Andrew - Novel Out Now
@ethanrunt.bsky.social
I wrote an epic western saga, full of vengeance, violence and vast passages about life, death and rivers. It's really good.
https://ethanrunt.wordpress.com/2025/04/20/i-wrote-a-book-a-little-prep-and-contemplation-on-the-ferryman-upon-the-plains/
https://ethanrunt.wordpress.com/2025/04/20/i-wrote-a-book-a-little-prep-and-contemplation-on-the-ferryman-upon-the-plains/
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2025 saw me push my book out, a big humanist western revenge saga looking at, ya know, all the shit that happens when systems fail the people.
Not had much creativity this year, deeply broken, hoping next year plans can become works.
For now though, buy my book?
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0F3...
Not had much creativity this year, deeply broken, hoping next year plans can become works.
For now though, buy my book?
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0F3...
A very happy New Jason Statham Day to all who celebrate.
January 30, 2026 at 5:15 AM
A very happy New Jason Statham Day to all who celebrate.
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Even the KID WHO USED AI BECAUSE HE WAS STRESSED GETS IT.
grumble grumble stupid rich idiots
grumble grumble stupid rich idiots
January 29, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Even the KID WHO USED AI BECAUSE HE WAS STRESSED GETS IT.
grumble grumble stupid rich idiots
grumble grumble stupid rich idiots
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January 29, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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This thread is worth a read. Probably conatins more information about AI than the government approved (but not provided) AI course it is documenting.
I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
AI Skills Boost - AI Skills Hub
aiskillshub.org.uk
January 29, 2026 at 1:03 PM
This thread is worth a read. Probably conatins more information about AI than the government approved (but not provided) AI course it is documenting.
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It is absolutely insane that we are trying to come up with workarounds and bans on children accessing social media when the simple solution - holding social media platforms responsible for their content under existing law - has been staring us in the face for years.
This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sidcup man convicted aover explosive attack on Ulez camera
Kevin Rees's homemade bomb caused damage to vehicles and property including a child's bedroom.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 10:55 AM
It is absolutely insane that we are trying to come up with workarounds and bans on children accessing social media when the simple solution - holding social media platforms responsible for their content under existing law - has been staring us in the face for years.
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This government is dangerously incoherent on this. SEND provision is under threat, they're age-gating the internet, but want to push the confidently wrong psychosis machine onto children (while rich kids will still get human tutors, obviously).
JUST INVEST IN ACTUAL TEACHERS.
JUST INVEST IN ACTUAL TEACHERS.
We want to make sure tutoring isn't the preserve of a lucky few, but accessible to every child who needs it.
AI can help us do that.
Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
AI can help us do that.
Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
Poorest pupils to be given AI tutors
Bridget Phillipson says tuition would no longer be the preserve of ‘the lucky few’
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 8:33 AM
This government is dangerously incoherent on this. SEND provision is under threat, they're age-gating the internet, but want to push the confidently wrong psychosis machine onto children (while rich kids will still get human tutors, obviously).
JUST INVEST IN ACTUAL TEACHERS.
JUST INVEST IN ACTUAL TEACHERS.
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24 (Series, 2001 - 2010)
January 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
24 (Series, 2001 - 2010)
Vue near me have a 'secret horror film' screening on Monday which I'd venture is Sam Raimi's newbie, but there's a chance given they're showing it multiple times a day it's just a way to make people sit down for a screening of Melania.
January 28, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Vue near me have a 'secret horror film' screening on Monday which I'd venture is Sam Raimi's newbie, but there's a chance given they're showing it multiple times a day it's just a way to make people sit down for a screening of Melania.
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I'm sorry, but the reaction to Brianna Ghey being murdered by people she knew offline *because she was transgender* becoming 'we should stop teenagers from being on social media' rather than 'we should deal with the recent horrifying rise of transphobia in the UK' is unbelievably fucking bullshit.
January 28, 2026 at 6:32 PM
I'm sorry, but the reaction to Brianna Ghey being murdered by people she knew offline *because she was transgender* becoming 'we should stop teenagers from being on social media' rather than 'we should deal with the recent horrifying rise of transphobia in the UK' is unbelievably fucking bullshit.
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The mania for so-called AI is just pareidolia writ large. It's a fart machine built on plagiarism and waste. LLM technology is, at best, a crappy magic trick. Shapes in the clouds. Don't be deluded that it's 'not quite ready' and 'will get better'. It's pointless and polluting. Tear it down.
January 28, 2026 at 12:46 PM
The mania for so-called AI is just pareidolia writ large. It's a fart machine built on plagiarism and waste. LLM technology is, at best, a crappy magic trick. Shapes in the clouds. Don't be deluded that it's 'not quite ready' and 'will get better'. It's pointless and polluting. Tear it down.
