Dave

Social media has been a complete disaster, sooner it dies the better

Thunderbolts - pretty good actually, and the practical effects were very welcome.

If you've seen the trailers you've basically seen the film, but it's still worth a watch.

Marvel: The X-Men are returning in Avengers Doomsday!

Avengers Doomsday:

I find the adverts for Confluence in the Severance podcast bitterly hilarious and dystopian in equal measure.

"I never thought AI would eat my job" say software engineers who voted for the AI-eating-your-jobs party.

Social media is the death of politically coherent movements and strategy.

I doubt that was the intention from the outset, but for autocrats it is a handy byproduct.

YouTube video by Universal Pictures How To Train Your Dragon | Big Game Spot

What on earth is the point of this?

Its the original, but with humans Knightmare'd in.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=62-r...

Prime Minister sets out blueprint to turbocharge AI Artificial intelligence will deliver a decade of national renewal, as part of a new plan announced today (13 January 2025).

"Today’s plan mainlines AI into the veins of this enterprising nation" #AccidentalPartridge

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Comedy gold

Love Actually really is appalling

Twitter = Neogaf
Bluesky = Resetera

And the endless cycle repeats.

YouTube video by Arcane - Topic Appointment of a General

I'm not the only one who noticed the similarity between this:

Arcane OST - Appointment of a General:

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And this, right?

TRON:Legacy OST - Rectifier

youtu.be/SgkxlQyw03A?...

(Both great)

The Marketplace of Squirrels Trapped in a perpetual now

A piece about the commercialised pursuit of novelty over progress, and the regression of knowledge and history to an oral tradition of tales told and retold around the digital campfire.

www.voidifremoved.co.uk/p/the-market...

Artwork featuring a plump tortishell cat with patches of orange and black and a white belly, paws and chin, curled up on a white mat sleeping, with back to the right and facing left, viewed from slightly above

Coco Sleeping (2003)
by Scottish artist
Elizabeth Blackadder
#Sunday

I was today years old when I found out Dana Carvey's brother made Video Toaster.

YouTube video by Nick Drake - Topic From The Morning

Nick Drake, 50 years gone today

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FWS v Scottish Ministers: what to read before the hearing - The hearing next week before the Supreme Court of For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers is a big deal. Previous cases in the appellate courts have had serious implications for the impact of gender r...

I've done a quick round-up of pre-reading for anyone interested in following FWS v Scottish Ministers next week: www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2024/11/23/f...

I haven't been able to find any substantial commentary arguing that SG should win. Please link in reply if you know of any, and I'll add it.

Everyone should be aware of just how censorious Bluesky is- labelling important legal analysis relating to an imminent Supreme Court case as “intolerance”. Absolutely bonkers and reminiscent of Twitter in the good old days.

Monochrome photograph of a large ancient tree with a thick gnarled trunk with two hollows and branches to each side at angles filled with pale leaves

Photographer Beth Moon undertook a 14 year quest to photograph ancient trees of the US, Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa

YouTube video by HollywoodRecordsVEVO PJ Harvey, Tim Phillips - Love Will Tear Us Apart (From "Bad Sisters (Season 2)"/Audio Only)

Love Will Tear Us Apart has been murdered so badly so many many times, so its a relief that this PJ Harvey cover is marvellous.

youtu.be/79fmJaPbucc?...

"No matter how much you try, you can’t stop people from sticking beans up their nose."

Sage advice.

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I've seen this week that people are taking the lyrics of defying gravity and really folding space with that.

Putting on your Game Face Our increasingly sophisticated virtual selves

A piece about gaming, our complex relationship to our virtual selves, and the power of immersive fiction for art and ideology.

www.voidifremoved.co.uk/p/putting-on...

YouTube video by Underworld - Topic Blueski (Remastered)

Blueski

youtu.be/3f0rFxylowQ?...

Oval shaped ceramic plate with an image of 4 stylised winter trees in a horizontal row against white, a large stylised black bird sits on the second from left, the ground below is black with 7 oval shape including patterning of dots, lines or dashes

Karen Risby, UK artist creates contemporary ceramic sculpture, wall hangings and porcelain accessories

Yeah, Bluesky can fuck right off