Leo Cookman

My website is the best place to find the veritable pile of stuff I've made. Books, records, podcasts, videos, etc all available at leocookman.com

Again, it’s important to understand that the transgender terror did not arise organically from the public. It was imposed from above, by the world’s most hateful and poisonous media class.

Overall everything is "better" than when I was a kid, but that doesn't mean it's all *good*. Medicine, however, has come on leaps and bounds in just half my lifetime. The cancer that killed my father in 2005 is WAY easier to spot and more treatable today. Countless lives saved by medical advances.

To all my fellow Brits who tutted and shook their head at the food supply problems in the US: no one is safe form all this.

What a phenomenal thread of replies. I know a lot of boring nerdy film facts but there are some doozies in here. This is what peak Twitter was like in the early 2010s.

What mask?

Halloween Sleepy Hollow The Descent The Exorcist

Just a tiny tiny tiny group of mates all getting each other on their TV shows to tell each other the pig people have had it too good for too long.

So much of what politicians and the media say now is some variation of "Just shut up and do as you're told" said with increasing volume and aggression. Those in power don't seem to understand why we are delighted with the miserable conditions we are in.

The biggest problem with this sabre-rattling bullshit is how vague it all is. Who are we fighting? Why? If such a conflict were on the horizon should the public you are demanding sacrifice their lives not be informed clearly of the stakes and actors? These fuckers just want a war, any war.

BBC being, as ever, hilariously slow on the uptake here www.bbc.com/news/article...

I've been writing about the stupid question of AI being conscious for a while. This covers most of the issues with such a profoundly daft idea: leoacookman.medium.com/ai-where-the...

“The monster is so hungry it might attack, unless you sacrifice one of your villagers” is a classic fairytale

Okay, skating over the fact we don't even know what consciousness (or intelligence really) even is, LLMs are glorified speak and spells, they don't have a rich internal life. And they certainly don't suffer. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social said, this nonsense is just bible fanfic.

There's a lot of misogyny around the discussion of "travelling with Natalie" and the hiring of Zacharia but equally not enough criticism around the grotesque fact the most powerful man in the world hired two women who look like his daughter to follow him everywhere.

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

I was reintroduced to TTRPGS as an adult not by Critical Role but by 'The Infinite Bad' podcast from Definitely Human. It's still my favourite actual play and encouraged me to try playing myself. Been DMing for a couple of years now and I love it. So pleased the hobby has taken off so much recently.

I said I like it. I didn't say it was good.

It's not even the ethics of it. My career, my hobbies, my free time, hell, my whole life took off once I fully left Twitter. It is a place to go if you want to be stuck in a neverending race war feedback loop. Like not using ChatGPT, not using Twitter is a superpower. Remain employable; stay off it.

My Mum died last year, my Dad in 2005, the amount of stuff my siblings and I have had to just throw away has been heartbreaking. "Precious posessions" are only precious to you. Some stuff you loved will be kept out of sentiment but most of it will be donated, sold or binned after you're gone. Sorry.

I can’t stress enough that this notion of if and when It will gain consciousness is Bible fanfic. It’s not real.

I want to play this so bad. I had Podracer on the N64 and played it so much I gave my thumb a callus. F-Zero was a close second. Sadly, I don't own any system that will play it and won't be able to afford one any time soon. Modern video gaming is both the best and the worst.

I do have to underline this: Johnson might have been more obviously corrupt, insulting, stupid and clearly disastrous, but a lot of people liked him and he had a massive chunk of the electorate onboard with his bullshit. Almost nobody liked or wanted Starmer, McSweeney or Mandelson. And yet

Greens were - sadly - never going to win this one but a 22% spike is not to be sniffed at and further evidence of why Labour need to pull further left and not right if they went any sort of electoral security.

Yet more evidence of BBC being British Establishment propaganda wing - reward for editor of programme telling blatant lies 'The BBC just handed the newsroom to the editor who signed off the 2019 Panorama that treated “Is Labour Anti-Semitic?” as a closed case ...' www.facebook.com/TheDailyPoli...

I bought Red Doc when it came out and I still don't know what it means but, whatever it is, it's amazing. Totally unique poet and brilliant thinker. A huge inspiration to me. Justly deserved recognition.

The thing with this is that EVERYTHING was frightening as a kid. There was a level of threat and grotequerie to so many incidental things in kids media because it didn't patronise. I loved being terrified by a weekday cartoon. Most pop culture today feels toothless or irony-poisoned by comparison.

My new book "No Escape" is published today. It's a book of theory about how radical imagination is and that escapism isn't a dirty. Available in ebook or paperback where every you get your literature. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/no-escape-...

"Boy, they're not kiddin' are they?" It's a quote but it's so innocuous most people don't know it's a quote so it's just for me 😊

The Sun hasn’t made a profit for years. The Telegraph just had to be flogged off. And so on.

Shoutout to all the pets around the world who are literally keeping millions of people sane right now.

Shame on the BBC for having spent the last two decades platforming this fash garbage and thus normalising it. No wonder we have blackshirts marching in the streets.

Genuinely flabbergasted by the Jacob Geller allegations. Combined with the Cornell campus news and the allegations against the majority of elected representatives, the world feels pretty unjust right now.

If your response to this continues to be declarations of "economic realities" or some such nonsense, you're a fucking monster. This has been caused by specific people for very intentional purposes.

This, however, *needs* to happen.

More bullshit "tough decisions". Funny how these decisions are never tough on rich people, politicians or corporations isn't it?

I'm so glad MiB is getting better recognised today. Faultless script. Tight as a drum.

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

I've been around video games my whole life so there isn't one game that got me hooked early on but there is one game that blew my tiny little mind and changed the way I looked at games thereafter. And no one remembers it lol.

Reading people talking about the current global summit on here reminds me how evergreen this old tweet remains...