Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 19mIt makes me wonder what his current allies are thinking. Does it matter to them that if they put one foot out of line they'll be in the same position as her? 000
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 4hSo many possibilities. Here's one contender from the modern era. youtu.be/PErfVocO7jY?...youtu.beWild EyesYouTube video by Mariee Sioux - Topic 000
Reposted by Ed MartinA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission. 11149781480
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026There's a peculiarly early-70s production context here. Dicks was the script editor, effectively in the showrunner, who wanted to keep his long-term contract. The directors were freelancers. 130
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Terrance Dicks (script editor of Doctor Who in the early 1970s) once told an incoming producer: my job is to write the cheapest scene possible. The director will try to film it as expensively as possible. Your job is to keep us both in line. 1160
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Current reporting is lots of petrol was found but no explosives. 051
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Well this episode of Mastermind has revealed I've been pronouncing pince-nez wrong all this time. 000
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Thinking up new ideas" is not a definition of speculation that seems to apply here very well, what with the absolute absence of new ideas. "Returning again and again to boilerplate racist ideas" does but I can't find that in my dictionary. 100
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026You should use its full name, Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo Plus Juliet. 010
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Apparently a St George's Cross was painted on a roundabout in Penzance, and the locals were furious because the Cornish hate the English too. 010
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Doesn't solve the problem of clearing my massive unread book backlog though! 100
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026When I set "no new acquisitions, only books I already own a copy of" as my 2026 reading goal, I wasn't anticipating a new Susanna Clarke. 110
Reposted by Ed MartinSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 75262659845
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Also there's a moveable definition of wealthy. Someone in the top 40% has a different life to someone in the top 10%, and both are rounding errors to the top 0.1%. 010
Reposted by Ed Martinthe hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too 643639675
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Even when it's working it just sounds like any other generic chatbot. Why is Hollywood pushing something that's no better than my electricity company's customer service agent? 0150
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Related to the reverse Pavlov. Every time you salivate, a bell rings. 010
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Vimes would keep it in his desk drawer next to the full bottle of whiskey. 000
Reposted by Ed MartinTansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026By far the worst thing that could happen to a gentleman of good family is to come into his fortune at the age of two-and-twenty. Why, a man of such recent vintage has barely begun forming his character, and now he shall never have to. 1236
Reposted by Ed MartinThought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 09/09/2026People who view everyone else as tools for their personal use cannot distinguish between real people and tools designed for their personal use. 223653
Reposted by Ed MartinGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/09/2026he’s talking about carbon removal but this is the most EVERGREEN SKEET to ever ship out into the bsky seas 31064186
Reposted by Ed Martinbadly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I've laughed at this for three minutes straight 12887211
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I still remember my first lottery win with fondness. Treated myself to a premium meal deal that day, not the regular one. 👍 011
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Ask an AI to solve a cryptic crossword clue and you'll have a demonstration of how good its "reasoning" skills are pretty quickly. 050
Reposted by Ed MartinUncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The cats graciously put on a magic show for us last night. I figured out how they did most of the tricks, but I didn’t say anything, because that would have been rude. 4048821044
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Alan Turing buried two silver ingots in the woods outside Bletchley Park at the outbreak of the war. At the end of the war he went to retrieve them but couldn't crack his own encoded directions. As far as anyone knows they're still there somewhere. 030
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026My Dad went through this as a senior lawyer. A junior would ask him about a point of law, he'd look it up and respond to them, and the junior would get back to the client and go "Malcolm says you can't do that." 000
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Agreed providing it's the English dub, with STEPHEN THORNE as Aslan. Absolutely everything he did, he did in capital letters. 000
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026My favourite line in that film is (paraphrased) "he's a liar. Actually, in this case he's probably just wrong." Like, they're idiots, but they're also minnows, and they'll be queuing up at the job fair with the rest of us when it all goes tits up. 010
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026A reread of Lud-in-the-Mist is due one of these autumns. 020
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The saddest thing about the guy is he's spent literally years hovering around far-right spaces after his public defenestration, begging for table scraps, rather than engaging in the least bit of self-reflection. What a miserable way to live. 070
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026So many phrases in common use date back to the old medieval guild system. "Being on tenterhooks" is from clothmakers, referring to the hooks used to keep wet woollen cloth from shrinking as it dried. 030
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I love the insane contradictions. Be aggressive and provocative, but not strident. Explain your reasoning in exhaustive detail, but without being pedantic. Also, failing to say "you are an expert" is the only thing preventing your being an expert up to now. 000
Reposted by Ed MartinThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Mashing-up Robin Hood and Peasants Revolt is perfectly representative of how English understand the middle ages. May as well lob in Arthur's grail, Alfred's cakes, Canute's tides, Offa's dyke, and Richard III's lack of a horse. We get taught Tudors and Nazis endlessly, but medieval period a blur. 3024637
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Who cares what you call a meaningful subset, stranger on the Internet? 000
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I can't remember who pointed out that the reason Sun Tzu's rules of war seem so trite and obvious is historically armies have been led by idiot aristocrats, who need to be told explicitly "don't forget soldiers require food occasionally." 1390
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Can't even get Tim Curry to pop up on screen and yell at you any more. 040
Reposted by Ed Martinshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 29/08/2026like yeah, you've been breaking everything up and selling it off and shipping it overseas. for profit! and now it sucks! i think they think the US can still do WWII-style war mobilization mainly because of movies 1292039
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The silver lining for Milo is there's finally a reason to update his Wikipedia page for the first time in a few years. 071
