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I've been leaning towards Tubi being the streaming service, and now I think it's official: they have Season 1 and Season 2 of one of the best science and technology comedy shows ever made… "Look Around You".
Thanks, Tubi. Thubi.
tubitv.com/series/30001...
Thanks, Tubi. Thubi.
tubitv.com/series/30001...
Look Around You
This unique combination of parody and homage to early 70s/80s British educational programs examines different scientific topics in each episode.
tubitv.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I've been leaning towards Tubi being the streaming service, and now I think it's official: they have Season 1 and Season 2 of one of the best science and technology comedy shows ever made… "Look Around You".
Thanks, Tubi. Thubi.
tubitv.com/series/30001...
Thanks, Tubi. Thubi.
tubitv.com/series/30001...
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There is a passage from The Ministry for the Future that keeps coming back to me, where Kim Stanley Robinson explains that there are only 500 or 1,000 powerful people in the whole world who are preventing us from properly fighting climate change or simply striving for a better world.
January 21, 2026 at 9:22 PM
There is a passage from The Ministry for the Future that keeps coming back to me, where Kim Stanley Robinson explains that there are only 500 or 1,000 powerful people in the whole world who are preventing us from properly fighting climate change or simply striving for a better world.
January 23, 2026 at 11:07 AM
If you see this, post your green.
January 23, 2026 at 10:12 AM
If you see this, post your green.
Also: don’t forget to make it endlessly, *insanely* memeworthy.
January 23, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Also: don’t forget to make it endlessly, *insanely* memeworthy.
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This is pretty awesome to see too.
Thanks to all the guardians of the memory of BBC TVC, and all who sensed I was in need of cheering up today. These have certainly been a very welcome shot in the arm. ☺️
Thanks to all the guardians of the memory of BBC TVC, and all who sensed I was in need of cheering up today. These have certainly been a very welcome shot in the arm. ☺️
Tour of Studio 3 at Television Centre, for all you sickos. (Among the things recorded in this room were Doctor Who’s The Feast of Steven.)
January 22, 2026 at 2:57 PM
This is pretty awesome to see too.
Thanks to all the guardians of the memory of BBC TVC, and all who sensed I was in need of cheering up today. These have certainly been a very welcome shot in the arm. ☺️
Thanks to all the guardians of the memory of BBC TVC, and all who sensed I was in need of cheering up today. These have certainly been a very welcome shot in the arm. ☺️
Wonderful. 🥰
An (incomplete!) thread of #DoctorWho studios being employed as sets in the series...
Day of the Daleks: that green-lit space is the folded-up studio audience seating in TC8, representing a futuristic wall.
Day of the Daleks: that green-lit space is the folded-up studio audience seating in TC8, representing a futuristic wall.
January 22, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Wonderful. 🥰
I mean, it’s not like it’s an *especially* wide field for me, but it has been a while…
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6itbb.com/tvc/b7-d13/
January 21, 2026 at 1:26 PM
I mean, it’s not like it’s an *especially* wide field for me, but it has been a while…
6itbb.com/tvc/b7-d13/
6itbb.com/tvc/b7-d13/
So many I could watch - and occasionally have watched - endlessly. But none I love quite so much as The Leisure Hive.
January 21, 2026 at 1:04 PM
So many I could watch - and occasionally have watched - endlessly. But none I love quite so much as The Leisure Hive.
Still entirely valid 2½ years on. Not that I’m going to hold my breath.
Three Sensible, Non-Radical Things Labour Could Do to Reform our News Media
Three Sensible, Non-Radical Things Labour Could Do to Reform our News Media
Nothing drastic is required if a new government is to tackle the obvious crisis in the way we get our news, while the benefits of change could be enormous
bylinetimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Still entirely valid 2½ years on. Not that I’m going to hold my breath.
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chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
From the OpenAI community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the OpenAI community
www.reddit.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
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This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow.
Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:02 AM
This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow.
Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Heck, with Tim Kirkby lined up to direct, why stop there? 🤣
January 20, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Heck, with Tim Kirkby lined up to direct, why stop there? 🤣
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european-alternatives.eu
For people who don’t want to depend on US technology
For people who don’t want to depend on US technology
European Alternatives
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
european-alternatives.eu
January 18, 2026 at 1:18 PM
european-alternatives.eu
For people who don’t want to depend on US technology
For people who don’t want to depend on US technology
Great thread.
As in so many realms, “doesn’t matter” is so much more usefully framed as “doesn’t matter as much as you seem to think”.
Everything matters. But balance is everything and I’m instantly wary of anyone suggesting we should bump *people* down the list.
As in so many realms, “doesn’t matter” is so much more usefully framed as “doesn’t matter as much as you seem to think”.
Everything matters. But balance is everything and I’m instantly wary of anyone suggesting we should bump *people* down the list.
January 16, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Great thread.
As in so many realms, “doesn’t matter” is so much more usefully framed as “doesn’t matter as much as you seem to think”.
Everything matters. But balance is everything and I’m instantly wary of anyone suggesting we should bump *people* down the list.
As in so many realms, “doesn’t matter” is so much more usefully framed as “doesn’t matter as much as you seem to think”.
Everything matters. But balance is everything and I’m instantly wary of anyone suggesting we should bump *people* down the list.
I keep the birthdays of old Doctor Who actors memorised so I don't panic if I see them trend on that day.
January 15, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Same. 🥲
David Lynch died a year ago.
I miss his artistry but I really miss him making me laugh.
I miss his artistry but I really miss him making me laugh.
January 15, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Same. 🥲
There’s only one downside I can see to this plan : if it nixed the prospect of our ever seeing Paul McGann return as The Doctor.
Also, heck - Hugh Laurie as The Master. Just *two minor* flaws. I’ll come in again.
Also, heck - Hugh Laurie as The Master. Just *two minor* flaws. I’ll come in again.
If somehow I was magically put in charge of Doctor Who I'd cast Kathy Burke as the Doctor, and i'd reboot it from the start. I'd chuck out all the old, over-complicated rubbish and make it about mysterious, cantankerous, strange old Doctor Who having glorious and scary adventures.
January 14, 2026 at 1:40 PM
There’s only one downside I can see to this plan : if it nixed the prospect of our ever seeing Paul McGann return as The Doctor.
Also, heck - Hugh Laurie as The Master. Just *two minor* flaws. I’ll come in again.
Also, heck - Hugh Laurie as The Master. Just *two minor* flaws. I’ll come in again.
“But what about the Badger Parade?!”
January 14, 2026 at 6:07 AM
“But what about the Badger Parade?!”
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greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail
January 12, 2026 at 9:34 PM
greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail
Okay, now *there's* a crossover I'm 200% down for. 😍
January 10, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Okay, now *there's* a crossover I'm 200% down for. 😍
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We were very lucky, and had a wonderful time making this play. A Labour of love
January 10, 2026 at 12:01 AM
We were very lucky, and had a wonderful time making this play. A Labour of love
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If you enjoyed my radio play 'The Goblin King and Me' yesterday, could you please post about it or share the link to BBC Sounds with your family and friends..? It's so easy to miss these things and it's available to listen to for the next week. Thank you! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
January 9, 2026 at 10:16 AM
If you enjoyed my radio play 'The Goblin King and Me' yesterday, could you please post about it or share the link to BBC Sounds with your family and friends..? It's so easy to miss these things and it's available to listen to for the next week. Thank you! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...