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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Such an absolutely charming delight... 🎄😊 (Despite the title card, it’s *not* colourized.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o9S...

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The Bishop's Wife | Full Classic Movie | Cary Grant, Loretta Young | WATCH FOR FREE

YouTube video by Samuel Goldwyn Films

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

A timely message from Bedford Falls that somehow got completely lost on the millions of people who elected to throw their lot in with a deeply selfish “Pottersville” view of the world, not caring whatsoever about the widespread misery and cruel suffering it entails. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQDj...

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Robert Reich Reacts: “It's a Wonderful Life”

YouTube video by Robert Reich

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Can’t wait to see what he comes up with. 😆 Hopefully, something as wickedly clever as his Moms for Liberties parody website: www.momsforliberties.com.

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Hard to believe this utterly moronic and painfully awkward Xmas Eve performance featuring a flustered Trump and the contractually obligated “First Lady” attempting to communicate with innocent little kids as they track Santa’s progress on NORAD is actually real. 🤷‍♂️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxcs...

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Most insane Christmas special ever

YouTube video by Chris Norlund

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This fearless young man is brilliant... an absolute delight to watch him engaging with brain-broken Trump supporters who suddenly flee, mentally shut down, or descend into blithering incoherence whenever their idiocy, ignorance, and flaming hypocrisy is exposed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjoU...

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I Debated Trump Supporters... COPS GOT CALLED!

YouTube video by Dean Withers

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

A closer look at the patently insane folly of Trump’s new class of “battleships” and his ludicrous “Golden Fleet” that “flies in the face of all modern thinking, all military logic, and against all the evidence seen in the ongoing development of modern navies.” 🙄 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uxm...

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The Trump Class Battleship: Soviet Ship Building in Modern America

YouTube video by Animarchy History

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

The outrageous lies and disturbing insanity of Tucker Carlson. Unfortunately, in our present timeline, cynical fear mongering clowns like this cannot simply be dismissed as they have a certain constituency among the right-wing... on both sides of the border! #CdnPoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak4j...

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Tucker Carlson Says the U.S. Should Invade Canada

YouTube video by Worse Every Day

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This is more than a little interesting... 🤔 Seemingly worth further investigation, if nothing else. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoAU...

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Did 5 Fake Counties Steal the 2024 Election For Trump?

YouTube video by Scott Carney

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

A highly informative report from “Business Insider” that explains the current challenges facing the overstressed US power grid, the growing role played by renewables, the economics of utility companies, and the variety of reasons why electricity costs are rising. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk0Z...

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You're Being Lied To About Energy Costs

YouTube video by Business Insider

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Arron Kowalski, a Nebraska farmer and Republican politician, explains the reasons behind the increasing problem of harmful agricultural run-off and proposes a pragmatic solution to mitigate the issue that otherwise could result in an ecological disaster. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Sh...

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Farmer explains why farmers will destroy the river unless paid off

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Intelligent conversation goes to die on a painfully awkward podcast between a terrible interviewer and a horrible person. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz5H...

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Elon Musk on DOGE, AI, & Are we in a Simulation? | KMP Ep.18

YouTube video by Katie Miller Pod

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

“A groundbreaking economic experiment… where traditional market dynamics are turned upside down!” Well, that’s one way of describing what turned out to be an unmitigated disaster. Even so, as expected, Anthropic insisted the laughable failure represented “enormous progress.” tinyurl.com/bde4h3yd

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Anthropic's Advanced New AI Tries to Run Vending Machine, Goes Bankrupt After Ordering PlayStation 5 and Live Fish

The Wall Street Journal staffed an office vending kiosk with Anthropic's most advanced AI model, with hilarious results.

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

A disgruntled Uber driver tours the desolate streets of St. Pete Beach, a forlorn Florida resort town on the “Gulf of America” where many of the houses are now for sale or rent… No longer quite the bustling seaside tourist mecca that it once was, evidently. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAUj...

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St. Pete Beach Is A Ghost Town! Florida Tourism Has Died! The Worst Snowbird Season EVER!

YouTube video by SOUTHERN LIFE

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Sorting fact from fiction when it comes to Trump’s childishly simplistic and erroneous claims about why pharmaceutical prices are so much higher in the US than in Europe and why his proposed executive order addressing the problem will be more of a grift than gift. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbPd...

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The REAL REASON Americans pay more than Europeans for Drugs

YouTube video by Type Ashton

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

No shortage of irony in this look at Bentonville, AK, the hometown of Walmart, that benefits from the largesse (and personal interests) of the Walton family, despite the company having contributed to the hollowing out of countless Main Streets across America. 🤨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=61JL...

