Christmas Steps (Mogwai, 1999)
@shinidengager.bsky.social
You and me are moulded by things well beyond our acknowledgment.
He/him / Over 50yo / South Wales
https://www.last.fm/user/a_transfer
He/him / Over 50yo / South Wales
https://www.last.fm/user/a_transfer
Pinned
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A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Chappell Rohan
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Sex Bomb-adil.
December 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols
She just loves chilling out on this thing haha
December 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
She just loves chilling out on this thing haha
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Creative people: streaming is not your future. Disposable, ephemeral, intangible digital media is not your future. Books, records, CDs, Blu-rays, theatrical screenings, live performance...these will be the way your art will exist in the world beyond a temporary mad scramble for views and listens.
i am once again begging all bands to put their music on bandcamp. i understand we are a dying breed but some of us still want to purchase music instead of just streaming it. please let me give you money! looking at you, deafheaven
December 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Creative people: streaming is not your future. Disposable, ephemeral, intangible digital media is not your future. Books, records, CDs, Blu-rays, theatrical screenings, live performance...these will be the way your art will exist in the world beyond a temporary mad scramble for views and listens.
Dolphin always feels to me like what you'd have had if AI girlfriends had existed in (checks Wikipedia) 1968.
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Dolphin always feels to me like what you'd have had if AI girlfriends had existed in (checks Wikipedia) 1968.
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no disrespect dolphin but your superpowers are not served well by jorts
December 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
no disrespect dolphin but your superpowers are not served well by jorts
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They don't want to "do" art. They want pretty art for free. If Jim Lee or Julie Bell offered a free pinup of their OC, they'd never mention AI again.
I mean, things are tough all over. If rude criticism stops you from making art, you should probably not be making art.
December 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
They don't want to "do" art. They want pretty art for free. If Jim Lee or Julie Bell offered a free pinup of their OC, they'd never mention AI again.
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October 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Benoit Blanc taking my cat's side in the case of I Have Never Been Fed Once, Ever
December 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Benoit Blanc taking my cat's side in the case of I Have Never Been Fed Once, Ever
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If Firefox were taking it "seriously and absolutely" they'd simply say "we're not putting LLMs in our web browser, because it's a web browser."
Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.
We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.
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We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
If Firefox were taking it "seriously and absolutely" they'd simply say "we're not putting LLMs in our web browser, because it's a web browser."
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Young Hideaki Anno watching an episode of "Lupin III" by Hayao Miyazaki ;-]
From japanese TV drama "Aoi Honoo" (Blue Blazes).
From japanese TV drama "Aoi Honoo" (Blue Blazes).
December 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Young Hideaki Anno watching an episode of "Lupin III" by Hayao Miyazaki ;-]
From japanese TV drama "Aoi Honoo" (Blue Blazes).
From japanese TV drama "Aoi Honoo" (Blue Blazes).
Fox seen being quite insouciant in the street near my mother's house in Hampshire.
December 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Fox seen being quite insouciant in the street near my mother's house in Hampshire.
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perceptive kid
(source: generation x)
(source: generation x)
December 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
perceptive kid
(source: generation x)
(source: generation x)
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I watched The Lion in Winter, a brilliant and devastating Christmas movie with intense performances from Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, and Nathan Fielder
December 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I watched The Lion in Winter, a brilliant and devastating Christmas movie with intense performances from Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, and Nathan Fielder
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i don't want a lot for christmas
cuz i am a centipede
blending in with carpet patterns
scooting on my many feet
cuz i am a centipede
blending in with carpet patterns
scooting on my many feet
December 23, 2023 at 5:19 PM
i don't want a lot for christmas
cuz i am a centipede
blending in with carpet patterns
scooting on my many feet
cuz i am a centipede
blending in with carpet patterns
scooting on my many feet
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Do you notice how, the higher the evidence stacks up that our ruling class is basically just a gaggle of coercive arse-grabbers covering up for each other, the more extreme their terror of foreign sex criminals and transgenders lurking in toilet cubicles grows
December 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Do you notice how, the higher the evidence stacks up that our ruling class is basically just a gaggle of coercive arse-grabbers covering up for each other, the more extreme their terror of foreign sex criminals and transgenders lurking in toilet cubicles grows
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Choose Your Fighter (Winter Coat Edition)
December 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Choose Your Fighter (Winter Coat Edition)
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Lovely chat, this. Including tantalising idea for unwritten Culture novel (man has weapon with his own memories encoded in the ammo) 👇
Talking about _The Player of Games_ by Iain M. Banks.
www.newscientist.com/video/250912...
www.newscientist.com/video/250912...
Author Ken MacLeod on the life and work of the late Iain M. Banks
Sci-fi author Ken MacLeod shares stories about his friend, the late Iain M. Banks, author of the genre-redefining Culture series of science-fiction novels
www.newscientist.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Lovely chat, this. Including tantalising idea for unwritten Culture novel (man has weapon with his own memories encoded in the ammo) 👇
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What is this? It’s Labour trying to make it your fault they’ve behaved horrendously, your fault that they are crooked, your fault that they openly despise you. There is no higher calling in a democracy than this one: Don’t vote for people who tell you that they hate you and they will fuck you up.
After spending nearly 18 months deliberately aping Nigel Farage and legitimising Reform’s politics, Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney are sending out their Torgos to lecture the public about how the real Farage clone is the one person in politics who meaningfully opposes him. Let’s see how it works.
Farage and Polanski have something in common. They are both wrong about Britain.
Thread & link at the end 🧵
Thread & link at the end 🧵
December 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
What is this? It’s Labour trying to make it your fault they’ve behaved horrendously, your fault that they are crooked, your fault that they openly despise you. There is no higher calling in a democracy than this one: Don’t vote for people who tell you that they hate you and they will fuck you up.
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will