Phil Dean

Three days on set as a stand-in/double and I did zero hours of stand-in and doubling, but did get paid to read two books, drink countless cups of tea and enjoy some fantastic catering. Winning! 😆

SAY THE LINE TERRY

We will be holding a 3 day KiwiMoot Tolkien conference in Wellington City in February 2027

The Main Conference will be over the Waitangi Day Weekend of Saturday 6th February to Monday 8th of February. It will be similar to the recent OzMoot/AusMoot conferences

More details to come

Yeah, sacking managers always works well for Spurs :)

<grabs popcorn>

C'mon you Hammers!

Customer has asked me to create an introduction to their company, and sent me a draft that they did with Ch*tGPT. Out of ten bullet points created, nine of them are wrong. Like, completely wrong. Nine. 🙄

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Violent Aussie cops? That's unpossible.

Very sad to hear this. Jon was fucking brilliant.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

I did enjoy this immensely, every one of my dealer experiences mirrors his example perfectly.

For Marcel @thetolkienist.com, because he knows.
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Using the "c" word in public 😁

@ccthornley.bsky.social @dallasbarnett.com

This was my favourite part of the show 😂
So very very true!

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Find the answer by using the @kenwhite.bsky.social principle. Works with most things but it was literally made for this moment.

I've never been a big Blur fan beyond a handful of the singles, but I gave this album a spin last year and I've been listening to it consistently ever since. Superb record from start to finish. Recently heard the deluxe edition too - the extra tracks are brilliant!

❤️

YouTube video by The Snow Ponies The Snow Ponies - Something Changed

Moving picture accompaniment:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb8G...

<speaks hopefully into the void>

Kia ora folks, my new single "Something Changed" by The Snow Ponies is out today on all the usual horrific music platforms, plus Bandcamp. Have a listen and let me know what you think!

thesnowponies1.bandcamp.com/track/someth...

#musicsky

Wonder Man was surprisingly excellent! Fantastic performances from Ben Kingsley and Yahya Abdul-Mateen.

Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.

A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.

"Hooray! People are paying attention to me!"

deep-fried Millenium Falcon

Ah, the Wordpress Gambit.

Which reminds me 😁