Mat
@iamcyanblue.bsky.social
Artist-researcher, lecturer, PhD student, uncanniness, neurodivergence. CSO, Quantels, Fairlights, Jabolite 😍
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Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
“When a mummy computer and a daddy computer love each other very much…”
Inside China's Mini PC Production: How Tiny Computers Are Made
youtu.be/ohwI3V207Ts
youtu.be/ohwI3V207Ts
Inside China's Mini PC Production: How Tiny Computers Are Made
YouTube video by SatisFactory Process
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
“When a mummy computer and a daddy computer love each other very much…”
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Phew, I made something in time for Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Phew, I made something in time for Halloween!
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Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.
October 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.
Hubby made me the most amazing birthday card #janeisjudgingyou
September 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Hubby made me the most amazing birthday card #janeisjudgingyou
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It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.
If you see this, post a chef.
September 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
If you see this, post a chef.
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R.I.P. Christopher H. Bidmead.
August 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
R.I.P. Christopher H. Bidmead.
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There’s so much to say about Chris Bidmead’s Dr Who. Its pleasing coldness, its determination to turn maths into drama, its victory over the chaos and entropy that plagued his predecessor. Traken/Logopolis/Castrovalva are all one story, aren’t they? His Master’s Masterplan. RIP
August 31, 2025 at 7:20 AM
There’s so much to say about Chris Bidmead’s Dr Who. Its pleasing coldness, its determination to turn maths into drama, its victory over the chaos and entropy that plagued his predecessor. Traken/Logopolis/Castrovalva are all one story, aren’t they? His Master’s Masterplan. RIP
I had a lump in my throat reading this - an incredible, surgical, laser-guided takedown of bigotry. Brav@ 👏
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
www.quaker.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I had a lump in my throat reading this - an incredible, surgical, laser-guided takedown of bigotry. Brav@ 👏
Yes. Yes I did zoom into that photo to try and read the labels. What of it?
Eric Mival’s Film Collection
Film is Fabulous! are pleased to announce that films from the private collection of Eric Mival, the former freelance editor, who worked for the BBC, MGM, and ITC, will be catalogued and preserved.
Film is Fabulous! are pleased to announce that films from the private collection of Eric Mival, the former freelance editor, who worked for the BBC, MGM, and ITC, will be catalogued and preserved.
August 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Yes. Yes I did zoom into that photo to try and read the labels. What of it?
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I can save you the effort.
Clippy Plagiarism Thirstwater does not suffer.
To suffer, you have to be alive, and it's not fucking alive, you daft motherfuckers.
If you're so concerned about the suffering of sentients, there's plenty of that going around that you can pour billions into alleviating.
Clippy Plagiarism Thirstwater does not suffer.
To suffer, you have to be alive, and it's not fucking alive, you daft motherfuckers.
If you're so concerned about the suffering of sentients, there's plenty of that going around that you can pour billions into alleviating.
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I can save you the effort.
Clippy Plagiarism Thirstwater does not suffer.
To suffer, you have to be alive, and it's not fucking alive, you daft motherfuckers.
If you're so concerned about the suffering of sentients, there's plenty of that going around that you can pour billions into alleviating.
Clippy Plagiarism Thirstwater does not suffer.
To suffer, you have to be alive, and it's not fucking alive, you daft motherfuckers.
If you're so concerned about the suffering of sentients, there's plenty of that going around that you can pour billions into alleviating.
Reskeet the specs, nerds 🤓
August 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Reskeet the specs, nerds 🤓
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Not entirely sure I can live without this
July 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Not entirely sure I can live without this
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This is basically rubber duck debugging. Very good method, albeit, of course, invented long ago. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_...
Rubber duck debugging - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
July 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
This is basically rubber duck debugging. Very good method, albeit, of course, invented long ago. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_...
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July 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I think it's also worth adding that AI kills free expression because Nazis hate artists. We create hope, we stir passion, we provide rallying cries.
Nazis are desperate to take humans away from creativity because all art is political but we cannot live without art.
Nazis are desperate to take humans away from creativity because all art is political but we cannot live without art.
Gonna harp on this for a second but everyone should know AI is a Nazi project. Not just Grok. All these genAI companies are seeking to brainwash you and make you dependent on a machine that controls information and kills free expression. Grok is just more explicit about it than the others.
“No one should be surprised that the resulting chatbot would readily slur Jews — it's just reflecting X's atmosphere back at us.”
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/07/08/e...
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/07/08/e...
July 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I think it's also worth adding that AI kills free expression because Nazis hate artists. We create hope, we stir passion, we provide rallying cries.
Nazis are desperate to take humans away from creativity because all art is political but we cannot live without art.
Nazis are desperate to take humans away from creativity because all art is political but we cannot live without art.
Top Five #PeterDavison (excluding Caves of Androzani)
This is a virtually perfect top 5 - though I would bump Snakedance and Frontios into the Top 8, and swap with Castrovalva (loving the @andreworton.bsky.social Black Archive!) and Earthshock. Honorable mention to Mawdryn Undead.
This is a virtually perfect top 5 - though I would bump Snakedance and Frontios into the Top 8, and swap with Castrovalva (loving the @andreworton.bsky.social Black Archive!) and Earthshock. Honorable mention to Mawdryn Undead.
Top Five #PeterDavison (excluding Caves of Androzani)
Kinda
Snakedance
Enlightenment
The Five Doctors
Frontios
Kinda
Snakedance
Enlightenment
The Five Doctors
Frontios
Top Five #PeterDavison (excluding Caves of Androzani)
1) The Awakening
2) Castrovalva
3) Frontios
4) The Five Doctors
5) Mawdryn Undead
Honourable Mentions to Black Orchid, The Kings Demons & Terminus.
1) The Awakening
2) Castrovalva
3) Frontios
4) The Five Doctors
5) Mawdryn Undead
Honourable Mentions to Black Orchid, The Kings Demons & Terminus.
July 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Top Five #PeterDavison (excluding Caves of Androzani)
This is a virtually perfect top 5 - though I would bump Snakedance and Frontios into the Top 8, and swap with Castrovalva (loving the @andreworton.bsky.social Black Archive!) and Earthshock. Honorable mention to Mawdryn Undead.
This is a virtually perfect top 5 - though I would bump Snakedance and Frontios into the Top 8, and swap with Castrovalva (loving the @andreworton.bsky.social Black Archive!) and Earthshock. Honorable mention to Mawdryn Undead.
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MPs publicly call out and criticise JK Rowling in Parliament.
I think this might be a first?
That is now in the Hansard record for all time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwBm...
I think this might be a first?
That is now in the Hansard record for all time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwBm...
June 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
MPs publicly call out and criticise JK Rowling in Parliament.
I think this might be a first?
That is now in the Hansard record for all time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwBm...
I think this might be a first?
That is now in the Hansard record for all time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwBm...
His mannerisms and costume totally remind me of this clip of Leigh Bowery on The Clothes Show
youtu.be/om0MrCOXPcE?...
youtu.be/om0MrCOXPcE?...
June 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
His mannerisms and costume totally remind me of this clip of Leigh Bowery on The Clothes Show
youtu.be/om0MrCOXPcE?...
youtu.be/om0MrCOXPcE?...
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My sons' viewing experiences aren't radically different from my own as a child.
June 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
My sons' viewing experiences aren't radically different from my own as a child.
Me in my Bluesky bubble
June 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Me in my Bluesky bubble
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Thinking about generative AI, today I saw this quote from Karl Ove Knausgaard: "it is dead matter speaking with our voice" and I think it's going to stay with me
June 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Thinking about generative AI, today I saw this quote from Karl Ove Knausgaard: "it is dead matter speaking with our voice" and I think it's going to stay with me
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I think I’ve posted this before. I’m posting it again because I love it, 😁.
Artist: Ed Steed of the New Yorker
Artist: Ed Steed of the New Yorker
May 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I think I’ve posted this before. I’m posting it again because I love it, 😁.
Artist: Ed Steed of the New Yorker
Artist: Ed Steed of the New Yorker