Dan
@bristowbailey.bsky.social
The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudo-world that can only be looked at.
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Dan
@bristowbailey.bsky.social
· Jan 26
My dad always said his earliest memory was coming back from the market with his granny on the bus, back when proper cockney grannies bought their eels live, and one of them escaped and the conductor was chasing it up the aisle.
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When we were younger "COVID" came
And we all thought it was a shame
We didn't stop our daily tasks, we simply did them wearing masks
Though times were hard, we didn't feel shitty
Our "pin-up" he was called Chris Whitty
Made our own fun, didn't whine,
We'd cancel folk we found online...
And we all thought it was a shame
We didn't stop our daily tasks, we simply did them wearing masks
Though times were hard, we didn't feel shitty
Our "pin-up" he was called Chris Whitty
Made our own fun, didn't whine,
We'd cancel folk we found online...
March 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
When we were younger "COVID" came
And we all thought it was a shame
We didn't stop our daily tasks, we simply did them wearing masks
Though times were hard, we didn't feel shitty
Our "pin-up" he was called Chris Whitty
Made our own fun, didn't whine,
We'd cancel folk we found online...
And we all thought it was a shame
We didn't stop our daily tasks, we simply did them wearing masks
Though times were hard, we didn't feel shitty
Our "pin-up" he was called Chris Whitty
Made our own fun, didn't whine,
We'd cancel folk we found online...
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Freud only came up with Freudianism because he was a little freak
March 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Freud only came up with Freudianism because he was a little freak
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My dad always said his earliest memory was coming back from the market with his granny on the bus, back when proper cockney grannies bought their eels live, and one of them escaped and the conductor was chasing it up the aisle.
January 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
My dad always said his earliest memory was coming back from the market with his granny on the bus, back when proper cockney grannies bought their eels live, and one of them escaped and the conductor was chasing it up the aisle.
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a bear that can regurgitate its stomach out of its mouth to engulf what it wants to eat, like a starfish
January 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
a bear that can regurgitate its stomach out of its mouth to engulf what it wants to eat, like a starfish
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As a tribute to David Lynch, I'm going to sit by the bins all day and scare people.
January 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
As a tribute to David Lynch, I'm going to sit by the bins all day and scare people.
Glimpses of reality invade the dream-life of the Nation. The walls between the worlds are crumbling. Signs of the End Times.
I just spotted a Twix in Casualty. I know this isn’t going to make the news but I haven’t missed an episode since 1997 and I’ve never seen a branded food product on the show. They go out of their way to make fake chocco labels for the chocolate in the vending machine. This Twix thing is enormous.
January 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Glimpses of reality invade the dream-life of the Nation. The walls between the worlds are crumbling. Signs of the End Times.
Sometimes, your kids are really cute and charming, other times they sit there very quietly and then whisper to themselves "I died in 1875".
January 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Sometimes, your kids are really cute and charming, other times they sit there very quietly and then whisper to themselves "I died in 1875".
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Apparently it's all a massive con anyway. As the days get longer, it turns out the nights get shorter BY EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT, meaning that in total we're no better off than we were before.
December 21, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Apparently it's all a massive con anyway. As the days get longer, it turns out the nights get shorter BY EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT, meaning that in total we're no better off than we were before.
This guy's obviously never read that paper where they use Fourier Analysis to map a Mornington-complete network onto any public transport system above a certain threshold (Pₘ) of complexity.
December 20, 2024 at 11:13 AM
This guy's obviously never read that paper where they use Fourier Analysis to map a Mornington-complete network onto any public transport system above a certain threshold (Pₘ) of complexity.
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If you’re a creator or work in the creative industries or otherwise have a heart, then please add your voice to this UK Gov consultation on AI and Copyright. I said ‘freelance’ for company and ‘unsure’ for super-granular legal stuff but made my voice heard. You can too. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.
www.gov.uk
December 18, 2024 at 12:50 PM
If you’re a creator or work in the creative industries or otherwise have a heart, then please add your voice to this UK Gov consultation on AI and Copyright. I said ‘freelance’ for company and ‘unsure’ for super-granular legal stuff but made my voice heard. You can too. www.gov.uk/government/c...
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I was standing in the kitchen and pouring myself a glass of water when I had the realisation, with crystal, unbending certainty, that Beorn's origin is "Tom Bombadil fucked a bear".
September 6, 2024 at 11:52 AM
I was standing in the kitchen and pouring myself a glass of water when I had the realisation, with crystal, unbending certainty, that Beorn's origin is "Tom Bombadil fucked a bear".
Strange to think how, if Snoopy was English, he'd spend all his time on fox hunts.
December 8, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Strange to think how, if Snoopy was English, he'd spend all his time on fox hunts.
Me in the tepid bath of managed decline
December 6, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Me in the tepid bath of managed decline
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Dreamed I went to a Sports Direct in Coventry to see Werner Herzog give a talk, but when I got there, he was just sitting in a wingback chair, furiously wanking with his trousers round his ankles & castigating the audience for moral weakness when they started to leave
December 2, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Dreamed I went to a Sports Direct in Coventry to see Werner Herzog give a talk, but when I got there, he was just sitting in a wingback chair, furiously wanking with his trousers round his ankles & castigating the audience for moral weakness when they started to leave
I've managed to hack into the Secret Awesome Playlist in Spotify. Normal people aren't supposed to have access to this, it's too powerful.
November 28, 2024 at 5:05 PM
I've managed to hack into the Secret Awesome Playlist in Spotify. Normal people aren't supposed to have access to this, it's too powerful.
Classic movie night with the youngest child.
November 27, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Classic movie night with the youngest child.
Trying to explain to my seven year-old why he might not get all the cultural references in E.T. : "It's, you know, set in American Times"
November 27, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Trying to explain to my seven year-old why he might not get all the cultural references in E.T. : "It's, you know, set in American Times"
I dreamed that my daughter and I found a way into Elon Musk's secret underground theme park. On the lowest level I met God and He made me fight Him.
November 26, 2024 at 8:41 AM
I dreamed that my daughter and I found a way into Elon Musk's secret underground theme park. On the lowest level I met God and He made me fight Him.
Aside from the complete moral and aesthetic failure this represents, I'm also thinking that publishing a lot of books that no-one in your company's even read seems like a huge legal risk. How do they check for libellous or illegal content?
Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.
November 25, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Aside from the complete moral and aesthetic failure this represents, I'm also thinking that publishing a lot of books that no-one in your company's even read seems like a huge legal risk. How do they check for libellous or illegal content?
Bluesky is going to be great up to the point where its VC backers want to realise some return on their investment, at which point it will rapidly pivot to being as shit as everything else. What we're enjoying here is a brief holiday while no-one's trying to turn us into product.
November 25, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Bluesky is going to be great up to the point where its VC backers want to realise some return on their investment, at which point it will rapidly pivot to being as shit as everything else. What we're enjoying here is a brief holiday while no-one's trying to turn us into product.