David
@dxmthemachine.bsky.social
LFC fan. Love reading horror/sci-fi/fantasy, enjoy writing, movie fan, Warhammer 40k addict, gamer (Bioshock, Silent Hill 2, Alan Wake and Control are some of my favourites) and I adore music, owning way too many pairs of headphones.
Can be sweary. 18+
Can be sweary. 18+
I don't suppose I can ask for a Dita Von Teese lookalike with incredibly low standards for Christmas, can I?
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I don't suppose I can ask for a Dita Von Teese lookalike with incredibly low standards for Christmas, can I?
Crikey, I can't even get one person to put up with me, let alone several.
In a new doctrinal note, Pope Leo and the Vatican sharply reject polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as an exclusive union between one man and one woman.
Pope Leo and the Vatican reject polygamy in sweeping doctrinal praise of monogamy
In a new doctrinal note, Pope Leo and the Vatican sharply reject polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as an exclusive union between one man and one woman.
www.sltrib.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Crikey, I can't even get one person to put up with me, let alone several.
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She's a great actress. I think people too often talk about her beauty and completely miss how extraordinarily talented she is. Her performance in Penny Dreadful, in particular, just blew me away with it's depth and emotion.
Eva Green Joins the Cast of WEDNESDAY Season 3 as Aunt Ophelia
Eva Green Joins the Cast of WEDNESDAY Season 3 as Aunt Ophelia
Season two of the hit Netflix series Wednesday introduced fans to Morticia Addams’ sister, Ophelia, and now we can put a face to the name. Eva Green ( Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children,...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
She's a great actress. I think people too often talk about her beauty and completely miss how extraordinarily talented she is. Her performance in Penny Dreadful, in particular, just blew me away with it's depth and emotion.
Arthritis in your neck is extremely painful, and I've come to realise that the accompanying headache might actually be even worse. Jury's out.
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Arthritis in your neck is extremely painful, and I've come to realise that the accompanying headache might actually be even worse. Jury's out.
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There's a very very very simple reason why nothing Labour do ever moves the needle on the parlous state of the UK economy.
They have deliberately and repeatedly chosen to ignore the elephant filling every nook and cranny of the room.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
They have deliberately and repeatedly chosen to ignore the elephant filling every nook and cranny of the room.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
There's a very very very simple reason why nothing Labour do ever moves the needle on the parlous state of the UK economy.
They have deliberately and repeatedly chosen to ignore the elephant filling every nook and cranny of the room.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
They have deliberately and repeatedly chosen to ignore the elephant filling every nook and cranny of the room.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Rockstar really are behaving in a reprehensible manner.
Former Rockstar Games staff were fired for sharing internal company messages on an employee and union-only Discord server, new report suggests | Eurogamer.net share.google/wZGkonCjRUfI...
Former Rockstar Games staff were fired for sharing internal company messages on an employee and union-only Discord server, new report suggests | Eurogamer.net share.google/wZGkonCjRUfI...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Rockstar really are behaving in a reprehensible manner.
Former Rockstar Games staff were fired for sharing internal company messages on an employee and union-only Discord server, new report suggests | Eurogamer.net share.google/wZGkonCjRUfI...
Former Rockstar Games staff were fired for sharing internal company messages on an employee and union-only Discord server, new report suggests | Eurogamer.net share.google/wZGkonCjRUfI...
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Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”
Fluorescent lights really are the work of Satan 🤢
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Fluorescent lights really are the work of Satan 🤢
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I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*.
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
On US TV shows and podcasts from 2009-18, Farage discussed supposed plots by bankers to create a global government, citing Goldman Sachs, the Bilderberg group and George Soros as threats to democracy. Included six guest slots with the disgraced far-right US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*.
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
I think anyone trying to understand the absolute car crash of our modern, capitalist society need only read some Gramsci and be enlightened.
In a nutshell, the rich normalise the awful, they create consent in the population by selling a perverted sense of reality. This hegemony is destroying us.
In a nutshell, the rich normalise the awful, they create consent in the population by selling a perverted sense of reality. This hegemony is destroying us.
November 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I think anyone trying to understand the absolute car crash of our modern, capitalist society need only read some Gramsci and be enlightened.
