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Chris Boyd

@paperghost.bsky.social

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Award winning security researcher | 7 time Microsoft MVP | Google Hall of Fame | Music and video | UK Immigration (family reunion) https://soundcloud.com/umawing

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 26d

i spent way too long drawing this and i'd do it again

the "i think we're gonna have to kill this guy steven" panel where steven universe meets hitler, except it's a drawing of wonder woman saying it to captain america who says "damn"

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 1m

can't go wrong with exid, blackpink, hyuna, 4minute, and especially anda who I think no longer sings, but "touch" is a particular favourite

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 9m

Here’s the thing, 99% of method actors aren’t cunts whilst in character, I’ve had a blast with method actors in character.

As Daniel Day Lewis said “if it interferes with other people’s work you’ve gone wrong”

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 13h

Finding out that Jared Leto kept doing his method acting shit and insisted on staying in character on the set of Tron Ares and would only answer to the name of Ares is so funny, like making a big ass douche of yourself for the third Tron movie where you play “computer program that gains feelings”

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 9m

I use a fair few music tools based around kpop (mainly beats, certain instrument groups) and some of the demon hunters songs do very clever things in a way I can't properly articulate without dozens and dozens of posts. very good stuff all round

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 3h

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an assholes,” Pattinson said in an interiew with Variety in November. “You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 19m

coming to the end of veilguard and I'm genuinely sad this probably won't get any expansions/DLC. never has a game been done so dirty

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Nexxtic (Selaco Lead Dev) @selaco.bsky.social · 10h

My favorite part of the Selaco Art Contest was watching tech bros desperately try to prove their WIP's were real.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 28m

"Replaced to some extent by Boriswave middle-class Indian students on graduate visas..."

I will spare you all the nine thousand replies in favour of simply saying jesus christ

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 49m

this fucking jackass is stealing water and spiking power prices to push a bullshit machine that drives people insane and the entire US economy is betting that this grifter isn't obviously lying

Futurism @futurism.com · 3h

So that's where we're at.

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

trib.al

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 47m

I'm so confused by so much in that convo chain

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1h

At the other end of the spectrum, when my dad was ~17 he did well in an event for young chemists and the prize was a trip to an asbestos factory.

Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 1h

My 9yo is going on a school trip to Abba Voyage this week for a tenner, which I'm just throwing out there as the best school trip I've ever heard of

Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 2h

Inexplicably, my son’s very standard state school - in a mixed area, not a particularly affluent one - arranged a £4K trip to Kenya last year. I keep meaning to do a story on the astonishing escalation of the school trip.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 1h

i do not use onedrive. i will never use onedrive. i say no to everything windows throws at me via every popup and screensplash imaginable. i do not laugh at the developers developers developers video. i will walk into the sea

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 1h

it just occurred to me that onedrive is one of the ways you can keep windows 10 support going for a while longer, for "free"

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 1h

it's time to only put the computer in the computer

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1h

The future is great, huh?

"A software update to Jeep 4xE models caused major malfunctions over the weekend – leaving many owners stranded and some in danger after their power failed."

www.thestack.technology/jeep-softwar...

Jeep software update bricks vehicles

“Please exercise extreme caution”

www.thestack.technology

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 1h

70% chance of being the one who accidentally dies in a midnight demon summoning / astral projection explosion

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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 19h

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 2h

Post you from a different era

mid 90s art school boydy, in the worst green kenwood coat / red shirt combo you've ever seen

me and 4 colleagues from art school, standing in front of multiple walls of paintings and drawings. i am wearing a green kenwood jacket and a red shirt

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 2h

the fun part was being endlessly told off for saying these posts are bad, actually. suspect a lot of people have learned nothing since then

"i am accused of racism every time i mention this but we are being replaced by indians/hk chinese"

"my point before i am accused of being racist (i am eu dual national) is that brexit was won on the stop immigration meme. well it appears that it's more of a replacement than a stop"

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 2h

i still see them on here doing it now! anyway, pouring one out for one of the worst posts of the genre:

"funny how the gazillions of hk chinese/indians about to be allowed in are not being mentioned in any mainstream newspaper. nor the ethnic cleansing of eu citizens"

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Kinell @sinistercinemastudios.art · 6h

LET'S FUCKING GO

International Day for Failure

Date

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

THE INTERNATIONAL

DAY FOR FAILURE OCTOBER 13th

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 5h

Genuinely thought this was nice until I got to the photo

Whyyyyyyyy is this a thing

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 5h

regret to inform you all that we have another one

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Check out this 3 bedroom flat for sale on Rightmove

3 bedroom flat for sale in Dolphin House, Smugglers Way, London, SW18 for £1,750,000. Marketed by Knight Frank, Battersea

www.rightmove.co.uk

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 5h

I would map the course of every visa holder and refugee forced by the home office to travel to biometric appointments, life in the UK tests, language tests and more during lockdown, tallying up total miles travelled

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 17h

What policy themed visitor trail would you do upon retirement? I would pilgrimage to visit the 100 Rishi Sunak outdoor chess sets around the country. I genuinely think it would be one of those fun random things that would take me to places I’d never otherwise go to

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 6h

number of times i mentioned my wife's visa: six

number of times i mentioned her trying to sort out her passport: two

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 6h

the hyperactive camerawork is driving me to distraction. at least they didn't throw in a starwipe

EU Council @consilium.europa.eu · 1d

Today, the entry/exit system gets underway.

This new digital border system will streamline travel, enhance security, and improve the efficiency of border controls for non-EU nationals entering or exiting the EU.

Full implementation is planned for 10 April 2026.

More info → link.europa.eu/mnYbcy

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 21h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 18h

"my last job was with liam neeson"

yeah but have you considered that i can do this

me breakdancing in front of a crowd. my head is photoshopped onto the breakdancer's body. i'm wearing an xmas beard and a banana colander hat

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