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Jon Halling
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rianjohnson.bsky.social
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 2d
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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yelix.bsky.social
Al Swearengen wouldn’t have any time at all for any of that Stranger Things stuff, I’ll tell you that much
December 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
jonhalling.bsky.social
It seems @maggiemaefish.bsky.social favourite horror film has another public fan.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14d
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬

He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
The Telegraph Graham Linehan My trans critics are cowards. Yes, Ardal O'Hanlon - that includes yOu I expected more from my friend of 25 years. But he would rather condemn me than fight for the rights of women and girls I expected more from Ardal. I never thought he would intone the catechism. "I still get on great with everyone," he said in a recent interview with The Times, "though I haven't seen much of the show's creator, Graham Linehan, and am baffled as to why he got involved in the culture wars. I feel sorry for him - he's entitled to his opinions, but the way he presented them made it confrontational. When I read that, I phoned him immediately. When people betray me, I always make the mistake of phoning them straight away. My heart was thumping in my chest as I found his number and gave him a faux-polite, "Hey Ardal, how's it going?". My anger was already boiling. I knew exactly what he would say - the exact same things Bill Bailey said when I phoned him, the exact same things Amelia Bullmore said when I wrote to her. I knew, and I phoned anyway, because I can't help myself. And when he started reading from the same script as all the others, I lost my temper. At some point, Ardal said, "I just disagree with you." I would have said all this to him on the phone, but I was so angry I could not get any of it out. In fact, at one point I said, "You're on my f--ing s--t list." Ridiculous, of course, but unfortunately true. Like Father Ted at the Golden Cleric Awards, I keep a tally of every person who took the easy path and watched me twist in the wind. I can't help it. I remember them all. Tim Heidecker saying I'd gone down a "rabbit hole". David O'Doherty, who didn't have the guts to speak to me. My own brother-in-law publicly calling me insane. Adam Buxton, Jon Ronson, Richard Herring, Stewart Lee. People who knew me, people who had my phone number, people who could have asked, people who assumed the worst because doing otherwise would have exposed them to the same treatment I was receiving. In condemning me, to use Douglas Murray's line, they raise a little flag outside their home so the mob will pass them by. And every time one of them hands a journalist another little quote - another "baffled," another "sorry," another "he's awful, but I hope he's okay" - they get to carry on with their lives while mine gets smaller. None of them
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
jonhalling.bsky.social
Soon my glorious dream of forcing AI versions of @annieknk.bsky.social and Megan Kelly to talk for 20 hours about former wrestler Kelly Kelly can be realised.
maxtani.bsky.social max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 21d
The Washington Post is launching a personalized AI podcast, saying users will be able to "shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology."
All, Today, we’re introducing our latest customer audio offering: “Your Personal Podcast,” a personalized, AI podcast experience only available in The Washington Post app. App users will be able to shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology. This is a conversational, digestible format completely personalized to the user's individual preferences – All based on our best-in-class Washington Post journalism. Here’s how it works: On our Washington Post app, subscribers and registered users will find access to “Your Personal Podcast” via their habit tile, and our “Listen” tab. Users can then personalize their podcast experience by choosing their preferred topics, selecting the AI hosts, and setting the duration. (Currently, our beta version limits the duration to a maximum of 8 minutes.) Once a user begins listening, they soon will be able to ask follow-up questions to explore topics in greater depth. In line with our mission and plan, “Your Personal Podcast” is the ultimate intersection across our critical initiatives of premium experiences, customer choice and AI platform and products. It also reinforces our audience segmentation work, which has revealed our target audience is excited to be offered new ways to access our journalism. More specifically, they are busy and on the go with a growing appetite for audio and video news. “Your Personal Podcast” is another way for us to meet these customer needs. The product is in beta, which means we will continue to improve it based on user feedback. A big thank you to the many teams who collaborated with us across the company to get us to this exciting stage. Listen to a podcast that listens to you and try this out today. Vineet and Bailey
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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soozuk.bsky.social
Let's just enjoy the fact for a moment that Bill Clinton getting a blowjob really could bring down the government this time.
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
jonhalling.bsky.social
Can't wait to find out if America's sweetheart makes it onto @annieknk.bsky.social and Megan Kelly (don't know her handle sorry) newest podcast Truly Tradly Deeply.
A read wife doing unhinged black face in 2025 for some reason.
November 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
jonhalling.bsky.social
This is a great read, it's honestly quite astonishing how fragile Musk is, from buying a website to tell him he was funny to this venture. This kind of flailing, wild reaction to perceived criticism/reality seems common among those who seem to have radicalized themselves during COVID especially.
kateconger.com kate conger @kateconger.com · Oct 28
I wrote about all this and how Wikipedia is getting squeezed by the AI industry generally if you’re interested www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/t...
Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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eva.computer
white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
jonhalling.bsky.social
@dicknixon.bsky.social often jokes about colonels getting ideas, but if those colonels aren't getting paid........
October 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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kameronhurley.com
Excellent article about how LLMs perform their feats of "magic" by exploiting the same psychological hacks that psychics do when performing cold readings.

