To be honest it's about what I thought it would cost at this point. Doesn't make it good, but HERE WE ARE wheeeeeee

All literature can be analysed through the lens of Grease Kafka's Metamorphosis Tell me more, tell me more Have you chitinous skin? Tell me more, tell me more Are you human within? Macbeth Tell me more, tell me more Did you murder the king? Tell me more, tell me more Is the forest moving?

Last self re-post look I just really like this joke ok

The boys from Grease start to suspect Danny had a romantic summer fling with a flamingo Tell me more, tell me more Did she lay any eggs? Tell me more, tell me more Did she stand on one leg?

The boys from Grease start to suspect Danny had a romantic summer fling with a flamingo Tell me more, tell me more Did she lay any eggs? Tell me more, tell me more Did she stand on one leg?

He talks like Zippy from Rainbow with a hangover

Anyway, Starmer was awful but he could only have been so awful for so long, completely unchallenged, in a parliamentary Labour party that basically agreed with his awfulness. He's going now because he's unviable, not because the PLP actually have any better ideas.

Imagine being married to Kier Starmer and having to constantly pretend he did a really good job.

Did another improv workshop this weekend off the back of a hell of a week where I also managed to do something weird to my back 👍 It was good.I feel like gears that haven't been running properly for a while are clacking back into place. My reincorporation powers still exist 🎉

On eBay and came across this book on duck based revenge

Is it because it's coming out relatively soon on a date that has been announced and is very well known?

Hahaha what a prick

Me when my insect army fails me once again

Copyright law is a complex area to talk about (I'm speaking here as someone who had a 18 year career in rights licensing) because at the same time as it's been abused by large companies in *extreme* need of a reform across the world, I still believe in the fundamentals.

canyon.mid sounds like the music for a news channel that only reports good news. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIW4...

Wow, Tennant and Ayoade? Awwwwwkward 😬

Since I'll presumably have to become a famous British actor at some point, just to backfill the vacancies in that whole area, I just wanted to make it clear in advance I won't be taking any Harry Potter projects

The privilege and rarity of really liking where I work, and the work I do there is not lost on me

If only teens developed some weird technology to... I don't know, let's call it 'age', and become voters

Controversial I know but I think video games are pretty neat

I guess this social media ban on under-16s would have applied to ICQ in the 90s, which means I would never had that moment at 15 where I looked up Peter Molyneux on ICQ and saw he put his office phone number publicly on it and was like: "right, well I'm ringing Peter Molyneux, aren't I?"

Gordon Delicious

It's been a while, but a great thing about improv right now (which I've spent today watching or doing) is that you can't really pretend you can solve it with genAI, it would so instantly and obviously defeat the point that why would you even try?

Sorry, a Pret

They say in London you're never more than 10 meters from a rat

Nice sunny day but not-too-hot day to be fully back on my bullshit

I'm starting an improv course that is, honestly, basic compared to my skill level. I have a decade of workshop experience and a bunch of performance experience but it's veeeerrry rusty so I deliberately want back to basics but I also feel weirdly guilty??

I guess a bunch of people really did memory hole that time Ayoade blurbed Glinner's book eh

When I started writing music at like 9 years old I had very few formal concepts so I learned to trust my ear and listen. Then as I grew my education became more formalistic, I became worried about relying on my ear, my creativity dried up. In various breakthroughs I came back to trusting my ear.

Prefacing my mild, nitpicky criticism of the dropout style of TV improv by saying that I think the whole cast is immensely talented improvisers , and hilarious, and I think even within their TV formats there are exceptions to this. That said, there are a coupla things they do less to my taste...

There's a guy who keeps posting this on YouTube in every video about The Beatles so I've started shitposting back

for sale, baby shoes, never worn everything's fine, baby born, fat feet

I read Adam Meggido's Improv Beyond Rules. I've had it for ages but never got around to reading it mainly because I've tended to find in the past that writing premised on "Improv Rules Are Bad" are so focused on being irreverent that they take a bit of a winding route to being useful.

Genius move, obviously, but doesn't go far enough. Let's ban *crime* and sort the whole thing out.

Reasons I have pulled a leg muscle so far this year: * slightly hurrying for a bus * impersonating a frightened bird

I don't know who needs to hear this but a Twirl is just a Flake that's wearing a shirt made of itself

I still think Boards of Canada Inferno is a little bit top-heavy but the second half is growing on me a bit. Blood In The Labyrinth, Arena Americanada and You Retreat In Time And Space are late album highlights for me now while I think the run of the first 7 tracks is basically immaculate.

Best analogy I've come up with so far for why, even if there's a very clever and somewhat useful technology at the heart of LLMs, we're where we are today

Well I think the real problem is how expensive they are to run. Because, true enough there are bits of this that are useful in a tech sense but it's so expensive it HAS to find other ways to justify itself, ways that DON'T make sense.

Oh look, the two wolves inside me

For context, in today's money £8 is nearly £10

The boy's back on his bullshit again

i've set up a gofundme for kiki's cremation & vet bill if anyone is comfortable and able to support right now. gofund.me/ef0965eb5 i appreciate everyone that has sent me condolences during these last 2 days. thank you everyone. 💚

To the tune of Eleanor Rigby: Tweet that went viral Nearly ten years ago I'm pretty much a has-been Twenty Sixteen

"What was your biggest impact on the internet" let's be honest, this

I'm actually looking forward to seeing The Backrooms but it's always confusing how it's talked about as this wild original concept. Not only because I read House Of Leaves years and years ago but also... doesn't everyone ELSE have disturbing dreams about getting lost in an endless maze of corridors?

Nostalgia towards a certain "old days" of games is deeply strange. Specifically 2000-2005ish, the worst time for PC games ever. Tiny indie scene, unstable hardware, bizarre publisher decisions getting made. Good stuff came out in that time but it was not any kind of golden age we should aspire to.

Most debates about a game being too hard, I think, are really disagreements between people who are turned on and off by different *kinds* of difficulty. Mina has many difficulty tweaking options though turning any of them on tends to switch off the in-game achievements, which feels petty

Well then I have terrible news

Okay all that said before I'm having a much better time with Mina today. I spent a lot of yesterday not sure where to go and I got back on track today. Definitely starting to find my rhythm with it though my gripe remains: chill OUT with the bottomless pits, game