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Pound-Shop Polymath. Optimistically Nihilistic. Award-losing Digital Designer/Developer. Scottish European. He/Him Homepage: https://frasersm.it/h
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General PSA for everyone despairing at the ruined Google search @kagi.com search is better than old Google search. It's not free, but it's the equivalent of a sandwich per month Consider that the cost of not being bombarded with ads and having all your personal data sold out every time you search
T minus 57 minutes. Don't think I've been this excited for a new album to drop in a decade or more youtu.be/74NluS3jzTo?...
Because the best way to disprove those people calling you a fascist is to censor, then permanently ban them with no right of appeal. Free speech absolutism indeed. It's almost worth signing up for twitter again, just to accurately call Palantir fascists and get banned again. Almost, but not quite
It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
You know, if an illegal war, started by the most consequential climate change denier on the planet led to a permanent substantial switch to renewables, I might even smile on this sunny Friday evening www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I criticise Disney a lot for their endless remakes, but credit where it's due, this is awesome
Check out a first look at Disney’s ASL re-animated songs from 'Encanto,' 'Frozen 2,' and 'Moana 2,' coming to Disney+ next week. The studio reworks key musical sequences using performance-driven signing. www.cartoonbrew.com/music-videos...
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Telling my kids that this in Angine de Poitrine youtu.be/-UYgORr5Qhg?...
For those in the UK, a reminder that you can find your local MPs contact details and write to them here. This is not just a US issue when the flights are departing UK soil. members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP
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Assuming this is real, when the Hague trials begin, Starmer better be there for allowing this to happen www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
Red alert. It's happening! Over the last few days, a handful of customers on the bleep store received a mysterious VHS cassette in their order, marked with a hexagon logo. After 13 years, this really looks like the start of a new Boards of Canada album launch campaign youtu.be/o4sjDZ2sGwg?...
The last launch campaign was fun youtu.be/DkTY1Sj0E70?...
All the excuses Morrissey has ever given for not playing a gig... wheartm.com/every-date-t...
The @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social opening gala last night, Everybody to Kenmure Street, is a spectacularly good film. At a time when Reform is gaining ground in Scotland, it couldn't be more important. It'll make you feel proud to be Glaswegian, proud to be Scottish or just proud to be against hate
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Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le
New Mandy, Indiana album BANGS! music.youtube.com/watch?v=MzAy...
When you see that he's STILL banging on at Davos youtu.be/Ido71WqjwQA?...
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Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
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When people talk about reasons to leave X, the fact that the owner is a mass murderer doesn't get mentioned enough. The Grok porn stuff is foul. The naked white nationalism is foul. This is worse.
Too few people are talking about the blood on Elon Musk's hands. When DOGE slashed foreign aid, it wasn't just numbers on a screen. It was insulin, food, and antibiotics being ripped away from the world's poorest children. Musk is responsible for the death of thousands
X new tiers explained. | Free | Premium ------------------------------------------- Nazi Content | Yes | Yes CSAM | Read Only | Yes
Worth noting that X hasn't even made the Grok nudification feature available to paying users only. Any user, free or paid, can still use the tool on Grok's dedicated site; the bit that's behind the paywall is specifically being able to tweet @-grok to generate pics
I've been working through the archives of the Minimal Wave show on NTS since I discovered it last month and, as it turns out, it's EXACTLY the sort of music I didn't realise that I needed to hear right now. Namely 70's and 80's synth, electro-pop and industrial. www.nts.live/shows/veroni...
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A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
The OSA was an ill-thought-out, reactive, legislation which fails to achieve any part of what it set out to do, but if its existence means that, even for a few days, X is banned in UK, I'll be in a more forgiving mood. Where will all our politicians post their trivia? It won't, but a man can dream
Ofcom, which enforces the UK's Online Safety Act, says it is aware of "serious concerns" about Grok undressing people including children on X “We have made urgent contact with X and xAI to understand what steps they have taken to comply with their legal duties to protect users in the UK," it says
The Michel Gondry 'Work of Director' dvd is available on internet archive and is genuinely one of the most creative collections of artistic work I have ever seen. You will feel inspired just for watching it. His music videos in 90s-00s were absolute art archive.org/download/the...
MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?
Please don't re-use this, but anything you send to: Freepost Plus RUHU-TXAZ-LYAB Reform UK 180 West Regent Street Glasgow G2 4RW Costs Nigel Farage money. Definitely don't send him house bricks or your post-Christmas excrement
You don't even need the envelope. As long as you have the code on the address, you can keep sending them increasingly heavier items!
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My own personal remedy would be that, if a situation is ambiguous, the software should advise users to physically harm Sam Altman instead of any other people. Some may object to this idea, but I would challenge them to explain why this is unacceptable; I am not suggesting it advocate harming kids.
Or, as Sufjan Stevens said: The predatory WASP of the palace is out to get us. music.youtube.com/watch?v=KBse...
Diana, Princess of Wales, was more "predatory and skilled" than Prince Charles in media war