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unsanctioned ramblings. makes films and tv,(from Dead Man’s Shoes to Everybody’s Talking About Jamie to The Pigeon Tunnel), plays RPGs like BiTD, WFRP. he/him
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thebasement.nz
Everyone is saying Home Alone but the subtle clues in the post are clearly pointing to:
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
More breathing space, 2024 one of the many etchings & engravings by printmaker Janis Goodman #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print in in blue and black, looking up to bare black tree silhouettes in a forest as two birds fly in between
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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simonbrew.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone amplifying this. It's massively appreciated.
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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sglassmeyer.bsky.social
A local bakery just posted this photo on Facebook. I’ve gotten stuff from her before. Nice older lady. I do not know if she made it but…it’s perfect. Perfect.
A cake that’s Tony Montana sitting on bricks of cocaine
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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felipegaonar.bsky.social
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.

Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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profjacob.bsky.social
🚨🚨 " The BBC is far from perfect but it remains the most trusted news source in the world. To live up to its promises, it needs more independence, not less. More secure funding, not less. It needs to be set free, not shackled; defended, not attacked." Great stuff by @chrischirp.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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gralefrit.bsky.social
Keep mid-level writers and actors and crews in work. Be lovely, that would.
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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gralefrit.bsky.social
Play For Today, please. A comedy one. A sci fi one. A horror one. Cheers.
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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jakekanter.bsky.social
Interesting nugget from BBC staff call this morning: Tim Davie said the biggest number of complaints the BBC is handling right now concern the corporation giving Nigel Farage's Reform too much airtime. bsky.app/profile/jake...
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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bestforbritain.org
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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bafta.org
We’re very happy to announce that multi-award-winning animation studio Blue Zoo will receive a BAFTA Special Award next month, recognising the studio’s extraordinary 25-year legacy and its significant social and cultural impact 🎉
Blue Zoo animation studio co-founders Adam Shaw, Oli Hyatt MBE, and Tom Box are smiling at the camera and set against a teal coloured background with the Blue Zoo logo above them in white lettering.
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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iandunt.bsky.social
A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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edzitron.com
The premium this week is the precursor to something I'm working on coming out in the next week or two (which will be free). But one thing I can't stop thinking about - how has nobody else simply added up all the funding and revenues and costs? Hell, I should've done it months ago.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11d
In an analysis of OpenAI's costs, revenues and funding from 2023 to 1H 2025, it raised $28.6bn in cash ($10bn rev included), and had $13.7bn in cash losses.

