Iain Roberton
@iainroberton.bsky.social
Plugins, mostly. Audio and music person. Inventor of the potato medley.
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So we coloured in Helene Hanff’s dog - of course it had to be yellow (in honour of the New York taxi cab, Playbill booklets and the starry lights of Broadway, where this book is set). #underfootinshowbusiness #booksky 💛🌟🚖📒
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
So we coloured in Helene Hanff’s dog - of course it had to be yellow (in honour of the New York taxi cab, Playbill booklets and the starry lights of Broadway, where this book is set). #underfootinshowbusiness #booksky 💛🌟🚖📒
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
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Gary Marcus was right.
October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Gary Marcus was right.
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My mistake, you are correct! I generated the file, but I did not give you a download link — let me go get it for you [pretends to walk down stairs behind couch]
This person is paying OpenAI two hundred dollars a month to have a chatbot gaslight them about making an excel spreadsheet
October 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
My mistake, you are correct! I generated the file, but I did not give you a download link — let me go get it for you [pretends to walk down stairs behind couch]
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Today marks the two-year anniversary of a great modern sci-fi show: Scavengers Reign. 🥰
A new classic that is only officially available in a few countries.
A new classic that is only officially available in a few countries.
October 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Today marks the two-year anniversary of a great modern sci-fi show: Scavengers Reign. 🥰
A new classic that is only officially available in a few countries.
A new classic that is only officially available in a few countries.
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Turns out the cat is mad keen for French novelists - in graphic novel format. I’m preparing for the forthcoming publication of the #GeorgeSand biography by @fionasampson.bsky.social - dear 💙📚#booksky readers - which book should I read first of this totally mesmerising 19th-century writer?
October 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Turns out the cat is mad keen for French novelists - in graphic novel format. I’m preparing for the forthcoming publication of the #GeorgeSand biography by @fionasampson.bsky.social - dear 💙📚#booksky readers - which book should I read first of this totally mesmerising 19th-century writer?
Skinny Puppy
Public Enemy
Miles Davis
NIck Drake
Joni Mitchell
Radiohead
Talk Talk
Cocteau Twins
Public Enemy
Miles Davis
NIck Drake
Joni Mitchell
Radiohead
Talk Talk
Cocteau Twins
Steely Dan
Modest Mouse
St Vincent
Miles Davis
Fountains of Wayne
Paul Simon
Joni Mitchell
Lou Reed
Modest Mouse
St Vincent
Miles Davis
Fountains of Wayne
Paul Simon
Joni Mitchell
Lou Reed
Define your music taste in eight artists:
Boards of Canada
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Horse Lords
Fat White Family
Magdalena Bay
Radiohead
Men I Trust
Pink Floyd
(just thinking about this was stressful, ha ha ha 😅)
Boards of Canada
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Horse Lords
Fat White Family
Magdalena Bay
Radiohead
Men I Trust
Pink Floyd
(just thinking about this was stressful, ha ha ha 😅)
October 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Skinny Puppy
Public Enemy
Miles Davis
NIck Drake
Joni Mitchell
Radiohead
Talk Talk
Cocteau Twins
Public Enemy
Miles Davis
NIck Drake
Joni Mitchell
Radiohead
Talk Talk
Cocteau Twins
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The sheer joy of discovering a forgotten portrait of an author you're about to republish - by one of your favourite artists no less. There's nothing like it!
This is #SusanErtz by #Gluck from 1936. Dot-connections like this are one of the best parts of being a publisher 💙📚#booksky
This is #SusanErtz by #Gluck from 1936. Dot-connections like this are one of the best parts of being a publisher 💙📚#booksky
October 17, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The sheer joy of discovering a forgotten portrait of an author you're about to republish - by one of your favourite artists no less. There's nothing like it!