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Inside the Town Walmart Owns

YouTube video by RocaNews

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Another example of Elon Musk’s blatant lies and corporate fraud. In this instance, the safety claims made for Tesla “robotaxis” that are, evidently, 50X over-inflated compared to the actual crash/incident data the company is required to file. 🙄 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT-s...

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The Insanity of Tesla CRASH DATA

YouTube video by Upper Echelon

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Trump is now invested in a nuclear fusion venture. The world gets stranger by the day... 🤷‍♂️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gDE...

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Dr. Oz Speech Goes Off the Rails (w/ Keith Edwards)

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Tech industry Cassandra and self-described “AI hater” Ed Zitron dumping on the concept of artificial intelligence and the financial legerdemain driving its current boom in the market even though it’s proving to be “horribly unprofitable and not particularly good.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=64g4...

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When Will The AI Bubble Pop? Full Interview With Ed Zitron

YouTube video by The Lever

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Publicly shaming and stigmatizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for being a shockingly stupid and malevolent prick who’s directly responsible for policies that have resulted in widespread death and suffering around the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wny...

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Scott Bessent Loses It After Getting Heckled at a Wine Bar

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Interesting discussion between Ben Meiselas and Andrew Ross Sorkin about the shift to “state capitalism” under Trump, the uncertain state of the now troubled US economy, and concerning parallels to policies and conditions that led to the Great Depression. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_iZ...

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🚨 Trump’s FRAUD gets EXPOSED like NEVER BEFORE…1929?!!

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

“This was not a holiday address from the president of a great democracy to its citizens. This was a desperate tin-pot leader yelling into a microphone while cornered in his palace redoubt.” Tom Nichols nailed Trump’s unhinged performance last night. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

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This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like

Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

An eye-opening report about Fermi America, a delusional, possibly fraudulent, and now doomed energy generating company founded by a failed banker and unhinged pro-Trump grifter that’s also closely affiliated with former Texas Governor and Energy Secretary Rick Perry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DANE...

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Rick Perry's A.I. Company Is Imploding

YouTube video by Wall Street Millennial

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The abrupt implosion of the far-right OneBC party affords an opportunity to take a closer look at the internecine conflict now taking place among the hateful pack of deranged lunatics that it had attracted prior to becoming a circular firing squad. #CdnPoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShHE...

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"Charlie Kirk's murderers" doxxing site DESTROYS far right in Canada?!

YouTube video by The Serf Times

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

A thoughtful rant from a Vancouver footie fan about FIFA’s egregious price gouging scheme and unfair distribution model for the upcoming 2026 World Cup tournament in North America that is expected to generate $13 billion in ticket sales. #FIFA, #FIFA2026WorldCup www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA_t...

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FIFA’s Ticketing System Is Working Exactly as Intended

YouTube video by Adrian Mak

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Hmmm. What if Trump’s absurdly large White House ballroom is more than just a vainglorious architectural folly, but in actuality an ultra-secure underground data centre built to house the agentic “brain” of the US government? 🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbJ4...

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Trump's ballroom is a lie

YouTube video by The Drey Dossier

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Some gastronomic escapism. British food reviewer Gary Hanna shares an insanely expensive, once-in-a-lifetime dining experience: a highly creative, multi-course Christmas meal staged by Heston Blumenthal’s renowned Fat Duck Restaurant in Berkshire, England. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXDr...

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I Review HESTON'S EXPENSIVE CHRISTMAS DINNER! Absolutely Ridiculous!

YouTube video by Gary Eats

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Aside from being a snarky, lying weasel and a shameless hypocrite, Poilievre is a broken record, just repeating the same vapid campaign slogans and hysterical fear mongering that has disaffected many voters, including some within his own party. #CdnPoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjll...

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Poilievre calls out MP's who left his caucus and aisle-crossed with 'dirty backroom deals'

YouTube video by CTV News

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This deadpan Nebraska farmer explains a few essential things about the economics of the US agricultural system that are generally not that well understood by a lot of people who normally don’t think over much about such things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHVz...

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With this simple trick farmers can turn soybeans into coffee beans

YouTube video by Prairie Fire

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

No surprise that Trump would double down on being an awful person with no class and who’s absent any decency whatsoever. Same for deplorable MAGAts defending or lamely justifying his deranged reaction in the most wildly disingenuous and dishonest ways possible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXlE...

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SHOCK BREAKING: IT JUST HAPPENED AT TRUMP PRESSER

YouTube video by Luke Beasley

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

A appalling new low... even for Trump. What a vile creature.

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

A very edifying (and timely, under the circumstances) documentary about the shameful history of US interventions in Central and South America during the last century, often in collaboration with the monopolistic United Fruit Co., much to the detriment of that region. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a9x...

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How Bananas Taught the CIA to Destroy Democracies

YouTube video by Cogito

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Had no idea that two-thirds of Vancouver Island is made up of volcanic basalt from the Late Triassic age, some 200 million years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guwz...

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The Missing Rock Record of Vancouver Island | Nick on the Rocks

YouTube video by Cascade PBS

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Somewhat comical that the OneBC party, which has just two elected members in the legislature, has defenestrated its leader just weeks after the BC Conservative Party did the exact same thing. The right-wing in western Canada seems really stressed at the moment... tinyurl.com/77y9umaf #CdnPoli

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Fate of OneBC party uncertain after MLA Dallas Brodie 'removed' as leader

The party's only other elected member sitting in the B.C. Legislature, MLA Tara Armstrong, says she's lost confidence in Dallas Brodie's leadership.

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

These new coins the US Mint will be issuing to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary are, for the most part, really quite off-putting, if not downright ugly. 🤔 More here: tinyurl.com/4ukyc4su

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

ICYMI: NDP interim leader Don Davies delivered a wickedly funny speech at the annual Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner in Ottawa a couple of weeks ago. A real joy to watch. 😊 #CdnPoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVfw...

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𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀?

YouTube video by Barry Cordingley

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Mmmmm. Honey mustard Buffalo wings… a success! Damn, should have made more.

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Arches on the brain for some reason... Quite a fascinating little video on the subject, actually. BTW, seriously doubt the proposed “Arc de Trump” will “blow away—in every way” the iconic one in Paris commissioned by Bonaparte and completed three decades later. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8eb...

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Arc de Triomphe Explained

YouTube video by Manuel Bravo

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Sure that’s going to resonate with the millions of ordinary Americans struggling to make ends meet amid a worsening affordability crisis. 🙄 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trump says building DC triumphal arch is domestic policy chief’s ‘primary thing’

Trump praises Vince Haley, his ex-speechwriter tasked with creating Arc de Triomphe knockoff amid affordability crisis

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

“Arkansas is the top state to move to in 2024, a result of our focus to make it the best state to live, work, and raise a family!” — Sarah Huckabee Sanders Not so much outside the immediate environs of Benton County, apparently. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YTR...

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Inside America's Fastest Shrinking City

YouTube video by RocaNews

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

There’s something symbolic about everything that’s gone horribly wrong w/ late-stage capitalism in America’s, ahem, “Golden Age” when places like this luxury “grocery store” in one of NYC’s trendiest neighborhoods exist just miles away from so-called food deserts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMe9...

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The Dumbest Grocery Store in America

YouTube video by marc insco

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Always amusing (edifying?) to see what right-wing blowhards are saying… In this case an infuriated, catastrophically dim, MAGA Maple Alberta separatist who vows not to vote in future elections because he’s sick of Canada’s federal political system. 😆🍁 #CdnPoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=voYO...

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Dear CANADA, I QUIT!

YouTube video by Unacceptable Fringe

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

“Let X=X” from Laurie Anderson’s 1982 album “Big Science”. Still sounds ahead of its time. #Musicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4_q...

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Laurie Anderson - Let X=X - Vinyl - at440mla - Big Science

YouTube video by fogzax

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

“The Christmas of Those Left Behind” (1903) a sombre scene of loneliness and abandonment by the brilliant (but obscure) Italian Divisionist painter Angelo Morbelli. #Art More here about Morbelli: tinyurl.com/2ykrcvbn

A somber scene in a cheerless communal room, where a few elderly men sit alone on Christmas Day, emphasizing themes of loneliness and abandonment.

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

McDonald’s & AI-generated Xmas slop… what could go wrong? “When we asked the artery-clogging megacorporation why it had taken the ad down, it responded with a statement that’s the linguistic equivalent of a chicken nugget: unfulfilling, and strangely evasive about its origins.” tinyurl.com/mrzyfhhv

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McDonald's Issues Extremely Weird Response to Its Disastrous AI Ad

McDonald's and its marketing contractors have had some bizarre responses to the backlash from their AI commercial.

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