::Chefs kiss::

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
softwarecrisis.dev
July 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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samfr.bsky.social
New post:

"Why are young women increasingly left-wing?"

There's been a lot of focus on young men + the right but less on this much bigger political shift amongst young women.

Why is it happening? How could it change politics?

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/w...
Why are young women increasingly left-wing?
And how it could change politics
open.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
jonhalling.bsky.social
Jofra!!
July 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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sararoseg.bsky.social
thedailytism.com/breaking-dsm...
Breaking: DSM-5 hastily updated to account for Gregg Wallace’s underpants
In breaking news, the DSM-5 has been updated in the last 24 hours to include plausible deniability for Gregg Wallace, specifically.  The manual, used by psychologists to diagnose a range of conditions...
thedailytism.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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brianphillips.bsky.social
I wrote about the Grok Situation
Elon Musk’s Grok Has Lost Its Non-Sentient Mind
The X chatbot went off the rails this week, tweeting a slew of antisemitic content and praising Adolf Hitler. Now, CEO Linda Yaccarino has left the company, and the future of AI chatbots feels even mo...
www.theringer.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
jonhalling.bsky.social
Read 4 different books on the US Civil War (I'm English).
celebrityhottub.bsky.social Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · Jun 15
Once again it is Father’s Day, which means it’s time to share the most Dad* thing you did in the last year. As is custom, I will go first:

Watching YouTube videos for small repair jobs around the house has turned into watching YouTube videos for large repair jobs I cannot and should not attempt.
June 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
jonhalling.bsky.social
@firdosem.bsky.social with a really great piece on Bavuma and South African cricket and some of what today all means.

www.espncricinfo.com/story/temba-...
This was Temba Bavuma's WTC and he can own it
"I hope that it continues to inspire our country," says South Africa's victorious captain
www.espncricinfo.com
June 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
jonhalling.bsky.social
I had a joke about Theseus but it's kinda changed over the years.
June 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
jonhalling.bsky.social
Would I be the 1st or the 1000th person to suggest Manchild v Maneater now that Sabrina has dropped another banger @alinaisyou.bsky.social @shadowtodd.bsky.social ?
June 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
jonhalling.bsky.social
Drop some Ships (Serenity 2005)
A Reaver fleet descends upon the Alliance.
May 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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amandawtwong.bsky.social
I don't believe in gatekeeping knowledge.
May 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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princecharlescinema.com
“Yippee ki-yay…”

We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic
The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...
www.irishexaminer.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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seamas.bsky.social
On common sense.
The only way any of the absurdities of this ruling make sense, is if its aims are exactly what they appear to be: A punitive attack on the rights and dignity of trans people divorced from any real-world concern about safety or women’s rights, designed to demoralise and punish them simply for the crime of existing. This, despite the abundant and obvious evidence that it will lead to more harm and distress for all British women, cis or trans, as a consequence. We must surmise that the pain and humiliation of all people is worth it, so long as trans people feel it most fiercely. This is the world view of the people popping champagne outside the courts, or cackling with glee on their superyachts, rejoicing as Keir Starmer says “trans women are men” while demanding he roll back trans rights even further, and apologise for ever advocating for them in the first place. The same people who’ve so thoroughly debased this debate that sensible moderates can profess nothing but mealy-mouthed agreement alongside quiet calls for “calm” and “dignity”, without realising this is offering us a choice between those who light cigars as they legislate trans people out of the public square, and those who say they’re awfully sorry while they do the same.
April 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM