If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
12.12.2025 08:12 β π 4452 π 1466 π¬ 306 π 325@willsh.bsky.social
John V Willshire. Scottish, understandably so. Works @ smithery.com Makes https://artefactshop.com Writes https://buttondown.com/artefacts Convenes https://lu.ma/stepscollective Profeshing https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnvwillshire
If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
12.12.2025 08:12 β π 4452 π 1466 π¬ 306 π 325(And also: fuck substack. Wtf are you doing on that platform?)
12.12.2025 09:26 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I feel like so much good writing is going on behind substack/etc paywalls, which would once have been on free and open blogs. I know how we got here, but I don't get how its sustainable. I simply can't afford to pay a hundred people a monthly subscription.
12.12.2025 09:26 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1This reboot of The Champions looks *rubbish*β¦
10.12.2025 23:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0MATT.
10.12.2025 23:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
10.12.2025 05:10 β π 8613 π 2582 π¬ 39 π 31Sweet Clementines. Keep up at the back.
(ba da da)
Good times never seemed so goodβ¦
Brill - tagging for #cognitivedebt :)
09.12.2025 22:31 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Apple trying to get on the front foot with the Liquid Glass debacle, no doubt by trying to tell developers theyβre βusing it wrongββ¦
You know what, letβs fucking not.
#liquidglass
It's a great name for a special Christmas imperial stout. Somebody call PΓ΅hjala Brewery.
09.12.2025 14:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If all of the cultural reference points - Ship of Theseus, Triggerβs Broom, My Grandfatherβs Axe etc - are generally replaced over time, does it still remain the same construct?
09.12.2025 14:31 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0#sussex is a *thing* - a talk I gave yesterday at the Policy sprint for Sussex Devolution
#localgov
smithery.com/2025/12/09/s...
Still from Die Hard. Which is a Christmas Film.
Let the Christmas films commence.
06.12.2025 20:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Some guy
Those hands are modelled on the digits of actual Trump victims, Iβm reliably informed. #worldcup
05.12.2025 17:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0FFS. Really?
Well, thatβs the most embarrassing thing Iβve ever seen. #worldcup #fifa
05.12.2025 17:33 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0GOOD. Liquid Glass remains awful in every way.
04.12.2025 08:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I am mainly disappointed my suggestion of βVotey McVotefaceβ didnβt make this final list.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Scrooge looking out the window
You boy - which budget is this?
25.11.2025 23:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Maybe I'm not a business genius but WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP GIVING SAM ALTMAN MONEY?
25.11.2025 20:51 β π 22 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0headlines like this are journalistic malpractice
25.11.2025 20:52 β π 52 π 9 π¬ 2 π 0David Sacks is a lying sack of shit who will take any handout he can get, every single time, and every American should treat him as a conniving, extorting enemy at all times.
24.11.2025 23:25 β π 726 π 151 π¬ 12 π 4A ridiculous dog. Seriously. What even. Reclining on a furry rug waiting for a tummy rub
βPat me like one of your French Poodles, Johnβ
#dogsofbluesky
Always, the same story: Microsoft asking Apple to 'hold their beer'... π¬
24.11.2025 19:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure, Charlie Brown.
24.11.2025 07:05 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0A firecrest in a holly tree
Firecrest in a holly tree. Kinda like a massive upgrade to a traditional Christmas Robin. And the opposite of whatever Liquid Glass is as an βupgradeβ.
24.11.2025 07:03 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Whatβs in the box, Charlie Brown?
24.11.2025 06:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Liquid Glass is the first example of a company launching malware against its own users.
24.11.2025 06:56 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0ROU Hostile Environment
23.11.2025 10:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βIβm the otter of all your painβ
21.11.2025 21:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Well. I did not expect that.
*DOOR BURSTS OPEN*
βNobody expects the Brydon Inquisitionβ¦β
#theashes