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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 7h

Now ask him what he thinks woke means

valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’d definitely give it until the end of series 1. I remember one review which very accurately called Poppy the “stealth main character”. I don’t know why they waited to foreground her, but she’s awesome It’s also the only series imo which did a good covid lockdown episode

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Battlestar Galactica. Started going off the rails in series 3, but shat the bed so hard in the last 4-5 episodes that the whole thing is retrospectively shit

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There’s a concealer called Warpaint And then people object to the term “fragile masculinity”

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How could you possibly think that the white supremacist who does Nazi salutes is a Nazi?

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sure. He’s a former Google techbro who’s been pushing AI for a while. I just hope it doesn’t give him any ideas about what to do with the BBC

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They claim the script was completely human-generated. And it’s terrible. Could be AI-generated or they could be telling the truth It *is* 50 minutes long and the footage is almost entirely AI-generated, though. You can definitely tell

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I watched it. It’s legitimately terrible. Some of the AI is very realistic and impressive, most of it is dreadful. But by far the worst thing is the script, which was apparently 100% human-written

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Makes Ben Garrison look insightful and talented

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you report on cis women standing in solidarity with trans women then it makes it a lot harder to frame your bigotry as being about “protecting women’s rights”

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, how much is a condemnation worth If you only give it when asked directly to comment on that specific issue in an interview?

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I just got round to listening to this. Just a teensy bit disappointed nobody mentioned The Day Of The Doctor, where the Zygons and humans have to build a treaty and, to make sure it’s completely fair, the Doctor wipes everybody’s memory so nobody knows which side they’re negotiating for

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some are not my thing (never could get in to Breaking Bad, for eg), but I’m just really glad to see oft-overlooked The Americans getting the love it deserves. I’d personally had put it higher, but 17th is more than respectable No For All Mankind, though…

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah,i wonder how many people actually mean “rewinding break to before brexit” rather than “rejoin the EU NOW”

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also, can we have some legal consequences for the domestic terrorists, please?

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Going to be weird having the next one not be set in WWII, too, although I’m all in favour of adaptations doing their own thing, and i suppose it’s not thematically very strong in the story and more just a way to get the kids into the countryside

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have zero problem with Streep as Aslan. But i really don’t want to have to listen to Bowie and The Who throughout the film, and I’ve a horrible feeling we’re going to get that as the soundtrack even outside of the Earth-set scenes

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Any chance of there being a stream or YouTube video?

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is it going to be recorded or broadcast anywhere? London’s a *long* way away for me

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is it everybody’s rightly criticising Kraft, but if Sheeran had stood up he would almost certainly have backed down. Instead Sheeran looks weak and immoral

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Americans OSS criminally underrated. Should be talked about in the same breath as The Wire et al, in my opinion. One of those shows that treats the audience as intelligent and engaged

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Also if you have legislation which says your tech is taking actions by itself, then how could you possibly be held responsible if it generated CSAM or told someone to kill themselves? “We LOBBIED for regulation of the big, scary machine! How can WE be culpable?”

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You know, I’m something of an Anne Hathaway myself

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’ve just realised this could sound like I’m calling Iran & Dorian cunts. What I mean is that the editor missed bleeping a couple of times when Ian said “cunt”

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Also money. Saying “our product is the most capable” to venture capitalists

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Two uncensored “cunt”s. Feels like the old Remainiacs days

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think part of it is cowardice. Doesn’t matter how much you talk about the environment, when the world burns you’ll be no different to anybody else. If you call people fascists and they take over the country, you might get a knock on the door at 3AM

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Chess has 3-fold repetition & the 50 move rule, both of which make every previous position relevant, not just the current position

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s possible to solve it in that outs a game of perfect information and all games of perfect information are theoretically solvable. But the amount of computing power required means that in practical terms it almost certainly never will be

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You can’t end up with a game of infinite length. 50 move rule says that if there are 50 consecutive moves where no piece is captured and no pawn advances then the game can be declared a draw The theoretical longest game under that rule is 5899 moves. Under the 75 rule it’s something like 8800

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Except every ” limitation “ he listed actually has a variant for it

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It is true. Checkers doesn’t have 3-fold repetition & the 50 move rule. Both mean that in chess the position itself isn’t enough information and you need to know all previous positions too

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

He fell out with PayPal co-founder & tech billionaire Pete Theil. Guess who is good at chess?

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’ve written a petition to rename Beefeaters Coweaters. I’m doing my part!

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I forget who it was, but someone suggested the show exists because Rowling now hates the original trio and wants a new trio I think money is a more likely explanation, but i wouldn’t be shocked if spite was part of it

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh, I’d assumed you were joking because, you know, anti-memetics division I’m in the weird position where the only version I’ve read is the self-published version, rather than the heavily re-written version with different characters and lore

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I had someone tell me they stopped watching Doctor Who with Jodie Whitaker because It has become political. Like, the second ever story in 1963 was a condemnation of the then-still-all-too-recent fascism

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I mean, my number 1 question is “is it actually true?” The article seems to be referencing one TikTok video and s couple of comments on that video. Not really evidence of the “swathes” they referenced. It’s not even evidence that those people genuinely hold those opinions

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And if you want more detail, but still in summary form, there’s a section at the end, too

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Does he even know that the “…but you participate in society. Curious” meme is mocking him?

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Lanterns is promising, although not a must-watch yet

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I always tell people to give Orphan Black 3 episodes before giving it up. That’s when it starts to get into full swing. If you’re not interested at that point you probably won’t be Also best if you go in completely blind

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In 2012 there were 60 articles about trans people in the British press. In 2022 there were 7500. It’s only increased since then It’s no wonder that people have been swayed by this endless torrent of bullshit, especially when you factor in Rowling, Twitter, etc

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Probably says something about me that I’m reading Tolkien literally saying “there’s no sorry there” and thinking “man,i wish he’d written a book about the orc cults…”

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It was only when i got to the end of X that i realised that Goth had played two roles. That’s how good she is

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dee diddle-ee dee dee dee dee, dum dum DA-DUDDLE-UM. Rooobin, Rooooobin. THE HOODED MAN. Dum dum!

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valthea.bsky.social @valthea.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sir Ian McKellen tells a story where during this era an instrumental Tory politician saw him and asked for an autograph. McKellen took the pen & paper, wrote “fuck off I’m gay”, and handed it back

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