Reposted by Sean McLBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I would say that it doesn’t represent one thing but is instead one of the great mythic struggles of storytelling. 1) Man vs Man 2) Man vs Nature 3) Man vs Self 4) Man vs Noid 91542
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“… and therefore I want to arrest them, treat them like criminals and send them somewhere they feel unsafe”?? 000
Reposted by Sean McLMatt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem? 263237647
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is a peculiar thing I saw a lot in English people - a refusal to understand (or even to try) Scottish indy politics. Easier to assume that we’re hateful savages. Almost reminds me of the right wing USA’s view of the Muslim community - “they hate our freedom” etc. Very peculiar 120
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Still not up even after full time! Got the results of the friendly between Mauritius and Sri Lanka though 110
Reposted by Sean McLGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Republican position is that trans people's sex cannot be changed by hormones and surgery but their own sex is threatened by everything from chemicals in the water to workplace sexual harassment policies 924848
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Miliband can't walk them back and keep his position, but if UK Gov get leaned on by US/Israel enough they can quite easily give him the boot (with the aid of The Lads in the press, ever helpful in these matters), act like he was speaking out of turn, declare that the Adults are back in charge again 120
Reposted by Sean McLMichaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026not sure why I made this but now you have to see it 10895713648
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Luckily for me I don't live in Scotland anymore. Sadly for me I still live in a country with a rotating cast of cretins and bullshitters 010
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I was getting annoyed earlier about folks being charmed by his West Wing speech nonsense, so I'm 100% the same. It's so fucking New Labour too - cosying up to guys with the big bucks, doing them little favours and greasing the wheels because it makes you feel important. Fucking here for it 110
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m sorry to be the one to break it to you but you’re in the minority there. GPEW seemed a reasonable and realistic prospect for a moment but now losing ground. I was even being charitable - looking at the polling of the last year or so a good chunk of England is actually just Tory or Reform/store 000
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My otherwise intelligent English friends told me to “give him a chance” when I called newly-elected Starmer shite. They did the same w/ Burnham, and were cooing at Angela Raynor’s recent “DJing” pics I dunno, I just think England wants right wing politics but delivered via West Wing speeches 110
Reposted by Sean McLphylan @phylan.website · 30/09/2026smoking that shit that makes me look like the live action Moe Szyslak 451738196
Reposted by Sean McLdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/12/2025look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts 3568441674
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026@lovedoc1 through @lovedoc25 were all taken, but securing that handle shows persistence pays off 030
Reposted by Sean McLBayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Name consultant, fixer of literary names: Leave it to me, J.R.R. Let’s have a look here. Ahem. “At the back of the tavern sat the dark figure of a man. He would soon make himself known to the hobbits as Strider, but as the true king of men, he bore yet another name: Leonard Craisins.” 316813
Reposted by Sean McLNicolas Dream, PhD @afraidofwasps.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Work Bully: How coms't thou hither? A worm? (New girl blushes and turns away) Bully's Henchman: You pebble! You stone! (Cronies laugh) Me: (bravely standing) Let her alone. 045571
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Crazy how they’ve been trying to pull off this “it’s so good it’s SCARY!” act ever since the (now completely discredited) claim that some AI hired a task rabbit to solve a captcha. Crazier still is that people still take the lying companies that make the lying products at face value and buy it 080
Reposted by Sean McLDr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Well, Scottish Gaelic Duolingo has me sorted for what to wear tomorrow. 23611
Reposted by Sean McLRadai @lordradai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I implemented the force parry flag, and I saw very.. interesting things. It parries EVERYTHING. Even parries. You can parry a parry, since parrying works by damaging the parried entity. Two entities with force parry active are basically unstoppable force vs unmovable object, Gojo vs Sukuna. 1247
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yeah I kinda wonder if this is all gonna backfire on them. Like Zohran Mamdani is just out doing relatively decent things over in NYC and every right winger is saying “folks just so you know - this is socialism…” 010
Reposted by Sean McLryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...themomoftheyear.substack.comI’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night. 12252981370
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I think a lot of Israeli have long since discarded any notion of being the Good Guy. They seem to be relishing in being the bad guy and getting a lot of pleasure out of the belief they're virtually untouchable right now 0131
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Sunny-but-cold with no wind is beautiful Autumn weather though, especially first thing in the morning 110
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I wonder if the editor of The Spectator will take a moment to reflect on whether he had any role in making the country such a bleak place ... 010
Reposted by Sean McLJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up. 26583011366
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Anthropic are not "basically profitable" and are not even close 150
Reposted by Sean McLdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow 344707971
Reposted by Sean McLBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Today’s Baseball Name is Newsom Beaver who in 1940 played for the Shelby Colonels 131859
Reposted by Sean McLHappy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Can’t stop thinking about this lady. I wish I was like this so bad. Staring at the world burning and falling apart all around you and just randomly being like 😀 yippieeeeee 242588
Reposted by Sean McLBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/09/2026He took her to Miami and now her and her dragon are bike cops in the sexy glamorous world of beach crime 2167723
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It's kind of a shame because there's plenty who are chill and want to visit a cool city or to see where their great granny was from. But there's an unreal number of "I'm Scatch, I'm directly descended from Braveheart" guys who I encountered when I lived in Edinburgh. 110
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026What with this and Still Wakes The Deep from a couple of years back, I quite like the idea of games depicting Scotland to Americans as a terrifying place to be avoided 1110
Reposted by Sean McLjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety 3570041626
Reposted by Sean McLSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us 9186681871
Reposted by Sean McLflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Let me translate: the Israeli public love the genocide; they have been lapping up the live-streamed murder and destruction, and their response to criticism from around the world is “hahaha fuck you!”. This is creating presentational problems for the horrible US politicians who also think it is great 313733
Sean McL @smcl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The other problem is the cost - not the price, but the actual cost to provide these services. All of these companies are haemorrhaging money, and adding users makes them even less profitable 020
