Carl Winberg
@carlwinberg.bsky.social
TV Editor/Engineer (ISE).
Ex BBC / Sony Pictures / Paramount
Law school drop-out.
Pints enthusiast in Dublin.
http://winberg.ie/
https://www.youtube.com/@UKTVCommercials
I have one of those bot things: @classicfilms.bsky.social
Ex BBC / Sony Pictures / Paramount
Law school drop-out.
Pints enthusiast in Dublin.
http://winberg.ie/
https://www.youtube.com/@UKTVCommercials
I have one of those bot things: @classicfilms.bsky.social
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Take me back to there being 5 channels.
“HBO Max Basic with Ads will be available to Sky customers with Sky Ultimate TV and Sky Q. A NOW Entertainment & HBO Max bundle will be available. Existing NOW Ent Members will be switched to the Ent & HBO Max Membership. Basic with Ads will also be integrated with NOW platform.”
February 9, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Take me back to there being 5 channels.
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Tough day on Facebook. I still don't know what you're supposed to post under a picture of a cousin's newborn baby, but I've learned that it isn't 'Yikes'.
February 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Tough day on Facebook. I still don't know what you're supposed to post under a picture of a cousin's newborn baby, but I've learned that it isn't 'Yikes'.
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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73 years ago:
Summer with Monika (SE)
Original title: Sommaren med Monika
One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.
1953-02-09
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/47735
Summer with Monika (SE)
Original title: Sommaren med Monika
One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.
1953-02-09
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/47735
February 9, 2026 at 11:15 AM
73 years ago:
Summer with Monika (SE)
Original title: Sommaren med Monika
One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.
1953-02-09
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/47735
Summer with Monika (SE)
Original title: Sommaren med Monika
One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.
1953-02-09
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/47735
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(Woody Allen eating a Da Bomb wing on Hot Ones)
WOODY: Boy, that's like dating your first Gentile girl, there's a real sting to it. Wowee, that's hotter than a New York cab in August. Havin' flop sweat like after the Curse of the Jade Scorpion premiere.
SEAN: Was it weird marrying your daughter?
WOODY: Boy, that's like dating your first Gentile girl, there's a real sting to it. Wowee, that's hotter than a New York cab in August. Havin' flop sweat like after the Curse of the Jade Scorpion premiere.
SEAN: Was it weird marrying your daughter?
February 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM
(Woody Allen eating a Da Bomb wing on Hot Ones)
WOODY: Boy, that's like dating your first Gentile girl, there's a real sting to it. Wowee, that's hotter than a New York cab in August. Havin' flop sweat like after the Curse of the Jade Scorpion premiere.
SEAN: Was it weird marrying your daughter?
WOODY: Boy, that's like dating your first Gentile girl, there's a real sting to it. Wowee, that's hotter than a New York cab in August. Havin' flop sweat like after the Curse of the Jade Scorpion premiere.
SEAN: Was it weird marrying your daughter?
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Our Scottish fairytale short film “Faithful” is streaming on the STV Player in the U.K.
I’d be very grateful if you all checked it out, it’s only 18 minutes long! And it’s got a cute dog in it 🐺
player.stv.tv/episode/4ptj...
I’d be very grateful if you all checked it out, it’s only 18 minutes long! And it’s got a cute dog in it 🐺
player.stv.tv/episode/4ptj...
February 8, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Our Scottish fairytale short film “Faithful” is streaming on the STV Player in the U.K.
I’d be very grateful if you all checked it out, it’s only 18 minutes long! And it’s got a cute dog in it 🐺
player.stv.tv/episode/4ptj...
I’d be very grateful if you all checked it out, it’s only 18 minutes long! And it’s got a cute dog in it 🐺
player.stv.tv/episode/4ptj...
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"I wouldn't buy green bananas if I were you" is going to live in my brain for years
February 8, 2026 at 4:25 PM
"I wouldn't buy green bananas if I were you" is going to live in my brain for years
A quiet American. Imagine.
68 years ago:
The Quiet American (US)
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her att...
1958-02-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/85514
The Quiet American (US)
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her att...
1958-02-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/85514
February 8, 2026 at 6:55 PM
A quiet American. Imagine.
