Alan McWhan
@alanmcwhan.bsky.social
Blah blah Doctor Who blah blah Blakes 7 blah sci fi blah blah Horror Films blah blah a-ha blah Marillion blah music.
If you want to know how absolutely unfit for purpose AI is, and how dangerous this headlong dive into "Yay! Let's let AI do *everything*", is...
Just ask yourself how often YOU have to correct "autocorrect".
THAT technology is being put in charge of vital services.
For the love of *sanity*, stop.
Just ask yourself how often YOU have to correct "autocorrect".
THAT technology is being put in charge of vital services.
For the love of *sanity*, stop.
January 29, 2026 at 8:02 PM
If you want to know how absolutely unfit for purpose AI is, and how dangerous this headlong dive into "Yay! Let's let AI do *everything*", is...
Just ask yourself how often YOU have to correct "autocorrect".
THAT technology is being put in charge of vital services.
For the love of *sanity*, stop.
Just ask yourself how often YOU have to correct "autocorrect".
THAT technology is being put in charge of vital services.
For the love of *sanity*, stop.
I wasn't expecting this.
Something you can say during sex and at the Melania movie.
January 28, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I wasn't expecting this.
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More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...
January 26, 2026 at 1:12 PM
More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...
Another rat joins the stinking shits.
Former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform
Former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform
Former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform
www.independent.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Another rat joins the stinking shits.
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“The creatures outside looked from Reform to Tory, and from Tory to Reform, and from Reform to Tory again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
January 26, 2026 at 12:55 PM
“The creatures outside looked from Reform to Tory, and from Tory to Reform, and from Reform to Tory again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
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The script meeting.
January 25, 2026 at 8:29 AM
The script meeting.
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Farage has been touring Davos all week pledging to “fight the globalists” - all funded by a $10 billion trust run on behalf of an Iranian billionaire.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage’s trip to Davos hosted and paid for by family trust of billionaire
Trust says Reform UK leader was invited to WEF event by London-based venture capitalist as an honorary adviser
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Farage has been touring Davos all week pledging to “fight the globalists” - all funded by a $10 billion trust run on behalf of an Iranian billionaire.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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one of the best things ever
January 23, 2026 at 10:08 PM
one of the best things ever
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Yet another beauty from @RichardBowler1 for today's #FoxOfTheDay , top work Richard !
January 24, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Yet another beauty from @RichardBowler1 for today's #FoxOfTheDay , top work Richard !
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I've just sat down on an unexpected extra cushion, and announced that I'd encountered some extra "Bumfort". If *that* one's all over sofa adverts to the point of distraction in about a week's time, you'll know where it came from.
January 23, 2026 at 1:47 PM
I've just sat down on an unexpected extra cushion, and announced that I'd encountered some extra "Bumfort". If *that* one's all over sofa adverts to the point of distraction in about a week's time, you'll know where it came from.
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This sweet boy is 10 today and he has so much tolerance for my human shenanigans.
🎉 Happy birthday, B! 🎉
@dogs.bsky.social
🎉 Happy birthday, B! 🎉
@dogs.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 2:31 AM
This sweet boy is 10 today and he has so much tolerance for my human shenanigans.
🎉 Happy birthday, B! 🎉
@dogs.bsky.social
🎉 Happy birthday, B! 🎉
@dogs.bsky.social
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I love Blackadder II. It remains one of the BBC's best things ever. Watch in the first episode though... when Flashheart nuts Percy clean out of the doors at the wedding ceremony. The entire set looks like it's coming down...
Decent article about B7. It does resort to the tired trope of "wobbly sets" though. It's always sci-fi shows that get this treatment. No-one ever mentions Fawlty Towers, where the sets moved like the Tacoma Bridge.
How Blake's 7 was massively ahead of its time when it first aired – and why it fits perfectly in the modern TV landscape
Decades before TV embraced anti-heroes, moral grey areas and brutal endings, Blake’s 7 was already rewriting the rules.
www.radiotimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:38 PM
I love Blackadder II. It remains one of the BBC's best things ever. Watch in the first episode though... when Flashheart nuts Percy clean out of the doors at the wedding ceremony. The entire set looks like it's coming down...
