John Smith

John Smith

@jayb0b.bsky.social

Web developer, snake owner and EPCOT stan. I watch bad films. Vue, Nuxt, Java. He/him.

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John Smith
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I mean, I guess there’s some cheer to be gotten from Trump’s most ardent supporters like Julie Burchill in the Spectator admitting they were wrong about Trump. 🧵

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John Smith
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For Julie, Trump upsetting the right people was enough. I do not believe for a second the video shocked her. How could it at this point? People are looking for any excuse to part ways with him now. Expect more Damascene conversations in the months ahead. Don’t trust a word these people say.

John Smith
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I mean, I guess there’s some cheer to be gotten from Trump’s most ardent supporters like Julie Burchill in the Spectator admitting they were wrong about Trump. 🧵

John Smith
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But to most people with eyes and/or ears it’s baffling that anyone would take so long to reach the conclusion we reached 10 years ago. So what pushed Julie over the edge?

John Smith
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It was the AI tiger video, apparently. Not “grab em by the pussy”, not mocking disabled journalists, not January 6th, not supporting Putin, not the Iran war, not raping E Jean Carrol, not allowing a bunch of militarised fascists to roam the streets of the US. This.

John Smith
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Pauline was not wrong.

pauline kael bot@paulinekaelbot.bsky.social

[RETURN OF THE JEDI] Worse, the bravado is gone from Han Solo; this sad palooka is so callow he seems to have regressed. Leia, older and sleeker now, looks at him affectionately, like an indulgent mother who has learned to live with her son’s dopeyness. (1983)

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Jörg Tittel
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Fuck you!!! CONFLICT!!!

mills5@mills5.bsky.social

In the Japanese PC-88 port of Ultima 3: Exodus by Pony Canyon, if you try to Talk/Transact (T key) to an enemy monster, they literally say "FUCK YOU!!" in English. Hilarious, and apparently nobody has discovered or posted about this before online in English or Japanese

John Smith
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I’m quite into the trailer for The Magician’s nephew and looking at an article in the Telegraph my eyebrows furrowed a bit. 🧵

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John Smith
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So look. In isolation this is a nothing example. But I see this shit so much. The flattening of all voices into having all equal weight and relevance. An online critic can currently be, say, a writer for the AV Club website. It could be a Russian bot.

John Smith
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All opinions are available online. If you see an article using vague language like this to support culture war bullshit, treat it with suspicion.

John Smith
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I’m quite into the trailer for The Magician’s nephew and looking at an article in the Telegraph my eyebrows furrowed a bit. 🧵

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John Smith
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So when we’re talking about an “online critic” we’re actually talking about… some rando in the Youtube comments section. I tried to find the quote in the official trailer’s comments section: couldn’t find it. It’s either somewhere else or has been deleted.

John Smith
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I’m quite into the trailer for The Magician’s nephew and looking at an article in the Telegraph my eyebrows furrowed a bit. 🧵

John Smith
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Not only will you own nothing, you’ll also not be able to play the things you don’t own. And you’ll be happy? I guess?

Shinobi602@shinobi602.bsky.social

Microsoft switches to monthly hour limits in big changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming, cites rising cloud costs: ▪️Ultimate: 15 hours ▪️Premium: 10 hours ▪️Essential: 5 hours Once subscribers use up their hours, they can buy additional cloud playtime through the Xbox Store ➡️ www.ign.com/articles/mic...

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I Die: You Die
@idieyoudie.bsky.social

Person who owns 100 industrial records: The best industrial band is KMFDM Person who owns 1000 industrial records: The best industrial band is Laibach Person who owns 10,000 industrial records: The best industrial band is Scooter

Spiteful Matt@realmfresh.bsky.social

Person who has seen 100 movies: The best movie ever made is Citizen Kane Person who has seen 1000 movies: The best movie ever made is 8 1/2 Person who has seen 10,000 movies: The best movie ever made is Crank 2: High Voltage

John Smith
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This is the answer. Seabrook sweetcorn flavour. A weird idea but they were incredible.

Colin Hoad@colinhoad.com

Brannigan's Beef & Mustard crisps. It brings tears to my eyes that they were discontinued, just as the crisps did back when I used to eat them.

John Smith
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This one is a bit crushing. George’s incredible work is in a bunch of films (Freaked, Society) but beyond that he made masks for Slipknot, was a musician and even oversaw a bonkers sort-of-pinball-thing on Playstation with his personality all over it. Really talented dude, I’ll miss him 🫡

John Smith
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A cursory reverse image check shows that the cricket photo is at least four years old. Couldn’t show one from this year of course - the pitch would just be a layer of parched brown kindling as far as the eye can see. www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2022...

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social

It’s time we sorted out the press. Constant misinformation to protect their donors and fossil fuels is destroying lives and our planet. The Government must step up and stop being cowardly.

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Aidan Comerford
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This blog was written by the guy who edited Graham Linehan's memoir who is simply flabbergasted to find that the bulk of his "gender critical" allies support a racist bookshop in his locality, and yet, cannot find the obvious conclusion: the GC movement is bigoted. 1/ kaygreen.blog/2026/08/09/t...

kaygreen.blogThe alarming tale of the far right bookshop in rural SuffolkGuest blogger Simon Edge was horrified to find a far-right bookshop on his doorstep. He was even more horrified to discover it was backed to the hilt by some prominent gender critical figures. The …