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richardlittler.bsky.social
Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system. https://www.richardlittler.com
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#ChatGPT down. Got itself into a scrape? Perhaps because its ceaseless scraping has scraped the bottom of the cultural barrel, impeding real authors from scraping a living, or at least scraping by enough to afford new shoes from whose soles they might have scraped the #AI in which they've trodden.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.

submitted 23 hours ago • 46 comments

Just catching up on the squabbling between #Trump, #Elon and their respective bros. Two arseholes, both alike in indecency, In fair America, where we lay our scene...

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Come Back Lucy, The Finishing Line, the episode of The Waltons with a poltergeist and tons more suitably seasonally nightmarish in Looks Unfamiliar with @richardlittler.bsky.social... timworthington.org/2019/10/31/l...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

#NowPlaying Uhrwerk Orange “Oh bliss! Bliss & heaven! Oh it was gorgeousness & gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!” #soundtrack #Kubrick #WendyCarlos

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I was approached by Unbound a few years ago but didn't pursue it in the end. While I'm starting to feel like I dodged a bullet, I do know what it's like to get ripped off, so completely empathise with all authors/artists caught up in this. I know just how utterly distressing & devastating it can be

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I essentially lived here rent-free in the 1990s. Open until midnight. Dangerous. Far too many spontaneous purchases on the way home from the pub. #TowerRecords

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

#NowPlaying this particular release of Morris Souffle's complete choral. Just about the only works that rival Faure's Requiem.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Bit obsessed with 16th C woodcuts currently. I began designing my own signet with Latin motto but realised it was a pointless venture: I don't have kids & I'm the last of my line; so I created one better suited to being the last member of the family, the one who turns out the light when they leave.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

I need new glasses, so went to the optician. Me: "At 150 quid these glasses are quite reasonable" Optician: "Your preferred lens type? Lens thickness? Anti-scratch? Visibility range? Anti-glare? Insurance?..." Me: "Oh. These 150 quid glasses are 4000 quid"

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

Unexpected but very welcome finds in a stack of James Last, Roger Whittaker and oompah records in my local secondhand bookshop just now. Both first pressings, seemingly mint/unplayed. Koyaanisqatsi is one of those releases I've owned on at least three formats. #minimalism #soundtrack

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

As a little kid I always found the title shot of children in #Bagpuss quite creepy. But, 50+ years on, other shadowy figures seem to reveal themselves. i. 'The Tall Man'. Who, or indeed what, is standing there at the right of frame, dressed in black, long hair, wearing a wide-brimmed hat?..

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

When you've had quite enough of the bass player wobbling his pretty little head and singing 'oooooh!'

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Apparently, it's a national holiday here in Switzerland today. 'Ascension'. Switzerland has to be the only country that commemorates an avant-garde #jazz album by John #Coltrane. Even kids seem to get involved: They're outside right now, making loads of noise, shrieking & yelling over each other etc

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

I keep time-slipping to the same spot in London in 1599 or 1934. If you're about meet me at 5pm on the corner of Silver St and Muggle St (Monkwell, if 1934). Good ale at the Cooper's Arms (in 1934), but there's a French tire-maker on that spot in 1599 so we'll head over to the Mermaid in Cheapside.

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

I want to see the #AI industry publicly disembowelled before its parboiled, tarred head is skewered on a pike at the city gates. I hope that's clear enough.

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

🧵 What's even more depressing about the state of the world right now is that humans don't seem to change. Reading about life in the 1500s, I see similar culture-war issues, the same old hackneyed grievances, the same disinformation designed to rouse the mob. Two recent examples I stumbled across...

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

Switzerland has been watching too many disaster movies. I just arrived at my favourite secondhand bookshop, which is 3 floors down in a nuclear bunker, to find that it's temporarily closed while the building is being proofed against earthquakes.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

I'm in a proggy, folk-horror, medieval free-form improv mood, so #NowPlaying Third Ear Band.

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

Apropos, during my last dentist checkup, they assessed my teeth/gums with their shiny, new #AI technology, despite my misgivings. It detected incipient cavities that a human simply isn't capable of. Which is great. Apart from the fact that the cavities were *outside* my mouth/head. I wasn't charged.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Me: "It really is time I climbed out of the rabbit-hole. I've become so immersed in Shakespeare's London of the 1590s-1600s that I'm checking to see if the same tree exists, decades apart, on detailed London maps that cover *every single* street & house" Also me: [Opens a new book on Kit Marlowe]

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Today's diverse charity shop finds: A mint copy of the Live & Let Die soundtrack; a handwritten St Moritz hotel menu dated 27 July 1913; 1937 sheet music for 'Some Day My Prince Will Come' from Disney's 1st feature Snow White; 1941 sheet music for the Max Fleischer cartoon Mr Bug Goes to Town

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Grainy, gritty, ghostly Sunday morning #sketch.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments