Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 10hActually I don't think many books could be replaced by ai, because most books have a significant amount of humanity about them. AI is shite because they pretend to have humanity in them but are just an algorithmic shit-shoot of words. Bad books are always better than boring maths 011
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Huge vote for Jane Schoenbrun over Ed Sheeran in Wavertree graffiti news 000
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026While I totally understand why you would buy and own a self-driving car. (You don't want to drive). I have zero understanding of the benefits to the user of getting a driverless taxi beyond novelty. I understand why the people owning the cars want you to, but that's not how business works. 302
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Oh did you get a noisy text? Tell me more about how it hurt you. 010
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The most impressive thing about the England Football Team is that supporters, who supposedly know a lot about football, forget everything about how football works the second they walk on the pitch. 000
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Controversial view - you're in an air-conditioned office in Manchester. You don't need to wear shorts. 000
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 11/07/2026www.justgiving.com/page/andrew-...justgiving.comAndrew's fundraiser for Huntington's Disease AssociationHelp Andrew Hill raise money to support Huntington's Disease Association 000
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 01/07/2026😬 blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/p...blog.playstation.comPhysical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consolesIn response to shifting trends in consumer preference, new games will be released on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only. 100
Reposted by Orange MonkeyLaura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 25/06/2026There’s nothing like a swim in hot weather and I am a girl who loves to swim 🏊 - here’s a new essay from me on Liverpool Almanac about the politics of access to pools open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...open.substack.comPool TimesAccess to public pools is part of our social and political history in Liverpool. We should celebrate our aquatic legacy 123
Reposted by Orange MonkeyJon Will Chambers @jonchambers.co.uk · 19/06/2026Where’s Andy Burnham going? 511339515
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 15/06/2026A potential, if not complete, solution is that your phone sends an anonymous token to the app/site that says "this person is 16/18" using passkeys. But that would be too sensible and joined up so we'll have a million debates about digital ID until my bones turn to dust. 100
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake — theonion.com/i-work-very-...theonion.comI Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try CakeHello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the... 000
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Obsession (2026) Cinematography by Taylor Clemons Directed by Curry Barker 010
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Obsession is a flawed film but I jumped in the air and screamed "Jesus Fucking Christ" at one point so that's a thumbs up from me. 000
Reposted by Orange Monkeythedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · 18/05/2026Screening tonight @ picturehouse @factliverpool.bsky.social, Soviet era folk horror, Viy, based on the Nikolai Gogol novella of the same name. A tale of the grotesque, it weaves together witchcraft, fear and forbidden desire to great effect. 052
Reposted by Orange MonkeyLaura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 15/05/2026A new post on Liverpool Almanac by me And a new series having short sharp chats with people in the middle of things going on. Because sometimes little things happen, and you don't know if it's going to become something bigger open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...open.substack.comDoes Liverpool risk evicting its own identity?Little things happen in a city all the time. And you never know if they're going to turn into something bigger. A gallery and arts complex closes, but is it part of something wider? 011
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I Saw The TV Glow but it's Andy Burnham watching Newsnight 010
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 15/04/2026This graphic isn't telling you that growth will drop by 0.8%. 100
Reposted by Orange MonkeySean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵 1/ 27771298
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 19/03/2026What's the etiquette when somebody is quite clearly recording you on their phone on a train? I'm siding with just play on my Switch while giving the stink eye. 100
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I'll workshop this so I get two or three reposts. 000
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I do a lot of "stuff" - work and life and creative stuff. You know the type of thing. But, and hear me out here, maybe I should just watch a load of baseball. I mean, if I'm just going to run around and get nowhere the Red Sox are available to do that for me. I'll even get a quiet October. 000
Reposted by Orange MonkeyTalking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Our evening film is a slow burning British horror thriller with #EdwardWoodward #JaneMerrow 📽️ THE APPOINTMENT (1981) 9:10pm with #SamanthaWeysom #JohnJudd horror #TPTVsubtitles 0197
