Wil Bunce-Edwards

adhd is a disorder where you're constantly getting pranked by yourself

One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

Guess which film I didnt buy a ticket to see this weekend?

Me talking about AI: But all it can do is endlessly regurgitate old material it can never create anything original!

Humans:

Windows stop changing my microphone input volume to random values challenge.

Foley artist resist every character slurping when drinking challenge.

Actor look like they're actually clapping challenge.

Agreed! Aqua is greener than sky blue! Adjacenting those two cloud-patterned boxes is purely a satisfying bonus outcome.

Part of media literacy needs to be the understanding that statements by creatives are prone to the same foibles due to perspective and medium as any other human communication, and that's not deceit or failure, that's just inherent. There's no one to be angry at.

One hour in a queue to book an appointment with my local surgery, and when I get to the front of the queue, instead of answering they cut the line. *clown honking noise, slide whistle, sad trombone, etc.*

Web designers: ‘One of the most fundamental aspects of any page, whether digital or paper, is that the reader knows there is more to read. If at any point they aren't aware they can scroll down, you've failed.’

Also web designers: ‘Full screen height banner image! Massive gaps between components!’

I was the sort of child that wondered how holding your breath made things get better.

Live flight tracking data for Hugh Jackman's accent in this trailer:

I’m really into writing short fiction, mainly to-do lists.

‘Blue, the colour of a sunny day, tropical waters, and the very hottest stars, is the cold colour. Red, the lowest-energy visible wavelength, is the hot colour. Look, that's simply how everyone does it and you'd stand out if you tried to be sensible about it now.’

‘You're going to be surrounded by people pretending they enjoy moving the weights around. I don't know why they lie about something so demonstrably wrong. All I can tell you is it gets results after fucking forever.’

‘Octave means eight, which is irrelevant I'M SORRY. There are 12 semitones I'M SORRY named after 7 letters I'M SORRY but C is the first one I'M SO SORRY. You have to know which direction you're going in between the letters LOOK I KNOW, ALRIGHT? YOU'RE DOING REALLY WELL.’

There are some subjects and activities I'd hate a lot less if the people teaching them ever admitted it was all batshit and you just have to chomp the bit and get a hug afterwards.

It finally happened! Railway crossing starts blaring exactly as I'm walking across!

Is there a future where search engines go back to being useful, or are we trapped forever in "you meant this"?

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

D'you remember the days when cyberpunk represented a dystopia? If you told me today that the future's going to be like "Blade Runner" or "Neuromancer", I'd be relieved there's at least going to be a functioning civilisation in forty years. Where at least the evil AIs don't try to draw.

a man giving a speech in front of a microphone and pointing Alt: Actor Brian George playing a character sat in a witness stand wearing a stern expression and, very crucially, waggling a no no finger. Maybe it's Babu Bhatt from Seinfeld? I dunno, I've never seen it. It's a very staccato motion, with a pause between each oscillation, which makes it extra condescending.

Websites that unload content as you scroll, so Ctrl-F only searches nearby text and not the whole page.

Oddworld nerd alert!

I went down the rabbit hole and found what's most likely Lorne Lanning's last project before founding Oddworld Inhabitants and making Abe's Oddysee.

Enjoy 🤩

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I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

Just pop on a lovely, cooling fur suit to balance the temperature.

stealing paintings from museums will soon be considered just another tool in the artist's toolbelt

Sometimes I think to myself, ‘I really shouldn't experience breathlessness getting into bed,’ but the rest of the time I simply don't think about it at all, it's fine.

How do you topple a road?

Sana and I were subjected to some really awful stuff online in the early days of Ms Marvel and as a result I have neverrrrrrr posted a single photo of either of my kids on social media, even in friends-only contexts. I don't even use their real names. And I never will.