Nick

Nick

@nida.bsky.social

Cat slave Occasional model maker Sarcastic beer distribution expert Mediocre 35mm film photographist General nerd Northerner Trying to learn German 36 - engaged - English ~~I will block your account if I see AI ART~~

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John Bull
@garius.eurosky.social

Not gonna watch the clip but will assume it jumps camera view every 10 seconds. Any longer and AI can't preserve the consistency of the scene. It's why every AI video looks like it was cut by a 90s music video director on coke. The kind of stuff that makes you legit tired after 3mins viewing.

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey review – the dullest, most pointless riposte possible to Christopher Nolan’s brilliant epic

theguardian.comElon Musk’s AI Odyssey review – the dullest, most pointless riposte possible to Christopher Nolan’s brilliant epicIt is hardly a shock that Grok AI’s interpretation of Homer is as meaningless as a laptop screensaver. The only surprise would be if Musk accepted defeat graciously. Which he won’t

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John Bull
@garius.eurosky.social

When the British monarchy chose to drop the name "Battenberg" during WW1, they should have been required to pick a different type of cake to use.

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Cartoon Brew
@cartoonbrew.bsky.social

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

cartoonbrew.comChina’s First AI Feature Flops At The Chinese Box OfficeBona Film Group’s AI experiment struggled to attract attention, months after the humble 'Niu Lai’ turned online ridicule into almost $10 million in sales.

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

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Nikola
@greasyboiler.bsky.social

Decades of hard-won progress erased in a few short years by a handful of politicians & newspaper editors who figured that non-stop screeching about asylum seekers and trans people was the only way to maintain electoral consent for perma-austerity while every part of the state visibly rots.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social

"This hatred, it’s like a cancer. It spreads because people will always say, ‘Oh, it’s just the illegals.’ It’s not. “From what I experienced, it was anyone who was remotely different, different creed, different colour, different sexuality.” www.theargus.co.uk/news/2665180...

theargus.co.ukActor describes 'abysmal racism and homophobia' he faced in ChichesterAn assault on a cast member of a play in Chichester was "just the tip of the iceberg" of the "racism, xenophobia and homophobia" the cast faced in the town, an actor has claimed.

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@sloanelysbeth.northsky.social
The Guardian@theguardian.com

Some of Europe’s highest energy costs expected in Britain this winter

theguardian.comSome of Europe’s highest energy costs expected in Britain this winterOfficial forecasts show country will meet energy demand by paying high prices to secure imports Great Britain is expected to pay some of the highest energy costs in Europe this winter as its reliance on imports to ensure a steady supply is forecast to deepen. Energy system operators have said the country will have enough gas and electricity to meet demand over the coldest months – in part because of paying higher market prices than neighbouring markets to secure imports. Continue reading...

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Zack Polanski
@zackpolanski.bsky.social

Today's decision by Labour to approve new drilling in the North Sea is climate vandalism. It's a betrayal of all of our futures, and Labour has abandoned all credibility in the fight against climate change. This is a victory for Shell over the people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

bbc.co.ukUK government approves Jackdaw gas field, and says production will start this month - follow liveActivists say approving the gas field will raise carbon emissions - while the developers argue it is important for the UK’s energy security.

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Davenant 📸
@marcdavenant.bsky.social

It’s come to something when a photographer has to get legal advice, before displaying this photo in an exhibition, due to the risk of being prosecuted as a terrorist, but that’s exactly what I had to do yesterday. What a state this country is in.

Davenant 📸@marcdavenant.bsky.social

A woman weeps over the genocide in Gaza as she waits to be arrested as a terrorist for holding up a piece of cardboard. Parliament Square today.

Nick
@nida.bsky.social

Having a very strange bus journey where half the people on the bus I've barred from pubs 🙃

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The Crusader Project
@crusaderproject.bsky.social

Regardless of anyone's views on the criminality of PA, Yvette Cooper's decision to proscribe based on the deeply flawed UK anti-terror legislation is having predictably bad consequences. Pensioners holding signs are being arrested by a multitude of police, books are no longer being published.

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Nick
@nida.bsky.social

Good lord finally reached season 9 of X-files (rewatch) damn that's been a slog. Not sure what I'm gonna watch next so any recommendations would be appreciated.

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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social

Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”

Nick
@nida.bsky.social

Just watched perfect blue for the first time, it has been on my pile of movies to watch for some time to be fair but finally got round to watching it. Absolutely fantastic movie, it kept me guessing up until the very end and even got my heart going in parts.

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@nida.bsky.social

Holy crap that's the best thing I've eaten in a very long time. Chicken, chorizo and nduja tray bake with some roasted parsnips on the side

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Arloween 🎃
@feraldactal.bsky.social

They called the cops on me lmao.

Arloween 🎃@feraldactal.bsky.social

Today I learned an easy way to get a group of Christians outside a Planned Parenthood, to scatter like rats. Just start chanting random made up spells and saying in the name of (insert any deity name here) while shaking a bag of bones at them (i always have a small pouch of chicken bones with me).

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@nida.bsky.social

Having one of those for fucks sake moments. I've been listening to Die toten Hosen in and off since I met my fiancé and I'm slowly falling in love with them as a band and as you would expect from a punk band that's been going since the beginning they are doing a we are to old tour.....

Nick
@nida.bsky.social

Totally respect them for it by the way they have always been upfront and said if one band member was feeling like they couldn't continue they'd discuss it and then stop. And from what I've heard that's now what's happening so yeah totally fine with that but.

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The Crusader Project
@crusaderproject.bsky.social

ICL, RefUK is strong in sticking with tradition. Nazis will be Nazis. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

encyclopedia.ushmm.orgDeath Penalty for Aiding Jews | Holocaust EncyclopediaSeptember 5, 1942. On this date, Germans issued this poster announcing the death penalty for anyone found aiding Jews who fled the Warsaw ghetto.
Peter Smith@redpeter99.bsky.social

A lifeboat crew responds to a call and finds a dingy in distress full of migrant men, women and children. Do they leave or rescue them? No-one with a shred of humanity would turn round and head back.

Nick
@nida.bsky.social

Me and my brother made burger buns and turkey and feta burgers from scratch tonight with a salad on the side. It's wet and miserable tonight and I don't want to go to the pub so it's time for a can of stoot and some anime

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@nida.bsky.social

They were really good, only criticism would be the buns were too small but that's ok we just made the burgers smaller. Fantastic though topped with streaky bacon, pickles, ketchup and mustard the classic

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@nida.bsky.social

Got my hair dyed, shaved and cut today! Woo! Also bought some physical music too for the first time in what feels like forever

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Patrick Ness
@patricknessbooks.bsky.social

I ran a marathon to raise money for MSF. Attacks on MSF and RNLI and Amnesty are what fascists literally do. They want to devalue all humane effort, all care for fellow man. These are dangerous, dangerous times.

Colin Murray@colinmurray.bsky.social

A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:

Nick
@nida.bsky.social

Went for a walk on Sunday up on the Pennine way up by Blackstone edge Reservoir. Never been up that way before! Very pretty. (The first 3 photos are at a different reservoir we stopped at on the way can't remember the name)