John Foo
@j0nf00.bsky.social
Implausible meatghost, monolith whisperer, cyberhoungan, idiot
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We got like five years until this is also a slot machine
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We got like five years until this is also a slot machine
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Leonard Cohen playing pinball
October 27, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Leonard Cohen playing pinball
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Gay Byrne Celebratory Late Late Show Departure CallCard
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Gay Byrne Celebratory Late Late Show Departure CallCard
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Ah @cyberwarcon.bsky.social the only conference for intel ops research authored by the terminally online
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Ah @cyberwarcon.bsky.social the only conference for intel ops research authored by the terminally online
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Howard Hughes was at least decades ahead when he invented the Amazon delivery driver pee jar.
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Howard Hughes was at least decades ahead when he invented the Amazon delivery driver pee jar.
geoff capes staring at a massive onion (not ai)
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
geoff capes staring at a massive onion (not ai)
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TRUMP: MCDONALD’S HAS THE BEST COCA-COLA IN AMERICA.
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
TRUMP: MCDONALD’S HAS THE BEST COCA-COLA IN AMERICA.
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Why do they lie about something so easily verifiable?
The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
November 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Why do they lie about something so easily verifiable?
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Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
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had to get out of bed to make this
November 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
had to get out of bed to make this
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Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
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*I blame capitalism's assault on the utopian imaginary
Musk is a parasite on the future; he preys upon the imagination of others, taking any vision of a better world and depreciating it by hawking options on a transparently fake facsimile.
He is capitalism's full-throated assault on the utopian imaginary.
He is capitalism's full-throated assault on the utopian imaginary.
November 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
*I blame capitalism's assault on the utopian imaginary
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When Bruce Springsteen sang "at night, we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines", he was talking about people who log on to LinkedIn after 6pm to write fanfiction about how good they are at their job.
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
When Bruce Springsteen sang "at night, we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines", he was talking about people who log on to LinkedIn after 6pm to write fanfiction about how good they are at their job.
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It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
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Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Standing By The Perimeter Fence And Screaming For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day!
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Standing By The Perimeter Fence And Screaming For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day!
Love the 1970s, when the tube’s closed because of a coded warning so I’ve got to walk across the facking river to get the train back to guildford, but at least i’ve got a quiet pint with the lads to look forward to tonight.
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Love the 1970s, when the tube’s closed because of a coded warning so I’ve got to walk across the facking river to get the train back to guildford, but at least i’ve got a quiet pint with the lads to look forward to tonight.
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There’s an excellent BBC documentary about Sandhurst, first broadcast in 1975.
In which officer cadets take part in a long exercise about civil disorder between the hard left and the hard right amid a breakdown in the British state.
#WhatGoodTimes
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
In which officer cadets take part in a long exercise about civil disorder between the hard left and the hard right amid a breakdown in the British state.
#WhatGoodTimes
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Panorama - Sandhurst
First transmitted in 1975, this edition of Panorama is set at Sandhurst, the officer training academy. It follows a group of young men prepare for a life of leadership in the Army.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
There’s an excellent BBC documentary about Sandhurst, first broadcast in 1975.
In which officer cadets take part in a long exercise about civil disorder between the hard left and the hard right amid a breakdown in the British state.
#WhatGoodTimes
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
In which officer cadets take part in a long exercise about civil disorder between the hard left and the hard right amid a breakdown in the British state.
#WhatGoodTimes
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Fred Goodwin (for it was he) once told me that RBS developed one of these systems but threw it away because it caused nothing but problems. Every Category 1 customer has a friend or relative who is a Category 5 and when you treat them obviously differently it always angers both.
Companies are working overtime to stratify consumers, separating the haves from both the have nots and the have yachts
on.ft.com/4p6brF8 How the American dream turned out to be pay to play
on.ft.com/4p6brF8 How the American dream turned out to be pay to play
How the American dream turned out to be pay to play
[FREE TO READ] Big brands from Disney to American Express are profiting from economic divisions and making them wider
on.ft.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Fred Goodwin (for it was he) once told me that RBS developed one of these systems but threw it away because it caused nothing but problems. Every Category 1 customer has a friend or relative who is a Category 5 and when you treat them obviously differently it always angers both.
it’s almost as if publishers will print any old bollocks to sell a newspaper. (the median telegraph reader is ~70 years old)
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
it’s almost as if publishers will print any old bollocks to sell a newspaper. (the median telegraph reader is ~70 years old)
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"quippy marvel movies with a lot of tedious dialogue that feels, for lack of a better word, soylinneal focus grouped... it's like, they're not so far down the humiliating revealed audience preference "that just happened!" gradient"
I think that's a pretty good vocabulary for it actually!
I think that's a pretty good vocabulary for it actually!
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"quippy marvel movies with a lot of tedious dialogue that feels, for lack of a better word, soylinneal focus grouped... it's like, they're not so far down the humiliating revealed audience preference "that just happened!" gradient"
I think that's a pretty good vocabulary for it actually!
I think that's a pretty good vocabulary for it actually!
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So much of film has been taken over by the nerd franchises (for which there is a thing called 'canon' and at least some people care about it) that it's diminished our ability to understand films that don't have that structure, and characters that cannot be understood as existing in a timeline.
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
So much of film has been taken over by the nerd franchises (for which there is a thing called 'canon' and at least some people care about it) that it's diminished our ability to understand films that don't have that structure, and characters that cannot be understood as existing in a timeline.
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Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...
Vic Reeves Big Night Out - 30 April 1989
YouTube video by Peter Brooke Turner
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...
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Digital Artist: In my work I invented the Gowl Detector as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Gowl Detector from classic art installation Don't Create The Gowl Detector
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Gowl Detector from classic art installation Don't Create The Gowl Detector
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Digital Artist: In my work I invented the Gowl Detector as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Gowl Detector from classic art installation Don't Create The Gowl Detector
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Gowl Detector from classic art installation Don't Create The Gowl Detector