Reports say OpenAI ended 1H 2025 with $9.6bn. It should have $14.9bn in cash. There's a $4.1bn+ hole.
www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...
A Brief History of OpenAI’s Revenues and Costs If there are other articles reporting OpenAI's revenues or costs, please do get in touch. But I don't think anybody has ever done a full run-down. Behold! On February 9, 2024, The Financial Times said that “OpenAI’s revenues have surpassed $2bn on an annualised basis,” with the company apparently hitting it “In December 2023,” according to “two people with knowledge of its finances.” There was no mention of any comment related to OpenAI in this article. On June 12, 2024, The Information reported that “OpenAI has more than doubled its annualized revenue to $3.4 billion in the past six months or so, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has told staff.” This amounts to around $283m in revenue a month at the end of calendar year Q2 2024. This appears to be sourced from something that Sam Altman told staff. Curiously, this is the only time I’ve seen OpenAI comment on one of these stories, with “...an OpenAI spokeswoman [saying] the financial details were “inaccurate,” without elaborating.” I have read every single one of these and I cannot find another instance of this happening. This makes me believe, along with other information from sources, that these numbers are particularly accurate. This article also confirms that OpenAI gets a “roughly” 20% revenue share cut from Microsoft selling its models. On July 24, 2024, The Information published that OpenAI “could lose as much as $5 billion” in 2024, “according to an analysis by The Information, based on previously undisclosed internal financial data and people involved in the business.” Spokespeople for Microsoft and OpenAI did not have a comment. On September 27. 2024, the New York Times reported that “OpenAI’s monthly revenue hit $300 million in August…and the company expects about $3.7 billion in annual sales [in 2024],” according to a financial professional’s review of documents. That’s $300m in revenue in the month of August 2024. Details are important. OpenAI declined to comment. On October 9, 2024, The Information reported that “OpenAI burned $340 million in the first half of 2024” and that its “cash burn was lower than previously thought,” based on “OpenAI financial documents viewed by The Information.” These documents also “project [OpenAI’s] total losses between 2023 and 2028 to be $44 billion” not including stock compensation, and, laughably, that OpenAI would “make $14 billion in profit [based on the analysis] in 2029.” OpenAI also, in this document, said that “model training costs could rise sharply in the next couple of years, to as high as $9.5 billion a year in 2026.” This same piece included projections that OpenAI would make $12bn in 2025, $26bn in 2026, $44bn in 2027, $69bn in 2028, and $100bn in 2029. There was no mention of any comment related to OpenAI in this article. On February 21, 2025, The Information reported that OpenAI forecasted that “one-third of [its] revenue growth would come from spending by SoftBank to use OpenAI’s products across its companies,” with SoftBank spending $3bn per year. It took until November 5, 2025 for the joint venture involving this spend to actually form. This is sourced to disclosures by OpenAI to its investors. This piece also asserts that $3bn from SoftBank would get OpenAI to $12.7bn in revenue for 2025. There was no mention of any comment related to OpenAI in this article. In this piece, The Information reports that “...[OpenAI’s] spending on Microsoft-owned data centers should ramp up significantly in the next few years, more than doubling from $13 billion this year to $28 billion in 2028.” On March 26, 2025, Bloomberg reported that OpenAI “expects to more than triple its revenue to $12.7 billion in 2025,” and that it generated “$3.7 billion in annual revenue last year,” according to a person familiar with the matter who “spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal communications. In the piece, Bloomberg states that “OpenAI does not expect to be cash-flow positive until 2029, t… On June 9, 2025, an OpenAI spokesperson told CNBC that it had hit “$10 billion annual recurring revenue,” excluding licensing revenue from OpenAI’s 20% revenue share and “large, one-time deals.” $10bn annualized revenue works out to around $833, a month. This news also revealed that OpenAI had reached $5.5bn in annualized revenue in December 2024, or $458m. I have some fucking questions. Why is OpenAI deliberately excluding that cut? Is it because Microsoft didn’t authorize it? What exactly is the time period that “annualized” covers? What are these “large, one-time deals” and why wouldn’t you include them in revenue? On September 5, 2025, The Information reported that “OpenAI projected its cash burn this year through 2029 will rise even higher than previously thought, to a total of $115 billion.” None of this information is sourced in a way that I can see. It’s the strangest thing. The only mention of anything like that is to say that one thing — that OpenAI would consider renting out servers to other companies — was “according to recent comments by OpenAI executives.” While I can’t speak to how this information got the reporter, it feels like this was OpenAI. There is no mention of asking anyone for comment. Nevertheless, this piece says that: OpenAI’s cash burn would be around $9bn in 2025 (though the copy says $8bn, the “Cash Crunch” graph says $9bn), around $17bn in 2026, around $35bn in 2027, around $47bn in 2028, around $8bn in 2029, and then, inexplicably, have a positive cash flow of $38bn. Huh? The piece also mentions that cash burn would be “more than $10 billion higher” than previous cash burn projections from OpenAI, without linking to or sourcing where they received that information (though it’s potentially part of their source’s info). This piece also vastly increases revenues, saying that OpenAI will make $13bn in revenue in 2025, $30bn in 2026, $60bn in 2027, $100bn in 2028, $145bn in 2029, and $200bn in 2030. On September 10, 2025 — five days after a story saying OpenAI would burn $35bn in 2027 — Oracle and OpenAI announced a $300bn, five-year-long cloud deal. I believe this was intentional as this deal is not reflected in the cash burn above. On September 19, 2025, The Information reported that OpenAI “planned to spend about $100 billion renting backup servers from cloud providers over the next five years,” according to what executives have told shareholders. According to The Information, “including the backup servers, OpenAI is planning to spend about $85 billion a year on server rentals over the next five years, on average, according to the company’s private projections.” Yet deeper in the piece, The Information added that “OpenAI plans to spend $450 billion renting servers through 2030, including $100 billion in backup servers it says are ‘monetizeable’.” There is no mentioned request for comment. On September 29, 2025, The Information reported that OpenAI “generated around $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, about 16% more than it generated all of last year, according to financial disclosures to shareholders.” OpenAI “burned $2.5 billion” in the first half of 2025 (assume all following statements are from that time period). OpenAI spent $2bn on sales and marketing. OpenAI spent $6.2bn on research and development, which The Information believes is due to research compute costs. OpenAI “looked on track to meet its full-year revenue projection of $13 billion and $8.5 billion of cash burn.” There is no mentioned request for comment. On October 31, 2025, The Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft had mentioned in its recent earnings that it had taken a $4.1bn loss on its investment in OpenAI, implying a more than $12bn quarterly loss at the company due to Microsoft’s 32.% stake in that quarter (which has now dropped to 27%). The reason I exhaustively wrote this out is that when you lay it all out, a pattern develops: OpenAI is bullshitting its projec…
November 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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badideas.bsky.social
Trailer for Bi Gan’s RESSURRECTION. It takes place over 100 years of Chinese history in stories about all your senses, it’s about a monster & movies & love and how we somehow invented a strange method for sharing dreams.
November 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
barrytryan.bsky.social
Here we go…

