robmanuelyeah.bsky.social
B3ta.com, @fesshole.bsky.social, @anonopin.bsky.social
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No idea what you've deleted but this is what free associated in MY head
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I keep a small eye on it coz fesshole/anon auto post there and it amuses me reading angry posts saying BlueSky is evil coz it only pretends to be non-centralised and original sin of Jack Dorsey's involvement. Nowhere is pure enough.
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Thought I'd follow you on Mastodon for a small amusement but it's gone :(
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If I was your wife I would be pulling a face that you're making me sound old and actually I'm off to the pub without you
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oh gosh, you're right of course, people getting more and more filtered until they're no longer 100% if they're alive or an LLM
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the kids will pivot to microblogging once they see their pretty young skin turn to dry paper - we're just early adopters
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I think the thing is there's no real sense that this places sets any news agenda. Reminds me of how I once managed to make a popular account on Tumblr just at the point Tumblr stopped being something people talked about. The numbers were there but no one in media circles cared. Which is fine.
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The positive is that the stuff people are excited about is live shows. Hence the outrageous prices. Although to be fair, it's only v popular things that are crazy prices, you can see many less popular bands and comedians for a tenner. And they're just as likely to give you an interesting evening
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*points at scene* "THEY'RE DOING THE MEME!"
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This is why Columbo is the best format for crime dramas. Who done it a tedious guessing game. Why and how they've done it is infinitely more interesting, because now we're in the realm of ingenuity and psychology.
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I wanted to be in Duran Duran, and I think everyone can agree, reading thousands of horrible confessions a week and deciding what web projects get a few more hundred hits or not is very much like being Nick Rhodes.
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It's a long way of saying, one packet of sweets a week and you love those sweets, your dad owns a sweet shop and unless you have the self-control of a borderline mystical being, you're not going to have a good time.
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Abundance fundamentally changes stuff. I still have respect for film because I grew up in an era of scarcity. However I can't think of many podcasts I've listened to twice, as I've been trained from the get go that they are infinite and disposable. Film, tragically, is the same for young people.
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There are now adults who've grown up with abundant media. The idea of revisiting films is novel, versus something you did by default because you only owned 4 VHS tapes.
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People often ask me how long the delay is between submitting and posting, so know you now, well you know what it is at moment. It's been different at different times but I like to keep it at around a week, so it's not chasing the same subjects that everyone is chasing.
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We now have AI to get things wrong for us taking away your valuable job
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Taking this literally but insisting on getting a reference from someone’s past two partners would probably solve quite a few problems in the world
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I’m a big fan of old movies, partly because I like stories more than I do special effects, and if there’s one thing film did a lot of in the 40s/50s it was find a cast with dynamite charisma and use them to tell a story.
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You are such a chancer Ricardo - I love you
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Clearly I need to look into him more, and fill my brain with his thoughts. In the meantime I'll stick the 12" of The Race on whilst I moderate a few fessholes etc.
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That was great - not sure I've read an interview with him before, but his intelligence and insight step out of the page.
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More seriously I think you already had the answer with unbound except the money went to the wrong place and was spent on the wrong things. You do the crowdfunding *before* making the show and you keep it. "We need £x to make season two. And here's why."
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What I'm hearing in this is that we need to brainstorm ideas to make your properly famous. Could you do your own stunts in your podcasts like Tom Cruise?
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Yes I initially wondered that too but I checked out the account and all the other posts are so brain dead I don’t believe it’s been written by people capable of being that playful.
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no I looked up the account - it's all vapid nostalgia posts and the odd culture war intersection thing - it's not satire
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I think the thing he was pissed about was this ad - coz people took the piss out of him for it and it's nothing to do with him, coz it's Gary Kemp's song and someone doing a bit of a Tony impersonation www.youtube.com/watch?v=76dV...
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Coz I'm ginger / fair skin, going off to hot places isn't quite the lure for me that it is for some people. So I'm quite happy pottering around the UK. Not to say I don't find other places interesting but I don't feel like it's a downgrade hanging out in Wales. I like to see some moderate mountains.
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I read all the Wyndham novels as a teen. They're all speculating on our doom in some way. I think they appeal coz it's a bit like looking off a cliff edge, just that one misstep, we're done.
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I don't mind as I'm reading it as someone being very high, and words are merging into each other and they're giggling.
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if ninjas were british - or make japanese culture british
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I enjoyed it when I was 16 - so 16 y/o me recommends it from 1989 or whatever.
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It's enjoyable that you explain these things in ZX Basic syntax
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That is so off I'm suspicious it's the product of russian bot farm. No one with the slightest interest in the subject could produce that.
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This is weirdly funny I suppose coz it unexpectedly doesn't fit the premise and that's comedy.
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I once ordered a load of B3ta pens from a some merch place, I figured giving out B3ta pens would be a cool thing that people would love, but they were so piss poor you could scratch off the logo with your fingernail and I didn't give them to anyone as I thought they'd disappoint people
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It opens with an AI image. If you have any influence on these people, please encourage them not to do this because it undermines whatever they’re trying to say.
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Yes, it is when I sleep, but it’s also how I’ve coded the posting and a deliberate decision.
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My Carry On thought this morning was how Matt Berry’s voice being funny even if the script is whatever is what some of those actors brought to the party. Kenneth Williams could read the phone book and get laughs every 8 seconds.
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Anon Opin and Fesshole have this. Be the change you want to see in the world.