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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

This is probably a good moment to mention that the best pizza I had in the US was from Oliver’s Pizza in Monroe, Michigan.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This headline won’t make you phil noyce.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I despise with the heat of a thousand suns the way I have to be suspicious of all art I see now while I investigate it's authenticity, because this couldn't be more diametrically opposed to the state of mind one should be in while taking in all art.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

“There’s an errant apostrophe on your sign.” “What?” “Never mind, I’ll take a 65mm anamorphic prime rib.”

A shop front of a butcher with the sign “Len’s quality meats”

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

It’s fucking bizarre how people are acting like something from 2022 is something they can’t live without. Like dudes, the emotional dependence on a sycophantic machine regurgitating nonsense to encourage you to stop engaging in critical thought and trust the slop is truly depressing to witness.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This is really disturbing. There are real, human artists out there who need work. There’s no justifiable reason for any filmmaker to use Gal Gadot.

Headline from The Wrap reading: “Inside Doug Liman's $70 Million A.I.-Made Movie Starring Casey Affleck and Gal Gadot”

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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 13/04/2026

Thinking about how, until now, language implied intelligence. But now we have language generated without intelligence and it's broken our collective brains.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It’s very important to breathlessly report every claim that AI companies make, due to their spotless record of transparency and accuracy.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

When I was six, my dad took me to the cinema to see Masters of the Universe. As we were walking out, an usher recommended we go back in, cos there was more to come. 1/2

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It’s Passover, Albo. Making oil last longer than it should is more of a Hanukkah thing.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

If ever a photo caption needed a (left) / (right) clarification…

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Spotted on the way to work this morning. Presumably their speciality is rose burning.

A ute with text on the back reading “Jessie Buckley Gardens”.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world." #AIslop #refuseresist

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Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives

As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

“What’s the charge, being by the moon? Being by the sweet Sorrento moon?”

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Ten glorious years of a guy who has mostly been the president and always been the main character of American political life doing posts like this and everyone trying to figure out what cable news segment he saw, misunderstood in the way a dog might misunderstand a crossword, and made into policy.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Quite a coup for the franchise, she’s one of our best actors.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

If I was the Smartest Man in the World, I’m not sure I’d pick this news cycle to weigh in on the world’s most famous story of a man struggling to resist temptation on an island boat trip.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

This should be on a poster. Or at least, someone should start designing a poster with this on it, and if it ever gets printed, all the better.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

About six months ago in a meeting, I got treated like a crazy person for making this point almost word for word.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Just once I’d like to be able to declare that a perfect thing doesn’t exist without someone cutting me off.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I have other words in mind, but I strongly suspect you’d prefer ‘slop’.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

2025 will return in Avengers: Doomsday.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I guarantee at least three “wtf??”s, or your money back. My favourite films of 2025: www.leezachariah.com/2025/12/31/t...

My traditional Best Of The Year cover images, featuring the faces of characters from my favourite 2025 films inexplicably pasted onto the poster for A Minecraft Movie.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 30/12/2025

This guy escaped from a Coen Bros movie. A+.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I think most of the pushback to the “no cultural impact” argument comes not out of some need to defend the franchise, but from the growing tedium of the sentiment. It’s up there with “Die Hard is a Christmas movie”; everyone stating it like it’s an original observation they’ve uniquely come up with.

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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Hey Australia, A new, updated, covid vaccine booster is available. Targets LP.8.1. If you're a healthy adult and haven't had a booster in over 12 months you should get this. Covid is still around. It's not innocuous. If you have a flu shot every year then it's not hard to get this too.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Do Not Resuscitate.

