Steve B
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Extraordinary fact-checking disclaimer in this sponsored Youtube advert. Presumably it's a legal requirement to add it? Hilarious. It's most of the ad.
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Extraordinary fact-checking disclaimer in this sponsored Youtube advert. Presumably it's a legal requirement to add it? Hilarious. It's most of the ad.
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Check out the new Living Heritage website created by the UK government. Part of finally signing up to the UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage. They want public engagement. What would you submit?
livingheritage.unesco.org.uk
livingheritage.unesco.org.uk
Welcome | Inventories of Living Heritage in the UK
Help build the Inventories of Living Heritage in the UK. From pantomime to dry-stone walling – share your community's traditions and social practices. Start your submission today.
livingheritage.unesco.org.uk
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Check out the new Living Heritage website created by the UK government. Part of finally signing up to the UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage. They want public engagement. What would you submit?
livingheritage.unesco.org.uk
livingheritage.unesco.org.uk
What's that, a Brass Against cover of Glory Box? I've never clicked a link so fast.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2nA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2nA...
Brass Against - Glory Box (Portishead Cover) [Official Video]
YouTube video by BrassAgainstVEVO
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
What's that, a Brass Against cover of Glory Box? I've never clicked a link so fast.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2nA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2nA...
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Ireland calling the UK out for being stupid enough to fall for this 'gender critical' bollocks.
December 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Ireland calling the UK out for being stupid enough to fall for this 'gender critical' bollocks.
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Reconstruction 2 is going to require a level of seizing assets that I am very comfortable with but you may still need to work through
New: “Eric Trump Has Gotten 10 Times Richer Since Dad’s Election”
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
Here’s How Much Eric Trump Is Worth
Crypto took the real estate heir’s fortune and supersized it, briefly making the president’s second-oldest son a billionaire in early September.
www.forbes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Reconstruction 2 is going to require a level of seizing assets that I am very comfortable with but you may still need to work through
IQ tests are absolute bunk. Many types were designed to be as racist as possible and the rest are "flawed" at best. I do incredibly well on IQ tests, but they're just bunk.
Also, IQ is absolutely NOT "50% genetic" and this advert is creepy eugenics. Sheesh the internet is evil today.
Also, IQ is absolutely NOT "50% genetic" and this advert is creepy eugenics. Sheesh the internet is evil today.
I saw this ad on the train and I’m curious how yall feel about it… I’m very much in the center, but slightly more towards than against…
December 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
IQ tests are absolute bunk. Many types were designed to be as racist as possible and the rest are "flawed" at best. I do incredibly well on IQ tests, but they're just bunk.
Also, IQ is absolutely NOT "50% genetic" and this advert is creepy eugenics. Sheesh the internet is evil today.
Also, IQ is absolutely NOT "50% genetic" and this advert is creepy eugenics. Sheesh the internet is evil today.
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
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For my Elvis book I met the Finnish academic who performed and recorded Elvis songs translated into both Latin and Sumerian.
"Of course, they did not have blue suede shoes in Sumeria," he told me, "so I had to translate the song as 'on my sandals of sky blue leather, please do not stand".
"Of course, they did not have blue suede shoes in Sumeria," he told me, "so I had to translate the song as 'on my sandals of sky blue leather, please do not stand".
Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language
Watch: TCD debuts world's first film in ancient Sumerian
Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language.
www.rte.ie
December 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
For my Elvis book I met the Finnish academic who performed and recorded Elvis songs translated into both Latin and Sumerian.
"Of course, they did not have blue suede shoes in Sumeria," he told me, "so I had to translate the song as 'on my sandals of sky blue leather, please do not stand".
"Of course, they did not have blue suede shoes in Sumeria," he told me, "so I had to translate the song as 'on my sandals of sky blue leather, please do not stand".
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It's entirely a self inflicted wound, people don't want to play AI generated video games or talk to AI customer service robots or use Microsoft Recall or use AI in Notepad etc etc.
It's really funny, and sad, seeing a bunch of shit execs hijack the creative process.
bsky.app/profile/domi...
It's really funny, and sad, seeing a bunch of shit execs hijack the creative process.
bsky.app/profile/domi...
The original Let It Die was famous for its absolutely amazing soundtrack. Akira Yamaoka went and got in touch with a HUNDRED of his favourite indie bands and commissioned each to do a track named 'let it die'. The result was borderline mystical.
They're AI-generating the music here.
Fuck that.
They're AI-generating the music here.
Fuck that.
The Let it Die sequel - Let it Die: Inferno - which is coming out next week (4th December), seems to have been built using a considerable amount of generative AI. https://bit.ly/4ol7lIA
December 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It's entirely a self inflicted wound, people don't want to play AI generated video games or talk to AI customer service robots or use Microsoft Recall or use AI in Notepad etc etc.
It's really funny, and sad, seeing a bunch of shit execs hijack the creative process.
bsky.app/profile/domi...
It's really funny, and sad, seeing a bunch of shit execs hijack the creative process.
bsky.app/profile/domi...
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how someone has managed to commit war crimes when there is not a war is not a question I expected to answer about actual topical events
December 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
how someone has managed to commit war crimes when there is not a war is not a question I expected to answer about actual topical events
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Migration reductions are great because while they don't solve any actual problems they also don't solve any political problems.
“Put bluntly, net migration fell because 400,000 fewer foreigners arrived, and 200,000 more foreigners left the UK. This is precisely what Reform, the Mail, and the new, nastier Tory Party have claimed – again and again – they wanted to happen. And now that it has, they have ignored it entirely.”