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Decent article about B7. It does resort to the tired trope of "wobbly sets" though. It's always sci-fi shows that get this treatment. No-one ever mentions Fawlty Towers, where the sets moved like the Tacoma Bridge.
How Blake's 7 was massively ahead of its time when it first aired – and why it fits perfectly in the modern TV landscape
Decades before TV embraced anti-heroes, moral grey areas and brutal endings, Blake’s 7 was already rewriting the rules.
www.radiotimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Decent article about B7. It does resort to the tired trope of "wobbly sets" though. It's always sci-fi shows that get this treatment. No-one ever mentions Fawlty Towers, where the sets moved like the Tacoma Bridge.
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There are some events that pass into Glasgow folklore.
Back in 1989, the Toledo cinema genuinely did advertise the enticing triple-bill of 'Big', 'Frantic', 'Shag' - not something you usually get in Muirend!
Pic: Graeme Thomson
Back in 1989, the Toledo cinema genuinely did advertise the enticing triple-bill of 'Big', 'Frantic', 'Shag' - not something you usually get in Muirend!
Pic: Graeme Thomson
January 22, 2026 at 1:42 PM
There are some events that pass into Glasgow folklore.
Back in 1989, the Toledo cinema genuinely did advertise the enticing triple-bill of 'Big', 'Frantic', 'Shag' - not something you usually get in Muirend!
Pic: Graeme Thomson
Back in 1989, the Toledo cinema genuinely did advertise the enticing triple-bill of 'Big', 'Frantic', 'Shag' - not something you usually get in Muirend!
Pic: Graeme Thomson
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457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment.
This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.
This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 2:16 PM
457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment.
This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.
This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.
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If the UK media now do not apply equal harsh measures to Nigel Farage than they did to Angela Raynor, then they are complicit in
a) a Mysoginist narrative where men are forgiven and women 'should have known better' and
b) are actively saying they are okay with Farage in charge.
a) a Mysoginist narrative where men are forgiven and women 'should have known better' and
b) are actively saying they are okay with Farage in charge.
January 21, 2026 at 11:48 AM
If the UK media now do not apply equal harsh measures to Nigel Farage than they did to Angela Raynor, then they are complicit in
a) a Mysoginist narrative where men are forgiven and women 'should have known better' and
b) are actively saying they are okay with Farage in charge.
a) a Mysoginist narrative where men are forgiven and women 'should have known better' and
b) are actively saying they are okay with Farage in charge.
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Living in Rome itself under Caligula must have been fucking terrifying, but at least people living in the most distant provinces of the empire didn't get minute-by-minute updates on exactly how insane, unpredictable and evil he was being.
January 21, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Living in Rome itself under Caligula must have been fucking terrifying, but at least people living in the most distant provinces of the empire didn't get minute-by-minute updates on exactly how insane, unpredictable and evil he was being.
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Thank goodness I'm not Angela Raynor, otherwise the press would have hounded me out of office.
January 21, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Thank goodness I'm not Angela Raynor, otherwise the press would have hounded me out of office.
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This should be the end of Farage but the media will protect him.
January 21, 2026 at 5:30 PM
This should be the end of Farage but the media will protect him.
Pervert, eh?
YARTEK, LEADER OF THE ALIEN VOORD
January 21, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Pervert, eh?
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Good morning ! Thank you to @peterlewis55.bsky.social for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay
January 21, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Good morning ! Thank you to @peterlewis55.bsky.social for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay
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Possibly just me overthinking it, but is the fact the President of the United States is a deranged narcissistic lunatic a cause for concern?
January 19, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Possibly just me overthinking it, but is the fact the President of the United States is a deranged narcissistic lunatic a cause for concern?
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Not for the first time, it looks like Channel 4 just handed the keys to their socials to an evil genius:
January 19, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Not for the first time, it looks like Channel 4 just handed the keys to their socials to an evil genius:
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Good morning , thank you to Patrick Kielty ( @Paddy2808 ) for all three members of today's #FoxOfTheDay !
January 19, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Good morning , thank you to Patrick Kielty ( @Paddy2808 ) for all three members of today's #FoxOfTheDay !
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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...