYAA YAASS

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We should teach our kids this stuff like we do road safety. (And to identify the behaviour in the first place. A narcissist is not what most people think - in the colloquial sense - and they’re all much the same, the boring little boilerplate toxic toddlers.)

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Right. Which Pertwee vintage Doctor Who episodes are the amazing mid century fibreglass Liberator chairs from, then? Just been on Antiques Roadshow. I want to know!

I only noticed these after a while - watching on a small screen - but assume they’re fair dealing captions. “As in this powerful performance from Nirvana.” First time I’ve seen the adjectives detached from the VO script and done in super cap. Didn’t know that was even an option.

Reading a book on mediaeval manuscripts, was startled to see an inkwell in an illumination casting a shadow on a desk. Mediaeval art has no shadows. Then remembered Plato and the shadows in the cave. So people in the past *knew* about shadows. Why didn’t they paint them? Enjoy this rabbit hole >>

Japanese Mundane Halloween Costume Time is here again. Winner for me.

Brilliant. thedailytism.com/new-autism-a...

I was going to go to a literary festival today, invited last minute, thought I could sell some books. Then I realised that, thanks to Unbound, I don’t have any books this year to sell. So I’ve cancelled. Cheers, lads. Still enjoying the relentless unexpected triggering. Cunts.

Can everyone else see this?

Yes. Leave the bubble before it bursts in your face.

Jesus. The only thing those “Boy Bands Forever” docs needed to make the behind the scenes guys more sinister, fraudulent, unpleasant and creepy was for the shows to be about girl bands.

In mediaeval times, maps were made by laying a very big piece of paper over the town, and rubbing the surface with a crayon.

Shit. Idly joined in a low-engagement online meme and now I’m snowed under, grinding the world’s servers to hot dust. Delete.

Apologies to anyone expecting us to be at the Tales Of The Weird event at the British Library this weekend, but in support of the PCS industrial action, we’ve decided not to cross the picket line. Will and I are both former librarians, and want to show support to the striking staff.

I like how you can use emojis to zoom in on a pig 🐖 🐷 🐽

Looking forward to Boxing Halloween dinner. I prefer my Miniature Heroes cold with pickle.

Last night, watching Night of the Eagle, the storm in the film containing the devil himself was in exact sync with the lightning flashes outside our window. It was like the computerised lighting rig at ABBA Voyage. Amazing and immersive.

Apologies to anyone expecting us to be at the Tales Of The Weird event at the British Library this weekend, but in support of the PCS industrial action, we’ve decided not to cross the picket line. Will and I are both former librarians, and want to show support to the striking staff.

Fascinating! This was pre-multiplex, so those old cinemas would have struggled to have as wide a selection as your local video rental shop. My home town closed its cinema completely during the 80s. I saw Raiders for the first time at a local theatre, on a pull-up projector screen.

Is it ever explained why the pull-string voiced action man the little girl is playing with in the opening sequence of Don’t Look Now speaks with the voice of Jeremy Hillary Boob PHd?

Second part of our Halloween double bill goes down equally smooth. Quality stuff.