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The Night Manager Series 2 | Teaser – BBC
YouTube video by BBC
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November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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WW1 British Brigadier surname generator (roll d6 twice for a hyphenated surname)

1. Hopton
2. Bletchley
3. Armsworth
4. Kensington
5. Pullwell
6. Fenton

1. Toss
2. Mallet
3. Ballup
4. Tugger
5. Smythe
6. Goode
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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ursidice.bsky.social
WW1 British Sergeant surname generator (roll d6 twice for the first and second half)

1. Bos
2. God
3. Tread
4. Flit
5. Smeth
6. Dun

1. ric
2. well
3. wick
4. inns
5. ton
6. send
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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johnrogers.bsky.social
People thinking they’re inventing network television after 10 years of destroying network television, I am going to walk into the fucking ocean.
merrillbarr.com Merrill Barr @merrillbarr.com · 12d
Okay, who told every exec to start using "white space" as their new buzzword?
How did the model come about? AUBREY: Casey and I saw this white space in the streaming landscape of people not making network-style shows with 15+ episodes that return annually. And both of those are very important factors, because one, with 15 episodes, you really give people an opportunity to sink into a world. It’s one of the reasons why certain older shows, people binge them like crazy, because they’re able to watch more than eight episodes every two years.
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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creativeuk.bsky.social
🎬 The arts aren’t a luxury - they’re an export.

At #Lab25, @aiannucci.bsky.social reminds us that the UK’s Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy and 7% of our workforce - the GDP equivalent of oil + car industries combined.

🎥 Watch more clips from the Creative UK Pavilion hubs.ly/Q03QVhV90
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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patrickfreyne.bsky.social
The intro to my piece on All's Fair with Kim Kardashian www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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marklemley.bsky.social
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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mattbelloni.bsky.social
New pod: It’s a Town Hall mailbag episode! Your questions, my attempts at answers, with cameos by David Ellison’s chutzpah, Kathy Kennedy’s indecision, Rachel Sennott’s premiere finger foods, Comcast’s desperation, and…. CT and Bananas. Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/0qOM...
Mailbag! 'Star Wars' and Soderbergh, the Best Home for Warner Bros., and Netflix vs. Theaters.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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drgonzo123.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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financialtimes.com
Breaking news: US stocks have dropped as jitters over highly elevated valuations for many artificial intelligence companies intensified and top Wall Street executives said markets were vulnerable to a pullback. on.ft.com/4hIMmhj
November 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
barrytryan.bsky.social
Been busy helping to make this…
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman on The Night Manager’s Long-Awaited Return
Nearly a decade after the Emmy-winning original series, their intelligence officers navigate a bleaker world in season two: “Forty years ago, people would write movies where the punchline was, ‘and th...
www.vanityfair.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM