Streaming rights and disappearing disc drives and all the problems of modern capitalism aside, it is truly wild how much more accessible/well-preserved a lot of media is now. 40 years ago the BBC used to tape over episodes of Doctor Who because they'd run out of electronic videotape!

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterday

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

anytime I watch something adapted from a superhero comic i briefly enter a liminal state where I not only remember but care about all the associated lore all over again and then it wears off after a couple of days

When will I finally learn that everyone on every single House Of The Dragon subreddit has opinions that annoy the fuck out of me and I should never go there for post-episode reactions

one of my gen z coworkers just told me that whenever i talk about pop culture i remind her of this guy

I knew the Avatar movie was gonna have a new voice cast but the last person I would’ve expected to be in it was one of the dopiest dudes from last season of The Traitors

the wicker man's not a virgin anymore, i'll tell you what

Carly Lane-Perry@carlylane.bsky.social · 7d ago

I remain so incredibly fascinated by Alexander Skarsgård's career choices as of late, which apparently also include [checks notes] playing a WICKER HUSBAND

No but I had a copy of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader and that's why I'm like this

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 7d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

do you think if the odysssey had come out before lockdown everybody woulda been making cave cheese instead of sourdough starters

Obviously this is dumb but I'm distracted by the sudden realization that Mr. Met has heterochromia? Is that a thing? Has it ALWAYS been a thing? @dylanroth.bsky.social please help?

I’m of two minds about this. I’ve definitely edited the em dashes out of pieces not to make them sound less like AI, but because the author (often, me) has already used like ten of them and sometimes it’s good to vary your sentence structure just up a little bit.

Erik Hane@erikhane.bsky.social · last wk.

I don't know how to say this in a way that isn't snotty: if you are changing your writing intentionally to sound "not like AI" or whatever, I think extremely little of your craft. This is simply not a problem or a consideration for an even moderately developed writer www.wired.com/story/more-t...

great thread but especially this part

Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈@midimyers.com · last wk.

and that's also why i'm so grateful for the times in my life that i've had an editor highlight a sentence and be like "girl, what?" we all need that shit sometimes. and sometimes MANY sentences need to be highlighted. a good editor is a blessing.

get aloada billy bikes over 'ere

Actual names@actualnames.bsky.social · last wk.

William Bicycle England and Wales, Census, 1871

I’d never see a photo of Ross Douthat before and was surprised to learn he looks like an evil Rich Evans

Why is JK Simmons in so many MGM+ shows. What dirt do they have on him

how i wish i were jimothy

Davis Bickford@davis.social · last wk.

I saw this elsewhere and had to share it. Jimothy is just too darn cute.

Nothing beats getting bad news that completely validates how anxious you were already feeling in the first place. Like getting hit by a tidal wave with your back to the ocean and thinking, "Now I can finally stop worrying about getting wet."

Has anyone ever done a Columbo style murder mystery where the guest star goes through this whole process of setting up a murder but then they’re the one who gets murdered instead (Don’t say Danganrompa that doesn’t count)

I bought lettuce at the farmers market and I’ve never been so excited for produce in my life

watching columbo from the beginning for the first time and i keep getting hung up on all the nice wood furniture and flowing caftan robes

on the way out of the theater i started pitching a sketch that opens with nolan saying "ok robert we don't know what weapons the props team is gonna make for us so just name as many as you can think of and we'll make it work it in the edit, now just stand behind the pillar there aaaand action"

Seth D. Michaels@sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 2w ago

imagining a four-hour cut of the Odyssey that is exactly the same except for 67 additional minutes of Robert Pattinson cowering behind a pillar and yelling the names of different weapons

*third eye opens* "tinier tim" sounds like a sequel title but it would have to be a prequel

Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · 2w ago

Before He was Tiny He was TIM

This is fascinating for two reasons: 1. I had never heard of deal toys before and the idea that even asshole Wall Street types want to celebrate with a little bespoke tchotchke is so frustratingly, beautifully human 2. AI is ALSO making it stupider, somehow?! www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-...

Wall Street’s deal toys are booming. AI is making them weirder.

Manufacturers of deal toys, the tchotchkes used to commemorate Wall Street's transactions are downstream of the AI trade — and unrealistic AI designs.

businessinsider.com

really funny to me that the voice actor for the danger room in x-men 97 sounds like an evil version of the calm app lady

holy shit he's doing it www.businessinsider.com/mamdani-ai-a...

Mamdani is targeting deceptive AI-made apartment listings

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a plan on Thursday to curb misleading AI images in apartment listings.

businessinsider.com

victoria mcnally@vqnerdballs.bsky.social · last mo.

It should be illegal to post AI pictures of apartment listings

Most relatable a robot has ever been. I too wish I could collapse in a heap after successfully completing a single task

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2w ago

Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.

They saw how much people were praising them for selling AI-free devices and thought “how can we fuck this up for ourselves”

Seth Trueger@mdaware.org · 2w ago

oh come on

Okay so I guess I’m designing Trek shirts now (coming soon)

its funny to post the avengers doomsday trailer right after the odyssey's opening weekend. i've already gotten my fill of excited speculation about minor characters based on previous source material knowledge, thank u