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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 37m

Segregated, and trans women have been banned from competing in women's tournaments. And it's the usual "cis women aren't as strong as men" argument

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 7h

Something something Trumper Duck something send tweet

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 10h

Bar Trash showed Critters 3 as a mystery film recently, and I wasn't there for it, and that reminded me that I've probably not seen these in about 20 years so I'm going to have to do similar soon

Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 10h

Turns out that General Critter just makes me think of one of these lil' dudes in military uniform and hat, being saluted by a group of other critters as they roll past

a black and white photo of a monster with its mouth open in a movie .

Alt: A gif of two Critters, from the film series Critters. They're basically just small balls of fur with little limbs, evil eyes, and sharp teeth. The gif shows two Critters snapping their mouth open and shut in menacing laughter

media.tenor.com

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 14h

Truth Coming Out Of Her Well To Select All Images With A Fire Hydrant

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 23h

All those people also blissfully unaware that there was at least one rumour of that magnitude every year at Reading (and probably also that, for most years in the mid to late 90s, there was a non-existent band with the name of a Chelsea footballer listed in the third stage line up)

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Luckily he did stay away - he probably hadn't seen us - but that didn't stop me from having to watch out for him while changing from the tube to overground, and keep an eye out while waiting for the overground to arrive

Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight it happened at surface level in London Bridge then, having waited for him to wander off, we continued down to the Jubilee Line to discover him on the platform that we needed, and had to sneak past to an entrance at the other end of the platform and hope he stayed at the other end

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Fortunately both times I've not been by myself, and both happened in a station so any risk was at least partly mitigated, but it's starting to put me on edge

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Twice in the last week I've had to hang back and wait out of sight for a dude who has been staring at me too much - actually repeatedly stopping and turning around to stare at me some more - to get bored and continue on his way, and I'd quite like men to stop being pricks

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Been suspended from duty for this failure. The captain has demanded that I hand over my queer badge and my queer gun

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 1d

It was People Have The Power, so not ideal, but at least it wasn't anything from Horses, or Dancing Barefoot or Because The Night. But yeah, seems he's never going to go away (and too many people think he was exonerated by the second lawsuit)

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. Had I not been there with a friend, I would have walked out when he came on. Genuinely sickened by his presence

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 1d

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Being there with a friend is basically the only reason I didn't walk out when he came on

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Ashamed to say that I only tonight realised that Loose Willis is a pun name

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 1d

So glad it's good. I looked at the queer movie listings after they'd mostly sold out, and that did look like it could be fun. Will have to keep an eye out for it being screened elsewhere

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 1d

But rest assured that I now know for definite that being in the presence of Patti Smith when she was younger would have absolutely destroyed me

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Ben Whishaw and PJ Harvey sitting together a couple of rows in front of us, literally being two of the most charismatic people in the world (and making Mat Osman, a row or two in front of them look even more dowdy by comparison)

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Patti Smith was utterly incredible tonight. Just a great show. Which makes it all the more sickening that she had Johnny Depp join them onstage for the encore. That was certainly a choice

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, the first chatgpt answer, if it had a question added on the end, wasn't actually that bad. But creating a trap for yourself to fall into in which you try to start a conversation without actually trying to converse with the person on the other end is just ridiculous

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 2d

The most staggering thing here, once you get past using chatgpt to work out how to start a conversation and how damn long he waited before messaging in the first place, is that he totally failed to do anything to try to turn it into a conversation and instead sent just a bland statement

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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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 2d

That, and people wading in to argue with other people that they didn't even follow in the first place

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is a big part of it. We don't live in that world any more. We're all, to varying extents, facing so much bullshit in the background and in our day-to-day lives, so we don't post with the same lightness any more, and maybe we never will again

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I've been cutting and cutting mine for ages and it's worked every time. Half of the larger plant is cuttings from itself, and the smaller plant is entirely cuttings from the larger one (guess I'm probably at least third generation on some of these cuttings now; cuttings from cuttings)

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