Richard Littler
@richardlittler.bsky.social
Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system.
https://www.richardlittler.com
https://www.richardlittler.com
Back from the framers. A rare, original cinema window card from Hollywood's #GoldenAge, for the 1930 film Shadow of the Law.
Yet another unexpected/bonkers vintage movie find in a Swiss charity shop. Previously, I also found 3 half-sheet posters from the 1940s/50s.
#Cinema #design #Hollywood
Yet another unexpected/bonkers vintage movie find in a Swiss charity shop. Previously, I also found 3 half-sheet posters from the 1940s/50s.
#Cinema #design #Hollywood
November 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Back from the framers. A rare, original cinema window card from Hollywood's #GoldenAge, for the 1930 film Shadow of the Law.
Yet another unexpected/bonkers vintage movie find in a Swiss charity shop. Previously, I also found 3 half-sheet posters from the 1940s/50s.
#Cinema #design #Hollywood
Yet another unexpected/bonkers vintage movie find in a Swiss charity shop. Previously, I also found 3 half-sheet posters from the 1940s/50s.
#Cinema #design #Hollywood
Initial attempts to remove print 'moire' from old photos/scans.
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Initial attempts to remove print 'moire' from old photos/scans.
Fs, stop asking people to vote for things. I'd only keep It's a Wonderful Life and Christmas Carol (1951).
The Thin Man (& After the Thin Man at new year).
Eyes Wide Shut.
Brazil.
A Charlie Brown Christmas.
The Apartment.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
What else? Fanny/Alexander? The Thing?
The Thin Man (& After the Thin Man at new year).
Eyes Wide Shut.
Brazil.
A Charlie Brown Christmas.
The Apartment.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
What else? Fanny/Alexander? The Thing?
What is Britain's favourite Christmas film?
Home Alone: 19%
Die Hard: 11%
Elf: 9%
Love Actually: 7%
It's a Wonderful Life: 6%
A Christmas Carol: 5%
The Muppet Christmas Carol: 5%
The Holiday: 5%
The Grinch: 4%
Miracle on 34th Street: 3%
Santa Claus: The Movie: 3%
The Polar Express: 3%
Home Alone: 19%
Die Hard: 11%
Elf: 9%
Love Actually: 7%
It's a Wonderful Life: 6%
A Christmas Carol: 5%
The Muppet Christmas Carol: 5%
The Holiday: 5%
The Grinch: 4%
Miracle on 34th Street: 3%
Santa Claus: The Movie: 3%
The Polar Express: 3%
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Fs, stop asking people to vote for things. I'd only keep It's a Wonderful Life and Christmas Carol (1951).
The Thin Man (& After the Thin Man at new year).
Eyes Wide Shut.
Brazil.
A Charlie Brown Christmas.
The Apartment.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
What else? Fanny/Alexander? The Thing?
The Thin Man (& After the Thin Man at new year).
Eyes Wide Shut.
Brazil.
A Charlie Brown Christmas.
The Apartment.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
What else? Fanny/Alexander? The Thing?
*squints at Ellis Island. "As many as two-fifths of Americans may be descended from the immigrants" processed there.
Stephen Miller, of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, whose great-grandparents to migrated to America to "escape Russian pogroms and the Holocaust".
Stephen Miller, of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, whose great-grandparents to migrated to America to "escape Russian pogroms and the Holocaust".
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
*squints at Ellis Island. "As many as two-fifths of Americans may be descended from the immigrants" processed there.
Stephen Miller, of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, whose great-grandparents to migrated to America to "escape Russian pogroms and the Holocaust".
Stephen Miller, of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, whose great-grandparents to migrated to America to "escape Russian pogroms and the Holocaust".
Swallowed a tangerine pip and now a tangerine tree is going to grow inside me like one of those insect parasites that hijacks their host's nervous system & brain, forcing them to do their bidding before destroying them. I don't want to become a tangerine zombie. The Xmas season is fraught with peril
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Swallowed a tangerine pip and now a tangerine tree is going to grow inside me like one of those insect parasites that hijacks their host's nervous system & brain, forcing them to do their bidding before destroying them. I don't want to become a tangerine zombie. The Xmas season is fraught with peril
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Ornette Coleman
Steve Reich
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Carla Bley
King Crimson
Ornette Coleman
Steve Reich
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Carla Bley
King Crimson
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen;
Captain Beefheart
Roxy Music
Miles Davis
The Clash
Suicide
Captain Beefheart
Roxy Music
Miles Davis
The Clash
Suicide
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Prince
Lady Gaga
David Byrne
Destiny’s Child
Kate Bush
Prince
Lady Gaga
David Byrne
Destiny’s Child
Kate Bush
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Ornette Coleman
Steve Reich
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Carla Bley
King Crimson
Ornette Coleman
Steve Reich
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Carla Bley
King Crimson
Reading William Gibson's Neuromancer from 1984. He seems to have predicted...*gestures at everything: Cyberspace, VR, neural implants, AI. Just came across this line:
"How smart's an AI?"
"Depends. Some aren't much smarter than dogs."
