Andrew | TheSpoilist
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I don't want to get into Star Wars discourse... and yet, I really think anyone who thinks any one of the prequels are better than The Rise of Skywalker is incredibly wrong.
Not that I think it's good.
Not that I think it's good.
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I don't want to get into Star Wars discourse... and yet, I really think anyone who thinks any one of the prequels are better than The Rise of Skywalker is incredibly wrong.
Not that I think it's good.
Not that I think it's good.
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Wrote this a couple of weeks ago. Feels more relevant still after today. And it’s a deficit of self awareness which goes far beyond some members of the BBC board.
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Wrote this a couple of weeks ago. Feels more relevant still after today. And it’s a deficit of self awareness which goes far beyond some members of the BBC board.
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Elon Musk’s favourite Star Trek movie is Section 31 because “it was so badass.”
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Elon Musk’s favourite Star Trek movie is Section 31 because “it was so badass.”
Okay, now can we do Brexit was influenced by Russia and so was every advocate of it?
Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
“This is total armageddon for the online right. It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Okay, now can we do Brexit was influenced by Russia and so was every advocate of it?
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Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
“This is total armageddon for the online right. It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
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And just so we’re clear: writers cannot be their own copy editors. A fresh pair of eyes is a necessity, not a luxury.
It is so, so bad. We’re surrounded by some of the sloppiest copy I’ve ever seen. Nothing gets another set of eyes anymore. Incredibly amateurish stuff at some really serious media orgs. Makes me wanna scream.
Every day I see spelling and grammar mistakes in ads, TV chyrons, and other places where, in the past, it would be deeply embarrassing and a deal breaker for the source, but now they just fly, and where are the editors. Just hire me or something, damn.
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
And just so we’re clear: writers cannot be their own copy editors. A fresh pair of eyes is a necessity, not a luxury.
I mean, it's not the main focus but...
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I mean, it's not the main focus but...
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If you work in management and basically your entire job is to make presentations, perhaps you should get an absolute fucking minimum set of skills to author them succinctly and make them look good, rather than going "hey is anyone here good at Powerpoint" right before the meeting
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
If you work in management and basically your entire job is to make presentations, perhaps you should get an absolute fucking minimum set of skills to author them succinctly and make them look good, rather than going "hey is anyone here good at Powerpoint" right before the meeting
Is the trouble that they're trapped down a hole and need to form a human chain to rescue them?
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Is the trouble that they're trapped down a hole and need to form a human chain to rescue them?
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Putting the Wicked Witch in a new light is not the same as empathizing with Nazis, come on. Writing a book/musical/film about how we buy into dominant narratives is an interesting take.
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Putting the Wicked Witch in a new light is not the same as empathizing with Nazis, come on. Writing a book/musical/film about how we buy into dominant narratives is an interesting take.
Ultimately, I just don't give a shit about The Wizard of Oz.
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Ultimately, I just don't give a shit about The Wizard of Oz.
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We do know who killed JFK. The Warren Commission was an incredibly thorough and good-faith effort to prove and document what had happened, which they did. The conspiracy theories arose in spite of best efforts to avoid them, but there really isn't anything they could have reasonably done better.
My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We do know who killed JFK. The Warren Commission was an incredibly thorough and good-faith effort to prove and document what had happened, which they did. The conspiracy theories arose in spite of best efforts to avoid them, but there really isn't anything they could have reasonably done better.
The Road (2009)
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The Road (2009)
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This is great: ILM visual effects artist Todd Vaziri breaks down some of the “hidden” special effects that he and his team have worked on, incl. for Rogue One, The Force Awakens, and Transformers. “I make the stars in Star Wars.” [kottke.org]
ILM Visual Effects Artist Breaks Down Hidden VFX
If you were one of those people who loved watching DVD extras, you’ll enjoy the hell out of ILM visual effects artist Todd Vaziri breaking down some of the special effects that he and his team have worked on, including
kottke.org
October 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This is great: ILM visual effects artist Todd Vaziri breaks down some of the “hidden” special effects that he and his team have worked on, incl. for Rogue One, The Force Awakens, and Transformers. “I make the stars in Star Wars.” [kottke.org]
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Pain au chocolat - Warning signs of death by chocolate
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Pain au chocolat - Warning signs of death by chocolate
I don't understand. I thought beingn racist was his whole thing
I mean it's not complicated. Twenty people who were there have confirmed that Nigel Farage said all of these things.
He's the only one denying it, which means just one thing. He is a liar
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
He's the only one denying it, which means just one thing. He is a liar
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?
Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I don't understand. I thought beingn racist was his whole thing
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It’s a very happy #DoctorWhoDay from us - we’re delighted to announce we’ve successfully acquired the archive of Whoniverse legend Terrance Dicks 😲 Read more at the link:
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
November 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
It’s a very happy #DoctorWhoDay from us - we’re delighted to announce we’ve successfully acquired the archive of Whoniverse legend Terrance Dicks 😲 Read more at the link:
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
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AI seems to be an expensive way to do someone else’s job as well as you reckon they probably do it, whatever, but no use for anything you do yourself, where you can professionally tell it’s hopeless.
Good luck with the bubble, lads.
(Clipped from The Wrap, about Disney giving up on its AI R&D.)
Good luck with the bubble, lads.
(Clipped from The Wrap, about Disney giving up on its AI R&D.)
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
AI seems to be an expensive way to do someone else’s job as well as you reckon they probably do it, whatever, but no use for anything you do yourself, where you can professionally tell it’s hopeless.
Good luck with the bubble, lads.
(Clipped from The Wrap, about Disney giving up on its AI R&D.)
Good luck with the bubble, lads.
(Clipped from The Wrap, about Disney giving up on its AI R&D.)
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It was 62 years ago #OnThisDay in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.
I'm quite pleased with this one...
www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.
I'm quite pleased with this one...
www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
Breaking news - November 1963
BBC History recalls one of the first truly global news stories of the modern multi-media age
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
It was 62 years ago #OnThisDay in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.
I'm quite pleased with this one...
www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.
I'm quite pleased with this one...
www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
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There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
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I've just watched the first two Lethal Weapon films and it strikes me that Mel Gibson running was a thing before Tom Cruise popularised the form.
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I've just watched the first two Lethal Weapon films and it strikes me that Mel Gibson running was a thing before Tom Cruise popularised the form.
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The plan: to de-radicalize QAnon folks we’re gonna elect each one to Congress for 5 years.
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The plan: to de-radicalize QAnon folks we’re gonna elect each one to Congress for 5 years.