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The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
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Well dayum
🔥 EVA VICTOR: “Fuck ICE. I hate ICE. ICE is evil, racist, and violent, and I don’t think it should exist… shut the fuck up, Ricky Gervais and Kevin O’Leary— I’m here for one night and I can say what i want.”
(From @variety.com )
(From @variety.com )
February 8, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Well dayum
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The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered
February 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered
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Schadenfreude aside, making an advisor resign because of a leader's decision is grubby leadership.
February 8, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Schadenfreude aside, making an advisor resign because of a leader's decision is grubby leadership.
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There are no good mental images here. Do not set forth upon that road.
February 7, 2026 at 11:58 PM
There are no good mental images here. Do not set forth upon that road.
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i’m not on nextdoor but my wife has shown me anxious posts of adults worrying about the “youths loitering at the end of the road”
at the end of the road there is: a playground
they’re complaining about kids going to a playground
at the end of the road there is: a playground
they’re complaining about kids going to a playground
Kids can't hang out in parks. They can't hang out at the mall. They don't have 3rd spaces because no one wants kids around and then we are surprised when they rely on SM for connection.
If you take that away, what do they have left?
If you take that away, what do they have left?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection
The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection
February 8, 2026 at 9:47 AM
i’m not on nextdoor but my wife has shown me anxious posts of adults worrying about the “youths loitering at the end of the road”
at the end of the road there is: a playground
they’re complaining about kids going to a playground
at the end of the road there is: a playground
they’re complaining about kids going to a playground
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COLUMBO: My wife, she loves your games. The sunken ghost ship level. It’s her favourite
MARIO: Thank-a you!
C: Just one more thing. Now you say your girlfriend, the Princess, was kidnapped by Bowser, your enemy. And yet you were go-karting with him this morning?
M: What’s-a your point, Detective?
MARIO: Thank-a you!
C: Just one more thing. Now you say your girlfriend, the Princess, was kidnapped by Bowser, your enemy. And yet you were go-karting with him this morning?
M: What’s-a your point, Detective?
February 7, 2026 at 8:10 PM
COLUMBO: My wife, she loves your games. The sunken ghost ship level. It’s her favourite
MARIO: Thank-a you!
C: Just one more thing. Now you say your girlfriend, the Princess, was kidnapped by Bowser, your enemy. And yet you were go-karting with him this morning?
M: What’s-a your point, Detective?
MARIO: Thank-a you!
C: Just one more thing. Now you say your girlfriend, the Princess, was kidnapped by Bowser, your enemy. And yet you were go-karting with him this morning?
M: What’s-a your point, Detective?
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I am impressed by Holly Cairns. I believe her and that’s rare enough for me to say about a politician.
"The act of being involved in politics at all, the act of casting a vote, is an act of hope."
Holly Cairns closing the National Conference this evening with a vision for a fair and equitable Ireland.
Holly Cairns closing the National Conference this evening with a vision for a fair and equitable Ireland.
February 7, 2026 at 9:30 PM
I am impressed by Holly Cairns. I believe her and that’s rare enough for me to say about a politician.
Well I think it all went wrong when we didn't arrest that guy who replied "You don't understand scale" to the tomato tweet.
February 7, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Well I think it all went wrong when we didn't arrest that guy who replied "You don't understand scale" to the tomato tweet.
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Life Hack: No one will notice your midlife crisis if you live in a continual state of crisis.
August 24, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Life Hack: No one will notice your midlife crisis if you live in a continual state of crisis.
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Her range is unstoppable
February 7, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Her range is unstoppable
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My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
February 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
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Do Winter Olympics competitors have to be human? Some country should send a flying squirrel to the ski jump. Tiny wee skis, helmet. That little bastard would never come down.
February 7, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Do Winter Olympics competitors have to be human? Some country should send a flying squirrel to the ski jump. Tiny wee skis, helmet. That little bastard would never come down.
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The right wing 10 year cultural delay phenomenon has them all using millennial therapyspeak right when the left has dropped all civility. Really funny times ahead
February 7, 2026 at 5:43 PM
The right wing 10 year cultural delay phenomenon has them all using millennial therapyspeak right when the left has dropped all civility. Really funny times ahead