Oh, and The Matrix shamelessly ripped it off wholesale, right?
"How smart's an AI?"
"Depends. Some aren't much smarter than dogs."
Oh, and The Matrix shamelessly ripped it off wholesale, right?
November 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Reading William Gibson's Neuromancer from 1984. He seems to have predicted...*gestures at everything: Cyberspace, VR, neural implants, AI. Just came across this line:
"How smart's an AI?"
"Depends. Some aren't much smarter than dogs."
Oh, and The Matrix shamelessly ripped it off wholesale, right?
"How smart's an AI?"
"Depends. Some aren't much smarter than dogs."
Oh, and The Matrix shamelessly ripped it off wholesale, right?
Watching the new #Beatles Anthology series on Disney.
Looks like some of the older footage might have had an AI facelift. Every now and then there's a brief eye/head/hair movement that doesn't seem completely natural. And a couple of times John and George have an almost set-in-aspic sheen.
Looks like some of the older footage might have had an AI facelift. Every now and then there's a brief eye/head/hair movement that doesn't seem completely natural. And a couple of times John and George have an almost set-in-aspic sheen.
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Watching the new #Beatles Anthology series on Disney.
Looks like some of the older footage might have had an AI facelift. Every now and then there's a brief eye/head/hair movement that doesn't seem completely natural. And a couple of times John and George have an almost set-in-aspic sheen.
Looks like some of the older footage might have had an AI facelift. Every now and then there's a brief eye/head/hair movement that doesn't seem completely natural. And a couple of times John and George have an almost set-in-aspic sheen.
Reposted by Richard Littler
For me, Thanksgiving Day isn’t complete without William Burroughs’s “A Thanksgiving Prayer”
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William S. Burroughs - A Thanksgiving Prayer
YouTube video by williamburroughsVEVO
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November 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
For me, Thanksgiving Day isn’t complete without William Burroughs’s “A Thanksgiving Prayer”
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youtu.be/sLSveRGmpIE?...
Love sci-fi films, but always struggle with novels. My brain can't get to grips with: "Jake awoke in Neu-Croydon and trip-shifted his Snow6. He'd been zamping the Decortex Line long before the Tokyo Dataspleen Protocols, unnerving the Neuro-Eidolon Body who had once declared him an ultra Cyberpug."
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Love sci-fi films, but always struggle with novels. My brain can't get to grips with: "Jake awoke in Neu-Croydon and trip-shifted his Snow6. He'd been zamping the Decortex Line long before the Tokyo Dataspleen Protocols, unnerving the Neuro-Eidolon Body who had once declared him an ultra Cyberpug."
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Does Points of View still exist? I just watched a 1975 episode of Call My Bluff & one of the definitions was incorrect. Swatchel was defined as another word for Mr Punch. Not strictly true; it's another word for swazzle, the device used to create Punch's voice (from the German schwätzen, to chatter)
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Does Points of View still exist? I just watched a 1975 episode of Call My Bluff & one of the definitions was incorrect. Swatchel was defined as another word for Mr Punch. Not strictly true; it's another word for swazzle, the device used to create Punch's voice (from the German schwätzen, to chatter)
Me (every morning): "Today I will listen to something upbeat & uplifting!.."
1 hour later...
I select an album by an East European or Scandi composer known for their bleak, plaintive &/or atonal works with titles like 'Requiem for Hope', 'Lament', 'Death of the Sky' & 'His Last Winter'.
#NowPlaying
1 hour later...
I select an album by an East European or Scandi composer known for their bleak, plaintive &/or atonal works with titles like 'Requiem for Hope', 'Lament', 'Death of the Sky' & 'His Last Winter'.
#NowPlaying
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Me (every morning): "Today I will listen to something upbeat & uplifting!.."
1 hour later...
I select an album by an East European or Scandi composer known for their bleak, plaintive &/or atonal works with titles like 'Requiem for Hope', 'Lament', 'Death of the Sky' & 'His Last Winter'.
#NowPlaying
1 hour later...
I select an album by an East European or Scandi composer known for their bleak, plaintive &/or atonal works with titles like 'Requiem for Hope', 'Lament', 'Death of the Sky' & 'His Last Winter'.
#NowPlaying
Another record goes back to the sender for a refund.
Far too many people think "I'm sure this record will arrive undamaged if I just post it this paper bag."
#vinyl
Far too many people think "I'm sure this record will arrive undamaged if I just post it this paper bag."
#vinyl
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Another record goes back to the sender for a refund.
Far too many people think "I'm sure this record will arrive undamaged if I just post it this paper bag."
#vinyl
Far too many people think "I'm sure this record will arrive undamaged if I just post it this paper bag."
#vinyl
Somebody posted an old photo in a Facebook local group and asked if anyone could clean it up. Well-meaning people turned to #AI. Lots of responders seemed happy with the results, but this is how you destroy historical records.
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Somebody posted an old photo in a Facebook local group and asked if anyone could clean it up. Well-meaning people turned to #AI. Lots of responders seemed happy with the results, but this is how you destroy historical records.
"Trump Disbands DOGE Despite Eight Months Left On Its Charter [because outlaw billionaires and Putin now have all the data they wanted]"
Trump Disbands DOGE Despite Eight Months Left On Its Charter
A White House official told Reuters that the agency once led by billionaire Elon Musk to hollow out the federal government "doesn't exist."
www.huffpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"Trump Disbands DOGE Despite Eight Months Left On Its Charter [because outlaw billionaires and Putin now have all the data they wanted]"
#NowPlaying Satie. If he'd been around in the '60s he'd have been in Pink Floyd. Fin de Psychédélique? Titles:
Desiccated Embryos; Exasperations of a Big Wooden Dummy; Flabby Preludes For a Dog; Being Jealous Of a Friend Who Has a Big Head; Spleen; A Little Prelude to The Death of Mr Fly; Rat Air.
Desiccated Embryos; Exasperations of a Big Wooden Dummy; Flabby Preludes For a Dog; Being Jealous Of a Friend Who Has a Big Head; Spleen; A Little Prelude to The Death of Mr Fly; Rat Air.
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
#NowPlaying Satie. If he'd been around in the '60s he'd have been in Pink Floyd. Fin de Psychédélique? Titles:
Desiccated Embryos; Exasperations of a Big Wooden Dummy; Flabby Preludes For a Dog; Being Jealous Of a Friend Who Has a Big Head; Spleen; A Little Prelude to The Death of Mr Fly; Rat Air.
Desiccated Embryos; Exasperations of a Big Wooden Dummy; Flabby Preludes For a Dog; Being Jealous Of a Friend Who Has a Big Head; Spleen; A Little Prelude to The Death of Mr Fly; Rat Air.
It's crucial that I take my pill.
Just as crucial that I don't exceed the stated dose.
I put it on my plate beside my sandwich.
I ate the sandwich.
But now there's no pill on the plate..
..or table/floor etc.
Did the pill get stuck to my sandwich and I ate it?
Or have I not taken it?
Life's a dick.
Just as crucial that I don't exceed the stated dose.
I put it on my plate beside my sandwich.
I ate the sandwich.
But now there's no pill on the plate..
..or table/floor etc.
Did the pill get stuck to my sandwich and I ate it?
Or have I not taken it?
Life's a dick.
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
It's crucial that I take my pill.
Just as crucial that I don't exceed the stated dose.
I put it on my plate beside my sandwich.
I ate the sandwich.
But now there's no pill on the plate..
..or table/floor etc.
Did the pill get stuck to my sandwich and I ate it?
Or have I not taken it?
Life's a dick.
Just as crucial that I don't exceed the stated dose.
I put it on my plate beside my sandwich.
I ate the sandwich.
But now there's no pill on the plate..
..or table/floor etc.
Did the pill get stuck to my sandwich and I ate it?
Or have I not taken it?
Life's a dick.
#NowPlaying an old Мелодия label copy of Romeo & Juliet by Prokofiev, which I picked up decades ago for a quid.
I was lucky enough to see the Bolshoi Ballet perform it at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (back when it was feasible to live there)*
*I say feasible: someone shot at me from a high-rise.
I was lucky enough to see the Bolshoi Ballet perform it at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (back when it was feasible to live there)*
*I say feasible: someone shot at me from a high-rise.
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
#NowPlaying an old Мелодия label copy of Romeo & Juliet by Prokofiev, which I picked up decades ago for a quid.
I was lucky enough to see the Bolshoi Ballet perform it at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (back when it was feasible to live there)*
*I say feasible: someone shot at me from a high-rise.
I was lucky enough to see the Bolshoi Ballet perform it at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (back when it was feasible to live there)*
*I say feasible: someone shot at me from a high-rise.
Oh, come on. Really?
I cooked noodles yesterday.
Spotted this on the bag:
I cooked noodles yesterday.
Spotted this on the bag:
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Oh, come on. Really?
I cooked noodles yesterday.
Spotted this on the bag:
I cooked noodles yesterday.
Spotted this on the bag:
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
Mentioned this before, but, last time I was at the dentist, they analysed my teeth with AI. It found an incipient cavity that the human dentist had not spotted.
Very clever.
Except that the cavity it found was just outside my actual head. Arguably, the entire universe is a cavity outside my head.
Very clever.
Except that the cavity it found was just outside my actual head. Arguably, the entire universe is a cavity outside my head.
Government launches major push for AI-driven science.
Strategy focuses on five areas of “existing UK strength” with £137m in funding.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Strategy focuses on five areas of “existing UK strength” with £137m in funding.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Government launches major push for AI-driven science - Research Professional News
Strategy focuses on five areas of “existing UK strength” with £137m in funding
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Mentioned this before, but, last time I was at the dentist, they analysed my teeth with AI. It found an incipient cavity that the human dentist had not spotted.
Very clever.
Except that the cavity it found was just outside my actual head. Arguably, the entire universe is a cavity outside my head.
Very clever.
Except that the cavity it found was just outside my actual head. Arguably, the entire universe is a cavity outside my head.
Reposted by Richard Littler
