Nic Martin
@nicmartin.bsky.social
Here for a good time, not a long time.
Have to say I find I get more engagement on Threads than I ever did on Twitter (I don’t post enough on here to be honest). I enjoyed being accused of acting “privileged” because I said I found the world building and back story of The Force Awakens unsatisfactory earlier. God bless the internet.
April 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Have to say I find I get more engagement on Threads than I ever did on Twitter (I don’t post enough on here to be honest). I enjoyed being accused of acting “privileged” because I said I found the world building and back story of The Force Awakens unsatisfactory earlier. God bless the internet.
Obviously everyone is entitled to their own opinions & not everyone is going to like the same things as me, but the reviews on @letterboxd.social are insane. Okay, I don’t know why it cost so much, but who honestly cares what a film costs?? It’s a perfectly fun action/adventure, not Worst Movie Ever
March 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Obviously everyone is entitled to their own opinions & not everyone is going to like the same things as me, but the reviews on @letterboxd.social are insane. Okay, I don’t know why it cost so much, but who honestly cares what a film costs?? It’s a perfectly fun action/adventure, not Worst Movie Ever
I watched #TheElectricState last night and really enjoyed it. If it had been released in the cinema I would have made time to go see it not felt that I’d wasted my money. I think a lot of people probably feel the same. I don’t really understand the backlash tbh
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The Electric State: Savage reviews but Netflix's $320m blockbuster is a hit
The Electric State, starring Millie Bobby Brown, has had scathing reviews - but Netflix won't mind.
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March 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I watched #TheElectricState last night and really enjoyed it. If it had been released in the cinema I would have made time to go see it not felt that I’d wasted my money. I think a lot of people probably feel the same. I don’t really understand the backlash tbh
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Just checking if America is great again yet?
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Stocks fall as Trump warns of US economy trade war 'transition'
New retaliatory tariffs from China targeting some US farm products came into effect on Monday.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Just checking if America is great again yet?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I completely agree with the stance that AI in creative spaces is theft, and using it for commercial image generation is ick… but as someone with *zero* artistic ability and no money to pay for an illustrator, well, it has its uses. I won’t, obviously. But I kinda wish I could.
February 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I completely agree with the stance that AI in creative spaces is theft, and using it for commercial image generation is ick… but as someone with *zero* artistic ability and no money to pay for an illustrator, well, it has its uses. I won’t, obviously. But I kinda wish I could.
Oh dear, that question & response on The Chase hasn’t aged well
February 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Oh dear, that question & response on The Chase hasn’t aged well
Holy crap… my insta timeline is full (for some reason) of terrible AI-generated videos. But I just saw some on the Bad Place that were so convincing I thought the account was taking the piss and just posting real video clips. They are almost completely convincing unless you look frame-by-frame.
February 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Holy crap… my insta timeline is full (for some reason) of terrible AI-generated videos. But I just saw some on the Bad Place that were so convincing I thought the account was taking the piss and just posting real video clips. They are almost completely convincing unless you look frame-by-frame.
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Geoffrey and Bungle from Rainbow, but they’re dancing to ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ by The Prodigy.
February 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Geoffrey and Bungle from Rainbow, but they’re dancing to ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ by The Prodigy.
I imagine it depends on your childhood?
February 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I imagine it depends on your childhood?
Just discovered that the mighty US Consumer Product Safety Commission made an actual album. Which is bizarre enough in itself. What’s even crazier is that it has some actual honest-to-goodness bangers.
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Protect Ya Noggin' - We're Safety Now Haven't We
YouTube video by U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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February 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Just discovered that the mighty US Consumer Product Safety Commission made an actual album. Which is bizarre enough in itself. What’s even crazier is that it has some actual honest-to-goodness bangers.
youtu.be/MhVcvqUbsRw?...
youtu.be/MhVcvqUbsRw?...
Drokk! TODAY is my TWENTY YEAR anniversary of buying @2000ad.bsky.social! Immediately post-Total War, all the stories part-way through, a terrible place to start from, but I fell in love anyway and haven’t looked back. Here’s to the next twenty!
January 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Drokk! TODAY is my TWENTY YEAR anniversary of buying @2000ad.bsky.social! Immediately post-Total War, all the stories part-way through, a terrible place to start from, but I fell in love anyway and haven’t looked back. Here’s to the next twenty!
