Will Goring

LLMs aren’t writing

if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi

Disney has now shelved three episodes featuring storylines centered on transgender characters and gender identity. The episodes, from ‘Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur,’ ‘The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder,’ and ‘Win or Lose,’ were either cut from release or have since leaked online.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, Disney or Ghibli.

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

Pretty much ready to go, we look forward to seeing many of you at #DinoConUK 2026. It's gonna be a great weekend :)

The #DinoConUK team are on site and getting things ready... we look forward to seeing you this evening and over the weekend :) Remember to use #DinoConUK in place of #DinoCon, and follow @dinoconuk.bsky.social

#DinoConUK 2026 tickets are on sale for just a few more hours but sales close at midday. Then that's that! We can't wait to see you at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, it's going to be fantastic. Tickets and info here... www.dinocon.co.uk

You can dismiss any news that appears in the format "Elon Musk says [blank] will [blank] by the end of [blank]"

One of the things I appreciate most about living in Norfolk is the fact that it induces a near-constant state of bewilderment. 1/4

The fantastic news is that the dinosaurs are no longer considered "at risk" by Historic England. More work lies ahead in getting the Geological Court resembling its original state, but this is an important milestone in the Dinosaurs' history. Congrats to all involved, we've done good.

The project has also relocated statutes to historic positions, used broken sculpture parts and photographs to model and 3D print missing and replacement body parts (including draconic pterosaur heads), and restored the geological sculptures.

...with an emphasis on making them "old" again. So, yes, those crazy two-tone colours, those oranges and purples etc. are based on sculpture paint analyses and how BW Hawkins imagined prehistoric animals in his paintings. The CP Dinos were far more garish than their recent history suggests.

Heading back early* from the big shindig to celebrate the restoration of Crystal Palace Park and the @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social. I'm proud to have played a part in a huge effort to repair and restore the Dinosaurs... *Stupid trains.

ICYMI - we're going back on the road with @lomatheband.bsky.social in November. We're going to need your help - more on that to come! Full schedule with ticket links: shearwatermusic.com/tour-dates/

Countdown continues: NINE DAYS to #DinoConUK 2026! Talks, events, quiz, exhibitions, a giant vendor hall, costumes, book signings and more: like Comic Con but devoted to #dinosaurs... join us July 25th-26th, Hilton Birmingham Metropole. Scenes from 2025 (photos by Alfred Barwick)

I cry every single time I watch Sam Neill's performance in this moment - one of the greatest and most moving in all of cinema.

If you've watched Project Hail Mary (I have, twice), this is that place.

Well i dont know how long this login session is gonna last but @bsky.app just asked me to do an age verification with personal information. If this happens again i will not attempt to log back in. If i dont post here again let bsky know that i prefer my privacy over this platform.

i don't have the first idea about the validity of the claims here but i am consulting religious texts to see if there are any patron saints for class action lawsuits i can pray to

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Only ONE MONTH until #DinoConUK 2026 and we're flat out making final preparations. Currently sorting out my marine reptiles talk (done to 'supplement' my #AncientSeaReptiles book). Join us, July 25th-26th, Hilton Birmingham Metropole, tickets and info at... www.dinocon.co.uk/tickets

“An ambitious globe-trotting voyage into changing nature… A richly orchestrated art music assembled in a way that feels simultaneously intimate in sentiment and gigantic in scope… Some of Shearwater’s finest songs to date… Extraordinary and wonderful.” Uncut - 9/10 Album of the Month

The New World has been dubbed Album of the Month in the August 2026 issue of Uncut Magazine! Four whole pages, and a 9/10 review. Thanks to Louis Pattison for a great article and interview. Pick it up at a newsstand near you now (or soon!).

Graph of Strait of Hormuz crossings since June 2025. See that little spike all the way on the right? The one that's much lower than the leftward 2/3 of the graph, and immediately crashes back down? That's what the US government and quite a bit of US media tell us is fully open, with normal traffic.

Check out this sword stuck in a stone!!

relevant to an email i just got

Driftwood dragon.

I suspect creature VFX reached peak photorealism with Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age. It is *astonishingly* impressive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsij...

Not all STEM guys, ofc. But anybody who’s ever worked in, say, education, humanities, health care, etc can tell you that they’ve met their share of STEM guys who are under the impression that they could just effortlessly pivot to your field if they wanted to do so

Feels like a lot of STEM guys believed coding was the hardest thing a human could do, and assumed that once somebody invented an AI that can code, it would follow naturally that the AI can do all of the lesser non-coding things that other dumber people were doing

Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡

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I found it! The algorithm brought it back to me

Little Wattlebird on a protea flower in the rain. #birds

"The idea that cheating with an LLM is somehow beyond moral evaluation because the technology is new, or because capitalism is bad, or because everybody is anxious, or because life is haaaaaard…. These feelings are not expressions of compassion but condescension dressed up as sophistication." […]

Anthony Stewart Head was one of the most fantastic villain characters in this scene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S16... His loss is tremendous.

Sad day. RIP.

Oh, my goodness. This one is a real shock. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In view of recent debates about -style- in palaeoart, we at #DinoConUK agree that ALL ART STYLES ARE WELCOME. Yes, we want stylized, abstract, retro, niche and all other renditions :) Our only rule is NO AI, but you know this already :)

OpenAI must have tweaked the ChatGPT system prompts again. It's now talking about its experience of the real world and its opinions. Yesterday it told me how much a certain armchair hurt its neck. This morning it claimed a factual error was due to it "subconsciously" assuming something. Gross.

As usual, the real animals look way more interesting than their movie counterparts. But, of course, they're just theme park monsters, not real dinosaurs. Oh, wait: wrong franchise. With new dinosaur properties looking just as uninspired as the long-in-the-tooth JP films, it's getting hard to tell.

Yes, hooray, feathers (though probably not apt as restored for Allosaurus, given the skin fossils we have for this taxon: large regions of this animal were probably scaly) but boo to that same uniform muted brown colouring and lax attitude to anatomical detail.