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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've probably taken this a bit too far now, but this isn't just a virtual/generated avatar, but drivable at realtime too. I like the idea of a layered audio track that carries its own inferrable video

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here's a good one: Looking-Glass.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

These ones might be a _bit_ much :/

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Visual pronunciation from any voice \o/ It's not useful for anything, but I think it's cool :)

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It also works for a take on a wordoku, but revealing the full word list turns it into a simple elimination exercise. I'm pretty sure revealing almost half the word list turns it into a deductive challenge, but hard to generalise about so far.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's "X Marks The Treasure"

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Working on a puzzle generator, if you like this kind of thing, I can't decide if this is too easy :?

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No, you're getting carried away

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Took way too many attempts at this to finally figure it out [sound on if you're interested and not wearing headphones]. Essentially makes a video into an editable vector (of sorts) cos it _kinda_ teaches an agent how to change/regenerate it, even if metadata was stripped.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Pretty pleased with this project, came out better than I expected :)

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Still miss ceefax. Might bring it back :)

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Now SMRs please. Finally solving real problems.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

No, _you're_ overthinking it.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I still wasn't able to dial down the exaggerated lip movements for some of my History Guests, but it was interesting to see how it affects 'great speakers' more, like there's something about a strong voice that makes AI drive a strong face too.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Catherine the Great (or Sophie, as she prefers casually) it turns out is a lot harder to like.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Through listening to his episode several times, I really ended up liking Machiavelli

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I can't zoom out enough for this on my tool, but this is the middle bit of Let's Kill Hitler (time travel hub, Telltale-like)

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What it looks like actually trying to get LLMs to make something only they can do, instead of just lazy slop :D

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I like the ones that expose their prompt because the model didn't understand where the meta prompt and the content prompt separate

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Even including drama and optics, it's really not _that_ bad. Almost as if there are external influences who would prefer Britain's leadership to be universally hated, despite relatively positive decisions and measurable results.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Putting policy before drama, that was a pretty productive legislative era. Let's hope Burnham can keep it up, but also find lots of things people really really want and like, instead of _just_ things we actually need. Updated to Starmer's resignation. betterbritain.org.uk/year-of-labo...

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Well, here's the tool and data. better-britain.github.io/voting-depri...

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I've switched to showing too close too calls in grey, and here's raw vs adjusted for ge voting pattern differences better-britain.github.io/voting-depri...

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This is my top 4 for surprise losses so would expect much better odds. Will be interesting to see how Andy does.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

If you fancy a flutter come 2029 these are the ones to watch for 4-12x your money. Might be a couple of ~25x if you pick them up at the right time. I think I'm gonna bet my way through it like I did through Brexit (sick as a dog that morning, but at least I was 4 grand up)

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I made a picture of what it looks like if those locals were repeated at the next general. Green/Labour splitting the vote in the cities. This looks like a worst-case scenario, but if you'll excuse some vibes, this is very achievable without a hail mary from the walking corpse parties.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

It also says Reform take Makerfield and too close to call for Greens to take Manchester mayoralty, were that to be run.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

If there was a general election tomorrow and the same picture played out as at the recent locals (even adjusted for the shift in voting patterns between locals and generals) my census-signals based model says Reform comes away with 252 seats, the Greens 145, and Labour are wiped out.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

If I had to sum it up, I'd say Reform is the party of rural white-British home-owners in semi-routine jobs who fear becoming as poor as the multi-cultural/dense areas rented to Greens and Labour voters.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The Urban vs Rural difference is pretty big.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I got tired of seeing the same basic trendline-goes-down on turnout... Here are stacked bars showing who didn't vote of absolute population. Roughly the same overall number of people are voting, but usually as a smaller share of a growing population.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Very broad appeal, all deciles, near or over 50%. I've seen a few pundits say "Labour are going to have to build things people can see", and they defo need to make GBE and Net Zero less abstract (flag-wave it as actually taking back control/national energy security, for a start) but yikes

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