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The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
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if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good
January 28, 2026 at 10:19 AM
if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good
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they simply cannot and will not accept the public's casual refusal to embrace the descent into the sludge factory, they can only see it as a failure on our part that must be rectified at whatever expense
Free AI training to be offered to every adult in the UK
Free AI training to be offered to every adult in the UK
Free AI training to be offered to every adult in the UK
www.independent.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 9:36 AM
they simply cannot and will not accept the public's casual refusal to embrace the descent into the sludge factory, they can only see it as a failure on our part that must be rectified at whatever expense
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Was up late in the night Sunday recording an episode only to find Johnny's side never came through.
So here's an hour of me talking about Hamnet, Into The Woods, The Producers, the new Mel Brooks doc and then a game of conjoined film titles cos Stuck On You:
www.podnose.com/are-you-movi...
So here's an hour of me talking about Hamnet, Into The Woods, The Producers, the new Mel Brooks doc and then a game of conjoined film titles cos Stuck On You:
www.podnose.com/are-you-movi...
January 28, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Was up late in the night Sunday recording an episode only to find Johnny's side never came through.
So here's an hour of me talking about Hamnet, Into The Woods, The Producers, the new Mel Brooks doc and then a game of conjoined film titles cos Stuck On You:
www.podnose.com/are-you-movi...
So here's an hour of me talking about Hamnet, Into The Woods, The Producers, the new Mel Brooks doc and then a game of conjoined film titles cos Stuck On You:
www.podnose.com/are-you-movi...
Was up late in the night Sunday recording an episode only to find Johnny's side never came through.
So here's an hour of me talking about Hamnet, Into The Woods, The Producers, the new Mel Brooks doc and then a game of conjoined film titles cos Stuck On You:
www.podnose.com/are-you-movi...
So here's an hour of me talking about Hamnet, Into The Woods, The Producers, the new Mel Brooks doc and then a game of conjoined film titles cos Stuck On You:
www.podnose.com/are-you-movi...
January 28, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Was up late in the night Sunday recording an episode only to find Johnny's side never came through.
So here's an hour of me talking about Hamnet, Into The Woods, The Producers, the new Mel Brooks doc and then a game of conjoined film titles cos Stuck On You:
www.podnose.com/are-you-movi...
So here's an hour of me talking about Hamnet, Into The Woods, The Producers, the new Mel Brooks doc and then a game of conjoined film titles cos Stuck On You:
www.podnose.com/are-you-movi...
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My local Odeon is dropping H IS FOR HAWK and THE HISTORY OF SOUND after one week to show this twice a day.
January 27, 2026 at 1:27 AM
My local Odeon is dropping H IS FOR HAWK and THE HISTORY OF SOUND after one week to show this twice a day.
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Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
January 26, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Oh, streamlabs, thank you so much. I stayed up doing 5 hours of work and you record half the material?
I.......
Am broken.
I.......
Am broken.
January 26, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Oh, streamlabs, thank you so much. I stayed up doing 5 hours of work and you record half the material?
I.......
Am broken.
I.......
Am broken.
Remember in 2024 when a lot of folk said Civil War was an ineffective film because it didn't explain the backstory of why America became like that and instead focused on the importance of telling the stories with images?
Cos I do.
Cos I do.
January 25, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Remember in 2024 when a lot of folk said Civil War was an ineffective film because it didn't explain the backstory of why America became like that and instead focused on the importance of telling the stories with images?
Cos I do.
Cos I do.
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On a completely unrelated note, here's a professor complaining about the rise in the number of people wearing glasses for short-sightedness in the late 19th century.
January 25, 2026 at 2:28 PM
On a completely unrelated note, here's a professor complaining about the rise in the number of people wearing glasses for short-sightedness in the late 19th century.
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An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all:
The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
January 25, 2026 at 3:28 AM
An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all:
The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
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Coming to terms that even if things get better, I will never set foot in the US ever again.
January 25, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Coming to terms that even if things get better, I will never set foot in the US ever again.
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I’m Alan Partridge as Best Picture nominees #Oscars2026
A thread:
A thread:
January 23, 2026 at 10:17 PM
I’m Alan Partridge as Best Picture nominees #Oscars2026
A thread:
A thread:
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I'm seeing creative people calling out other creative people for not using genAI.
GenAI is:
* Trained on material stolen by billionaires from those much less resourced
* Heating up the planet
* The reason the prices of laptops/computers is going up.
* Sloppy
But sure. I'm the luddite.
GenAI is:
* Trained on material stolen by billionaires from those much less resourced
* Heating up the planet
* The reason the prices of laptops/computers is going up.
* Sloppy
But sure. I'm the luddite.
January 23, 2026 at 10:45 AM
I'm seeing creative people calling out other creative people for not using genAI.
GenAI is:
* Trained on material stolen by billionaires from those much less resourced
* Heating up the planet
* The reason the prices of laptops/computers is going up.
* Sloppy
But sure. I'm the luddite.
GenAI is:
* Trained on material stolen by billionaires from those much less resourced
* Heating up the planet
* The reason the prices of laptops/computers is going up.
* Sloppy
But sure. I'm the luddite.