Repost with an iconic fictional band

this has to be the single greatest image in the history of sports

as well as this very obviously trying to position themselves as superior thing even if unintended, the INCREDIBLY strong implication is that if they WERE incredibly talented and they moved your heart and soul, you...maybe wouldn't give them up? it's much easier when you hated them anyway.

[French citizen watching German soldiers marching in the streets] For the record, I NEVER liked his paintings.

it's sort of gross? We get it, you're too smart to like someone that was later revealed to be a piece of shit. You're so smart and cool. Shush. Ppl obviously did enjoy them, and have to shift their mental view and it's not always easy. Stop making them feel worse just to prop yourself to (cont)

Here's a thing that I despise: When someone is outed as an abuser, TERF, terrible human, and ppl start going "I never liked them anyway" "I never found them funny" "They never wrote good things to begin with" and seriously shut the hell up. All of that is just to position you are superior and (cont)

wes streeting: im obviously a complete sack of shit. british media: wes streeting put in a strong performance on the news rounds this morning. cor, boy, it sure would be great if he was prime minister! don't you agree joe public! don't you want wes! phew, wes is great isn't he?!

lmaoooo. The pouches open with a magnet and the teachers are just believing that the kids haven't opened them throughout the day. incredible. what a garbage waste of everyone's time, money and energy which again; does absolutely not a god damn thing to address causes of Brianna's murder.

I did weirdly I can't find the "Charlotte Nichols slams Wes Streeting's puberty blocker ban" or "Nichols vows to protect trans lives following SC ruling" headlines or articles. in fact... it doesn't look like you've had much to say during any of the times politics has smashed into our lives.

What does AI possibly add here?

Every sentence of this paragraph gets worse and worse

"im supporting her mum" I wanna address this one real quick because this is what we call "scapegoating". Do you honestly expect us to believe that after her daughter was murdered in a way that had nothing to do with phone use, Esther Ghey came begging for you to ban phones during school time?

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

I'd be quite happy to see Starmer go, but when you have Streeting and Mahmood being presented as the most viable alternatives it doesn't exactly bode well for the future. Seems guaranteed that the attacks on marginalised communities we have seen already will be ramped up. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I've been trying to find the polite way to say "hey absolutely we should be alarmed about the targeting of trans people but we also should also talk about how cis and trans PoC are the targets in mind bc the people who think trans women aren't women also think WoC in general aren't women"

"Wow, Tom, my guy, AI stuff gets to you, eh?" Yeah, imaginary Skeeter, it does! My son wants to do music. Between rounds of games w/ friends, he practices his Chopin on the keyboard we got him. My daughter, though going into sciences, draws. Really well! I'm kind of an artist myself.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

"AI is a tool." No. Empirically not. A tool empowers people; helps people. It solves an extant problem. Generative AI in creative mediums is being used as a cudgel that diminishes and eliminates people, and the only "problem" being solved is fiscal. Stop validating it, even in passing.

On the other hand, I cannot do my job effectively if a writer isn't there to explain their reasoning for the lines and where it came from to a director, who then translates that into vocal technique to the actor. This is a very collaborative process that requires human interaction and intention.

We are all, at best, temporarily abled.

The thing that strikes me about replacing voice actors with AI slop is that, in the scope of a big AA/AAA production it barely saves money? These people aren't even full time. It's immizerating people because immizerating people is your goal, nothing more.

ik i keep harping on that @maitlis.bsky.social, @jonsopel1.bsky.social, @lewisgoodall.com podcast. here’s emily maitlis in 2017 claiming that primary school children are getting sex change operations. this is not something that happens. it’s certainly not journalism. it’s straight-up propaganda.

so some nice folks are sending me a 25 iso 35mm film to test and like. i'm at a loss. the slowest speed film i've ever used is 80. i have no idea at all what to do with a 25 iso film

i, for one, did not!

if you don’t hire VO actors you don’t get to make them laugh, which is one of the great joys in life

My last word on the matter

honestly if they undo the ridiculous "uk through the lens of an american whose only prior exposure to britain was the episode of friends where they met richard branson running a market stall for comedy purposes" thing i'd be into it, but it seems unlikely.

credits that include the names of everyone who worked on the game at any point

One of the funner moments from my South Africa trip occurred when these two little borbs decided to chase each other on the edge a lagoon. (They're Black Crakes, btw.)

Song of the day: Genesis - Land of Confusion

you can't just bring back austin powers. the franchise wrote itself into a corner after he volunteered to stay behind forever in the shagadelic dimension to save foxxy and vanessa. they already brought him back once without explaining how he escaped from fembot island, the audience won't buy it

If you ever use the men's toilets in a pub, bar or venue, you would understand this is unfortunately not an unpopular opinion at all

I'm at the dentist, and they've put an artsy print of a molar next to a bunch of lilies on a small table and it feels like I'm at a funeral for a tooth

i'm very hungry but dinner time isn't until like 5ish

welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place

While I never want to go through what they have suffered it is flatly incorrect to believe that next of kin always knows what's best for you. Lets not forget how Joe Cox was murdered by a radicalised fascist only for her husband to set up a 'be nice to MPs' foundation.

Mandatory digital ID for all, but no phones for school kids. Also we’re making it so you can’t access the internet without giving all your information to the makers of Fortnite.

Twenty days later, one of Labour's most foul-mouthed transphobes, Rosie Duffield, has joined Labour's phone pouch campaign. Why wouldn't she? A campaign that's working to bury the truth about what happened to Brianna, whilst insinuating that she caused her own death? How could Duffield resist?

It’s funny because it’s true

Fine, I will write the next James Bond. INT: SEX CASINO, NIGHT BOND: Hello I am Bond James Bond my car goes NYOOM CUT TO: ten minutes of a chase in a sports car BOND: Also my watch is a special watch that makes ladies blouses see through EXPLOSION BOND: This film is for grown ups

HELLO the "israeli" government is passing a bill that allows them to execute "terrorists" in prison. they see EVERY PALESTINIAN or brown person as a "terrorist" they are going to round people up, put them in camps and kill them. we need to be louder about this.

when are labour gonna realise that until they get rid of starmer this shit just comes off as gaslighting?

Gee, Mr Starmer, have you told the prime minister that?

Tim Davie, making the assertion that the phrase “Black Lives Matter” is a matter for debate. This man loves to make announcements about things that aren’t happening (BLM tshirt? Who is wearing one? WHAT?) To prove he is a despicable, far right POS. WE CAN TELL FROM BBC NEWS OUTPUT TIM NOW FUCK OFF

ps. it is arguable that Brianna would not likely have turned to social media for friendships and transitional support had those things been readily available in her local area. @charlotte2153.bsky.social you want kids like Brianna off her phone? then give them a better alternative.

i think the most sick thing about govt going all in on Esther's phone shit after her daughter was murdered in a crime which had not nothing to do with phones ... is that I spoke to Brianna's friends. On Tiktok. They were everything to her - you want to take that away from other kids like Brianna?

People in the UK aren't getting transphobia from weird niche online communities. They're getting it from the prime minister, the BBC, politicians and the newspapers in every newsagents in the country.