The crazy right will never be satisfied about migration
Keir Starmer slashed net migration as the Mail and Farage demanded - and still got hammered for it
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Migration reductions are great because while they don't solve any actual problems they also don't solve any political problems.
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"I'm being paid the same now, when I make 500 shirts a day, as I did when I made 50 shirts a day. Where the fuck is the money going?"
The popular idea of luddites is entirely due to generations of capitalists trying their damnedest to obscure what is a very simple issue.
The popular idea of luddites is entirely due to generations of capitalists trying their damnedest to obscure what is a very simple issue.
December 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"I'm being paid the same now, when I make 500 shirts a day, as I did when I made 50 shirts a day. Where the fuck is the money going?"
The popular idea of luddites is entirely due to generations of capitalists trying their damnedest to obscure what is a very simple issue.
The popular idea of luddites is entirely due to generations of capitalists trying their damnedest to obscure what is a very simple issue.
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Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
This just came up on the BBC Archive on FB! Hartbeat from 1987, which I almost certainly watched.
Tony Hart draws an awesome Stonehenge using pastels and marker pen in under 4 minutes.
Tony Hart draws an awesome Stonehenge using pastels and marker pen in under 4 minutes.
Tony Hart uses some nice pastels to draw Stonehenge. Even better than season 4 of The Wire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBOA...
1987: TONY HART creates a pastel STONEHENGE | Hartbeat | Children's Television | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This just came up on the BBC Archive on FB! Hartbeat from 1987, which I almost certainly watched.
Tony Hart draws an awesome Stonehenge using pastels and marker pen in under 4 minutes.
Tony Hart draws an awesome Stonehenge using pastels and marker pen in under 4 minutes.
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Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.
Spot Alan Moore in his 6th form Northampton Grammar School photo, taken two days before he was expelled
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.
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The combination of fascism covid more fascism genocide capitulation to fascism and the clear goal of AI tech bros to eradicate the workforce and make all jobs and future goals irrelevant as we all slide into poverty while eleven rich people become gods is really doing a number on us.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
December 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The combination of fascism covid more fascism genocide capitulation to fascism and the clear goal of AI tech bros to eradicate the workforce and make all jobs and future goals irrelevant as we all slide into poverty while eleven rich people become gods is really doing a number on us.
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At the end of this year I'll have been shooting storms and landscapes for ten years. Throughout December I'll be counting down my 100 favorite photos I've ever taken - supercell storms, lightning, aurora, solar eclipse, national parks, mountains, fall colors, wildlife, and more
#photography #art
#photography #art
December 1, 2025 at 4:29 AM
At the end of this year I'll have been shooting storms and landscapes for ten years. Throughout December I'll be counting down my 100 favorite photos I've ever taken - supercell storms, lightning, aurora, solar eclipse, national parks, mountains, fall colors, wildlife, and more
#photography #art
#photography #art
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A reminder that my Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar starts tomorrow.
🎄
Of course, it may bear a distinct resemblance to my advent last year (and the year before that, and the year before that …)
😊
Artist: PB Hickling
🎄
Of course, it may bear a distinct resemblance to my advent last year (and the year before that, and the year before that …)
😊
Artist: PB Hickling
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A reminder that my Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar starts tomorrow.
🎄
Of course, it may bear a distinct resemblance to my advent last year (and the year before that, and the year before that …)
😊
Artist: PB Hickling
🎄
Of course, it may bear a distinct resemblance to my advent last year (and the year before that, and the year before that …)
😊
Artist: PB Hickling
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Colleague, legend, and I dare to say friend, Joe Dever passed away 9 years ago today.
I'd like to repeat my favourite Joe story ever, which could well be my favourite anyone story ever.
I'd like to repeat my favourite Joe story ever, which could well be my favourite anyone story ever.
November 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Colleague, legend, and I dare to say friend, Joe Dever passed away 9 years ago today.
I'd like to repeat my favourite Joe story ever, which could well be my favourite anyone story ever.
I'd like to repeat my favourite Joe story ever, which could well be my favourite anyone story ever.
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The best description of the Telegraph you'll read this week.
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The best description of the Telegraph you'll read this week.
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my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
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The right is full of grown-ass adults who are afraid of vaccines, kid's books, and anyone Twitter or OAN tells them to fear, including the entirety of NYC, and NYC is full of people who cheerfully chase federal agents out of the state and then do stunts on Citibikes; you tell ME who's going to win.
The scene now at Lafayette and Howard, diagonal to the ICE garage which activists remain camped out in front of on both sides of the building.
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The right is full of grown-ass adults who are afraid of vaccines, kid's books, and anyone Twitter or OAN tells them to fear, including the entirety of NYC, and NYC is full of people who cheerfully chase federal agents out of the state and then do stunts on Citibikes; you tell ME who's going to win.
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It was Downey who coined the phrase in the LEVERAGE writers room “future episodes do not win out over present episodes”. Trust me, you’ll have more ideas. You’ll die full of them.
WRITING TIP, something simple but it catches many of us out: if you have a great/fun idea for your story, *use it now*.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It was Downey who coined the phrase in the LEVERAGE writers room “future episodes do not win out over present episodes”. Trust me, you’ll have more ideas. You’ll die full of them.
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This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever
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world's first direct quantum observation of a bench
A little girl peeks inside a tuba during the National Band Festival at Crystal Palace, London, 1923
November 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
world's first direct quantum observation of a bench