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Mike Booth

@somegreybloke.bsky.social
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Animator, occasional scriptwriter & director

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🦋Fiona McGee🦋🚫👑🐈🐈‍⬛ @judymccarthy.bsky.social · 15h
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Pru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can Science editors feel shame? Evidence says they don't seem to.
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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Portrait of Netanyahu
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bijan @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i think about this post all the time. you might too
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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Made another video. God forbid Bluesky should display it with a not-shit thumbnail but anyway, here it is. youtube.com/shorts/nF4Gt...
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Be Prepared
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cool cool cool, people sharing AI videos of political leaders doing stuff they never did and other people believing the videos are real; we're well on the way guys!
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A teacher lectured us that the kids singing "We don't need no education" in the Pink Floyd song were actually saying they *did* need education because of the double negative Also they used to play the Dambusters theme as we filed out
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Guitar strings $200 Tattoos $3000 Genocide both sidesing $80 million someone who is good at humanity help me budget this. my family won't speak to me
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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stephen King. Born today in 1947.
 A caricature of Stephen King
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
youtube.com/shorts/Yb47n... spoke into a microphone and did some half-arsed animation
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The constant noise
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Look, I understand that we have to be subjected to news stories about Sam Altman because he is one of the worst people alive, but do we have to keep seeing his face? I hate his face even more than I hate mine, please stop showing it to me I am fucking begging here
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Damn, it's been a long ten years
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Perpetual mood these days
Still from the movie Cabaret: An elderly man looks depressed. Around him people are singing "Tomorrow belongs to me!"
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Perpetual mood these days
Still from the movie Cabaret: An elderly man looks depressed. Around him people are singing "Tomorrow belongs to me!"
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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
excellent thread as always. glad we ignored all those myths teaching us not to let the monster mimicking the human face and voice into the house 🫠
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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🎃HalloDeeny🎃 they/them @geraldinepiche.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Its been almost a year since Charlie kirk posted anything racist good for him
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
40 years ago. I guess sensible people with power have probably dealt with those dangers by now.
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Every now and then I remember this tweet and laugh again
Tweet from @katefeetie, reads: "put a fried egg on my croque monsieur to make it a croque madame and now jk rowling is outside my house yelling"
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"He's the worst person I've ever met, and I've met Robert Mugabe" is the quote from a friend of mine that springs to mind when I hear that Milo is having a spot of trouble.
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
[sighing to my wife at the table of a nice restaurant] No no no, milkshake ducks are just for racism. if you're complaining about fascists or homophobes, that's a drone metal orthodox priest guitarist. You don't think it makes a difference, but I'm saying it does. I am not raising my voice.
Drone Metal Orthodox Priest Guitarist Responds to Fascism, Homophobia Accusations
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Do good famous people die at higher rates than evil famous people or does it just seem that way because the latter are so fucking plentiful and quick to be replaced?
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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What Dolly taught us is that it is in fact possible to be wealthy beyond your wildest dreams of avarice but still be a fundamentally good person with a strong moral compass, and the only reason more rich people aren't like that is because they don't want to be.
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BOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Okay but Im pretty sure Usain Bolt doesn't catch on fire and die after every race.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty 2 girls: what's in the cup looks like ice cream but it doesn't taste like ice cream
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Amidala talking to Anakin meme. 
1st panel, Anakin asks 'do you like plums?'
2nd panel, Amidala says 'yeah, I'm actually saving some for breakfast'
3rd panel, Anakin stares
4th panel, Amidala looks horrified
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For a once-in-a-generation event I feel the eclipse was quite underwhelming. But the climate crisis death camps will doubtless make more of an impact, so still a lot to look forward to
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Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
UFO (Unrelenting Flower Obtainer)
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Gervais on recording the dialogue for his cat show: "The first episode, we did one hour and 40 minutes. If you can't get a fantastic 15 minutes out of that with some of the best comedy minds in the country, then something's gone wrong."
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Michael Scott's Sad Smile in The Office
Alt: Michael Scott's Sad Smile in The Office
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Just had a look at the Ricky Gervais subreddit and am pleased to report that everyone who posts there hates him
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Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I don’t want to Do mY OwN rEsearCh. I want really clever researchers to do the research because that’s what they are good at and correctly advise politicians and people in power to make the right decisions for the benefit of all of us. I’ll bring snacks.
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
is this good
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Gotta hand it to the Bad Guys, flooding the zone with exhaustingly evil shit was a genius tactic
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Fascinating
From the "writing with AI" subreddit:

Maybe we need a new word to define what we are and we do..

