Reposted by jon.porterCatbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026'Bladerunner 2049' (2017) dir: Denis Villeneuve 📽️ 951031305
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 19/08/2026There's one recruiter on LinkedIn that a) proudly boasts about using AI to screen applications and b) has a horrid bright little HDR profile icon, and honestly I've never longed more for a block button for LinkedIn's jobs board 140
Reposted by jon.porter./yemáko/badgames.zip @badgameszip.itch.io · 10/08/2026sorry to the haters but the CORRECT order to play the series is A Short Hike Big Walk Marathon 2237751236
Reposted by jon.porterJosephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 03/08/2026Man goes to see the Cyclops. Says he's depressed. He wants to get back to his wife and home, but he keeps running into fatal predicaments along the way. Cyclops says, "Prognosis is simple. Nobody can help you." Man starts crying. Says, "But Cyclops, I *am* Nobody" 211041272
Reposted by jon.porterJohn Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 23/07/2026This note gets it just right. You apologise for eating the plums, express sympathy for their owner and explain your motivation for eating them. Just one note: consider offering to replace the plums. This small gesture could do a lot to smooth things over 230667
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 22/07/2026People don’t talk about it much, but in the final years before the fall of the Roman Empire people got REALLY into collecting giant novelty popcorn buckets 030
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 21/07/2026look, I just think it's weird that we don't spell it "super dooper" 000
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 20/07/2026there is simply no love purer than the little nod shared between two bus drivers passing each other on the street 030
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 14/07/2026Are other tote bag designs even available in London or has Daunt Books pushed them all out? 110
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 09/07/2026I’m not kidding when I say that all work in the office just ground to a halt for a full minute while we all watched The Blimp fly by 040
Reposted by jon.porterstuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026iron rule of British politics is even if a guy who dresses as a bin becomes prime minister he will have been to Oxbridge 323205798
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 29/06/2026Nobody: Absolutely no one: Not a single soul on this earth: r/bicycling: What if I filmed myself cycling from the point of view of my penis? 030
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 29/06/2026Random question for the Kojima-heads out there: what are the best books/articles/video essays/reviews/talks/anything you've encountered about his work and career? 311
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 26/06/2026My most problematic take? Great question. I’d have to say “candy, from a baby.” 210322
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 31/05/2026Not to make everything about house prices but it feels like in a normal economy you’d be more likely to sell up and move if you found yourself living in a nightlife district when you have no interest in nightlife (1/2) 110
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 24/05/2026Me [squinting at the AMF Lager taps with my slightly-too-weak contacts in]: Uh hi could I get an… uh… Alf Lager? 020
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 11/05/2026Sick to death of people who claim a journalist must have used AI to write an article when they spot a small mistake. Famously journalists never made factual errors before the invention of ChatGPT. 240
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 03/05/2026One of my most sincerely held beliefs is that a lot of culture war nonsense is the direct result of underfunded newsrooms scraping the barrel for column inches every week 040
Reposted by jon.porterRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 15/04/2026Countdown Standard xkcd.com/3232/ 995507886
Reposted by jon.porterEize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 09/04/2026"The Scottish island of Summerisle, home of the best fruit in Britain. The first thing you notice? No churches. The farmers here practice a fascinating form of pre-Christian worship…and I just learned I'll be playing the lead role in their annual May Day festival. First stop: my costume fitting." 3943301165
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 09/04/2026"It's so refreshing to be cutting about with a boot-full of hammers, battering guys for money" got a good belly-laugh out of me 010
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 26/03/2026When I was 27 a woman on the tube asked me about the mobile game I was playing and I earnestly explained the rules of Hitman GO for 10 minutes until she excused herself and went to wait by the door for her stop 020
Reposted by jon.porternat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 26/03/2026The Criterion Collection? What, like all the Burnout games plus the experimental first person shooter "Black"? 431254
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 14/03/2026I think this is the correct move by Google. I also think there’s a certain irony in Google penalising AI-generated content whilst its own AI overviews decimate the traffic it sends to sites across the web. 090
