David Waywell
@davidwaywell.bsky.social
Former human. Now replaced by AI.
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In 2024, Bet 365's CEO got a salary - not total package, just salary - of £94.7m.
A lot of people have to lose their bets to pay that.
We should be MASSIVELY curtailing betting, not promoting it further. It's a cancer in society.
A lot of people have to lose their bets to pay that.
We should be MASSIVELY curtailing betting, not promoting it further. It's a cancer in society.
You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
In 2024, Bet 365's CEO got a salary - not total package, just salary - of £94.7m.
A lot of people have to lose their bets to pay that.
We should be MASSIVELY curtailing betting, not promoting it further. It's a cancer in society.
A lot of people have to lose their bets to pay that.
We should be MASSIVELY curtailing betting, not promoting it further. It's a cancer in society.
A long time since I cared about Bond (esp. now it's Amazon's baby) but the obvious answer is: ignore it. Reboot with a fresh cast. To do anything else requires such mindfuckery and jiggery-pokery as to be ridiculous. Each new Bond was always a notional reset anyway.
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
A long time since I cared about Bond (esp. now it's Amazon's baby) but the obvious answer is: ignore it. Reboot with a fresh cast. To do anything else requires such mindfuckery and jiggery-pokery as to be ridiculous. Each new Bond was always a notional reset anyway.
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
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Ah, thank you again. This is the article I was looking for. It's by Claude Chabrol not Truffaut.
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Ah, thank you again. This is the article I was looking for. It's by Claude Chabrol not Truffaut.
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Here's the April 1955 Cahiers du Cinema (they seem to have most every issue if you search for "Cahiers du Cinema):
archive.org/details/les-...
archive.org/details/les-...
Les Cahiers du Cinema 1955-04: Vol 8 Iss 46 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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November 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Here's the April 1955 Cahiers du Cinema (they seem to have most every issue if you search for "Cahiers du Cinema):
archive.org/details/les-...
archive.org/details/les-...
I know it's a long shot but anybody know if there's an online copy of François Truffaut's review of “Rear Window” from Cahiers du Cinéma (April 1955)?
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I know it's a long shot but anybody know if there's an online copy of François Truffaut's review of “Rear Window” from Cahiers du Cinéma (April 1955)?
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Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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The BBC is surely meant to be woke? It's always been about basic decency. Somebody needs to be imo because the general tone in online spaces is horribly aggressive atm. I don't really understand all the director general stuff but it would be nice to have a media channel that is mostly kind. 😒
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The BBC is surely meant to be woke? It's always been about basic decency. Somebody needs to be imo because the general tone in online spaces is horribly aggressive atm. I don't really understand all the director general stuff but it would be nice to have a media channel that is mostly kind. 😒
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You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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There's a link you will be able to access in the comments to the original post (if you haven't spotted it already)
Simcast News portal.
Search on topics your interested. Read great personalised news.
able.to
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
There's a link you will be able to access in the comments to the original post (if you haven't spotted it already)
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That kind of block can be implemented anywhere, including (if you're running your own web server) just serving up a different page to a block of IPs.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
That kind of block can be implemented anywhere, including (if you're running your own web server) just serving up a different page to a block of IPs.
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I hadn't realised that loony paranoid Yanks were doing this to themselves and UK readers for no reason, but it doesn't surprise me given they did the same thing at the point there was an equally daft Yank moral panic about how UK libel laws might impact random bloggers with no money
WTF?
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I hadn't realised that loony paranoid Yanks were doing this to themselves and UK readers for no reason, but it doesn't surprise me given they did the same thing at the point there was an equally daft Yank moral panic about how UK libel laws might impact random bloggers with no money
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It’s ironic that the BBC’s leadership has come unstuck over supposed bias against a right-wing US President when, for many in the UK, the real issue has been the perception of BBC bias against progressive politics, whilst it has regularly given airtime to the politics of the further right.
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
It’s ironic that the BBC’s leadership has come unstuck over supposed bias against a right-wing US President when, for many in the UK, the real issue has been the perception of BBC bias against progressive politics, whilst it has regularly given airtime to the politics of the further right.
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This was a diagram illustrating a piece I wrote in @prospectmagazine.co.uk in January 2024. Some faces have since changed but you get the general gist …
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This was a diagram illustrating a piece I wrote in @prospectmagazine.co.uk in January 2024. Some faces have since changed but you get the general gist …
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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🔴The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report
The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...
The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...
The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report
The UK's infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could 'politicise' our reliance upon his companies, the report warns
bylinetimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🔴The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report
The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...
The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...
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Rewatching 'The Creator'. Don't remember the aspect ratio being this wide. Insane.
November 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Rewatching 'The Creator'. Don't remember the aspect ratio being this wide. Insane.
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash