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Ste Jormur

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Beats me why most dudes suck. Sure as hell ain't my scene.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · Jul 4

Rebooting this thread, because I just got an MP3 player for swimming, and my MP3 collection biases heavily towards pre-streaming music. Let's see how well my teenage music taste holds up!

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · Nov 13

You know what? I'm going to do a thread of music. Any time a song pops into my head, I'll post it here. Any genre, any era, any language, if I like it, I'll skeet it.

Let's start with something positive and uplifting. Vienna Teng feels like the most Bluesky musician out there. youtu.be/U4n_8R5lKnw

Vienna Teng - Level Up (Official Music Video) feat. Tommy Guns Ly

YouTube video by Vienna Teng

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 2h

'Nature's Labubu': why are Gen Z 'unboxing' conkers?

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 2h

Possibly it's also just not knowing what the modern curriculum is like. In the 2000s we had a whole term on the Empire and the slave trade, and a brief overview of Indian Independence/Partition (and in English lit, one GCSE module of post-colonial short stories that doubled as history lessons)

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 3h

Like how "We need to teach the real history of the British Empire and racism!" usually means "The history lessons where I was taught about that weren't interesting enough for me to remember"

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 11h

"Anarchist" who reads Wikipedia vs anarchist who edits Wikipedia

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14h

i have been into punk rock a long time, which means i have a lot of experience with anarchists (smell like old libraries, 70% lentils by volume, attends between 20-60 meetings per week) and “anarchists” (reads wikipedia, posts, backbites the first group)

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 11h

"You said you never wanted to see another rules-based international order as long as you lived. Well, I'm here to see you get your wish!"

Coily the Spring Sprite from a Case of Spring Fever

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 20h

Very much agree. Look at this glorious 11-shot from #DoctorWho - it's like a (shit) Renaissance painting, and I love it.

An unbelievably-blocked shot of 11-characters from Doctor Who's Terror of the Vervoids all facing towards the camera as they examine a dead body.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 20h

See also the increasing reliance on the good old back-and-forth shot-reverse shot. I would much rather see an unnatural stagey blocking where we can see all the characters faces than have it pieced together from different angles and different takes and whichever reaction insert the editor liked best

A scene from Star Trek The Next Generation in which Picard in the foreground, Q behind him, Deanna Troi behind him, and Tasha Yar behind her are all looking at 3/4 angles towards the camera. It's an unnatural way to have a conversation, but now we can see the emotions on everyone's faces as Q speaks

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 20h

I massively agree with this thread. So much TV (and even a lot of film) no longer feels like a conversation. It feels like individual lines, said in isolation to no-one.

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 22h

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · Sep 2

They look like they’re asking me how the human instrumentality project is going

Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · Sep 1

Getting the boys back together again.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel watching the Jenny Nicholson church plays video and earnestly taking notes on how Marty McFly and Captain Kirk are Christ figures.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23h

whole thing is even worse than the headline when you think about what 'play' means here

“I’m just as concerned for you! Don’t worry about me! It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it. Otherwise keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!!”"

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 23h

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 23h

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 22h

It was, to be fair to the CDC, surprisingly hard to convey the message to the public that "This virus spreading in China is dangerous and we should control it before it breaks out" but not "You need to kill every Asian-looking person you see before they kill you"

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 22h

Particularly funny that he and the public health apparatus swapped sides pretty suddenly. We've all memoryholed the bit of the pandemic where Trump shut down all flights from Europe against the advice of Fauci etc, but man, that was a weird realignment www.cnbc.com/2020/03/11/c...

Trump suspends travel from Europe for 30 days as part of response to 'foreign' coronavirus

Trump addressed the nation as financial markets entered bear market territory and confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States topped 1,200.

www.cnbc.com

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 22h

This is what we lost when SEO content farms killed GameFAQs

slowbeef @slowbeef.bsky.social · 22h

The weirdest thing about the Elvira games is how bad all the walkthroughs are. They either forget to tell you certain things and one author was mad about having to play Elvira's boyfriend in the second game, based on her "type" from the first movie! Come on, we gotta focus guy, it's a walkthrough.

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 23h

The worst, slimiest, most loathsome people on the planet play games with names like "Wakuwaku Sparkling Dream!!! Happy-Go-Lucky ♡ Magical Girl ♡ Friends Quest Fantasy"

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 23h

The message of Evangelion - that humanity is one but not homogenous, and you should not try to change others but seek to know yourself honestly and accept everyone is as scared, vulnerable and desperate for love as you - would fix the techbro right. There's just no chance they would understand it.

Elon Musk thinks he’s Gendo Ikari – what that means, and why it’s both very bad and just cringe

Why a 1990s anime series about giant robots and depression might just explain Elon Musk.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 23h

Human Instrumentality speed-run (any%)

Ali-John Mirsepassi @ajmirsepassi.bsky.social · 1d

No-one show Peter Thiel Evangelion. Please for the love of God.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 1d

That's fighting words from a country that has a delivery service called "Postmates". Sounds like what an American would think British people call pen pals

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 1d

H from Steps was incredibly prescient when he dubbed himself "H from Steps".

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Geoffrey David B. @geothetrickster.bsky.social · 1d

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 1d

Also I just realised that Thiel read a comic about a gay German-American tech billionaire obsessed with the ancient world and who has sinister megalomaniacal plans to save humanity from itself, and thought "Wow, this guy is the Antichrist".

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

Also, purely from a selfish perspective for the ppl using ai to do their flirting for them

Flirting is meant to be fun, it's meant to be a fun thing you get to do as a sexual being. If you're treating it as admin to have a machine do for you, that's really tragic

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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