Ludo Smolski
@ludography.bsky.social
Script & Development Consultant. Film & TV Drama. Related training courses. London, UK, Worldwide. Dog owner. Runner. Love is a relative term.
“A beloved, useful, free website, run carefully by a competent, honest person for nearly thirty years, was crushed between two features of the new AI economy.” (AI bots and prediction market dipshits.) [stephenfollows.com]
What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.
stephenfollows.com
Absolute banger from Cory Doctorow - Restore The Beams! 🎯🎯🎯 I'd add that the rage we get from enshittified customer service and online form filling is also worsening as we take on the task for those even less able than us to deal with it -
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2mo agoToday's threads (a thread) Inside: The world has moved on; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/06/11/l... #Pluralistic 1/
<Stuart Hall voice> "Here come the Belgians!" (Excellent work here, Adidas. Great kit and also slightly wrong)
Doug Mack@douglasmack.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe jerseys also say "Ceci n'est pas un maillot" ("This is not a jersey") on the back. Perfect detail.
Happy St George’s Day. The perfect day for U A Fanthorpe’s Not My Best Side. www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/not-my...
Martin Parr, absolute mensch. From Colin Wilkinson, founder of Bluecoat Press, on FB
One of the most distressing things I have ever read. I was completely unaware. Astonishing bravery from the victims. Incredible investigative reporting. Is their justice that can still be served? What does that look like? Distressing, but essential reading: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Possibly the most prolific sex offender in British history’: the inside story of the Medomsley scandal
At a youth detention centre in north-east England, the paedophile Neville Husband raped and assaulted countless boys. Why was his reign of terror allowed to go on – and why hasn’t there been a public ...
theguardian.com
I wanna be your signal box, flicking on your switch. (Train station platform this morning)
Ooooooo, looking forward to seeing how this holds up. I remember being spellbound watching as a child. www.radiotimes.com/tv/fantasy/b...
The Box of Delights 40th anniversary airing confirmed by BBC Four
The wolves are running again this Christmas.
radiotimes.com
![“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:guthikarwozoldkzhueivkl6/bafkreihklvhtymho7wpemo5mj2f7xaiq6ulvfvcwnzo6hjstg3wixzgesy)
