Neal Romanek
@nromanek.bsky.social
Founder of publishing company ¡AU! & a media biz journalist of many years - plus sustainability. Used to write for the pictures. Author of novel SKIES OF VENUS & graphic novel BOUDICCA.
Dayton to L.A. to London
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Dayton to L.A. to London
https://linktr.ee/nealromanek
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47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
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I think when I start talking I don’t know what the boundaries should be, and I feel like the internet these days wants to consume people and eat them alive. Whatever you give it wants more, so it can eat you
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I think when I start talking I don’t know what the boundaries should be, and I feel like the internet these days wants to consume people and eat them alive. Whatever you give it wants more, so it can eat you
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its cool that ads for "AI" all have the targeted user as a slackjawed idiot who uses the product as a middleman to teach them basic chores
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
its cool that ads for "AI" all have the targeted user as a slackjawed idiot who uses the product as a middleman to teach them basic chores
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I met R2D2 on the street and he was not gracious at all. C3PO had to apologize for him like, he hasn’t had his crystals today. The crystals that he eats. He has to eat these it’s like cereal to him. He offered to take a pic w/me but I was like lol you are like the Ringo of this. You are below Wicket
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I met R2D2 on the street and he was not gracious at all. C3PO had to apologize for him like, he hasn’t had his crystals today. The crystals that he eats. He has to eat these it’s like cereal to him. He offered to take a pic w/me but I was like lol you are like the Ringo of this. You are below Wicket
The Zelenskyy speech I really really want to see.
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair with the words cryptodiamond above him
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair with the words cryptodiamond above him
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November 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The Zelenskyy speech I really really want to see.
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Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method https://theonion.com/rogue-scientist-has-own-scientific-method-1819568501/
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method https://theonion.com/rogue-scientist-has-own-scientific-method-1819568501/
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When calligraphers get mad they send strongly lettered words
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
When calligraphers get mad they send strongly lettered words
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The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible.
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible.
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if you're still writing using the hero's journey, your mind is closed to all the possibilities
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
if you're still writing using the hero's journey, your mind is closed to all the possibilities
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Or the philosopher that aligns themself with whichever state they were born in, I’m sorry, so stupid. ‘From first principles and the iron laws of history I have discovered a purportedly historically contingent social arrangement is in fact necessary and could not have been otherwise.’ No you haven’t
November 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Or the philosopher that aligns themself with whichever state they were born in, I’m sorry, so stupid. ‘From first principles and the iron laws of history I have discovered a purportedly historically contingent social arrangement is in fact necessary and could not have been otherwise.’ No you haven’t
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Twitter implemented a new feature last night that displayed the country an account is in. So many of the ‘America First’ accounts were from foreign countries that they had to disable the feature within hours. 🙄
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Twitter implemented a new feature last night that displayed the country an account is in. So many of the ‘America First’ accounts were from foreign countries that they had to disable the feature within hours. 🙄
Was just musing about an Odysseus movie and thinking that the perfect casting would be Robert Redford - chosen by the gods, but very very skeptical of divinity and his place in it.
And then I remembered All Is Lost...Redford's Odysseus movie.
And then I remembered All Is Lost...Redford's Odysseus movie.
November 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Was just musing about an Odysseus movie and thinking that the perfect casting would be Robert Redford - chosen by the gods, but very very skeptical of divinity and his place in it.
And then I remembered All Is Lost...Redford's Odysseus movie.
And then I remembered All Is Lost...Redford's Odysseus movie.
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In what little is left of his authentic self, Trump is two things: A New Yorker, and an interior decorator. The only head of state he considers impressive is the Mayor of New York City, and the only thing he really feels pride in, is his interior decorating choices. Mamdani hit him in the heart.
"We have a great portrait of FDR that I found in the vaults that was missing for years. I found it and I put it up. He's a Democrat, to the best of my knowledge...
And when the mayor saw that portrait, he said, Sir, do you mind if I have a picture taken by that portrait?' It's an amazing portrait."
And when the mayor saw that portrait, he said, Sir, do you mind if I have a picture taken by that portrait?' It's an amazing portrait."
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
In what little is left of his authentic self, Trump is two things: A New Yorker, and an interior decorator. The only head of state he considers impressive is the Mayor of New York City, and the only thing he really feels pride in, is his interior decorating choices. Mamdani hit him in the heart.
A new piece up at ¡AU! about a company doing great work intercepting workplace harassment in the media industry.
We sat down with Lisa Bell from HR consultancy Tell Jane to learn about tackling - and preventing - harassment in the workplace. The media business has its own special challenges when it comes to abuse, including a vulnerable freelance population.
au-works.com/what-do-you-...
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What do you do when there’s an abuser on set? Tell Jane | Change management & resilience for the creative industries
Tell Jane is a consultancy tackling harassment in the workplace. The creative industries have their own special challenges
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November 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
A new piece up at ¡AU! about a company doing great work intercepting workplace harassment in the media industry.
It probably would be prudent to assume that there is going to be a Mad King "burn them all" moment and to have a plan in place.
A member of Congress just filled out a threat report with the Capitol Police naming the President of the United States as the person making the threat.
Think of where we were on January 7, 2021 when the country overwhelmingly repudiated what had happened.
And think of where we are now.
Think of where we were on January 7, 2021 when the country overwhelmingly repudiated what had happened.
And think of where we are now.
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It probably would be prudent to assume that there is going to be a Mad King "burn them all" moment and to have a plan in place.
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The grok stuff is pathetic but it’s also a perfect and undeniable illustration of chatbots as ideology. It’s no less true for chatgpt or other bots, but sometimes not as visible.
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The grok stuff is pathetic but it’s also a perfect and undeniable illustration of chatbots as ideology. It’s no less true for chatgpt or other bots, but sometimes not as visible.
So I guess these Epstein files are going to make Donald Trump look really bad, huh.
November 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
So I guess these Epstein files are going to make Donald Trump look really bad, huh.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
@klonick.bsky.social neatly summarizing a problem that affects anyone who creates or consumes content that appears on the Internet, which is a number of people.
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
November 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
@klonick.bsky.social neatly summarizing a problem that affects anyone who creates or consumes content that appears on the Internet, which is a number of people.
Sublime perfection
November 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Sublime perfection
Someone somewhere right now is drafting up the AI company (and Nvidia) bailout package in preparation for the bubble bursting. You're going to love it.
November 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Someone somewhere right now is drafting up the AI company (and Nvidia) bailout package in preparation for the bubble bursting. You're going to love it.
I guess the real moral of this cautionary tale is: Don't believe ChatGPT when it tells you how genius your new book is.
November 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I guess the real moral of this cautionary tale is: Don't believe ChatGPT when it tells you how genius your new book is.
Theory: Olivia Nuzzi uploaded all her morning pages since college into ChatGPT to train a virtual writer model of herself. Then did three weeks of prompts. And presto.
November 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Theory: Olivia Nuzzi uploaded all her morning pages since college into ChatGPT to train a virtual writer model of herself. Then did three weeks of prompts. And presto.
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Gosh no one could write like that. What writing that is. It’s words that were written
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Gosh no one could write like that. What writing that is. It’s words that were written