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I had not expected to be emotionally destroyed by a character I had never even heard of until today and yet here we are. THAT LIP WOBBLE. 😭😭😭

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This is a little bit awesome :)

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On Mick Fleetwood's birthday it's important to remember his greatest performance... as the weird fish creature assassin from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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In Memoriam. Margarita Pracatan. 11 June 1931 - 23 June 2020. Age 89. Singer. John Laurie. 25 March 1897 - 23 June 1980. Age 83. Dad's Army actor. Adam Faith. 23 June 1940 - 8 March 2003. Age 62. Singer and actor. Miriam Karlin. 23 June 1925 - 3 June 2011. Age 85. Actress.

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This is literally fucking insane. The guidance for citing AI-generated content should be one word: "Don't".

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@ianrankin1.bsky.social only just started reading the new Rebus, sorry for the delay. Loving it. Loved the Caracas/Choux pastry Gregory’s Girl reference in particular. Made me cackle out loud. Thank you.

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Every guy with a tragic backstory (in a movie):

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I mean literally no personally but if anyone can help:

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Ghostbusters should be lauded more greatly for introducing the phrase “Mother puss bucket!” into the English language.

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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I found a website where you can specify a tiny bit of dialogue and it'll find a clip of someone saying exactly that for you. I have no idea what to use it for but…

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Series 3 of The Tripods?

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There is nothing like trying to look up an historical item of clothing to realise how absolutely screwed internet search is. It’s crazy, mankind build the most beautiful repository of knowledge and documents then buried it in the basement of the biggest shopping mall full of crap it could imagine.

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Comedy has a long, long tail.

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For the absolute last time: I never said I thought E.T. dressed in the wig and the dress was sexy, I said I could see why people would think that

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It's ironic that touch typing is no longer taught in schools when it would actually be the one skill that would benefit everyone enormously in the modern world.

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Kate being contrite to Alan on the phone is one of the nicest things I’ve heard in a big while. Good lord, who am I? #thearchers

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Yes YES The tiger is out

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I…maybe needed to see this right now

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I was terrified of these when I was a kid because they looked like the floating torture device thing with a syringe from Star Wars.

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Immediately made me think of Sir Henry at Rawlinson End.

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Just come across this I did in the last term. Please feel free to use it. No credit needed.

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Finding it quietly hilarious that the Bluesky people who are into the Archers didn’t recognise Hugh Dennis as the new vicar. He was marvellous.

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Hugh Dennis alert! Loving this! #thearchers

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First time I’ve seen this in the credits. Heretic. Great film too.

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To me, without reading the article of course, this just sounds like happy news whichever way you spin it.

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I miss what Twitter was. Too much of my adult life - work, friends, partners - has been bound up in it not to. But that Twitter doesn't exist any more. Twitter doesn't exist any more, and X is a hellhole and even if I could put up with that it'd suck because most people I want to talk to are here.

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With everyone banging on about the football today, I was reminded of this from Rutland Weekend Television. Machine wrapped with butter? Machine wrapped with butter. youtu.be/7a_mX6pUYw0?...

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The discount you get as a member in Foyles and Waterstones means membership has more than paid for itself in the time I’ve been a member! I even got headshots taken for only £15 last year. It’s a brilliant organisation.

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Stately, plump Bunsen Honeydew came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

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Inspector Sands being paged to Platform 11/12 at London Bridge. I can’t smell anything burning.

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This is exactly what I needed to read today.

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This should excite me, but it's filling me with slightly existential dread. Of course I've registered for priority booking nonetheless. hitchhikerslive.com/the-hitchhik...

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Oof, imagine having the nerve to do this

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I'm a great admirer of Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Mayor of Casterbridge, but my favourite Thomas Hardy work was the way he'd roll up his sleeves and throw Stan and Ollie out of the saloon for non-payment of the bill.

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Online reaction to a Doctor Who finale always makes me think that, if social media had existed in 1968, Patrick MacGoohan would have changed his name and moved to a different planet, and changed the planet's name.

