Mon Mothman
@gswilkinson.bsky.social
CG Wizard/Bard. Forever writing a novel.
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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Larger celebs were all about body positivity until Ozempic came along.
December 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Larger celebs were all about body positivity until Ozempic came along.
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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"..the Lord said I was hungry and you told me I could make a meal for 30p, I was a stranger and you said 'fuck off back where you came from', I was sick and you said we should replace the NHS with private health insurance..."
December 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"..the Lord said I was hungry and you told me I could make a meal for 30p, I was a stranger and you said 'fuck off back where you came from', I was sick and you said we should replace the NHS with private health insurance..."
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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I sometimes wonder if I'm just an auld fella shaking my fist at clouds when I back off from modern tech, but the truth is, most big tech products are no longer built to be useful, they're built to rinse you for a minimum standard service. And even children can see this.
Why are kids getting into comics and is their timing spot on?
Why are kids getting into comics and is their timing spot on?
What is driving a surge in enthusiasm for comics among children and how may it benefit their future?
www.bbc.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I sometimes wonder if I'm just an auld fella shaking my fist at clouds when I back off from modern tech, but the truth is, most big tech products are no longer built to be useful, they're built to rinse you for a minimum standard service. And even children can see this.
Oh this looks like an hilarious spoof of a very bad movie idea, very badly executed... unfortunately it's real. Still I loved the bit in the novel were a pig drives a sports car into a pool, glad they kept that in www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wL...
Animal Farm | Official Trailer | In Theaters May 1 | Angel
YouTube video by Angel
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Oh this looks like an hilarious spoof of a very bad movie idea, very badly executed... unfortunately it's real. Still I loved the bit in the novel were a pig drives a sports car into a pool, glad they kept that in www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wL...
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🧵 It's almost a joke. Entshittification by
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
- I order the book, but it doesn't ship for weeks, despite being 'In Stock'. The expected delivery date is changed to May 26, even though the book is still allegedly 'In Stock'.
- It suddenly arrives. The postman doesn't...
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
- I order the book, but it doesn't ship for weeks, despite being 'In Stock'. The expected delivery date is changed to May 26, even though the book is still allegedly 'In Stock'.
- It suddenly arrives. The postman doesn't...
December 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🧵 It's almost a joke. Entshittification by
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
- I order the book, but it doesn't ship for weeks, despite being 'In Stock'. The expected delivery date is changed to May 26, even though the book is still allegedly 'In Stock'.
- It suddenly arrives. The postman doesn't...
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
- I order the book, but it doesn't ship for weeks, despite being 'In Stock'. The expected delivery date is changed to May 26, even though the book is still allegedly 'In Stock'.
- It suddenly arrives. The postman doesn't...
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There's not a lot about Arthur Conan Doyle to respect, but I do have to give him props for refusing ever to elaborate on the Giant Rat of Sumatra. He may not have been able to keep Sherlock Holmes dead, but he said the world was not ready for the story of that case, and he kept his word.
December 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
There's not a lot about Arthur Conan Doyle to respect, but I do have to give him props for refusing ever to elaborate on the Giant Rat of Sumatra. He may not have been able to keep Sherlock Holmes dead, but he said the world was not ready for the story of that case, and he kept his word.
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MUPPET WICKER MAN (Brian Henson, 1993)
Police Sergeant Kermie travels to the isolated town of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. He finds the locals to be a surly and suspicious lot, rustic practitioners of crude bawdiness and Celtic neo-paganism. Starring Vincent Price as Lord Summerisle.
Police Sergeant Kermie travels to the isolated town of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. He finds the locals to be a surly and suspicious lot, rustic practitioners of crude bawdiness and Celtic neo-paganism. Starring Vincent Price as Lord Summerisle.
March 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
MUPPET WICKER MAN (Brian Henson, 1993)
Police Sergeant Kermie travels to the isolated town of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. He finds the locals to be a surly and suspicious lot, rustic practitioners of crude bawdiness and Celtic neo-paganism. Starring Vincent Price as Lord Summerisle.
Police Sergeant Kermie travels to the isolated town of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. He finds the locals to be a surly and suspicious lot, rustic practitioners of crude bawdiness and Celtic neo-paganism. Starring Vincent Price as Lord Summerisle.
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What's funny is that Tarantino and Coogler both made "criminal brothers go to a place and then halfway through FUCK!! there are vampires!"
While they both told a similar story, we have to admit that they're actually both based on Hitchock's Psycho
While they both told a similar story, we have to admit that they're actually both based on Hitchock's Psycho
December 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
What's funny is that Tarantino and Coogler both made "criminal brothers go to a place and then halfway through FUCK!! there are vampires!"
While they both told a similar story, we have to admit that they're actually both based on Hitchock's Psycho
While they both told a similar story, we have to admit that they're actually both based on Hitchock's Psycho
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
Found out a distant-ish relative has taken an od (and is now in hospital with a knackered liver). Don't really know them that well but it's still a bit of a shock. If it gets that bad just talk to someone folks.
December 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Found out a distant-ish relative has taken an od (and is now in hospital with a knackered liver). Don't really know them that well but it's still a bit of a shock. If it gets that bad just talk to someone folks.
Found out a distant-ish relative has taken an od (and is now in hospital with a knackered liver). Don't really know them that well but it's still a bit of a shock. If it gets that bad just talk to someone folks.
December 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Found out a distant-ish relative has taken an od (and is now in hospital with a knackered liver). Don't really know them that well but it's still a bit of a shock. If it gets that bad just talk to someone folks.
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
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if you give a mouse a cookie
December 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
if you give a mouse a cookie
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also always deeply funny that every sci-fi video game from 1999-2014 was trying to be Aliens, and copied everything except the...working class woman protagonist
Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
also always deeply funny that every sci-fi video game from 1999-2014 was trying to be Aliens, and copied everything except the...working class woman protagonist
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there’s almost no genre of thread I love more than “I am reading Dracula for the first time and I did not expect any of what is happening here”
25% into the book and FINALLY we have a bat
December 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
there’s almost no genre of thread I love more than “I am reading Dracula for the first time and I did not expect any of what is happening here”
Apparently the 'Aardman using AI' thing is using it for tweening claymation, ie filling the incremental shots between each pose, which animators have been using computers for with 2 and 3d animation for years, not generative AI.
December 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Apparently the 'Aardman using AI' thing is using it for tweening claymation, ie filling the incremental shots between each pose, which animators have been using computers for with 2 and 3d animation for years, not generative AI.
Rapidly approaching the 'sod it, it's nearly Christmas' threshold
December 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Rapidly approaching the 'sod it, it's nearly Christmas' threshold
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If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.
Kylie should have put 'Amazon Music Original' in the lyrics
December 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Kylie should have put 'Amazon Music Original' in the lyrics
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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
The War Between The Land And The Sea is far too long a title so I now call it Twatblats (it's absolutely awful by the way, RTD at his finest)
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The War Between The Land And The Sea is far too long a title so I now call it Twatblats (it's absolutely awful by the way, RTD at his finest)