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Ed Whiting
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Comic writer. Animal wrangler. Tea drinker.
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LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.

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Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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liamjohnsontype.bsky.social
Who do I have to speak to about writing a Star Wars comic about Podracing? We can all agree the original N64 game is one of the best things about the prequels, right?
December 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Companies including OpenAI have stolen vast libraries of works owned by the studios and created by WGA members to train their artificial intelligence systems. We have repeatedly called on studios to take legal action and defend the intellectual property we help create. variety.com/2025/digital...
Disney’s OpenAI Deal ‘Appears to Sanction’ AI Company’s ‘Theft of Our Work,’ WGA Says
The Writers Guild of America said that Disney's huge licensing deal with OpenAI appears to "sanction" the AI company's "theft of our work."
variety.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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clementcomposer.com
'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed
Oh, the weather outside is frightful And since we've no place to go It doesn't show signs of stopping How I hate going out in the storm The fire is slowly dying
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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I wrote a little piece on the influences that fed into my creator owned sci-fi ghost story Terran Omega. Probably not the influences you think. www.patreon.com/posts/145640...
Influences | PJ Holden
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December 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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*public service announcement* for anyone with access to UK TV app ITVX, they have the entire of Sapphire & Steel on there and all of Robin of Sherwood.
December 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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newseye.bsky.social
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.

The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.

Below is the full, mind-blowing list.

🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨

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- All social media accounts from the last 5 years - All your biometrics: face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris - All your phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your email addresses from the last 10 years - IP addresses and metadata from your submitted photos - Names of your family members (parents, spouse, siblings, children) - All your family members' phone numbers from the last 5 years - Your family members' dates of birth - Your family members' places of birth - Your family members' residencies - All your business phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your business email addresses from the last 10 years
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Chris Weston
December 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Warrior 19 (7867)
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Out next week!
December 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Did a little bit more on this.
December 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Most bonkers part of the story for me is that the Murdoch money was donated via News International (now News UK) - owner of The Times, The Sun, TalkTV etc.

In other words, a media company donating to a political pressure group.

And these same outlets have the gall to whinge about BBC “bias”
December 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Are you a comics critic? Have you published two pieces over the past year? If so, please apply to this year's Comics Criticism Mini Grant! The application takes only minutes to fill out!

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2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant
This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics. To apply, please provide 2 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published within the last year (blogs and YouT...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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karlbode.com
you'd think that the fact the president of the united states is completely fucking insane would be a bigger news story
December 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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theonion.com
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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rebeccarideal.bsky.social
Do we have a name for the hive-mind body snatcher monsters in TV and film? They’re so ubiquitous (Pluribus, Bodysnatchers, The Borg, Mind-flayers), but I don’t think we’ve ever given them a label a la zombie, vampire, werewolf, ghost, etc. Unless I’m mistaken…?
a man wearing a robotic helmet has the word assimilate written on his face
ALT: a man wearing a robotic helmet has the word assimilate written on his face
media.tenor.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
edwhiting209.bsky.social
Still wish they’d gone Months, Years, Decades.
empiremagazine.bsky.social Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 2d
28 Years Later III is officially happening, with Alex Garland writing and Cillian Murphy in talks to return.

Confirmation of the trilogy closer comes following ecstatic early reactions to Nia DaCosta's upcoming #28YearsLater: The Bone Temple.

Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies...
December 11, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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feels like there's been a big push to abandon anything like humanistic moral values, christian charity, or basic decency, but we're all supposed to be very obsessed with what is in our food and water, unless it's a chemical that's demonstrably toxic, then we need to let industry dump it into rivers
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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LOOK!!
new species of tiny pumpkin toadlet discovered in Brazil cloud forests
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Judge Dredd Megazine 487 is out on 17th December, featuring ARMITAGE: DROKK THE RIPPER, Part Three by:

📝 Script: @liamjohnsontype.bsky.social
✏️ Art: @stazjohnson.bsky.social
🎨 Colours: Quinton Winter
💬 Letters: Annie Parkhouse

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December 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Had a chat with @arthurwyatt.bsky.social and Matt Badham about horror in comics for awesome UK comics site Down The Tubes. Loads of great art, too:
downthetubes.net/creating-com...
Creating Comics: Scripting Spooky Strips
Matt Badham chats with writers David Baillie and Arthur Wyatt
downthetubes.net
December 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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scriblit.bsky.social
Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year
December 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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INT: A Burger King restaurant kitchen. A cook flips a burger.

PAN OUT to reveal cameraman, director, grips, lighting engineers - all human beings. “Burger King ad, take one” the director says.

Pan to the craft services table - all BK. A crew member eats & is happy.

BURGER KING. NEVER ARTIFICIAL.
pauljholden.com PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 2d
The company behind the mcdonalds ad:

Imagine taking more time than it would take to do something traditionally. I bet it would take a builder longer to build a house out of jelly instead of brick, because jelly isn't brick.
Our team at The Gardening.Club have been pouring in the hours to achieve something that we finally feel ready to put our name to, and while AI film might be dividing opinions, we want to open the process up and reveal just how much human expertise and craft went into this campaign. There’s this idea floating around that AI will do all the work for us. Let’s set the record straight: the man-hours poured into this film were more than a traditional Production. Yes, this ad is 100% AI. But it was built with the same care that we bring to any live-action film. The brief was tightly prescribed, with a clear mandate for every single scene, so complete control of each shot was essential and pulled off by our team using proprietary workflows, and pulled off spectacularly well, this was not a prompt-and-pray process. Just like a traditional shoot, the film needed a director, real storytelling instincts, and intentional casting, we selected and shaped each AI performer, their look, energy, and emotional presence, to meet the brief just as we would in live action film. It required virtual location scouting, solid references, screen tests, and a countless amount of takes to maintain true cinematic continuity. Our in-house Gardening.club AI and Post team, spent seven intense weeks refining every single frame. They rebuilt shots, debated composition, shaped shadows, and tuned emotional microbeats with precision all overseen by Sweetshop director duo MAMA. Many scenes had ten or more specialists, with each shot running through a tightly engineered pipeline, Google Earth base plates, style-transfer passes, pixel-level refinements, custom LoRAs, control nets, and bespoke ComfyUI workflows. We composited, fixed physics, balanced lighting, and cleaned artifacts in Flame. New tools, same goal: a film that feels real. Of course, we came across roadblocks. There were many times we were challenged, but the team was able to problem-solve on the spot. This project demanded a team willing to push further than the tech was ready to go. But that’s exactly why it works. So no - AI didn’t make this film. We did.
December 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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It’s Wednesday! Which means it’s Terran Omega day! Terran Omega page 17 online now. www.pauljholden.com/patreon.php?... or read
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Welcome to Terran Omega: The Ghosts of War | PJ Holden
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December 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM