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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 49m

I fold back the corner of pages instead of using a bookmark and I'm not ashamed to say it

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11h

Lee Pace in The Fall is the result of a decades-long experiment to see what happens if all the hotness for an entire generation is concentrated in the body of a single man

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1h

They did a similar experiment on Anna Friel and when they were cast together in Pushing Daisies the show had to be cancelled because there was more hotness than the average viewer could tolerate

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 12h

Mrs. Percy

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 15h

Next time there's discourse about British food I'm going to post this

Limited edition Heinz baked beans with pigs in blankets

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16h

I’ll tell you what’s a treat, whenever you watch a movie and you get Odo when he’s not Odo

René Auberjonois in McCabe and Mrs Miller

René Auberjonois in Batman Forever, this is probably the best hair

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 17h

Holosuite Garak was always my style goal

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 18h

Paid-for DLC though

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 20h

it's not disgusting, but [proceeds to describe the most disgusting thing imaginable]

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Wild how many replies are like "they must simply also be evil, or greedy, or passionately anti-trans" etc. etc. rather than "Maybe they don't live every day on social media"

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. It's people who are comfortable enough that they have the leisure time needed to sit on Facebook etc. on their phones all night, every night, marinating in conspiracy theories

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 4d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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Jack Boot @jackboot.bsky.social · Dec 13

You probably don't remember me, but I was your sommelier once. I kept returning to your table with the same bottle of wine until you found it to your liking.

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Every day we stray further from God's Light

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing, just remembered how we used to call online news & comment etc., "new media"

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone replying to tell me I should darken my room or brighten my screen is getting blocked

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

I am once again begging filmmakers to start lighting their night scenes again. Moonlight and starlight are both available, as are torches, campfires, and any number of plausible light sources! What I'm watching right now may as well be a podcast

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

That's when I ditched it as well. It'd obviously been in decline long before that with low engagement and a lot of the people I followed having drifted away, but that morning felt like the definitive "This will never be fun again" moment

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

RIP Diane Keaton, I hope wherever you are now your forks are somewhat closer

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Collin Murr @collinmurr.bsky.social · 5d

Doctor: You've got Hepatitis C.
Edward G. Robinson: Ah that's a shame. Which one is it?
Doctor: Hepatitis C.
Edward G. Robinson: Right, I've got hepatitis, see? Which one is it?

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I think that's usually a protest of some kind when it happens

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Isn't that just "France" though

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Watching NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, a film that is mostly about whether or not you should hide in a cellar

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

I think in your heart you know already what it's going to be

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