Seán MacGabhann
@seanmacgabhann.bsky.social
Immigrant. And proud of it
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Personal view alert:
It would our politics good if more politicians - whatever their allegiance - posted to social media more in this way. Stick the soundbites to one side and demonstrate the intent and the rationale.
You might still disagree with it, but it's a better start for a debate.
It would our politics good if more politicians - whatever their allegiance - posted to social media more in this way. Stick the soundbites to one side and demonstrate the intent and the rationale.
You might still disagree with it, but it's a better start for a debate.
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
November 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Personal view alert:
It would our politics good if more politicians - whatever their allegiance - posted to social media more in this way. Stick the soundbites to one side and demonstrate the intent and the rationale.
You might still disagree with it, but it's a better start for a debate.
It would our politics good if more politicians - whatever their allegiance - posted to social media more in this way. Stick the soundbites to one side and demonstrate the intent and the rationale.
You might still disagree with it, but it's a better start for a debate.
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Dubbing with genAI: ‘It's not saving time, it's not saving money, and it could hurt our brand if it damages the quality too much.’
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Dubbing with genAI: ‘It's not saving time, it's not saving money, and it could hurt our brand if it damages the quality too much.’
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Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
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It grinds my gears a bit that as someone who's always been very left wing and who disliked Corbyn from the get-go, for reasons that were wholly accurate and obvious and not "centrist smears", to see everyone *now* decide it's fine to give him a deserved kicking.
November 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It grinds my gears a bit that as someone who's always been very left wing and who disliked Corbyn from the get-go, for reasons that were wholly accurate and obvious and not "centrist smears", to see everyone *now* decide it's fine to give him a deserved kicking.
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This is an excellent, level-headed, informative piece. I'd kill for a government which could discuss the issue with the same sense of objectivity and calm.
Here's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Net migration is plummeting. Why can’t Labour say so? | Heather Stewart
An honest debate is needed on this polarising topic as sectors such as social care struggle with recruitment
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is an excellent, level-headed, informative piece. I'd kill for a government which could discuss the issue with the same sense of objectivity and calm.
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Just left the house and jumped on a bus. Angry blokes with access to a cherry picker have been busy again overnight. Barely a lamppost in Braintree without a flag attached, successfully communicating the message “you live near some racists”, which of course I knew already
November 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Just left the house and jumped on a bus. Angry blokes with access to a cherry picker have been busy again overnight. Barely a lamppost in Braintree without a flag attached, successfully communicating the message “you live near some racists”, which of course I knew already
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Glorious, cathartic, taking no shit at all, Stewart Lee.
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Glorious, cathartic, taking no shit at all, Stewart Lee.
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Correct opinion
Plus if you take Dan hodges, he is using it as another proxy to get Starmer out. Something he has been at since curry gate
Plus if you take Dan hodges, he is using it as another proxy to get Starmer out. Something he has been at since curry gate
What this Reeves lying nonsense very obviously boils down to is immense disappointment on the right that the budget did not tank the markets. They wanted a Truss moment causing huge problems for millions of people but didn’t get one. They are patriots, apparently.
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Correct opinion
Plus if you take Dan hodges, he is using it as another proxy to get Starmer out. Something he has been at since curry gate
Plus if you take Dan hodges, he is using it as another proxy to get Starmer out. Something he has been at since curry gate
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"Use ChatGPT as a source" and "AI isn't perfect so just double check it" are two mutually exclusive statements that exist in this person's head without conflict only because there are no other thoughts in there, giving these two plenty of space
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
"Use ChatGPT as a source" and "AI isn't perfect so just double check it" are two mutually exclusive statements that exist in this person's head without conflict only because there are no other thoughts in there, giving these two plenty of space
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Yes, I know I shouldn’t use Chat GPT as a supposedly convenient alternative to a search engine, but just a reminder (not least to myself) in three screengrabs that it’s total dogshit
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Yes, I know I shouldn’t use Chat GPT as a supposedly convenient alternative to a search engine, but just a reminder (not least to myself) in three screengrabs that it’s total dogshit
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Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
July 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
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The subcategorization/tropefication of popular fiction has been very bad in general, both for authors and readers.
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 6:52 PM
The subcategorization/tropefication of popular fiction has been very bad in general, both for authors and readers.
Sometimes I will see it said that a movie or a video game is so beautiful you could take any frame and hang it as art
By the same token, this week’s post from Chris could be said to have every sentence so perfect it could be a headline
To take but one example about the Johnson govt and Covid
By the same token, this week’s post from Chris could be said to have every sentence so perfect it could be a headline
To take but one example about the Johnson govt and Covid
November 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Sometimes I will see it said that a movie or a video game is so beautiful you could take any frame and hang it as art
By the same token, this week’s post from Chris could be said to have every sentence so perfect it could be a headline
To take but one example about the Johnson govt and Covid
By the same token, this week’s post from Chris could be said to have every sentence so perfect it could be a headline
To take but one example about the Johnson govt and Covid
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It turns out that when you start attacking Reform, instead of just briefing a few hacks that you are going to and then doing no follow up, it has an effect. Imagine that.
New Survation poll. Have Reform peaked?
