Miles Reid-Lobatto
@milesreidlobatto.bsky.social
Formally @manmiles on Twitter. British Writer, Comedian and Former Barista living in Wisconsin. Cohost of the ‘Casual Trek’ podcast.
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• “I didn’t watch it, but TikTok told me it’s problematic.”
• “I didn’t read it, but here’s my take based on screenshots.”
• “I didn’t follow the narrative, but I saw a gifset and that’s enough.”
• “I don’t understand the plot, therefore the writing is bad.”
• “I didn’t read it, but here’s my take based on screenshots.”
• “I didn’t follow the narrative, but I saw a gifset and that’s enough.”
• “I don’t understand the plot, therefore the writing is bad.”
November 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
• “I didn’t watch it, but TikTok told me it’s problematic.”
• “I didn’t read it, but here’s my take based on screenshots.”
• “I didn’t follow the narrative, but I saw a gifset and that’s enough.”
• “I don’t understand the plot, therefore the writing is bad.”
• “I didn’t read it, but here’s my take based on screenshots.”
• “I didn’t follow the narrative, but I saw a gifset and that’s enough.”
• “I don’t understand the plot, therefore the writing is bad.”
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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
@profanity.accountant Well, let’s bloody see.
November 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
@profanity.accountant Well, let’s bloody see.
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Patton Oswalt had either a thread or essay touching on this? About how when we used to have to find new/interesting stuff we valued it a bit more because we had to work for it and we got the excitement of discovery and that also made us find and bond with “our people” as they’d had to do the same.
November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Patton Oswalt had either a thread or essay touching on this? About how when we used to have to find new/interesting stuff we valued it a bit more because we had to work for it and we got the excitement of discovery and that also made us find and bond with “our people” as they’d had to do the same.
Probably work only three days a week so I could use those two extra days to write and work about the apartment. Maybe try and volunteer a little bit.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
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November 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Probably work only three days a week so I could use those two extra days to write and work about the apartment. Maybe try and volunteer a little bit.
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love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”
We got the confirmation on her operation for this Monday. If you can help us make sure her recovery process doesn’t have to involve us worrying about bills, please help any way you can!
Five years after her initial breast cancer diagnosis, my wife finally has her reconstruction surgery, but we’re looking for help in covering the wages in the month she’ll need away from work so we can focus on her recovery first and foremost. Anything helps!
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November 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
We got the confirmation on her operation for this Monday. If you can help us make sure her recovery process doesn’t have to involve us worrying about bills, please help any way you can!
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100% I would become a patron of the arts.
November 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
100% I would become a patron of the arts.
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Honestly "Don't Engage, Just Block" has transformed my social media experience so profoundly that it's hard for me to describe. It's just so much better to be online now.
i also liked the fact that most of us who had come from the other site had the mentality of not giving "bad actors" the benefit of the doubt on here , and told all to block, not mute, an move on
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Honestly "Don't Engage, Just Block" has transformed my social media experience so profoundly that it's hard for me to describe. It's just so much better to be online now.
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Not related to anything but I sometimes think abt how one of the stated reasons why Kaizoku subs left nakama as this untranslatable word with no appropriate English equivalent was because "comrade" sounded Too Communist
Fan Subs that Fan Stuck: How Anime Fans Embraced Fansub Terminology: Red Bard examines how Western anime fandom's historical embrace of fansubs led to a unique community jargon, powered heavily by terms discovered in those same fansubs.
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#anime #manga #history
Fan Subs that Fan Stuck: How Anime Fans Embraced Fansub Terminology
A huge thanks to our Negikitsu for requesting this article! We can't do it without you. All fansub images are used as demonstrative aids; Anime Herald
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November 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Not related to anything but I sometimes think abt how one of the stated reasons why Kaizoku subs left nakama as this untranslatable word with no appropriate English equivalent was because "comrade" sounded Too Communist
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Princess Lana | Captain N: The Game Master
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Princess Lana | Captain N: The Game Master
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live Jet Jaguar reaction
November 8, 2024 at 3:17 PM
live Jet Jaguar reaction
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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are coming to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Not only will I be fine, I will be wrapped in love and I will be wiser.
Not only will I be fine, I will be wrapped in love and I will be wiser.
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are coming to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Not only will I be fine, I will be wrapped in love and I will be wiser.
Not only will I be fine, I will be wrapped in love and I will be wiser.
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2. It's rare for any creative, including writers, to be able to live solely off their creative income. Moreover, there is no correlation between the creative value of art and the income status of its creator. It's okay to have another gig to eat and pay bills and survive our capitalist hellscape.
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
2. It's rare for any creative, including writers, to be able to live solely off their creative income. Moreover, there is no correlation between the creative value of art and the income status of its creator. It's okay to have another gig to eat and pay bills and survive our capitalist hellscape.
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1. I see elsewhere on Bluesky that the discourse has turned toward telling writers not to be ashamed to admit they have day jobs or other sources of income (or spousal/family financial support), and you know what, that's 100% correct. Day jobs and support from loved ones are great if you have them!
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
1. I see elsewhere on Bluesky that the discourse has turned toward telling writers not to be ashamed to admit they have day jobs or other sources of income (or spousal/family financial support), and you know what, that's 100% correct. Day jobs and support from loved ones are great if you have them!
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Great to contribute a commentary to this extraordinary @severinfilms.bsky.social release of Robert Fuest‘s THE FINAL PROGRAMME (1973). Although Britain was crucial to the new wave SF movement in the late 1960s/early 1970s very few of these texts made it to the screen. This was one of the exceptions
***SEVERIN BLACK FRIDAY 2025 TITLE REVEAL #8***
THE FINAL PROGRAMME
THE WORLDWIDE UHD PREMIERE
TWO DISC COLLECTION
WITH 6+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDING THE FIRST-EVER HOME VIDEO PARTICIPATION OF MICHAEL MOORCOCK
THE FINAL PROGRAMME
THE WORLDWIDE UHD PREMIERE
TWO DISC COLLECTION
WITH 6+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDING THE FIRST-EVER HOME VIDEO PARTICIPATION OF MICHAEL MOORCOCK
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Great to contribute a commentary to this extraordinary @severinfilms.bsky.social release of Robert Fuest‘s THE FINAL PROGRAMME (1973). Although Britain was crucial to the new wave SF movement in the late 1960s/early 1970s very few of these texts made it to the screen. This was one of the exceptions
Managed to actually write for the first time since early October.
I’ll take it.
I’ll take it.
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Managed to actually write for the first time since early October.
I’ll take it.
I’ll take it.
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What creates the seeming need for a "long and immersive" novel is capitalism. Esp in genre fiction, that expectation for a massive novel is tied to a) the availability of paper in the 1970s b) the amount of money publishers had to pay writers & c) a sense that "more is more." All of this is flawed.
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
What creates the seeming need for a "long and immersive" novel is capitalism. Esp in genre fiction, that expectation for a massive novel is tied to a) the availability of paper in the 1970s b) the amount of money publishers had to pay writers & c) a sense that "more is more." All of this is flawed.
Please help however you can, if you can. #aid
Five years after her initial breast cancer diagnosis, my wife finally has her reconstruction surgery, but we’re looking for help in covering the wages in the month she’ll need away from work so we can focus on her recovery first and foremost. Anything helps!
www.gofundme.com/f/support-re...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-re...
Donate to Support Reanna's Breast Reconstruction Recovery, organized by Reanna Reid-Lobatto
Five years after being diagnosed and treated for breast cancer, Re… Reanna Reid-Lobatto needs your support for Support Reanna's Breast Reconstruction Recovery
www.gofundme.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Please help however you can, if you can. #aid
Today’s ’What effed up film will Miles watch while his wife’s at work?’
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Today’s ’What effed up film will Miles watch while his wife’s at work?’
No tears please, Charlie Brown. It’s a waste of good suffering.
charlie brown is sitting on a chair with a sad face on his face .
ALT: charlie brown is sitting on a chair with a sad face on his face .
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November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
No tears please, Charlie Brown. It’s a waste of good suffering.
Stop trying to make fetch happen, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Stop trying to make fetch happen, Charlie Brown.