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Stuart Houghton

@stuarthoughton.bsky.social

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Writer. Geek. Mononippled gadabout. I made SWEARDLE http://sweardle.glitch.me You're welcome. Listen to or read the play what I wrote http://erislabs.net/stu/nigel/ I am hagbardsapple on B3ta.

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · Oct 11

If you want to listen to or read my play MAKING PLANS WITH NIGEL - as broadcast on Radio 4 - you can now do so here: erislabs.net/stu/nigel/

It's a comedy drama about those never-not-hilarious topics - breast cancer and Brexit. Starring Mark Benton , Sally Lindsay & Lewis MacLeod.

A picture of Nigel Farage pontificating from a man's breast pocket - a header pic for MAKING PLANS WITH NIGEL by Stuart Houghton

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 25m

*votes conservative*

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26m

Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon

I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon

www.theguardian.com

Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 28m

I remain unconvinced that anyone will want to initiate a wank by having a dialogue with Clippy about the kind of stuff they want to see, making sure to specify 'normal number of limbs please' at the end unless that's what they are into

Reuters @reuters.com · 13h

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December reut.rs/3J8NTAi

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December

OpenAI will allow mature content for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform starting in December, CEO Sam Altman said, after the chatbot was made restrictive for users in mental distress.

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 11h

Me watching GOOD BOY (2025)

Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 13h

Tomorrow, when Windows 10 stops getting security patches, the accumulated filth of all their driver updates and shareware will foam up about their waists and all the Windows normies will look up from the gutter and cry, "Save us!" and I will reply, "Ok, first do you have a USB stick..."

Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 15h

Yes!

Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 15h

But clearly that's not going to work or be watchable

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 15h

They always talk about this stuff as if people are going to sit down and ask it to make a feature film starring Marilyn fighting Mrs Doubtfire in space or whatever.

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 16h

Oh wow, I can really imagine wanting to see this* (*once, then shrugging and never opening it again)

I refuse to believe there is an actual audience for this put-godzilla-in-die-hard-lol nonsense. Anyone investing in it does not deserve money.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 16h

Kinda ableist, Gabby. Some people are unable to write tens of thousands of words of fanfic smut on AO3 because they lack the absolute fucking freak gene

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 19h

So awful that Hollywood now needs to rely on AI to make a film poster this bad

🎬 ScreenMedia 🎞 @screenmedia.bsky.social · 1d

Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s multi Academy Award winning drama “ALL ABOUT EVE” starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter and Marilyn Monroe held its world premiere at the Roxy Theatre in New York City #OnThisDay in 1950

🎬 20th Century-Fox

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 19h

Language or Lit?

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · Aug 18

Sad news everyone, I’m officially pulling the plug on Brightsiders, my super fan podcast for the 2017 movie Bright. I still feel like there were many interesting topics left to discuss but after 7 years of weekly episodes I’ve learned that no one has ever listened to the show.

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 21h

Why the fuck are we calling racism the 'race debate'? What is it about race that we are debating, exactly?

(I guess one answer could be 'does race exist as a meaningful, scientific concept?' but somehow I doubt that is what is meant here)

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Jo dB @jodb.bsky.social · 1d

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of

Still from Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 1d

So weird and great that kids TV showed us a story about a middle aged man experiencing an existential crisis and then hammered it home through the medium of Bossa Nova

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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 1d

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of

Magilla Gorilla. A cartoon gorilla wearing a small purple bowler hat and a purple bow tie. He has red trousers with green braces. In this picture he’s sat in a yellow chair, holding a banana, while a small bald human man with a moustache talks to him from behind a wooden fence.

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 1d

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of.

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 1d

MAINCREST CAR AND VAN HIRE...

Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 1d

Telephone numbers and, in the pre-web days, IP addresses

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 1d

Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Making Tron Ares, starring Jared Leto $180,000,000
Utility $150

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my studio is dying

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 1d

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 1d

You would think this would be something they would try to nip in the bud early on, but apparently not

Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 1d

"Sorry, I won't be around next week. I have Your Party service."

"Ugh. Can't you get out of it?"

"Apparently not. It's ok, my boss says they will pay sick pay equivalent as long as I don't vote to destroyer capitalism."

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