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Gregory Bennett @soundslikecin.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It has also been terrible for consumers, which we used to call audiences

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Stories like this, where a few uneducated guys walk into a room with nothing and walk out having recorded a song that will burrow into the global subconscious and stay there, is the opposite of everything those AI guys think about creativity. It IS creativity.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Found the relevant pages, feels like an eyewitness account of the creation of the world, yeah that's hyperbole but holy shit

$Otis is playing a bright red dime-store guitar, strumming simple bar chords as he sings: 'Sitting' in the mornin' sun, I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes - The front of the guitar is cracked, as if someone has stepped on it. As he sings, Otis watches Steve, who nods and nods, bending almost double over his guitar, following Otis's chords with a shimmering electric response. 'Sittin' in the mornin' sun -' 'But I don't know why he's sittin',' Otis says, rocking back and forth as if he were still singing. 'He's just sittin'. Got to be more to it than that.' He pauses for a moment, shaking his head. Then he says, 'Wait. Wait a minute,' to Steve, who has been waiting patiently. I left my home in Georgia, Headed for the Frisco bay - He pauses again, runs through the changes on his fractured guitar, then sings: 'I had nothing to live for, Look like nothing's gonna come my way - I write music everywhere, in motels, dressing rooms - I'll just play a song on the guitar and remember it. Then, usually, I come in the studio and Steve and I work it out. Sometimes I'll have just an idea, maybe for a bass line or some chord changes - maybe just a feeling - and we see what we can make out of it. We try to get everybody to groove together to the way a song feels.'$

After 'Dock of the Bay' was recorded, Steve and Booker added guitar and piano fills. The song boomed into the studio from a speaker high on the rear wall, and Booker played precise little bop, bop-bop figures, while Steve followed the vocal with an almost quivering blues line. The speaker went dead, then the engineer's voice came: 'Steve, one note's clashing.'
'Sure it is,' Steve tells him. 'It was written to clash.' Which, in point of fact, is not true, since nothing has been written down so far. 'Let's do it once more,' Steve says. 'We can do that bridge better. I can. First part's a groove.'
Inside the control room, Otis and Duck are talking. 'I wish you all could go with me to the Fillmore on Christmas,' Otis says.
'Man, so do I. I got some good fren's in San Francisco. We could rent one of them yachts.'
'I got one already. Three bedrooms, two baths, sumbitch is nice, man.'
'My ole lady's kill me,' Duck says.
When the recording is finished, Steve and Booker come into the control room, followed after a moment by the little boy in Congress sneakers. The tape is played back at a painful volume level. Steve and Otis stare deep into each other's eyes, carrying a kind of telepathic communication. The little boy, looking up at the speaker the music is coming from, says, 'I like that. That's good singin'. I'd like to be a singer myself.'
If you got the feelin', you can sing soul. You just sing from the heart, and - there's no difference between nobody's heart.'
'That's it,' Otis says when the record ends.
"That's a mother,' says Booker.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

@cinenerdle2.app I’m pretty exhausted, and for a good twenty seconds I genuinely thought you’d totally botched the spelling of Ana de Armas.

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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 02/12/2025

I only listen to AI summaries of music now. It's so much more efficient than being swept away by my favourite tunes.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

If there’s a better way to unwind after a long day, I’d actually quite like to know about it.

A text message exchange between myself and an unknown number that reads:
Them: Got a free minute to chat?
Me: Sorry, I don't have this number saved. Who is this?
Them: This is me Lin. Are you Mia?
Me: Yep, this is Mia.
Them: I'm so sorry. I checked the number and entered 1 wrong digit. I hope I didn't bother you
Me: You don't have the wrong number. I am Mia. What's up, Lin?
Them: By the way, My name is Lin, 32 years old, Currently live in Australia, How about you?
Me: I am Mia Putin, 24 years old, currently living on Epstein Island, bank card pin is 4019, all internet passwords are lonelyheart1234.
No response. Then, one hour later:
Me: Are you mad at me?

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

The first playwright I properly studied (after Shakespeare) was Tom Stoppard. When I went to New York the first thing I did was buy a ticket to Leopoldstadt on Broadway, unable to believe that you could simply go see a new work from an old master. It was glorious. Vale to one of the all-time greats.

The outside of the Longacre theatre in New York, featuring a poster for Leopoldstadt.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The best way to save society is for us all to collectively pretend that Elon is funny.

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Lee Zachariah @leezachariah.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

When your #LastFourWatched kinda reads like dialogue from a Beckett play. @letterboxd.social

Four Letterboxd diary entries featuring the films Oh Hi, Honey Don’t, Sorry Baby, and Good Fortune.

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

This is terrible, that kind of information should only come from your refrigerator

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 20/11/2025

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

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