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 06/03/2026Just completed my move to Eurosky, complete with custom domain handle, and the whole process was amazingly quick, painless, and with (as yet) no change BlueSky’s usability. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Would migrate again 350
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 30/12/2025Got told I was “unusual” by an absolutely massive man wearing dungarees in a pub bathroom after he saw me wash my hands prior to using the urinal. Context: I had just eaten a very greasy burger and wanted to clean my hands before touching my penis and yes, I washed them a second time afterwards. 070
Reposted by jon.porterNorm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 25/12/2025I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.nytimes.comOpinion | Martin Scorsese: ‘Rob Reiner Was My Friend’ 723074848
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 23/12/2025The cutscenes in MGS1 remake The Twin Snakes were originally far more faithful to the original. But after Kojima saw an early version he fed back that they should be punched up, leading to the Matrix-y bullet time cinematics in the final game 053
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 19/12/2025The single dumbest gadget I want to will into existence is an E-Ink Steam Deck so I can read visual novels in bed without blasting screen light at my eyes 030
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 16/12/2025Don't ask me how I know this, but the market for Dominic Toretto impersonators on Cameo is absolutely terrible. Great opportunity for a hench bald guy who owns a pair of sunglasses to absolutely clean up 110
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 27/11/2025fun fact: in Soviet Russia fish holds man in Hinge profile picture 030
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 13/10/2025why is being able to cook considered attractive when most cooking is just following simple instru… actually no wait I get it now 070
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 13/10/2025Seriously considering dressing up as Bioshock's dancing baguette boy this Halloween 040
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 27/09/2025Excited to have heard myself mentioned in the latest episode of @backpagepod.bsky.social, thus securing my place in the canon of UK video games journalism as “guy who was excited about the announcement of Metroid Prime 4 at E3 2017” 051
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 07/09/2025Tired: Missing my arbitrary 1h55 target time by 39 seconds Wired: Running a sub 2h half marathon for the first time 120
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 05/09/2025A Life Well Wasted, video games’ answer to This American Life, just dropped its ninth episode in 16 years and it’s an absolute banger alifewellwasted.comalifewellwasted.comEpisodes • A Life Well Wasted 110
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 08/08/2025my flatmate: leaves hair straighteners turned on and goes to work my flatmate’s straighteners: start beeping to tell me flat is about to burn down me: wow what an annoying noise, better put on noise cancelling headphones to block it out 071
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 25/06/2025Remembering fondly a time in school when I completely blanked on the word "Medieval," panicked, and referred to the period instead as "Castle times." 040
Reposted by jon.porternige 'dear ratboy' @niall.codes · 10/02/2025Frankly, my dear... Frankly. Frankly! Come back Frankly, I love you! I'll stop doing the Clark Gable bit I promise! Damn. She's gone. Like the wind 072
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 08/02/2025I love how two of Spielberg’s movie titles are just an acronym and then an explanation of that exact acronym 130
Reposted by jon.porterCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/02/2025No one wants you to know what the other side of the MGM logo looks like 212039287
Reposted by jon.porterDan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 31/01/2025Here's the full Nirvana performance from Fire Aid for anyone who doesn't want to sort through the whole live feed for it. Fucking hell.youtube.comNirvana live: FireAid 2025 [NIRVANA REUNION]YouTube video by Joe 1418653
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 30/01/2025I like how some video game preorder bonuses are like “here’s a funny hat for your character” and others are like “here’s a gun so powerful it’ll ruin the game for you if you ever use it” 1140
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 28/01/2025to all the folks successfully selling their rtx 4070 ti supers on eBay for £700+ before the rtx 5070 ti comes out next month for £729… well played 040
Reposted by jon.porterJames Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 28/01/2025here's my take on what we should learn from this week's deepseek panic — that AI has bound together the fortunes of tech, finance, and politics in a fragile and unsustainable way. and if deepseek doesn't pop this bubble, some future launch will www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe DeepSeek panic reveals an AI world ready to blow | James VincentThe R1 chatbot has sent the tech world spinning – but this tells us less about China than it does about western neuroses, says journalist and AI specialist James Vincent 2278
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