Reposted by MalFrank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 7hI might be a little less distrustful of AI if the dudes promoting it, supporting it, insisting on it, and advocating for it weren’t the worst fucking people on the planet. 16861168
Reposted by MalLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7359721997
Reposted by MalStephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk · 29/09/2026Absolutely fuck off. variety.com/2026/tv/glob...variety.comBBC Boss Says He Watched a ‘Pretty Good’ AI-Generated Episode of ‘Doctor Who’: ‘Everyone’s a Creator, Not All the Creativity Is Bad’BBC boss Matt Brittin says he watched an episode of 'Doctor Who' entirely generated by AI which he deemed 'pretty good.' 1822053
Reposted by MalNiall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’m hopeful we got to this boy just in time today. Always find it amazing that people hit dogs and keep driving. He was frozen in fear and badly injured but he is safe with us now 🤞 2435190709
Reposted by MalDaniel McGachey @daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Hitting the shops next Thursday, my first non-horror Commando issue introduces the intrepid Captain Starblaze, star of comic books and movie serials, and the not quite so intrepid man behind the star-spangled hero's mask... 021
Reposted by MalMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do... 321293502
Reposted by MalScottishCinemas.org @scottishcinemas.org · 27/09/202625 years after we started online, have a look at our new look modern website! Now with maps, images, better search & mobile friendly. Still lots of ulpdate & fixes to do, but it’s now a lot easier to for us to update things than before, let us know what’s wrong/missing! scottishcinemas.org 2189
Reposted by MalNiall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The amazing story of Brad Pitt the Thai street dog who was in a bad state but look at him now! 662476325
Reposted by MalStop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Talk TV on migrants: 'culturally, I'm an ancient Roman; culturally, these people are barbarians' 😖 Truly grim. No one should be advertising on this toxic channel. What are IKEA thinking? Sign the petition: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik... #migrants #mediahate #ikea #stopfundinghate 53218100
Reposted by MalGoon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Spike Milligan seen here performing a feat unparalleled in all human endeavour: making Van Morrison smile 212123
Reposted by MalRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 24/09/2026Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk that Rolling Stone called “a nonfiction horror movie” following its film festival debut earlier this month. Watch ↓rollingstone.comElon Musk Is in the Business of Selling Dreams in Trailer for New DocFilmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk. 43973360
Reposted by MalMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026An acute reminder that we don’t live in a free country as long as American tech oligarchs continue to maintain their power.hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 23836259
Reposted by MalDavid Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 25/09/2026It would be just terrible if this caused a Streisand effect 🤭 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing. 6240115
Reposted by Malpaulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 26/09/2026All for one and one for all! ✊ And they say tech bros only ever think about themselves... 'The studio releasing Alex Gibney’s new Elon Musk documentary 'Musk' is unable to buy an advert for it on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or Facebook, along with X.' www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 12212
Reposted by MalIoan Humphreys @ioanhumphreys.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Really enjoying @mrjamesob.bsky.social and Eric Idle interview here. Idle is in my all time favourite MP sketch 'Working-Class Playwright' and is thoroughly delightful in this warm and enlightening chat. Bloody brilliant stuff. 👏👏youtube.comEric Idle: George Harrison, Friendship and a Life in Comedy | Full Disclosure with James O'BrienYouTube video by Full Disclosure with James O'Brien 29413
Reposted by MalKate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Cringeing anew about my write-up of a mental health support group where I said it was "a relaxed space for a cup of tea and a nutter" 1017921
Reposted by MalMark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 421469805
Reposted by MalNiall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026When I found her like this she could no longer move. She had 1000s of fleas on her and her life was about to end. Just look at her now. She has everything a dog could ever want! Beautiful little Skye 437128221649
Reposted by MalRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comPolice arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in ChannelThirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life 1123009849
Reposted by MalPaul Whitelaw @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Here's something: Dennis Potter's rarely seen Play for Today from 1974, Schmoedipus, will be repeated on BBC Four on Wednesday 7th October at 10pm. It's their tribute to Tim Curry, who stars alongside Anna Cropper and Bob Hoskins. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...bbc.co.ukBBC One - Play for Today, Series 4, SchmoedipusA strange young man turns up on Elizabeth’s doorstep and makes a frightening claim. 313962
Reposted by MalOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Maybe you don’t think it was silly, but I put it to you that deputy headteacher George Pumphrey’s 1954 pamphlet Comics and Your Children is piffle of the highest order (with some misogyny thrown in) web.archive.org/web/20230201... 1274
Reposted by MalOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 72nd anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives, and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth 10257102
Reposted by MalThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026🔥This is how it’s done. Imagine if every anti-immigrant fearmongering liar was grilled like this. #ShowMeTheStats #GetYourPhoneOut 🏴 (h/t @ukcameraman.bsky.social ) 962474709
Reposted by MalLiam Connolly @connolly-lg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I want my country back. By that, I mean a country where I would be confident that a thug who livestreamed himself stabbing an RNLI dingy on an active operation would a) Be universally condemned b) Be swiftly arrested, put on trial and if found guilty, face many years in jail. I miss that country. 261488235
Reposted by MalStephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 23/09/2026New addition to the Downloads page. My screenplay for Dracula, commissioned and cancelled unread on the day of delivery by a gullible BBC exec.stephengallagher.comDownloads – Stephen Gallagher 2238
