Roy
@roybutlin.bsky.social
Flailing wastrel.
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Doctor Who Taskmaster
Squirrel Girl The Thick of It
Alan Partridge The Ballad of Wallis Island
Watching episodes 50,100 & 150 of Taskmaster = 7.6, 12.5, CoC3
(200 soon, with Iannucci!)
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#Taskmaster
(200 soon, with Iannucci!)
❤️
#Taskmaster
January 21, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Watching episodes 50,100 & 150 of Taskmaster = 7.6, 12.5, CoC3
(200 soon, with Iannucci!)
❤️
#Taskmaster
(200 soon, with Iannucci!)
❤️
#Taskmaster
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chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
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July 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
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Couple more Addams bangers, all with a genuinely eerie quality to them.
January 19, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Couple more Addams bangers, all with a genuinely eerie quality to them.
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I always thought we weren’t ready for sentience. Huge evolutionary advantage, but a near-fatal shock to our poor ape brains.
So we invented religion to explain death, comedy to explain life, and fiction to explain time.
So we invented religion to explain death, comedy to explain life, and fiction to explain time.
January 18, 2026 at 5:22 PM
I always thought we weren’t ready for sentience. Huge evolutionary advantage, but a near-fatal shock to our poor ape brains.
So we invented religion to explain death, comedy to explain life, and fiction to explain time.
So we invented religion to explain death, comedy to explain life, and fiction to explain time.
Nightmares - realistic, plausible ones - the food poisoning of the brain - sleep is supposed to make things better, ffs
January 19, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Nightmares - realistic, plausible ones - the food poisoning of the brain - sleep is supposed to make things better, ffs
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The Ring is a film about the importance of looking after your emotional well-being
November 27, 2024 at 7:56 PM
The Ring is a film about the importance of looking after your emotional well-being
Too many train journeys this week - so, increasingly angry about the endless audio spam that makes it easy to miss the actual useful information about eg which fucking train has just been cancelled
January 5, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Too many train journeys this week - so, increasingly angry about the endless audio spam that makes it easy to miss the actual useful information about eg which fucking train has just been cancelled
GenAI is a creepy guy who hangs out in the library & claims he wrote all of the books
January 4, 2026 at 11:03 PM
GenAI is a creepy guy who hangs out in the library & claims he wrote all of the books
I’m just going to get drunk & eat cheese slices every day forever*
*until my fatal cheese-induced heart attack in approx 6 weeks
*until my fatal cheese-induced heart attack in approx 6 weeks
January 3, 2026 at 7:20 PM
I’m just going to get drunk & eat cheese slices every day forever*
*until my fatal cheese-induced heart attack in approx 6 weeks
*until my fatal cheese-induced heart attack in approx 6 weeks
Start The Year As If You Mean To Go On
January 1, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Start The Year As If You Mean To Go On
I don’t often drunkenly listen to records - I should - but it seems like a good way to close out the year
Playing:
Anna von Hausswolf
@annacalvi.bsky.social
@aimeemann.bsky.social
The Ballad of Wallis Island
❤️
Playing:
Anna von Hausswolf
@annacalvi.bsky.social
@aimeemann.bsky.social
The Ballad of Wallis Island
❤️
December 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I don’t often drunkenly listen to records - I should - but it seems like a good way to close out the year
Playing:
Anna von Hausswolf
@annacalvi.bsky.social
@aimeemann.bsky.social
The Ballad of Wallis Island
❤️
Playing:
Anna von Hausswolf
@annacalvi.bsky.social
@aimeemann.bsky.social
The Ballad of Wallis Island
❤️
@cragtastic.bsky.social sister and I are watching/rewatching “how are you …” - hope your day excellent too! x
December 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
@cragtastic.bsky.social sister and I are watching/rewatching “how are you …” - hope your day excellent too! x
He’s always been great, of course, but this year has been a particularly wonderful Tim Key year:
The Ballad of Wallis Island ❤️
Loganberry
How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
AND I unexpectedly met him; fanboyed at him for quite a long time, he was v gracious & only looked a bit scared
#TimKey
The Ballad of Wallis Island ❤️
Loganberry
How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
AND I unexpectedly met him; fanboyed at him for quite a long time, he was v gracious & only looked a bit scared
#TimKey
December 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
He’s always been great, of course, but this year has been a particularly wonderful Tim Key year:
The Ballad of Wallis Island ❤️
Loganberry
How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
AND I unexpectedly met him; fanboyed at him for quite a long time, he was v gracious & only looked a bit scared
#TimKey
The Ballad of Wallis Island ❤️
Loganberry
How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
AND I unexpectedly met him; fanboyed at him for quite a long time, he was v gracious & only looked a bit scared
#TimKey
Doomscrolling through my own brain
December 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Doomscrolling through my own brain
December 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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been going down this waterslide for over an hour now and i'm starting to get worried
March 30, 2024 at 6:34 PM
been going down this waterslide for over an hour now and i'm starting to get worried
@ewacat.bsky.social I can’t remember in what context, but ages ago you mentioned liking Lady Audley’s Secret - I bought it at some point after that, it’s been sitting on my shelf for months until today …
Oh my god, it’s brilliant!
Oh my god, it’s brilliant!
December 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
@ewacat.bsky.social I can’t remember in what context, but ages ago you mentioned liking Lady Audley’s Secret - I bought it at some point after that, it’s been sitting on my shelf for months until today …
Oh my god, it’s brilliant!
Oh my god, it’s brilliant!
Another ridiculous stress dream in which someone in the cinema was feeding chewing gum to a baby giraffe - it’s not good for them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Another ridiculous stress dream in which someone in the cinema was feeding chewing gum to a baby giraffe - it’s not good for them!
@aptshadow.bsky.social I’ve just finished the Dogs of War trilogy - absolutely stunning! All three are wonderful in their own right, and as a series, just extraordinary
December 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
@aptshadow.bsky.social I’ve just finished the Dogs of War trilogy - absolutely stunning! All three are wonderful in their own right, and as a series, just extraordinary
This morning I threw away two bins, one inside the other, into a third bin - yep, binception
December 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This morning I threw away two bins, one inside the other, into a third bin - yep, binception
#18 - PETER CAPALDI
Podcast Episode · Half the Picture · 05/12/2025 · 1 sec
podcasts.apple.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM