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Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social · 1d

I'd tax bears.

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 2d

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 12d

Completely unrelated to my 2am doomposting but does anyone know an English to Japanese translator, ideally with experience in screenplays?

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Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting thought. With music I find the interface I use (keyboard, mpc pads, Hapax, digital sax) massively changes the music I create.

Similarly, if you are writing in a notepad v writing in Word v using a typewriter does that change your approach?

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Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social · 3d

Sainte Chapelle is my favourite thing in Paris. Those windows are just incredible.

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Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social · 3d

"we're speaking to procurement"

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social · 3d

"You've got backups, right?"

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

"While we liked the"

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

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Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social · 4d

Ah, those poster children for AI and data Netflix...

A screen shot of Netflix where "24 Hours in Aldi" is classified as "Horror"

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Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social · 4d

I mean technically 'Will random for feedback'...

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Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social · 4d

@sonofsuntzu.bsky.social and I are at the stage where we are looking for beta testers for randomthebook.com

Sign up here and you'll get to peruse 5 stories from the book about serendipity, chance, fate and other random things.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Random the Book

Matt Ballantine and Nick Drage's experiment in serendipity and chance.

randomthebook.com

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Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social · 5d

#weeknotes time... mmitii.mattballantine.com/2025/10/10/w...

@weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Weeknote 751: Italia

This week I have learned: Venice really is bloody remarkable, isn’t it? My third visit and as spellbinding as ever. Sometimes, being involved in new business development work is like Whack-a-…

mmitii.mattballantine.com

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Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social · 5d

If only Farage understood that the metaphor of the bad apple is that it ruins the whole barrel...

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.

He is gaslighting a nation.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

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Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social · 8d

The world's shittest ventriloquism act.

Robert Jenrick presumably stirring up hate again at a conference lecturn pointing aggressively with his left hand whilst inexplicably balancing a judge's wig on his right.

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Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social · 8d

I think the general rule is "if it's good we'll take credit, if it's not we'll blame someone else".

CEOs also follow this rule.

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Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social · 9d

When Labour negotiates, Britain loses Kemi Badenoch?

What will they get in exchange for her?

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Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social · 9d

One of the scariest places I've ever been is the pain clinic waiting room at the local hospital. So many people. So on the edge.

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Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social · 11d

A classic example of the anchoring effect...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchori...

Any pint of beer more than £1.20 is pricey to my "expectations set in 1989" brain.

Anchoring effect - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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