Tilt Araiza
@tiltaraiza.bsky.social
Once and future podcaster from The Sitcom Club. I also edit (and somehow swung a co-producer credit for) A History Of Rock Music In 500 Songs. From Yorkshire, living in California. ''Practically Mexican'' according to my late wife (she liked to exaggerate)
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Tilt Araiza
@tiltaraiza.bsky.social
· Nov 15
FYI, my following back policy is capricious and has no internal consistency
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Science discovers the End Level Boss of guys who think "everyone loves it when I do this!" when, in fact, everyone does not love it.
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Science discovers the End Level Boss of guys who think "everyone loves it when I do this!" when, in fact, everyone does not love it.
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I feel we are still at a strategic disadvantage re: potato names vs the UK. They have off-the-cuff quaintness down pat
CORRECTION: A *third* potato has been named after Prince.
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I feel we are still at a strategic disadvantage re: potato names vs the UK. They have off-the-cuff quaintness down pat
That is some insolent posture
even when he's dressed as a cowboy he's still gotta have the junk swingin
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
That is some insolent posture
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NGL, the Hollywood remake of 'Genevieve' was pretty good.
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
NGL, the Hollywood remake of 'Genevieve' was pretty good.
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I highly recommend this entire thread, not just the initial link.
It was 62 years ago #OnThisDay in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.
I'm quite pleased with this one...
www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.
I'm quite pleased with this one...
www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
Breaking news - November 1963
BBC History recalls one of the first truly global news stories of the modern multi-media age
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I highly recommend this entire thread, not just the initial link.
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Dear Bolton Wanderers fans. Jimmy Savile was from Leeds, not Bradford. The name you were looking for is Peter Sutcliffe.
November 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Dear Bolton Wanderers fans. Jimmy Savile was from Leeds, not Bradford. The name you were looking for is Peter Sutcliffe.
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Still baffled Big Finish haven’t done an 13 v the Autons story yet called Yaz and the Plastic Population. Open goal, lads.
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Still baffled Big Finish haven’t done an 13 v the Autons story yet called Yaz and the Plastic Population. Open goal, lads.
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When the moon hits your eye
Like a big pizza pie
That’s The Hopkins Manuscript
Like a big pizza pie
That’s The Hopkins Manuscript
November 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
When the moon hits your eye
Like a big pizza pie
That’s The Hopkins Manuscript
Like a big pizza pie
That’s The Hopkins Manuscript
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oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
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Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...
November 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...
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I was reminded today of Varoomshka, the Guardian's 1970s satirical newspaper comic strip in monumentally dubious taste.
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I was reminded today of Varoomshka, the Guardian's 1970s satirical newspaper comic strip in monumentally dubious taste.
Do you think Jimmy Webb intended the frightening sense of sanity slippage in MacArthur Park or is that all Richard Harris?
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Do you think Jimmy Webb intended the frightening sense of sanity slippage in MacArthur Park or is that all Richard Harris?
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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Sophia Loren trying Whelks in a fish bar, near the River Thames (1960). 📷 Bob Hope and Alisdair MacDonald
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
PHOTO OF THE DAY. Sophia Loren trying Whelks in a fish bar, near the River Thames (1960). 📷 Bob Hope and Alisdair MacDonald
I'm so disappointed with Plastic Man.
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I'm so disappointed with Plastic Man.
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@socalspandexsox.bsky.social ❤️❤️
Mikey …
Mikey …
November 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
@socalspandexsox.bsky.social ❤️❤️
Mikey …
Mikey …
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I've got Remember Bethlehem by Jake Thackray stuck in my head. It's the only Christmas song I know of the acknowledges Mary would have had to go through the pain of childbirth.
November 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I've got Remember Bethlehem by Jake Thackray stuck in my head. It's the only Christmas song I know of the acknowledges Mary would have had to go through the pain of childbirth.
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I don't feel I need a translator for this one.
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I don't feel I need a translator for this one.
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I once had someone break into my car and *leave a Jeff Lynne cd in it*, this is not a bit it actually happened
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I once had someone break into my car and *leave a Jeff Lynne cd in it*, this is not a bit it actually happened
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James Pettigrew regarding Bob Monkhouse on The Golden Shot, Sunday Mirror, 29/10/67:
“…why tarnish the gilt on the gingerbread with tasteless gags? Like that one about consenting adults which you made during a film clip of wrestlers falling accidentally in an obscene heap on the canvas.”
“…why tarnish the gilt on the gingerbread with tasteless gags? Like that one about consenting adults which you made during a film clip of wrestlers falling accidentally in an obscene heap on the canvas.”
