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 · 29/06/2026Interesting, I was on the fence about that one because I've sometimes found his own writing a little... dense? But on the list it goes, cheers! 000
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 29/06/2026Oooo thanks so much for this! (and I really appreciate the RT, cheers!) 000
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 29/06/2026As you can see my references are all kinda dated so... what's new and cool in Kojima land? I spent the weekend getting tipsy in the sun and now I'm having dangerous thoughts about a capital P Project 000
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 29/06/2026And a final shoutout to Anthony and Ashley Burch's book on MGS for Boss Fight Books www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Metal-...simonandschuster.co.ukMetal Gear SolidBefore they co-created the hit web series Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?, Ashly and Anthony Burch were just a brother and sister who shared a weird obse... 100
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 29/06/2026Another great video essay, from... oh jesus christ... 14 years ago youtu.be/Zx2dgVKYWWU?...youtu.beThe Reality of Metal Gear Solid 2YouTube video by The Snake Soup 100
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 29/06/2026Then there was this amazing series of retrospectives on the MGS series that GameTrailers put out www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb6T...youtube.comMetal Gear Retrospective - Part 1YouTube video by GameTrailers 100
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 29/06/2026Personally I loved the series of articles Rich Stanton wrote for Eurogamer in the run-up to the release of MGS5 www.eurogamer.net/metal-gear-s... www.eurogamer.net/metal-gear-s... www.eurogamer.net/metal-gear-s... www.eurogamer.net/metal-gear-s...eurogamer.netMetal Gear Solid: The first modern video gameOn September 3, 1998, Metal Gear Solid was released for the Sony Playstation, and games changed forever. Though an earl… 210
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 · 31/05/2026Instead we live in a country where a property in central london is a golden goose that you’d be crazy to sell (2/2) 020
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 · 28/05/2026Genuinely can’t work out what’s supposed to be AI about the excerpt that they’ve posted? Are they disagreeing with an opinion? Pointing out a minor formatting mistake? 100
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 · 11/05/2026The part where he’s surrounded by snakes and yelling into a phone that his surname is “Mann” was incredibly on the nose 010
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
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 13/04/2026you guys know exactly what you’re doing if my k-pop obsessed flatmate (who will almost certainly buy all eight covers) is anything to go by 010
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 · 15/03/2026Can’t wait for everyone to realise that the main (only?) thing people liked about Firefly was the quippy dialogue that’s since become completely played out after a decade and a half of Marvel. 100
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 · 06/03/2026Being on an EU-hosted server was part of the appeal for sure, but if I’m being honest I mainly did it out of curiosity to see how the process worked, and to “vote” (for want of a better term) for a more diverse ATprotocol ecosystem 110
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 · 22/02/2026Forget the Lord’s Prayer, fucking Ryan Moloney of all people popped up in my dream last night because of all Matthew’s chat about the moral corruption of Neighbours 031
jon.porter @jonporter.uk · 18/02/2026100 percent agree, I feel like I'm going mad seeing people bashing Discord or hoping that a new service grows to replace it when any competitor is going to get backed into the exact same corner! 100
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