Strange urge to read this today 🤔
January 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Strange urge to read this today 🤔
This is incredibly disappointing, especially from The Guardian, of all newspapers.
OpenAI refuse to disclose the source of its training set. But I figured I'd try to find out if the strikebreaking AI tool the management used to replace journalists' labour was based on our journalism stolen from us by OpenAI by giving ChatGPT the following prompt...
January 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is incredibly disappointing, especially from The Guardian, of all newspapers.
Also… I’d made peace with this fact a few years ago, but that really is the how Twin Peaks ends. Damn…
January 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Also… I’d made peace with this fact a few years ago, but that really is the how Twin Peaks ends. Damn…
So sad to see the news about David Lynch. One of the all time great film directors, his body of work had a profound impact on me. We will not see his like again
January 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
So sad to see the news about David Lynch. One of the all time great film directors, his body of work had a profound impact on me. We will not see his like again
The details of the allegations against Neil Gaiman are utterly horrifying, with Gaiman coming across as a monster completely dead behind the eyes. But the number of women (!) saying Amanda Palmer is worse than he is almost as shocking. Complicit? Yes. But he did what he did.
January 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The details of the allegations against Neil Gaiman are utterly horrifying, with Gaiman coming across as a monster completely dead behind the eyes. But the number of women (!) saying Amanda Palmer is worse than he is almost as shocking. Complicit? Yes. But he did what he did.
A day or so ago my wife mentioned to me a mutual acquaintance I haven’t seen, spoken or thought about in over a decade. And today lo and behold, guess who Twitter/X suggested I might want to follow today? But, y’know, it’s all just a coincidence, right? 😒
Apple says Siri isn’t sending your conversations to advertisers — even if it accidentally records them
Apple says Siri isn’t sending your conversations to advertisers — even if it accidentally records them
How are the ads targeted then? We have some ideas.
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January 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
A day or so ago my wife mentioned to me a mutual acquaintance I haven’t seen, spoken or thought about in over a decade. And today lo and behold, guess who Twitter/X suggested I might want to follow today? But, y’know, it’s all just a coincidence, right? 😒
Whelp. Excited for a movie. Sad to see Brumm is more-or-less exiting after that. Would have loved to see him pivot it to shorter seasons of longer episodes a la The Sign, but it’s impossible not to respect the decision #bluey x.com/officialblue...
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December 17, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Whelp. Excited for a movie. Sad to see Brumm is more-or-less exiting after that. Would have loved to see him pivot it to shorter seasons of longer episodes a la The Sign, but it’s impossible not to respect the decision #bluey x.com/officialblue...
I appreciate *that* shot in the 28 Years Later trailer could be the very first shot in the movie, but it still feels very spoiler-y. I’d love it if it was just a little Romero-style background gag, but even then it’s still spoiled. We’ll find out next year, I guess…
December 10, 2024 at 9:29 PM
I appreciate *that* shot in the 28 Years Later trailer could be the very first shot in the movie, but it still feels very spoiler-y. I’d love it if it was just a little Romero-style background gag, but even then it’s still spoiled. We’ll find out next year, I guess…
Very happy to see A Ghost Story for Christmas is back again this year… but with all due respect to Mark Gatiss, I’d love to see @dannyrobins.bsky.social given a crack at it one year.
December 6, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Very happy to see A Ghost Story for Christmas is back again this year… but with all due respect to Mark Gatiss, I’d love to see @dannyrobins.bsky.social given a crack at it one year.
This is so fascinating and evocative.
The National Library of Scotland has a deep secret. #LocalHistory #atchives 📚🗃️
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The forgotten street found behind a hidden library door
The passageway gives a glimpse of how Edinburgh looked centuries ago.
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December 1, 2024 at 9:47 PM
This is so fascinating and evocative.
Damnit, lost “Whamageddon” already 😭
December 1, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Damnit, lost “Whamageddon” already 😭
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Out of desperation, I just had some of the kids’ Benylin. Absolutely disgusting! And it’s for kids! I refuse to believe this is the best they can do in 2024.
November 29, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Out of desperation, I just had some of the kids’ Benylin. Absolutely disgusting! And it’s for kids! I refuse to believe this is the best they can do in 2024.