This is #SusanErtz by #Gluck from 1936. Dot-connections like this are one of the best parts of being a publisher 💙📚#booksky
This is #SusanErtz by #Gluck from 1936. Dot-connections like this are one of the best parts of being a publisher 💙📚#booksky
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Alzheimer’s reversed in mice as scientists restore the brain’s ‘gatekeeper.’ Spanish and Chinese researchers have reversed Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice using nanoparticles that repair the brain’s protective barrier. buff.ly/Dk1sdjd
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Alzheimer’s reversed in mice under breakthrough treatment
Injection of nanoparticles “reminds” blood-brain barrier to work properly, allowing brain cells to communicate again
buff.ly
October 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Alzheimer’s reversed in mice as scientists restore the brain’s ‘gatekeeper.’ Spanish and Chinese researchers have reversed Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice using nanoparticles that repair the brain’s protective barrier. buff.ly/Dk1sdjd
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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Gonna do a AI reshoot of the human centipede cast entirely
of Silicon Valley billionaire dorks and put this concept straight to sleep
of Silicon Valley billionaire dorks and put this concept straight to sleep
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
www.scientificamerican.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Gonna do a AI reshoot of the human centipede cast entirely
of Silicon Valley billionaire dorks and put this concept straight to sleep
of Silicon Valley billionaire dorks and put this concept straight to sleep
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In Manchester we like "just a hot Trafford Centre"
October 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
In Manchester we like "just a hot Trafford Centre"
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If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.
October 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.
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No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.
Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.
Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.
That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.
That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
October 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.
Stephen King’s aud-IT
the human resources centipede
the blair witch project manager
October 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Stephen King’s aud-IT
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I mean, it won't. You might as well have put "cokehead announces he and his friends will open a small plates restaurant serving gourmet versions of school cafeteria food"
October 7, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I mean, it won't. You might as well have put "cokehead announces he and his friends will open a small plates restaurant serving gourmet versions of school cafeteria food"
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Whoever would have thought that a party led by a breast hypnotist would be full of mad cranks?
October 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Whoever would have thought that a party led by a breast hypnotist would be full of mad cranks?
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“Whereas other chalk horses stand stiff and still on their hillsides, elegant, sometimes, but without any spark of life, the Uffington White Horse is magical; full of movement,
power and beauty.”
- Rosemary Sutcliff
💙📚#booksky
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power and beauty.”
- Rosemary Sutcliff
💙📚#booksky
tinyurl.com/5b82bb4b
October 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
“Whereas other chalk horses stand stiff and still on their hillsides, elegant, sometimes, but without any spark of life, the Uffington White Horse is magical; full of movement,
power and beauty.”
- Rosemary Sutcliff
💙📚#booksky
tinyurl.com/5b82bb4b
power and beauty.”
- Rosemary Sutcliff
💙📚#booksky
tinyurl.com/5b82bb4b
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Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
September 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
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Playing around with the front cover to one of our 2026 titles ⚡️ If you loved reading 84, Charing Cross Road AND if you are a fan all things Broadway and New York then Underfoot in Show Business by Helene Hanff might be right up your street… 💙📚#booksky
ManderleyPress.com
ManderleyPress.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Playing around with the front cover to one of our 2026 titles ⚡️ If you loved reading 84, Charing Cross Road AND if you are a fan all things Broadway and New York then Underfoot in Show Business by Helene Hanff might be right up your street… 💙📚#booksky
ManderleyPress.com
ManderleyPress.com
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Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene
RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*
A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”
Person watching on tv: well if they say so
RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*
A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”
Person watching on tv: well if they say so
September 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene
RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*
A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”
Person watching on tv: well if they say so
RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*
A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”
Person watching on tv: well if they say so
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Reform is racist.
Let’s just say it.
Loudly and often.
They’re racist.
Don’t take them on on how they plan to fund their nonsense.
They don’t care.
They don’t say it because they’ve worked it out.
They say it for headlines and for voters who want prejudice as policy.
They’re racist.
They’re failure.
Let’s just say it.
Loudly and often.
They’re racist.
Don’t take them on on how they plan to fund their nonsense.
They don’t care.
They don’t say it because they’ve worked it out.
They say it for headlines and for voters who want prejudice as policy.
They’re racist.
They’re failure.
September 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Reform is racist.
Let’s just say it.
Loudly and often.
They’re racist.
Don’t take them on on how they plan to fund their nonsense.
They don’t care.
They don’t say it because they’ve worked it out.
They say it for headlines and for voters who want prejudice as policy.
They’re racist.
They’re failure.
Let’s just say it.
Loudly and often.
They’re racist.
Don’t take them on on how they plan to fund their nonsense.
They don’t care.
They don’t say it because they’ve worked it out.
They say it for headlines and for voters who want prejudice as policy.
They’re racist.
They’re failure.
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RIP Stephen Luscombe (Blancmange)
September 14, 2025 at 7:12 AM
RIP Stephen Luscombe (Blancmange)