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
James Pettigrew regarding Bob Monkhouse on The Golden Shot, Sunday Mirror, 29/10/67:
“…why tarnish the gilt on the gingerbread with tasteless gags? Like that one about consenting adults which you made during a film clip of wrestlers falling accidentally in an obscene heap on the canvas.”
“…why tarnish the gilt on the gingerbread with tasteless gags? Like that one about consenting adults which you made during a film clip of wrestlers falling accidentally in an obscene heap on the canvas.”
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Just put a whole new pile of original art up on my website at LOW, LOW prices!
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Just put a whole new pile of original art up on my website at LOW, LOW prices!
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What's great about this is that one of them will absolutely nail it, and you're impressed, and then it refreshes after a minute and the same model will be laughably bad, and this is 100% my professional experience with LLMs.
Hahaha! Er. Someone has used AI to make analogue clocks with the live time.
Analogue clocks are really hard.
AI: spectacularly confident. Can be both subtly and spectacularly wrong. This is a lovely illustration of that.
clocks.brianmoore.com
Analogue clocks are really hard.
AI: spectacularly confident. Can be both subtly and spectacularly wrong. This is a lovely illustration of that.
clocks.brianmoore.com
AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
clocks.brianmoore.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
What's great about this is that one of them will absolutely nail it, and you're impressed, and then it refreshes after a minute and the same model will be laughably bad, and this is 100% my professional experience with LLMs.
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Hahaha! Er. Someone has used AI to make analogue clocks with the live time.
Analogue clocks are really hard.
AI: spectacularly confident. Can be both subtly and spectacularly wrong. This is a lovely illustration of that.
clocks.brianmoore.com
Analogue clocks are really hard.
AI: spectacularly confident. Can be both subtly and spectacularly wrong. This is a lovely illustration of that.
clocks.brianmoore.com
AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
clocks.brianmoore.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Hahaha! Er. Someone has used AI to make analogue clocks with the live time.
Analogue clocks are really hard.
AI: spectacularly confident. Can be both subtly and spectacularly wrong. This is a lovely illustration of that.
clocks.brianmoore.com
Analogue clocks are really hard.
AI: spectacularly confident. Can be both subtly and spectacularly wrong. This is a lovely illustration of that.
clocks.brianmoore.com
I'm watching a film written by Pip and Jane Baker. It's pretty good.
November 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I'm watching a film written by Pip and Jane Baker. It's pretty good.
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
1. A humorous, frightfully British heist
2. It's the 60s and we're trying too hard to be po-mo
3. Spies aren't sexy, they're sad
4. One of DC Comics' top two characters
5. A thriller, but tropes and structure aren't codified yet so it's v. unpredictable
1. A humorous, frightfully British heist
2. It's the 60s and we're trying too hard to be po-mo
3. Spies aren't sexy, they're sad
4. One of DC Comics' top two characters
5. A thriller, but tropes and structure aren't codified yet so it's v. unpredictable
1. Would've been TV play before 1981.
2. Reinvents literary novel visually in way purists loathe that unlocks it for new audience.
3. A Louise Brooks louisebrooks around louisebrooksily in front of understandably dumbstruck men.
4. Monster stalks Day For Night woods.
5. Nearly kissing then kissing.
2. Reinvents literary novel visually in way purists loathe that unlocks it for new audience.
3. A Louise Brooks louisebrooks around louisebrooksily in front of understandably dumbstruck men.
4. Monster stalks Day For Night woods.
5. Nearly kissing then kissing.
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- we're stealing it all, and looking cool doing it
- monsters!!!
- is that an eldritch horror, or are we making a serious socio-political point?
- oh no, the aliens are more human than we are
- we're here, we're queer, we have a spaceship
- we're stealing it all, and looking cool doing it
- monsters!!!
- is that an eldritch horror, or are we making a serious socio-political point?
- oh no, the aliens are more human than we are
- we're here, we're queer, we have a spaceship
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
1. A humorous, frightfully British heist
2. It's the 60s and we're trying too hard to be po-mo
3. Spies aren't sexy, they're sad
4. One of DC Comics' top two characters
5. A thriller, but tropes and structure aren't codified yet so it's v. unpredictable
1. A humorous, frightfully British heist
2. It's the 60s and we're trying too hard to be po-mo
3. Spies aren't sexy, they're sad
4. One of DC Comics' top two characters
5. A thriller, but tropes and structure aren't codified yet so it's v. unpredictable