Reposted by Orange MonkeyNotorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 03/03/2026mr xi my people cry out for chibi urban golf carts 57414
Reposted by Orange MonkeyJustin Hopper @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Found this compelling. harpers.org/archive/2026...harpers.orgChild’s Play, by Sam KrissTech’s new generation and the end of thinking 131
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 27/01/2026The liberals yearn for a bubble. Show me where the bubble is? 000
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 22/01/2026To be fair to the Titanic it did change course quite quickly 000
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Modern grieving is getting an email from the local paper of their daily news mailer with a picture of your recently deceased father as one of the stories. The piece being a death obituary listicle. Super fun. 100
Reposted by Orange MonkeyCaptain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025And from this day in 2014. 413634
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 20/12/2025I absolutely adore this book about magic use in England over the centuries. I highly recommend it for this time of year. Very witty and deeply thoughtful www.penguin.co.uk/books/451800...penguin.co.ukCunning FolkCunning Folk transports us to a time when magic was used to solve life’s day-to-day problems – as well as some of deadly importance. ‘A brilliant book, written with wit and vigour’ MALCOLM GASKILL, a... 100
Reposted by Orange MonkeyTim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Some of these redactions are almost like modern art 417159802595
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 20/12/2025The entirety of last night's Netflix boxing was poor. It sums up their entire content strategy that they are paying through the nose for a flashy, but hollow, product. Why the Caroline Dubois fight was relegated to YouTube amazes me. Huge mismatches across the card and the men's fights were terrible 100
Reposted by Orange MonkeyLaura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 16/12/2025For those who are interested in panto, I spent a very happy few days reading some old books including 'The Annals of Liverpool Theatre' from 1908 and 'Recollections of Old Liverpool' from the late 19th century about Victorian panto in Liverpool open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...open.substack.comA very Victorian pantoIf you're heading to a panto this Christmas in Liverpool, know that you're taking part in one of the city's strongest festive traditions 263
Reposted by Orange MonkeyLaura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Trainline, there’s too much snow on the app 041
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 12/12/2025People putting in meetings for the afternoon of my last working day of the yearmedia.tenor.coma brown puppy with a funny face is being held by someoneAlt: a brown puppy with a funny face is being held by someone 010
Reposted by Orange MonkeyRay Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 11/12/2025BLOG POST: Another batch of spooky stories, mostly made for TV, that I think capture something of the vibe of the Lawrence Gordon Clark era of BBC ghost stories for Christmas. precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/12/11/a...precastreinforced.co.ukAnother collection of vintage ghost stories for ChristmasIf you’ve seen all of the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas, and want more of the same, I’ve got good news for you. Last year I put together a list of films, short films and TV episodes that seemed t… 1312544
Reposted by Orange MonkeyGarry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 09/12/2025“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻 136121873721
Reposted by Orange MonkeyAndrej @tepid.meme · 29/11/2025Any takers for the Greens? We're one short of a full set 1313745
Reposted by Orange MonkeyMiami DSA @miamidsa.org · 26/11/2025Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷 8155571114733
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 25/11/2025An update on this. Roughly half the people who got through to a screening interview clearly didn't have the skills to do the job. 023
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Plan for Foo Fighters next year. In early for Otoboke Beaver then straight to the bar until the Foos come on. 020
Reposted by Orange MonkeyDaily Grail @dailygrail.com · 23/10/2025Suggestion: Make yourself a homonculus for #Halloween - @johnreppion.bsky.social with the lowdown on how its been done, from medieval times to modern. www.dailygrail.com/2017/11/how-...dailygrail.comHow to Make a HomunculusThat the sperm of a man be putrefied by itself in a sealed cucurbit [a pumpkin-like gourd] for forty days with the highest degree of putrefaction in a horse’s womb, or at least so long that it comes t... 064
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Absolutely gutted reading this. Both her books are beautiful and incredibly honest www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...theguardian.comBaek Se-hee, author of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, dies aged 35The Korean author’s hit self-help memoir, which follows her conversations with her psychiatrist, sold more than a million copies worldwide 010
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025I AM BEGGING YOU. Don't use LLMs for your job application. They all read exactly the same. 131
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Sky Sports News not broadcasting on a Saturday morning is my three minute warning 000