Wisdom from the old man

For those in the UK Birmingham, B'ham Hospice do a fab Christmas Tree collection service in return for a donation. If you book in between now and Jan 5th, they'll collect it from outside your home over the weekend of the 10th/11th. birminghamhospice.org.uk/treecycling

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

Of course in Dickens' original text, the line is written: "(annoyed grunt) Humbug"

Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?

She was always my favourite Spout Girl

“You know what’s faster than mopping? Not spilling in the first place.” 👏

This is the whole reason why we need Arts and Sciences both prioritised for young people, not just STEM. Humans are all different and we need to learn from each other.

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Just catching up with this amazing bit of London Centric reporting and this is such an excellent description of the weird epistemic ambiguity produced by AI: "There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is." www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...

Does anyone have any idea what this is? At a conference in Italy, and this ame in the goodie bag (logo on other side). Bit on back slides out to a hook of sorts, bit that swivels round has a felt widget (non-removable) in it. And no, it's not a USB drive.

People really ought to be more embarrassed about putting shit like this up in public.

This is interesting drama to follow lol TLDR, the people who made the AI coke commercial are denying it and generating fake concept art, actual concept artists are ripping it all apart as fake because the guy has no idea how any of this works

Always feel like I’m supposed to be pressing play on this building

Long shot (mainly due to how little engagement I get on here), but I'm looking for freelance writers with an interest, or specialism in, classical music. If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.

recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"

me: it’s important people realise it was never a thing that muppet movie adaptations only feature one human. they feature many humans. executioner: those were your last words!?

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Sending this request to @neilslorance.com too!

When it comes to the media industry + AI, this post by @werd.io has really stayed with me: werd.io/evaluating-ai/ – specifically this line: "AI output should never be seen by an end user: they’re potentially useful tools to speed up someone’s work, but the end result still needs to be human."

If someone films themselves crying while reading Bunny Vs Monkey I’m going to assume they’ve been kidnapped.

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This whole section really.

Pass this on to every teenager you know.

IYKYK

Film Commissioning Opportunity from the always-fab Scottish Ballet: scottishballet.co.uk/about-us/mee...

"But anytime I ask it about a topic I don't really know anything about, it teaches me so much. It's actually just the topics that I do know things about, that it tends to be wrong on..." What a mystery, really.

Spotted that the new OK Go video was made by Will Anderson. His 'Have Heart' was screened in Brum ahead of the British Animation Awards a few years back (he won!) and it made a room full of folk collectively "aw": www.itsnicethat.com/articles/wil... (embedded video at the bottom of this article)

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"If you die in the game, you die in real life" is actually true for an awful lot of things, like snooker and backgammon

thrilled to have @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social back on 404 Media www.404media.co/how-lofi-gir...

Just been reminded of this *stunning* piece of animation from Blue Zoo, which first crossed my radar at one of the British Animation Awards Public Choice screenings which the @overlapsocial.com team ran a few years back. Fantastic use of projectors and polystyrene: vimeo.com/289059542

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Timeline cleanse

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A comic about making comics (the alt text took longer to write than the comic did to draw * I drew this a few years ago)

Honestly I can’t see it OH GOOD LORD

Massively recommend the book extravaganza in Bearwood this Monday - full of stalls curated by folk who genuinely love different genres

Useful for documentary film makers too

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Holy Moly I've just noticed that CARTOON SALOON are appearing at the Overlap Animation night on the 28th in Digbeth! www.overlapsocial.com/event-detail...

As others have pointed out, the trick to a successful career as a published writer. 1. Be famous 2. Ideally, be good at writing (This now also scales for podcasting, too.)

Impossible to know the details from a story like this, but - assuming it's broadly true - anyone who thinks LinkedIn is a 100% factual record of someone's career needs some worldly wisdom and/or media-literacy training, pronto. That's before we even get to the privacy stuff.

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Solution is simple: Switch off the planet burning plagiarism machine that drives people insane and tells them to eat glue, instead reinvest in Flash and bring back little tie-in educational games for kiddies on the CBeebies website etc