Fin
@finmilligan.bsky.social
Writing, always writing. Seen in Electronic Sound, Juno Daily. Music, games, film and telly.
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Happening Again #51
It comes around quicker every year
happeningagain.substack.com
ICYMI: The last Happening Again of the year is out now. It's not a festive one, but Christmas is mentioned multiple times. Featuring the likes of @sulkrooms.bsky.social, Robinson's Village, and @carpenterbrut.com.
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Went to check if this screenshot (posted by @aric.bsky.social) was real (it is) and then made the mistake of also scrolling through Grok's replies on X. Still constantly cranking out sexualised images of young girls. Beyond bleak.
January 5, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Went to check if this screenshot (posted by @aric.bsky.social) was real (it is) and then made the mistake of also scrolling through Grok's replies on X. Still constantly cranking out sexualised images of young girls. Beyond bleak.
It's 2026, we do not need to be capitalising "internet". This is not the era of cyberspace (although I wish daily that it was).
January 5, 2026 at 11:36 AM
It's 2026, we do not need to be capitalising "internet". This is not the era of cyberspace (although I wish daily that it was).
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It's quite incredible how this poor and inaccurate tool has been prioritised and integrated *so* effectively that I regularly have people tell me something they've 'looked up' and I have to say 'you're not just reading the AI overview are you' and they are.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice
Exclusive: Inaccurate information presented in summaries, Guardian investigation finds
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:54 AM
It's quite incredible how this poor and inaccurate tool has been prioritised and integrated *so* effectively that I regularly have people tell me something they've 'looked up' and I have to say 'you're not just reading the AI overview are you' and they are.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
December 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
I have not been as hooked on a video game as I have been with Dispatch for a very long time.
December 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I have not been as hooked on a video game as I have been with Dispatch for a very long time.
Re: David Walliams, I've never forgotten the woman who started the Milifandom posted about how Walliams had messaged her and invited her and some mates to his dressing room at BGT. She posted on Twitter pictures and the weird messages he'd sent her, and then nothing happened.
December 20, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Re: David Walliams, I've never forgotten the woman who started the Milifandom posted about how Walliams had messaged her and invited her and some mates to his dressing room at BGT. She posted on Twitter pictures and the weird messages he'd sent her, and then nothing happened.
Completely hooked by Dispatch, not least because of its amazing soundtrack. I had no idea it was so synth-heavy.
A Soothing Voice
YouTube video by Andrew Arcadi - Topic
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December 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Completely hooked by Dispatch, not least because of its amazing soundtrack. I had no idea it was so synth-heavy.
ICYMI: The last Happening Again of the year is out now. It's not a festive one, but Christmas is mentioned multiple times. Featuring the likes of @sulkrooms.bsky.social, Robinson's Village, and @carpenterbrut.com.
Happening Again #51
It comes around quicker every year
happeningagain.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
ICYMI: The last Happening Again of the year is out now. It's not a festive one, but Christmas is mentioned multiple times. Featuring the likes of @sulkrooms.bsky.social, Robinson's Village, and @carpenterbrut.com.
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Love to have my entire working life being real wage stagnation. It’s so great.
Big picture though: looks like we are heading towards 2010s style real wage stagnation. Although without 2010s style tax cuts on median earners.
December 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Love to have my entire working life being real wage stagnation. It’s so great.
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I genuinely affirmatively think that it is now a democratic imperative to spend as much time as you can offline. Read more offline. Socialise more offline. Discuss media you consume with other people offline. Out there is a real world full of people looking for real human connection - seize it
Reading a bunch of books this year has really solidified for me how awful the internet is in comparison nowadays. Obviously in terms of general hostility but more generally in terms of lack of depth, insight, reading comprehension, base of knowledge, etc
December 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I genuinely affirmatively think that it is now a democratic imperative to spend as much time as you can offline. Read more offline. Socialise more offline. Discuss media you consume with other people offline. Out there is a real world full of people looking for real human connection - seize it
The new Happening Again just dropped into inboxes. It's the last one of the year, and I'll be back in January. Despite not being a festive issue, I seem to bring up Christmas a lot. Thanks to everyone who continues to read and subscribe. It means a lot, especially at the moment.
Happening Again #51
It comes around quicker every year
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The new Happening Again just dropped into inboxes. It's the last one of the year, and I'll be back in January. Despite not being a festive issue, I seem to bring up Christmas a lot. Thanks to everyone who continues to read and subscribe. It means a lot, especially at the moment.
