Will really suck when the Moon burns down.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 6h ago

SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

People are loving* our tale of seaside metal fatigue, suppressed guilt and scorching hot suspension in weird timeless discomfort. It’s SUMMER! TORMENTOR - the Broken Veil Summer Special - is available exclusively on the Broken Veil Channel. Join on Patreon. #brokenveil (*also being upset by)

“Face for the algorithm” on Instagram is a lie. Zuckerberg is collecting faces. He’s running The Facebook old school on MAMP Pro, locally on his laptop. AIR GAPPED. He’s stone cold rating you hot or not. He downloads your face onto a Zip disk. BEWARE.

When we made A Touch of Cloth, the stars both worried it meant their careers as TV detectives were over. Surely nobody would hire them to do it seriously. They reckoned without the need for television to keep making that same show again and again almost to the exclusion of everything else. S’fine.

This has the glorious chaotic energy of the early Morph animations and I love it.

David K. Barnes@davidkbarnes.com · yesterday

Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

OUT NOW! COMFORT BLANKET’s sci fi movie rundown reaches No 5… George Pal’s planet-smashing protopocalypse WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE! Everyone! To the rocket train! Listen on Substack or Patreon. (Preview episode on The Thing available free on the usual Comfort Blanket feed.)

I wanted to write about this at some point, because it was driving me crazy, and now I don’t have to. This is one of the best things I’ve ever read by Julia.

Julia Raeside@jnraeside.bsky.social · 10h ago

I wrote about how death makes children of us all. Free now, on Womansplaining.

The BBC has never managed to steer out of the conceptual tailspin of the iPlayer turning up as a (worldbeating groundbreaking) catch-up service for linear broadcasting, just as streaming was introduced. Catch-up and streaming are totally different. But they look the same to the public.

Pete Fraser@petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 8h ago

There’s more and more BBC radio stuff that you can’t listen back to internationally and I must say, I don’t love it. I’m, of course, as a non-resident Brit, not going to (indeed can’t) pay a TV licence, but being able to get the radio has always been a lifeline for native Brits living abroad.

This horrid little story is up now on Broken Veil Patreon, read by Jack Docherty!

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 11h ago

People are loving* our tale of seaside metal fatigue, suppressed guilt and scorching hot suspension in weird timeless discomfort. It’s SUMMER! TORMENTOR - the Broken Veil Summer Special - is available exclusively on the Broken Veil Channel. Join on Patreon. #brokenveil (*also being upset by)

Listened to this on the train this morning when the heat and motion and grinding metal noises merely added to the ambience. It's bloody great.

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 11h ago

People are loving* our tale of seaside metal fatigue, suppressed guilt and scorching hot suspension in weird timeless discomfort. It’s SUMMER! TORMENTOR - the Broken Veil Summer Special - is available exclusively on the Broken Veil Channel. Join on Patreon. #brokenveil (*also being upset by)

People are loving* our tale of seaside metal fatigue, suppressed guilt and scorching hot suspension in weird timeless discomfort. It’s SUMMER! TORMENTOR - the Broken Veil Summer Special - is available exclusively on the Broken Veil Channel. Join on Patreon. #brokenveil (*also being upset by)

OUT NOW! COMFORT BLANKET’s sci fi movie rundown reaches No 5… George Pal’s planet-smashing protopocalypse WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE! Everyone! To the rocket train! Listen on Substack or Patreon. (Preview episode on The Thing available free on the usual Comfort Blanket feed.)

Last week, I went to the theatre. Stood up to let a late middle aged couple into their seats next to us. Earwigged them as they sat down. “Hmm. Quite an angle.” “AI says it’s not a bad view.” “Ah! Good!” They were sitting in the ACTUAL seats. But they were trusting AI more than their own eyes.

Went to see Bowie You’re Not Alone at the Lightroom and cried, cos that’s what it’s for.

David Bowie's Iconic Laugh

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Just listened to this. No spoilers but bloody hell! 10/10

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 2d ago

OUT TODAY TORMENTOR The Broken Veil Summer Special Told by Jack Docherty Exclusively on the Broken Veil Channel on Patreon. Patreon.com/brokenveil

The answer to the question "how do you get deep chills during a heatwave?"

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · yesterday

BROKEN VEIL SUMMER SPECIAL OUT NOW. They said it couldn’t be done. But why not? Bring on the Solar Gothic. Relax on your sun lounger and let the dulcet tones of Jack Docherty and the rusty groan of metal fatigue ruin your holiday for half an hour. Patreon.com/brokenveil

Hollywood seems to be stuck on this idea: the bad thing about war is that the men we send off to do the wars come back all sad. There’s so much rich cinema about war, but usually from countries that have wars happen IN them.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · yesterday

‘The representation of Odysseus as a reluctant warlord makes a nonsense of the movie’s imagined world. We are not shown that war or killing are bad, only that good men sometimes feel bad about it – a very different point.’ Emily Wilson on Christopher Nolan’s film. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This is interesting. Ten questions before the idea of book=novel is questioned. I reckon more people would enjoy reading, join book groups, call themselves avid readers if books weren’t assumed to just mean longform fiction in chapters.

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

BROKEN VEIL SUMMER SPECIAL OUT NOW. They said it couldn’t be done. But why not? Bring on the Solar Gothic. Relax on your sun lounger and let the dulcet tones of Jack Docherty and the rusty groan of metal fatigue ruin your holiday for half an hour. Patreon.com/brokenveil

This is an articulate scorch of rage. Been thinking about this a lot. Furious stuff from Neko Case. open.substack.com/pub/nekocase...

IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?

This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.

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If someone was aggressive and unpleasant to people they didn’t know / never met, but also really nice to their close friends, I’m not sure the second thing makes the first thing OK. It’s a bit of a low fucking bar, to be honest. It’s hardly worth celebrating. “Was nice to eight selected people.”

OUT TODAY TORMENTOR The Broken Veil Summer Special Told by Jack Docherty Exclusively on the Broken Veil Channel on Patreon. Patreon.com/brokenveil

My favourite variant of this was @thatnatt.bsky.social saying “I’m like marmite, me. A byproduct of the brewing industry.”

Rich Neville@richneville.bsky.social · 2d ago

Rod Liddle was very much like Marmite, in that you wouldn’t want him on your television screen, radio, or newspaper.

Rod Liddle was very much like Marmite, in that you wouldn’t want him on your television screen, radio, or newspaper.

Hacks doing that lazy hate grift Is upsetting, but I sometimes think “Well, it’s a rough old industry at the moment. And it puts food on the table.” And then one of them dies, and all that food, earned with poison seems utterly wasted, and you’re just left with the ugly stain they’ve left behind.

Idea: Money For Nothing by Dire Straits, but it’s about some musicians getting their Spotify payout and envying some guys they know with solid, well-paid jobs in kitchen delivery.

Dire Straits MTV Money For Nothing CGI

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The more times my bag is half arsedly searched as a piece of security theatre on the way into perfectly normal places, the more I want to carry a toy gun everywhere. I bet, as a middle aged white guy, I’d never get any trouble at all.

Very sad to hear of the death of Justin Hardy, film director and son of Wicker Man’s Robin Hardy, at only 61. Had a fantastically indiscreet curry with him in Newton Stewart at the premiere of the WM Final Cut. He was brilliantly entertaining, opinionated and hilariously sharp about filmmaking. RIP.

The shit’s going to really hit the fan when they find the documents that reveal that Epstein also owned Club Tropicana and La Isla Bonita.

“Fell from high ledge six times because I forgot to press walk. Hope you managed to get out of the larder. See you soon. Love, Lara x”

Postcard From The Past@pastpostcard.bsky.social · 2d ago

Found this tomb somewhat disappointing.