RFM: 29% (-5)
LAB: 22% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
LDM: 12% (+1)
GRN: 11% (+3)
RFM: 29% (-5)
LAB: 22% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
LDM: 12% (+1)
GRN: 11% (+3)
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It turns out that when you start attacking Reform, instead of just briefing a few hacks that you are going to and then doing no follow up, it has an effect. Imagine that.
This refers to the “Ireland is full!” Gobshites and is bang on
Always makes me laugh, given the population is still over a million less than it would have been in the 1840's
November 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This refers to the “Ireland is full!” Gobshites and is bang on
Well. When the telegraph suggests “nobody wants to talk about it” it rather overlooks the millions of us saying exactly this and definitely overlooks the names the likes of the telegraph have called us
The tide is turning. Even the Telegraph is now admitting the damage the Brexit deal has done to the economy.
November 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Well. When the telegraph suggests “nobody wants to talk about it” it rather overlooks the millions of us saying exactly this and definitely overlooks the names the likes of the telegraph have called us
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A Your Party insider tells PolHome: "The entire thing makes an excellent case for left Labourism and highlights the positive side of the constraints imposed by a) the whip, b) the ability to face outwards always, rather than fight to the death with your ostensible comrades."
Chaos has engulfed the first 24 hours of the inaugural 'Your Party' conference in Liverpool, with Zarah Sultana boycotting the first day of the event, Jeremy Corbyn facing "witch-hunt" allegations, and an entryism row
@siennarodgers.bsky.social & @tomscotson.bsky.social report from Merseyside
@siennarodgers.bsky.social & @tomscotson.bsky.social report from Merseyside
“End The Witch-hunt”: The First 24 Hours At The Chaotic ‘Your Party’ Conference
Chaos has engulfed the first 24 hours of the inaugural conference of ‘Your Party’, the new political party being founded by Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Su...
www.politicshome.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A Your Party insider tells PolHome: "The entire thing makes an excellent case for left Labourism and highlights the positive side of the constraints imposed by a) the whip, b) the ability to face outwards always, rather than fight to the death with your ostensible comrades."
“You couldn’t watch that movie with headphones, no?”
November 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“You couldn’t watch that movie with headphones, no?”
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Donald Trump is a disgusting buffoon without a single redeeming quality.
November 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Donald Trump is a disgusting buffoon without a single redeeming quality.
Every single person who insists the value of their property has to increase (“it’s my pension!”, “I invested in that!”) is the direct enemy of every voter/govt/plan to make housing affordable for most people
It’s that straightforward
Especially if they insists on profit but not fair taxation
It’s that straightforward
Especially if they insists on profit but not fair taxation
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Every single person who insists the value of their property has to increase (“it’s my pension!”, “I invested in that!”) is the direct enemy of every voter/govt/plan to make housing affordable for most people
It’s that straightforward
Especially if they insists on profit but not fair taxation
It’s that straightforward
Especially if they insists on profit but not fair taxation
Am begging countries to ban over 50s from social media and not teenagers
Australia is about to ban teens from social media — or so it thinks
www.thetimes.com/article/df96...
Australia is about to ban teens from social media — or so it thinks
www.thetimes.com/article/df96...
Australia is about to ban teens from social media — or so it thinks
Under-16s will lose access to apps like TikTok on December 10, but they’re already finding ways around it and some are even going to court
www.thetimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Am begging countries to ban over 50s from social media and not teenagers
Australia is about to ban teens from social media — or so it thinks
www.thetimes.com/article/df96...
Australia is about to ban teens from social media — or so it thinks
www.thetimes.com/article/df96...
Somebody needs to forcibly drag Labour off of X
They are losing their minds and believing every Musk/rightwing push
Or at least believing the voters are
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
They are losing their minds and believing every Musk/rightwing push
Or at least believing the voters are
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
How Motability cuts went from a rightwing online campaign to Rachel Reeves’s budget
Car lease scheme for people with mobility problems portrayed as ‘free’ but is funded by benefits and their own contributions
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Somebody needs to forcibly drag Labour off of X
They are losing their minds and believing every Musk/rightwing push
Or at least believing the voters are
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
They are losing their minds and believing every Musk/rightwing push
Or at least believing the voters are
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
Sounds like a pathway to oblivion and never seeing friends again to me - and I don’t see that as necessarily bad
A rare gaming recommendation from me, but picked up a demo of Beyond Words on steam which is Balatro for Scrabble players. If you like Balatro and any kind of word game you will love it.
November 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Sounds like a pathway to oblivion and never seeing friends again to me - and I don’t see that as necessarily bad
And the Times would never ever endorse anything ignoring reality. Not if it affected the security and finances of the nation
(Checks notes. Ah)
Zack Polanski’s Greens are surging by ignoring reality
www.thetimes.com/article/80e9...
(Checks notes. Ah)
Zack Polanski’s Greens are surging by ignoring reality
www.thetimes.com/article/80e9...
Zack Polanski’s Greens are surging by ignoring reality
The self-described ‘eco-populist’ is wooing the disaffected with his genial media persona but his policies are based on a fiction
www.thetimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
And the Times would never ever endorse anything ignoring reality. Not if it affected the security and finances of the nation
(Checks notes. Ah)
Zack Polanski’s Greens are surging by ignoring reality
www.thetimes.com/article/80e9...
(Checks notes. Ah)
Zack Polanski’s Greens are surging by ignoring reality
www.thetimes.com/article/80e9...