Absolutely full to the brim, this issue. Stuffed with the best of DIY knob-twiddling. And now Neil goes and hibernates...
Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 92, our review of the year special, is out now! Last issue of 2025!
moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-92-1...
moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-92-1...
Issue 92 / 12 December 2025
The essential DIY electronic music weekly: Your totally bumper Xmas issue featuring Album Of The Year, Track Of The Year and Compilation Of The Year rundowns...
moonbuilding.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Absolutely full to the brim, this issue. Stuffed with the best of DIY knob-twiddling. And now Neil goes and hibernates...
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Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 92, our review of the year special, is out now! Last issue of 2025!
moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-92-1...
moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-92-1...
Issue 92 / 12 December 2025
The essential DIY electronic music weekly: Your totally bumper Xmas issue featuring Album Of The Year, Track Of The Year and Compilation Of The Year rundowns...
moonbuilding.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 92, our review of the year special, is out now! Last issue of 2025!
moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-92-1...
moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-92-1...
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I remember doing the deal for Epic Mickey, and Bob Iger shooting laser beams out his eyes at me in the Disney dining room. “Don’t let this video game fuck up Mickey.”
Oh well. That’s over.
Oh well. That’s over.
BREAKING: Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI, and will allow its iconic characters to be on the company's Sora AI video generator.
December 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I remember doing the deal for Epic Mickey, and Bob Iger shooting laser beams out his eyes at me in the Disney dining room. “Don’t let this video game fuck up Mickey.”
Oh well. That’s over.
Oh well. That’s over.
Not everything needs a wrap up/year in review. Not every company needs to do the exact same thing as every other company.
December 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Not everything needs a wrap up/year in review. Not every company needs to do the exact same thing as every other company.
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Again, apologizing to all videogame environment artists who knocked up satirical posters for their games, I should not have rolled my eyes, yes, even you Cyberpunk billboard team, I am sorry
jesus christ
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Again, apologizing to all videogame environment artists who knocked up satirical posters for their games, I should not have rolled my eyes, yes, even you Cyberpunk billboard team, I am sorry
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
Appear to have gone into Christmas mode early where my brain and body doesn't seem to care about the amount of chocolate I'm eating, as though in December it doesn't really count.
December 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Appear to have gone into Christmas mode early where my brain and body doesn't seem to care about the amount of chocolate I'm eating, as though in December it doesn't really count.
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ICYMI: The 50th (!) Happening Again went out last week. Featuring musical delights such as @loulayorke.bsky.social, @dylanhenner.bsky.social, and the new one from Oneohtrix.
Happening Again #50
The big half-century
happeningagain.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
ICYMI: The 50th (!) Happening Again went out last week. Featuring musical delights such as @loulayorke.bsky.social, @dylanhenner.bsky.social, and the new one from Oneohtrix.
One of the more trivial but worst things about modern television is the algorithm's obsessive need to spoil important plot points for metrics. Just had what I presume is an important Pluribus scene spoiled by the official Apple account, and it happened with Stranger Things earlier in the week too.
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
One of the more trivial but worst things about modern television is the algorithm's obsessive need to spoil important plot points for metrics. Just had what I presume is an important Pluribus scene spoiled by the official Apple account, and it happened with Stranger Things earlier in the week too.
ICYMI: The 50th (!) Happening Again went out last week. Featuring musical delights such as @loulayorke.bsky.social, @dylanhenner.bsky.social, and the new one from Oneohtrix.
Happening Again #50
The big half-century
happeningagain.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
ICYMI: The 50th (!) Happening Again went out last week. Featuring musical delights such as @loulayorke.bsky.social, @dylanhenner.bsky.social, and the new one from Oneohtrix.
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two tech men having an incredibly annoying meeting next to me in the café and one of them just said "the thing I love about SEO is.....the culture", gobsmacking, beautiful piece of dialogue, would have struggled with it in a sitcom yet he just said it, in real life
December 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
two tech men having an incredibly annoying meeting next to me in the café and one of them just said "the thing I love about SEO is.....the culture", gobsmacking, beautiful piece of dialogue, would have struggled with it in a sitcom yet he just said it, in real life
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
The new Happening Again has landed in inboxes, and is available to read now.
Happening Again #50
The big half-century
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The new Happening Again has landed in inboxes, and is available to read now.
