Batthaniel Tapley

All right - I've done a comedy writer and producers starter pack for everyone who's into that sort of thing. And YES, I've forgotten you, so remind me that you exist and YES I will put you on it (unless you have slighted me in some unremembered way in the last 20 years). go.bsky.app/AkQCH7U

Oh boy, as a working class person myself I can’t wait to see how Labour wants to focus on my needs. Guys? Guys? I am the type of working class you want to court right? Former factory worker and typist who started her own small business with a turnover of less than £50k per year. Right?

Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Currently feeling very sorry for Marissa Mayer's daughter, whose mother can't even think of three nice things about her without turning to autocomplete for help...

Exactly right. It's why the idea of "UK PLC" was so grotesque - as if a nation was just a limited company, that could be wound up, taken over, merged or dissolved, with no roots in the past and no responsibility to the future.

BBC report sanitises the overt racism: It notes that organisers warned marchers not to talk to journalists, then gives the "anti-immigration group"'s own sanitised description of itself. It does not report they chanted "England for the white man" in the streets. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is truly pathetic from Ministers. Labour’s claim to more than 27 new Jackdaw jobs doesn’t hold up. The green economy is >£100bn a year and growing fast. There is no future in fossil fuels. The Government knows this, but chooses profit for Shell over protecting our climate.

Two of my favourite things here. Weird little ceramic guys and Mama Cass.

hey did you know that youre allowed to make a bunch of sculptures and animate them singing to music you love

This is not about "climate campaigners" and framing it this way is totally ridiculous This is a blow to the planet and us all

If I got swallowed by a whale it would recognize my superior posting abilities and keep me alive to utilize them. Unrelated but we dont talk enough about krill on this app. This app unfortunately has a real anti-eating mass quantities of krill bias, and its why this app will never be mainstream.

Some people are used to being told that their ideas are good. Creative people are used to kicking the shit out of their ideas. One of these sorts of people finds the flattery-bullshit machine that is AI impressive.

Would make it even easier for the haters (me) to write DEPP: BAD underneath

Ergo from Krull!

It's not every day your father in law turned up on the front page of Reddit...

piggybacking off this: the most powerful sales technique in the world, for pretty much all of human history, has been word of mouth. If you like something someone made, TELL YOUR FRIENDS. Tell everyone. Leave reviews. Repost. Talk about it. Link to it and link to the artist. We depend on YOU.

Birthday beats for Alan.

Here's a lovely article from Skwigly where they're very nice about the Sparklegang! 'Bad Dinos' recommissioned by Netflix for second and third season - Skwigly Animation Magazine share.google/Jn3XUsDikVY7...

Bad Dinosaurs is coming back! We are recommissioned for seasons 2 and 3 on Netflix. RAAAARGH!

This is a lovely piece about our Bad Dinosaurs resurrection www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/bad-din...

“No timeline for lifting Land Registry paywall as ownership remains opaque” Ministers have publicly committed to open up data on land ownership - but the Land Registry themselves are dragging their feet. Tag your MP: let’s finally reveal who owns England! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Hi, you’re meant to be our advocacy group? This decision sucks. My books were stolen by AI companies, as were millions of books by other writers; it’s the biggest copyright theft in human history — there is no ethical AI when the technology itself is predicated on IP theft

Every day a new atrocity.

"Or, at the very least, for tracheostomy boxes to have sexy new voices..."

Again, randos on bluesky, if you cannot cope with a stranger you reply to not agreeing kindly and mega politely with everything you say, maybe rocking into strangers mentions isn't for you. This isn't the customer service desk at Marksies.

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Had a Halloween rewatch of The Awakening last night. It's so brilliant. Everyone in it is startingly great. Everything I want in a ghost story. Will continue the Stephen Volk-fest with Ghostwatch and a couple of episodes of Afterlife this weekend...

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What the streamers and VOD services have done is revolutionary. And the investment in money and talent is keeping the industry alive right now. But nobody has actually replaced what curated linear TV does. And I’m not sure they can ever do that, or should want to.

The whole menu / on demand system reveals itself to be astonishing at some things, and very poor at others. There are loads of things a streamer should never even try to make, as the menu system will vanish it completely. VOD needs to exist in parallel with linear TV for a healthy TV culture.

they did the thing

salted gargamel is that anything?