Arthur

This isn’t an unpopular opinion, its just completely wrong. ChatGPT gives out false information, and is actively making people stupid. Not to mention the fact that AI therapy bots have been shown to give out dangerous information, including suggesting people struggling with addiction take drugs.

One day I will learn that three coffees no lunch is a bad idea, but alas it is not this day

Personally feel Portra is wasted in a point and shoot camera anyway, but to think how much I overthink which photos on cheap as chips Fomapan I should share

As much as I would never disparage anyone else’s hobby, and I certainly don’t think I’m all that, I do sometimes enjoy seeing some influencer type sharing their photography and getting reminded that expensive film doesn’t make up for lack of skill

Colour meanwhile requires a lot more chemicals and temperature controlled steps, it’s much harder to do without specialised equipment, and prints are trickier to do. Not only that but black and white film is cheaper, and it’s cheaper to print newspapers in black and white

Forever frustrated by the number of people getting mad at old black and white news photos saying ‘but that was so recent’ and deciding it’s to make us think it was longer ago. B&w film can be developed at home in under an hour, you could have prints ready for the next day’s papers.

She’s annoying, a rage baiter, she’s rude and kind of a Karen, but she has not actually committed any crimes, and you do in fact need to respect her identity and gender her correctly, I promise you no one is getting FFS for shits and giggles

Very concerned about the number of people I’m seeing on TikTok leaping on Lily Tino just for the chance to be hateful towards a trans woman

Crashing out because my super racist aunt is visiting, it’s too hot, there’s no food I like in the house, and the sky box decided to stop working in the middle of Doctor Who 😭

Genuinely hate it here, my family fucking suck, I’m so tired of this

My mum asked why I was upset and I explained only for my sister to come storming down the stairs to lecture me about why it was fine, actually, to say what she said because she wasn’t including me. No apology in sight.

It’s just really upsetting that if they don’t understand something or can’t tangibly see it they just completely discount it, all they can see is the money. At least most of the jobs I’ve done have had a positive impact and are of some use, I’m not an unnecessary middle manager

And also isn’t college just such a waste of time. And like I’ve also got a degree and a masters, I worked my ass off for 5 years to get those and every job I’ve had has also been badly paid. They’ll insist they were only laughing at my sister’s friend but they’re very obviously also laughing at me

Have just spent ages listening to my parents and sister talk about how isn’t it hilarious that her friend who went to college and got a masters after is now struggling on a low income while my sister who nearly failed her leaving cert is in middle management on €55k a year doing fa

Got to hand it to the writers for Andor for making it clear that the real villain in Star Wars isn’t so much some mystical power hungry wizards but the inherent capacity for evil of ordinary people

Andor spoilers without context

Fell in love with a little mosaic end table that was very reasonably priced but I unfortunately had €10 to my name and consoled myself that I’d find something similar when I have money again, but anything similar I can find online is about €450 minimum, so I’ll never be able to justify it :(

I know pretty much everyone in Andor who wasn’t in Rogue One is more than likely going to die but I’m still a little mad that they gave us lesbians and then immediately killed one of them 😭

Can’t believe Andor has given us the Space French

Literally like if I was thinking of casting her I’d see that and it’d put me off and make me think she’d be a diva. She auditioned and didn’t get the role this time, that’s how it goes. Ridiculous to act as though it should have been her

It’s such a shame ggp has gone from not great to utterly useless because their approach of ‘are you trans and knowing how HRT works, do you want to try it?’ was a lot easier

And I know the GICs in the U.K. are just as bad but I haven’t honestly heard of anyone being asked what porn they watch and their sexual preferences, or making people bring their partner with them to make sure they’re ‘okay’ with you starting HRT

I literally refuse to even see the NGS because of the horror stories I’ve heard from friends. I actually don’t think I can face being humiliated and scrutinised to such an extreme level, and will continue to go private as long as I can afford it and try to stay on the waiting list for Brackenburn

We’ve just had the horrible comments about Aimee Lou Wood’s teeth as well, why are we so determined to push anyone who doesn’t look they were cast in some perfect Hollywood mould out of performing arts?

They’re a fantastic actor and have been so good in everything I’ve seen them in. It’s also really refreshing to see people who look normal on screen over the same generic faces over and over

It’s so depressing seeing so many people latch onto that influencer on tiktok who’s decided she should have been Ellie in TLOU and is misgendering Bella Ramsay and making nasty comments on their appearance

24 years ago I was sent to a London pub by a newspaper to interview and drink whisky (no “e” over here) with Lemmy, who was in the band Motorhead and, before that, slightly less famously, Hawkwind and, before that, much less famously, Sam Gopal. We had a good chat: about being from the part of the Midlands north of the River Trent, about books, and about roadying for Hendrix in the mid-60s (him, not me; I was minus nine at the time). When the record company PR sidled over to tell me my time was up, Lemmy waved him away. “No, no, I’m enjoying this,” he said, commandingly. I realised at this point that I had another question I’d been meaning to ask but hadn’t. “Are you scared of anything?” I said to Lemmy. “Nothing,” he replied. Then he paused and frowned for a moment, as if an idea had suddenly occurred to him. “Oh, maybe snakes,” he said. “It’s because they’ve got no shoulders.”

I remember all too little of the interviews I did with rock stars when I was briefly employed as the music critic for a national newspaper, but there is this.

The thing I put off doing all week took five minutes 😭

Pride bans work btw, Sinn Fein are *not* happy at being banned. They were the first main party to suport Pride decades ago and are not a transphobic party, but this ban has got through more than anything else we could have done.

Speak to your Prides. Ban parties that hurt trans people.

I think it’s telling that AI music kind of died off very early because even tech bros could tell that it wasn’t nice to listen to. They don’t read or appreciate physical artwork in any way though so don’t get that AI ‘art’ and writing is exactly the same