I had not expected to be emotionally destroyed by a character I had never even heard of until today and yet here we are. THAT LIP WOBBLE. 😭😭😭

This is a little bit awesome :)

On Mick Fleetwood's birthday it's important to remember his greatest performance... as the weird fish creature assassin from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

In Memoriam. Margarita Pracatan. 11 June 1931 - 23 June 2020. Age 89. Singer. John Laurie. 25 March 1897 - 23 June 1980. Age 83. Dad's Army actor. Adam Faith. 23 June 1940 - 8 March 2003. Age 62. Singer and actor. Miriam Karlin. 23 June 1925 - 3 June 2011. Age 85. Actress.

This is literally fucking insane. The guidance for citing AI-generated content should be one word: "Don't".

@ianrankin1.bsky.social only just started reading the new Rebus, sorry for the delay. Loving it. Loved the Caracas/Choux pastry Gregory’s Girl reference in particular. Made me cackle out loud. Thank you.

Every guy with a tragic backstory (in a movie):

I mean literally no personally but if anyone can help:

Ghostbusters should be lauded more greatly for introducing the phrase “Mother puss bucket!” into the English language.

I found a website where you can specify a tiny bit of dialogue and it'll find a clip of someone saying exactly that for you. I have no idea what to use it for but…

Series 3 of The Tripods?

There is nothing like trying to look up an historical item of clothing to realise how absolutely screwed internet search is. It’s crazy, mankind build the most beautiful repository of knowledge and documents then buried it in the basement of the biggest shopping mall full of crap it could imagine.

Comedy has a long, long tail.

For the absolute last time: I never said I thought E.T. dressed in the wig and the dress was sexy, I said I could see why people would think that

It's ironic that touch typing is no longer taught in schools when it would actually be the one skill that would benefit everyone enormously in the modern world.

Kate being contrite to Alan on the phone is one of the nicest things I’ve heard in a big while. Good lord, who am I? #thearchers

Yes YES The tiger is out

I…maybe needed to see this right now

I was terrified of these when I was a kid because they looked like the floating torture device thing with a syringe from Star Wars.

Immediately made me think of Sir Henry at Rawlinson End.

Just come across this I did in the last term. Please feel free to use it. No credit needed.

Finding it quietly hilarious that the Bluesky people who are into the Archers didn’t recognise Hugh Dennis as the new vicar. He was marvellous.

Hugh Dennis alert! Loving this! #thearchers

First time I’ve seen this in the credits. Heretic. Great film too.

To me, without reading the article of course, this just sounds like happy news whichever way you spin it.

I miss what Twitter was. Too much of my adult life - work, friends, partners - has been bound up in it not to. But that Twitter doesn't exist any more. Twitter doesn't exist any more, and X is a hellhole and even if I could put up with that it'd suck because most people I want to talk to are here.

With everyone banging on about the football today, I was reminded of this from Rutland Weekend Television. Machine wrapped with butter? Machine wrapped with butter. youtu.be/7a_mX6pUYw0?...

The discount you get as a member in Foyles and Waterstones means membership has more than paid for itself in the time I’ve been a member! I even got headshots taken for only £15 last year. It’s a brilliant organisation.

Stately, plump Bunsen Honeydew came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

Inspector Sands being paged to Platform 11/12 at London Bridge. I can’t smell anything burning.

This is exactly what I needed to read today.

This should excite me, but it's filling me with slightly existential dread. Of course I've registered for priority booking nonetheless. hitchhikerslive.com/the-hitchhik...

Oof, imagine having the nerve to do this

I'm a great admirer of Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Mayor of Casterbridge, but my favourite Thomas Hardy work was the way he'd roll up his sleeves and throw Stan and Ollie out of the saloon for non-payment of the bill.

Online reaction to a Doctor Who finale always makes me think that, if social media had existed in 1968, Patrick MacGoohan would have changed his name and moved to a different planet, and changed the planet's name.

A reminder of the title of Ernest Borgnine’s autobiography. #DoctorWho #DrWho

did NOT expect that ending #doctorwho