I keep seeing this question come up: am I a writer if AI is part of my process?

Andp I’ve started wondering whether “writer” versus “AI writer” is just the wrong classification.. I think..because what are we actually doing?

Are we writers?

Yes. We write.

Are we AI specialists?

In a way, yes. Some of us use these systems far beyond “give me an idea for a book, expand it, copy, paste, publish.”

Are we thinkers?

We definitely are, or at least I think so. We argue with the machine. We question what it gives us. We worry about authorship, ethics, dependency, originality and where the human should remain in control.Continued from  perivious screengrab: 

That's why I started thinking maybe we need a new word for us.

For people who think, write, direct, edit, question, build systems around AI and still remain responsible for what comes out the other side.

I don’t know what that word is yet.

Any clue?

What would you call us?

Mod note to me: 

You're currently banned from this community and can't comment on posts.
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I see John Cleese is doing the thing he has become best known for again www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4vO... @jeremiahcontent.bsky.social
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John Cleese complains about wokeness
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I saw this so now you have to
An AI-generated image of a smiling robot handing a glowing paintbrush to a scruffy-haired white guy with a rucksack on his back. The guy seems to have escaped from a dark stone castle labelled "The Art Establishment", with signs that say "Elite Only Only" and "Exclusivity". It is populated by stern grey-bearded white male wizards.

Behind the welcoming robot is a vibrant, multicoloured forest labelled "Art for all" and "Creativity" and "Warmth". It is populated by smiling happy people of many ethnicities.

The caption reads: They hate AI because it means they aren't the only ones allowed to create anymore.
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"It took me over a month of work" This subreddit is killing me
Screenshot of post from the WritingWithAI subreddit:

"So, for years I’ve had an idea for a book in my head, but I could never execute on it. I’ve had characters, backstories, events, various story beats, and etc all trapped in my head (all written by my hand). With the help of Claud, I did it! I finally wrote that damn book. It took me over a month of work."
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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 26/07/2026
Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".
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The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Dear lord
Post from Writing with AI subreddit entitled: "Have You Ever Felt AI Writes Better Than Humans?"
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"every time I ask chatgpt to help with his scenes he gets a little softer, a moment of hesitation I didn't write" my friend, you didn't write any of it
Screenshot from AI writing subreddit titled: "chatgpt keeps giving my villain a redemption arc I specifically did not ask for"

Text reads:

My villain is not redeemable (this is intentional) he's not evil because of trauma or circumstance, he's evil because he genuinely believes he's right and has thought about it carefully and is still wrong in ways that matter.

And smh every time I ask chatgpt to help with his scenes he gets a little softer, a moment of hesitation I didn't write, a line that implies regret, small things that individually seem fine and collectively are slowly turning him into someone the reader is supposed to understand and forgive.

I don't want the reader to forgive him. I want them to be unsettled by how much sense he makes. I have tried explicit instructions, tried examples of previous scenes but smh the character keeps getting softer, how can i fix this?, what am I doing something wrong
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
is this good
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Pretty good night to be in Spain I gotta say
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This man is a professor and the editor of Science magazine
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Dang they really got a category for everything
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The Hollywood Reporter *
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Louis C.K. Wins Grammy for First Special Since Sexual Misconduct Allegations
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Mike Booth @somegreybloke.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I know we all look forward to the day it happens, but his dad lasted till he was 93 so without intervention there's a good chance he'll outlive many of us :(
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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."
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