Reposted by James LarkSathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 13hDear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played 763703828
Reposted by James LarkNicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 16hIn the 1985 Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos, an authoritarian regime run by a weak man keeps the downtrodden population in line by broadcasting public executions to distract from the fact that it has tanked the economy through a combination of incompetence, arrogance and institutional cruelty. 6485196
Reposted by James LarkTim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 20hTelling that Wes Streeting considers someone diagnosed with ADHD has been 'written off'. Also telling that the government commissioned a review in the face of independent reviews finding there is no overdiagnosis, just increased awareness & historic underdiagnosis of girls & women. 1026589
Reposted by James LarkGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 803203794558
Reposted by James LarkMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026NEW | A corrective to the obituaries… HERE LIES JEFFREY ARCHER The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...brokenbottleboy.substack.comHere lies Jeffrey ArcherThe death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. 27340147
James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My song 'Father' is getting a very exciting airing at the Stiles + Drew Best Song prize at The Other Palace on Monday - tickets still available and it's looking like being a really smashing evening of new work! Come and listen!theotherpalace.co.ukStiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize 2026 - The Other Palace TheatreThe Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize, produced by Mercury Musical Developments, is back, spotlighting the UK’s most exciting emerging songwriting talent. 000
Reposted by James LarkTom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is 100% accurate. 100%. San Francisco is a literal destination for kids thrown out by far right parents. Many end up on the street. The good news is they’re among the easiest to help because on the whole they’re not addicts or mentally ill. They’re just desperate for a home. 26715
Reposted by James LarkVictoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Kemi Badenoch saying people earning a million pounds a year shouldn't be punished for working hard, and in all my years on this earth I don't think I've ever been so naïve as to think people getting that much money are working hard. 225058
James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula. 010
Reposted by James LarkToby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence 27775208
Reposted by James LarkMichael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The central "idea" behind the development of AI is: people are shit and can't do anything, they can't be trusted, this magic machine code will do everything for us. It's the final phase of a program that's been reshaping our reality for decades. A complete inversion of the truth. 211521
Reposted by James LarkCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing 14137891250
Reposted by James LarkChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals" 1132858
James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The latest edition of my newsletter...jameslark.co.ukThe James Lark Newsletter September 2026Hello friends, What do you know, the September newsletter almost made it into September! The reason for the slight tardiness this time round is that I was working right up to the deadline for the orch... 000
Reposted by James LarkMwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪 14410171
Reposted by James LarkJonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If he's gonna watch that, he should also watch all the fan videos with fans playing the parts, making the costumes, writing the scripts etc. There is so much real creativity out there, born of an enthusiastic and inclusive fan community. We don't need artificial intelligence, we have genuine talent. 517038
James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Famously, when Doctor Who finally got a Disney budget for VFX it produced the most successful and popular series of its 62 year run. 1131
James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Thanks Sarah, appreciate this v much. Good wishes to you also! 011
Reposted by James LarkBCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; 094
Reposted by James LarkMark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Look at the contrast here with what happened with the masked jackbooted thugs who descended on Dover the other day. 716065
Reposted by James LarkVirginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Nobody could have predicted this. It’s not as if Britain has a history of damaging its own economy in order to chase the satisfaction of a clutch of racists. 39527
Reposted by James Larkshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"does this also apply to a combine soldier from half life 2" is my "AI" news bullshit test 342244365
Reposted by James LarkRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We can read the equivocations mate here i circled em for you 732684
Reposted by James LarkWoodo @woodo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"unequivocal"static.klipy.comInigo Montoya: You keep using that wordAlt: Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word 031
Reposted by James LarkAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks 19809273
Reposted by James Larkflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I remind you that half of your political/media class frantically urged you to vote for this pig-ignorant, disastrously incompetent crook, and the other half frantically urged you not to vote for the only viable opposition, and then put two and two together about why they did that. 46679170
Reposted by James LarkJonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The mental cartwheels we have to perform to support the BBC while its news department continues to serve up steaming shit pie. 2133
Reposted by James LarkNev Fountain @nevfountain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Translation: Laura is bored and misses her old narrative of the unstoppable momentum of Reform. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHow long can Labour's feel-good factor last?The party’s spirits have been transformed since Burnham became PM, but what's coming down the tracks, asks Laura Kuenssberg. 2243
Reposted by James LarkLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7359802001
James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Though it is an evolving set of thoughts, I have at last updated my website with a statement about why I don't use AI. (It's quite long. Maybe should have asked ChatGBH to condense it.) www.jameslark.co.uk/aijameslark.co.ukStatement on AI | James Lark composerI do not use AI at any stage of the creative process. This is why. 351
Reposted by James LarkCameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If I'd written the "island of strangers" speech, I probably wouldn't try to lecture others on how overheated and emotional rhetoric is fuelling the far right 311630
James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026When somebody tells you that anti-misinformation plans directly target their party... erm... believe them 010
Reposted by James LarkGav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Because this is the takeaway from yesterday's events ffsbbc.co.ukHome Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in KentThe arrivals of two unescorted migrant boats mark the first uncontrolled landings recorded in the UK since 2025. 0304
Reposted by James LarkTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Look, if this isn't a crime we've failed. 923246
Reposted by James LarkM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Oh I see you think this has nothing to do with you 7646169
Reposted by James LarkJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is a really important point that I wish some people would be more precise about. “AI” as a vague concept in the news gives evil people the ability to wash their hands of actions they designed these systems to carry out. It would be trivial to fix this in alignment. They don’t want to. 26732
Reposted by James LarkSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026As vile and as telling an image in the clip as Trump mocking a reporter with disabilities. These people are telling us who they are. We should not make the same mistake the US made. 28644235
Reposted by James LarkSpooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Talk TV and GB News broadcast hate, the media was out of control this summer tearing apart the life and achievements of Jason Arday: nothing from Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary. Racists in Piddington vote to leave the UK, and up she pops, clapping like a seal. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukPiddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plansPiddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby. 1526199
James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Once we've put up the wall, can we also deport Lisa Nandy to Piddington? 010
Reposted by James LarkJames Cooray Smith @ Midday Matinées / Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026buttondown.com/cooray_smith... I've had what might be a new, and possibly even significant, thought about Doctor Who's late 1980s cancellation. This is a free subscribers e-mail, and free to read on the site too, but if you agree, why not become a paid subscriber? Or indeed, even if you don't. 1112254
James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Leviticus is excellent. Gets closer to embodying the experience of growing up gay in a conservative church than several more literal attempts, and is considerably more entertaining. A film that is going to live with me for some time. Beautiful cinematography too. 000
Reposted by James LarkDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It’s a pity that so many people find “The Last Battle” unpalatable (for reasons I understand!), because there is some extremely sharp stuff in there about how theology and religious language and imagery can be weaponised to abuse people and to achieve power that feels quite timely right now.⚓️✝️ 710513
Reposted by James LarkAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Genuinely baffled as to which of this mix of tedious cliches, right-wing received opinion and inside-the-box thinking, all of it featured ad nauseam in BBC politics programming, he thinks he couldn’t have mentioned while on the Today programme 3529
Reposted by James LarkAthena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026a typical 'blue' Labour's mistake. Labelling moderate people as insufferable, top knotted, sourdough starter making, lactose intolerant fruitarians, when in fact their stated views on international policy, welfare, education and transport are very aligned with core Labour values 1929776