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1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Because I never got over tracking all my play stats in detail, OR being an album completist, I've noticed that this happens to me, annoyingly. I think a big reason is because I often put on headphones to do a thing (typically traveling) and then the break point in the album depends on the distance.

I used to say deploy Friday as a motto long before I discovered platform. It might have been why I joined up 🤔

One of the greatest-ever country songs.

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It's the plot of Star Wars.

Daydreaming?

I think the worst thing the AI industry has succeeded in is convincing everyone that any use of ML is a waste of time

Such a beautiful edition.

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GEN X THE ONLY GENERATION THAT BECAME 30 AT THE AGE OF 10 AND STILL IS 30 AT 50 Pictured: Judd Nelson as Bender from The Breakfast Club

Brixton for CMAT

I found myself wondering how the default regular expression implementation on your favourite scripting language counts accented characters

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People don't really watch or fund movies the same way any more, sadly. Maybe Bollywood / indie horror.

He really struggled to get anything made in his last decades. One of my personal Art Heroes though.

I remember urging everyone i knew to watch Gothic when I was a teen, with mixed results.

Love Ken Russell, love this, although I haven't seen it in about twenty years.

I did rewatch Lair of the White Worm not too long ago, and it still worked.

They do work, you will walk differently. They're not much fun on frozen ground.

Lily Allen should quickly record an EP called "Amanda Palmer is the worst person I've never met."

Cate Le Bon onstage at the Barbican, playing guitar and wearing a long, gold dress.

Cate Le Bon, Bobby Gillespie and Dry Cleaning all on stage singing Are You With Me Now.

Cate Le Bon was superb at the Barbican tonight. Bobby Gillespie popped up twice (once in place of John Cale then on again at the end with Dry Cleaning for “Are You With Me Now”).

Cate Le Bon wearing a yellow leather dress.

Cate Le Bon was sensational at a sold out Barbican Centre this evening. Her band were like shape-shifters, swapping instruments literally during songs whilst Cate was the glue holding everything together. Fabulous.

"My newest hobby is finding lines from The Simpsons that could pass for Morrissey song titles." I took this image from somewhere else and can't write all of these out on my phone, so if you're reading this because you need the alt-text, take the opportunity to brainstorm some good ones of your own.

oh my god

My own SFF conception of LLMs as intelligence is kinda like Gene Wolfe’s megatherians from BOTNS - colossal distributed beings whose pawns speak in regurgitated phrases but which can also create a sexy mermaid

This is fucking GREAT.

Middle class white people who only see police on BBC drama soaps.

Closed forever?!

Geoff Stephens was the composer and was also responsible for hit pop songs "the crying game" , and "there's a kind of hush", amongst others.

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A black and white portrait photo of Jack Kirby in a suit.

Jack Kirby, born on August 28, 1917. The King.

While everyone's talking about Curtis Yarvin again, a book rec for @eruditorumpress.com's Neoreaction A Basilisk, the core of which is a highly enjoyable evisceration of Yarvin's incoherent extremist fart-sniffing and those that think he's profound

To be more explicit about it: there is plainly a concentrated effort to drive trans voices off this platform, and Bluesky’s moderation team is either complicit or directly assisting it.