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Wiseass film critic for @M_Star_Online, BBC Radio, @talkRADIO, OffScreen, and others ๐ŸŽฌ ๐Ÿฟ Skechers enthusiast, blazer aficionado ๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿผ๐Ÿธ All opinions my own

London, England
Joined August 2010
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Iโ€™m crying. ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ This might be the most diabolical use of a foldable phone Iโ€™ve ever seen. The reveal when he opens it is INSANE. ๐Ÿ’€
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millennial optimism is back baby iโ€™m blasting florence and the machine bass boosted the dog days ARE over
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I canโ€™t believe weโ€™re two months away from 2027 and the easiest way to save something as a PDF is still to lie to your computer and tell it youโ€™re about to print it.
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i need a T-shirt that says "I support Palestine Action and BBW face sitting" so i can get doubly arrested in the UK
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thanks to the new uk laws, i have to masturbate to the facehugger scenes from ALIEN. i dont have any other choice.
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Can we just reflect on the fact our government has banned possessing facesitting porn before it outlawed conversion therapy
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british people: what if groceries were affordable british government: NO MORE FACESITTING.
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He was born in 1946 in a lake. He died in 2455 reentering orbit. He was an astronaut.
Can you believe heโ€™s going to take Manhattan one day
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If franz ferdinand didnโ€™t want to be assassinated he shouldnโ€™t have made a song called โ€œtake me outโ€
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If I was Clayface Iโ€™d give myself big boobs & a huge voluptuous ass & start an OnlyFans
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Yeah Euston is bad because itโ€™s ugly, has shit shops and constantly fucked trains - but imagine combining that with a nonsensical layout, low ceilings so you canโ€™t see ahead of yourself, last min platform announcements AND then filling it with the UKโ€™s most inefficient travellers
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TV licence to be extended to include holographic Panini stickers
tv license to be extended to include skateboarders and gameboy owners
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It costs Reform around ยฃ1 for every envelope sent to their free post address. You can currently buy 100 envelopes on Amazon for ยฃ3.49. Reform UK, FREEPOST RTLT-ZXHY-KSDC, 83 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0HW
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BREAKING: A developer used AI to build free, open-source alternatives to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Brandon Thomas, creator of ArtCraft, a suite of free tools meant to replace Adobeโ€™s apps, built GridCraft, DeckCraft and WordCraft with Anthropicโ€™s Claude, per Tomโ€™s Hardware. All three are free to download on GitHub.
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Nic Cage: โ€œI am not an AI-friendly actorโ€ฆโ€ Fuck yeah.
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Says a lot that Bernthalโ€™s only willing to step in if itโ€™s a woman being bullied and not just, yโ€™know, a person.
Jon Bernthal says Kevin Spacey was a bully on set โ€œI thought he was a bit of a bully. I thought he was, uh, I thought that he, um, didnโ€™t really care for the way he was behaving towards some of the other people on set.โ€ โ€œI think he was, you know, acting towards people in a way that I remember at the time thinking, โ€˜Man, if that was a woman that he was talking to, I would have done something.โ€™โ€ โ€œThe kind of man he was when I saw him working with him made me lose all respect for him, and I was enormously disappointed.โ€
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Likes of DuVernay, Affleck and Boyle proudly using AI suggests ever-gaping disconnect between filmmakers and audiences that goes beyond tech itself and points to fundamental ignorance. Vast majority of us don't want this shit. Stop doing it. And certainly stop boasting about it.
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This is a *deeply* slippery slope and, frankly, we should expect better from a filmmaker of Danny Boyleโ€™s calibre.
Danny Boyle says he used AI to replace an actorโ€™s face with Margaret Thatcherโ€™s in โ€œInkโ€ because he didnโ€™t want to โ€œuse a Thatcher imitator.โ€ โ€œIt was very important to use that we didnโ€™t use a Thatcher imitator,โ€ he said, acknowledging that Thatcher and The Sun editor Lambโ€™s relationship was well documented. โ€œShe used to visit Larry Lambโ€™s office late at night after the edition had gone out, and they drank whisky together. Sheโ€™d take her shoes off, curled up on the sofa.โ€ He also admitted that his didnโ€™t ask the Thatcher state beforehand: โ€œI declined the ask the estate for permission to do that. I donโ€™t think the estate of people like Margaret Thatcher should have control over our ability to insist on ideas in art about what her influence was on our lives. So that was really important.โ€ variety.com/2026/film/globalโ€ฆ
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I just realized something If Adobe goes to court with these guys and wins, that sets the precedent that Intellectual Property is copyright protected from AI So either Adobe gets destroyed by this knock off, or they go to court and destroy AI exploitation of other people's IP
AI is now being used to recreate Adobeโ€™s software, a developer has released seven free, open-source apps as clean-room alternatives to Adobeโ€™s main tools: - PhotoCraft โ†’ Photoshop - VectorCraft โ†’ Illustrator - FilmCraft โ†’ Premiere Pro - LightCraft โ†’ Lightroom - EffectCraft โ†’ After Effects - DesignCraft โ†’ InDesign - PrintCraft โ†’ Acrobat Pro Built in Rust with help from Claude Opus 5.5, they run on Windows, Linux, and macOS under MIT/Apache licenses without using Adobeโ€™s source code.
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I'm making the world a better place one venn diagram at a time.
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