Simon Williams

@urmstonguy78.bsky.social

Music | Film | TV | Martinis A 'glass half empty' kind of guy

This is the first/last time I mention this show until it's buried. Fuck J.K. Rowling. Fuck you if you support this show. I can rattle off the top of my head at least 100 book series & creators you could be funding instead of this feckless abomination whose filthy lucre is used for bigotry & hate.

Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 7mo ago

if Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different? here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225... & here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

I recognize I am an extremely rare holdout in that I have been so hardline anti-AI that I have still yet to use a chatbot willingly, but uh, I feel like every other story I read is about how all the consumer-facing stuff is a mental illness particle accelerator www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.

Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot

theguardian.com

One of the funniest things to come out of this are the brits who won’t leave Dubai even as it’s being bombed. One influencer adjacent guy went on a live stream on his balcony and said he’d rather be killed by Iran than go back to Wigan

do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 8mo ago

"if they socially transition too early we think they can get locked onto a trajectory that may not have been the correct natural trajectory for them" Direct quote.

Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”. Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law. Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.

Seen a lot of promo the last couple of weeks for a new heist movie, 'Crime 101', and was 'meh, not for me'. Just discovered it's directed by Bart Layton, whose last film, 'American Animals', is one of my favourite films of the last decade. Underseen and underrated, I can't recommend it enough.

Film poster for the 2018 film 'American Animals'.