Reposted by MalMother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.” This is what Microsoft’s director of applied science had to say about training their AI model on copyrighted content from our newsroom and many others, according to new docs revealed during our lawsuit against the company.motherjones.comAI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening. 419183
Reposted by Malarchivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026JICTAR Top 20 for the w/e 22nd September 1968. Coronation Street is top with just under 15 million viewers (homes viewing figure multiplied by 2.2) 182
Reposted by MalHistorical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026BBC Archive have just uploaded an absolute gem of an archive clip for anyone who is interested in the history of UK television. An absolute must-watch if there ever was one www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vgh...youtube.com1964: How Good is Your TV Set? | Choice | BBC ArchiveYouTube video by BBC Archive 66325
Reposted by MalWillard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess. 641820418
Reposted by MalDaniel McGachey @daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I'm delighted to report that my story Hic Sunt Dracones will be appearing in A Second Ghosts & Scholars Book of Folk Horror, now up for pre-order from Sarob Press: sarobpress.blogspot.com/2026/09/new-...sarobpress.blogspot.comNEW TITLE NEWS: A SECOND GHOSTS & SCHOLARS BOOK OF FOLK HORRORA SECOND GHOSTS & SCHOLARS BOOK OF FOLK HORROR For the ghostly season, Sarob Press is ‘announcing’ the publication of A Second Ghosts & Sc... 132
Reposted by MalJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270... 6428071164
Reposted by MalAlan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...app.prospectmagazine.co.ukFarage and the £130m even his detractors have missedGB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing 351311650
Reposted by MalAndrew Carter @cartoir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026LNER going for an ad strategy that is localised enough to name the correct city but not localised enough to realise the phrasing is going to annoy the city in question. 68018
Reposted by MalDrew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 16/09/2026What a spectacular moral failure. This experiment is commonly understood to be wildly unethical and did real damage to the people involved. Fuck everyone involved with this. Absolute garbage. 18375118
Reposted by MalDaniel McGachey @daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate a hidden world of deadly curses and shadowy seances, bizarre legends, dazzling treasures, and loathsome creatures in these two volumes: The Devil's Crown and The Impossible Cases. 111
Mal @mal3gordon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026How odd to see ITV screenings of Hammer’s Dracula billed under its US title, Horror of Dracula. 000
Reposted by MalDr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own 10065511391
Reposted by MalByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🔎 From the archive: Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was due to give a talk on cryptocurrencies at a Kremlin-backed convention in Moscow when he was arrested As Reform receive £72m from Crypto Kingsbylinetimes.comWhat Nathan Did Next: A Kremlin-Backed Forum on How to Subvert Western DemocracyThe former Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was due to give a talk on cryptocurrencies at a Kremlin-backed convention in Moscow when he was arrested 6217145
Reposted by MalFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14/09/2026£3 - the annual Labour affiliation fee per affiliated union member. £36,000,000 - how much each of two billionaires donated to Reform UK. One billionaire donated the equivalent of 12 million union members’ annual affiliation fees. The two are not the same. 1131389
Reposted by MalEric Idle @ericidle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I will be on the One Show this evening. So you have been warned and can make alternative arrangements. 913617
Reposted by MalHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059752383
Reposted by Malarchivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 13/09/2026'Witching Time', the first episode of Hammer House of Horror, was broadcast on this day in 1980. Jon Finch, Patricia Quinn, Prunella Gee and Ian McCulloch featured in this opening installment. 1324
Reposted by MalPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Crypto billionaires don’t become crypto billionaires by being generous or altruistic. They become crypto billionaires by being greedy, selfish, amoral, dishonest, untrustworthy shites. They don’t give away money for the common good. Is that who should control our politics? 20541163
Reposted by MalPast Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 12/09/2026"Saturday night at the movies" - the first in an occasional series. The Orient cinema at 571 Gallowgate, photographed in 1976. Designed by AV Gardner and opened in 1932, it became a bingo hall in 1965. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow #cinema 1171
Reposted by MalDaniel McGachey @daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Unexpected musical discovery: the vocal version of the theme to the Sherlock Holmes film 'A Study in Terror', that rather inappropriately turns a piece of music about the Ripper murders into a love ballad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjuk...youtube.comA Study In Terror Kathy KeeganYouTube video by EdFonzo 263
Reposted by MalCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The way British democracy is being bought by crypto billionaires is simply obscene - and a direct result of Labour’s unforgivable inactiontheguardian.comBurnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donorsPM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour 641266473
Reposted by MalAnne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026One of my pet hates right now is when you're searching on YouTube for the trailer of a recent or forthcoming film and you keep getting suckered into watching the first moments of some amateurish/AI/fan-made gibberish that is fraudulently calling itself a "trailer" when it's nothing of the kind. 2333
Reposted by MalSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Harborne calls his latest bung to Farage a “philanthropic gift to the country”. Philanthropy isn’t funding racists and climate deniers. Or funnelling cash into deregulation and removal of our rights so tax-avoiding billionaires can profiteer from the chaos. That’s just corruption. We don’t want it. 43799249
Reposted by MalRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026£72 million from 2 individuals - both of whom have faced questions about money laundering, both of whom live/d overseas to avoid tax - is not compatible with democracy. I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long. So how do we fix it? My plan: 551290421
