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Plan for Foo Fighters next year. In early for Otoboke Beaver then straight to the bar until the Foos come on.

Suggestion: Make yourself a homonculus for #Halloween - @johnreppion.bsky.social with the lowdown on how its been done, from medieval times to modern.

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I get it. But they won't when they realise it's just filling their business with idiots

I get the line that Recruiters are using this software too. But we're not and those recruiters won't either after a while when they realise they have created a magic path to filling your office with numpties.

Baek Se-hee, author of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, dies aged 35 The Korean author’s hit self-help memoir, which follows her conversations with her psychiatrist, sold more than a million copies worldwide

Absolutely gutted reading this. Both her books are beautiful and incredibly honest www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

We're just getting loads of rubbish applications that aren't relevant but have the keywords sprinkled in.

Maybe it shouldn't matter, but if you can't be arsed to write 500 words I can't be arsed to interview you.

I AM BEGGING YOU. Don't use LLMs for your job application. They all read exactly the same.

a man is standing in front of a podium that says last week tonight on it ALT: a man is standing in front of a podium that says last week tonight on it

Always reminds me of this John Oliver joke about dealing with Trump

Sky Sports News not broadcasting on a Saturday morning is my three minute warning

Jim Moon (@jimmoon) Why you shouldn’t pick blackberries after Michaelmas

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I am 100% convinced that Twitter is the problem with politics. I'm also 100% convinced that it will be AI chatbots by the next election. The solution is that people start talking to people again, not their phones. But yeah, lol, good luck with that.

I'm in awe of it and yet hate it. It's beautifully shot and also horribly grey. Why are we here? Surely there is more to life. There's still hours of it left as it joylessly goes nowhere. There so much of it yet it refuses to explain its own universe. Christ

I've never seen anything so flashy and yet so hollow. Perhaps that HBO Dune show that has all the same problems. Despite all these misgivings surely its biggest crime is that, for a sci-fi horror, it isn't remotely scary.

It has action scenes that carry no weight. I refuse to believe it wouldn't be served better as a mini-series or two hour film. I'm literally only watching it because I gave Disney £5 this month. It exists only as a branded product and yet I can see the creator deeply wants to convey something.

Alien Earth sums up all my feelings on modern television in the sense it is a story I would like to watch, told in an unfathomably dull and sluggish way. It also simultaneously feels incredibly impressive and deeply cheap. My toes curled at the Tool needle drop. I don't care about anybody.

Is there a word for thinking your friend is responding via AI but you don't want to mention it in case you are wrong?

I know no one has money anymore but publications should probably consider getting proper editors and fact checkers in again, as opposed to "overworked people who'll give your copy a quick look over before publishing", which is what most of them have now

I am significantly more worried about the harm people spending all day creating parasocial relationships with social media ai bots can do than I am about any version of a supposed job-taking digital overlord.

it's another information crisis. we've had them before eg after the invention of writing & printing. they overwhelm us with info which makes us upset, angry & afraid. there’s often great working-together, thinking-together on the other side. let’s see if we can avoid bloody wars of Reformation!

I tapped out when the writing was on the wall and put the boxing on tbh.

Anyway, yesterday Virgin Media exploded and I missed all six goals in the match. Here though, the daft twat is in crystal clear HD.

Struggling to get excited about Wolves V City when Jamie Redknapp pops up looking like he's trying to tell you how great a deal a Timeshare in Magaluf is.

The authors said the bromism patient presented himself at a hospital and claimed his neighbour might be poisoning him. He also said he had multiple dietary restrictions. Despite being thirsty, he was noted as being paranoid about the water he was offered. He tried to escape the hospital within 24 hours of being admitted and, after being sectioned, was treated for psychosis. Once the patient stabilised, he reported having several other symptoms that indicated bromism, such as facial acne, excessive thirst and insomnia.

Some gold in this one www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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First V-HYes at Videodessy was yesterday. All went fab. Thanks for everybody who came. Sign up now for info of September's film subscribepage.io/DDR3ge

Morning

Wyrd Wirral It's easy to dismiss Wirral as weird, but what if the ancient strangeness is something the peninsula should lean into, rather than ignore? Meet spirits of place on a walk along the coast.

A gentle read for an August lunchtime, well, it depends what we mean by gentle. What if Wirral being weird is it’s super strength instead of something to make a joke about? By me for Liverpools Almanac

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Huge start for The Hundred.

You're arsed by what people call things because you're unhappy, btw. You need to work on that.