Ok. Who has a favourite cutlery? A favourite fork, or spoon? I bet food tastes better with it too.

Aaaaaaa fucken cliffhanger

Sounds blasphemous, but I can only see Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise now. I grew up with Tim but Bill has made this his role now.

Time for another visit to Derry…

James Cameron on how close he came to directing 1993’s Jurassic Park & what he thinks of Steven Spielberg’s adaptation. I love this for the honesty, modesty & graciousness of Cameron’s reflections. (It’s from the latest edition of the estimable Empire magazine.)

If you want people to spend more, pay them more.

The Last Torrent (2027) Chalk up another idea…

It’s beginning to look a lot like

We heard you. Now available. https://atari.pulse.ly/kyc2xa0yrj

Which one of you is The Keymaster?

Advent calendar of automated job rejection emails received 20 seconds after sending in your CV

All I want for Christmas is yoooooooooou

Wow, this is EARLY in the morning! IIIIIIIIT’S 5-30am here in LA and I am up BRIGHT AND EARLY for a most auspicious zoom call! The LAST PIECE OF ADR on the movie ROGUE TROOPER! We really are approaching the end now. We WILL land this movie by Christmas!

It's that time again to bring out the Wreath of Khan!

Reminder not to sleep on Paradise, which came out earlier this year. Great show.

A parable for our times, and far too on the nose.

Does anyone know any game dev studios looking to work with qualified counsellors and psychotherapists for wellbeing initiatives next year? #mentalhealth

The Game of Thrones final season will end up being more fondly remembered than Season 5 of Stranger Things.

There is literally a famous Star Trek TOS episode about the rise of pacifism during the rise of Nazi Germany and its unintended consequences.

I thought it would be funny to put googly eyes on a xenomorph but somehow it's even more cursed

Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.

If only tech bros had used this as an inspiration instead of ‘Her’ we’d probably have been ok with AI.

PSA: TROLL 2 is out, repeat TROLL 2 is out!!

Now with alt text. I keep forgetting

This year has been a strange one. I welded the door shut on a 25 year tech career and pivoted to writing freelance narrative for a beloved video game. I've written a series treatment and a movie treatment based on two video games, writing a heist movie script with @emjaydean.bsky.social... 1/2

After the Battle Of Culloden 1746 the then Union of the Crowns set in motion actions to eradicate the Scots language, Scottish Gaelic & much of Scottish culture. In 1876 the Scottish languages were banned in schools. Only now are our languages being recognized again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Predator: Badlands has apparently just beaten The Predator by a tiny margin to be the highest grossing recent Pred movie. This is not the flex you think it is. Predator earned $98M in 1987. Adjusted for inflation, it would earn $280M Predators earned $120M, Adjusted, it would earn $178M today.

Lol peppered with caveats like “can’t be compared to the others as they’re not adjusted for inflation”, “not likely to gross over $200M”, “not enough to meet Disney expectations”. In other words, “it made some money and was popular.”

i am this old

As far as reviews of Those Dark Places goes this is probably my favourite.

The Game of Thrones final season will end up being more fondly remembered than Season 5 of Stranger Things.

The Demogorgon has lost all teeth in S5 because of the constant need to do the same snarly, open mouthed lunge at the camera in every scene.

Which one of you is The Keymaster?

December the 1st!!!! wow where has this year gone? Randoms commence..... #conceptart #conceptartist #lookdev #freelancedesigner #conceptdesigner #productionart

Force 10 from Toblerone (1978)

I see IQs have dropped sharply while I was away.

Nov 30th / Dec 1st

How to get rich.

Now do the opposite- ADD ONE THING INTO EVERY VIDEO GAME

I honestly can’t fathom the Bluesky algorithm, I Like a cat photo then my timeline gets flooded with furry porn and dudes in dog outfits. On the one hand it’s great to see such an amateur operation at work, but on the other….

Please use vibe coding on banking systems.

Like most people over 40.

Good Boy (2025)

Twice in a Lifetime is one of the best The Orville episodes, and probably one of the best time travel stories too. Pure gut punch writing.

Reminder that TMobile uses Starlink

Using Owen’s own framing method for his point Owen is a fucking idiot and he can’t reply to me because he is a fucking idiot. If this makes him mad, it’s because he is a fucking idiot I find Owen sickeningly disingenuous and self serving… other than that the way you serve ads now really stinks

Word of the Day: Broetry A barrage of single sentence paragraphs culminating in some chest-thumping way. Very LinkedIn. www.stoweboyd.io/p/word-of-th...

"[...] your employer will now be able to read your RCS chats in Google Messages despite end-to-end encryption." www.androidauthority.com/rcs-message-... #infosec #Android #news

Tech oligarchs have been scrambling for products to retain dominance since the plateau of the home computer and mobile phone. Today, they're forcing 'AI' garbage on us while pushing for mass surveillance and war products, even if they have to make the wars to service them. We can reject this future.