In a nutshell, the rich normalise the awful, they create consent in the population by selling a perverted sense of reality. This hegemony is destroying us.
In a nutshell, the rich normalise the awful, they create consent in the population by selling a perverted sense of reality. This hegemony is destroying us.
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Also hilarious, for want of a better word, that British ‘patriots’ are amplifying & funding foreign actors who live in unsafe countries & have never been near Britain slagging off Britain. Good old Elon.
I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Also hilarious, for want of a better word, that British ‘patriots’ are amplifying & funding foreign actors who live in unsafe countries & have never been near Britain slagging off Britain. Good old Elon.
This does represent an opportunity for ethical publishers to promise to never utilise AI slop. I'd commit to buying from companies that could summon this minimum of moral integrity.
I wish more reporting on this made the point that novelists won't be displaced by LLMs suddenly producing literature instead of story mulch, but because decision makers focused only on the bottom line, who don't understand what makes a good book, will be persuaded story mulch has got 'good enough'.
New research by @mctd.bsky.social shows the impact of generative AI on authors in the UK. They found over a third of novelists report their income has already been negatively impacted by AI and 85% expect their future income will be negatively impacted.
www.mctd.ac.uk/impact-of-ge...
www.mctd.ac.uk/impact-of-ge...
November 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This does represent an opportunity for ethical publishers to promise to never utilise AI slop. I'd commit to buying from companies that could summon this minimum of moral integrity.
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I’d have thought nothing cuts more against our precious British values than selling out your country for Russian bribes…
And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say
…funny that.
And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say
…funny that.
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I’d have thought nothing cuts more against our precious British values than selling out your country for Russian bribes…
And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say
…funny that.
And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say
…funny that.
Blood's in the water. Can we really get a leader and a party that cares for the people? I can dream...
Source: The Guardian
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Source: The Guardian
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Four top Labour figures could beat Starmer in a leadership race, poll finds
Research shows members would back Andy Burnham, Ed Miliband, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting over PM
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November 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Blood's in the water. Can we really get a leader and a party that cares for the people? I can dream...
Source: The Guardian
search.app/YXmuC
Source: The Guardian
search.app/YXmuC
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1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
www.rawstory.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
Can anyone recommend a good, free email client that isn't trying to scrape my data, and isn't owned by people who are pure, concentrated evil? Like the cordial version of evil but someone forgot to add the water.
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Can anyone recommend a good, free email client that isn't trying to scrape my data, and isn't owned by people who are pure, concentrated evil? Like the cordial version of evil but someone forgot to add the water.
Great mysteries of the universe:
• Where is the Holy Grail?
• What existed before the "Big Bang"?
• Is there life beyond death?
• Will Uniball ever officially release the Zento Signature in the UK so I don't have to pay nauseating scalper prices?
• Where is the Holy Grail?
• What existed before the "Big Bang"?
• Is there life beyond death?
• Will Uniball ever officially release the Zento Signature in the UK so I don't have to pay nauseating scalper prices?
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Great mysteries of the universe:
• Where is the Holy Grail?
• What existed before the "Big Bang"?
• Is there life beyond death?
• Will Uniball ever officially release the Zento Signature in the UK so I don't have to pay nauseating scalper prices?
• Where is the Holy Grail?
• What existed before the "Big Bang"?
• Is there life beyond death?
• Will Uniball ever officially release the Zento Signature in the UK so I don't have to pay nauseating scalper prices?
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
So many companies are just desperate for us to hate them, aren't they?
Ubisoft boss believes generative AI is as big a revolution for games as the shift to 3D, as tech is embraced company-wide | Eurogamer.net share.google/CD56o81CRHHy...
Ubisoft boss believes generative AI is as big a revolution for games as the shift to 3D, as tech is embraced company-wide | Eurogamer.net share.google/CD56o81CRHHy...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
So many companies are just desperate for us to hate them, aren't they?
Ubisoft boss believes generative AI is as big a revolution for games as the shift to 3D, as tech is embraced company-wide | Eurogamer.net share.google/CD56o81CRHHy...
Ubisoft boss believes generative AI is as big a revolution for games as the shift to 3D, as tech is embraced company-wide | Eurogamer.net share.google/CD56o81CRHHy...