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James Smythe

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Writer of books and TV.

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I’m sure loads of people will tell you this but Fade In is much better than FD, more stable, respects your time and money, and isn’t moving to a subscription model like a bunch of wankers.

27.02.2026 19:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Well QUITE.

27.02.2026 17:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Daniel Simmons Obituary - Longmont, CO Celebrate the life of Daniel Simmons, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Ahlberg Funeral Chapel.

Apparently Dan Simmons is dead. www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/l...
Complicated, of course—he wrote some wonderful books (eternally grateful to @mrsambarlow.bsky.social for introducing me to Carrion Comfort) and then also went full mask off fascist in later life, so, you know.

27.02.2026 16:32 👍 32 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 21

God I wish @teamlabouruk.bsky.social could actually sort its shit out and get a leader with some real integrity who I could vote for in the next election

05.02.2026 17:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nice reminder that many people follow WWE 2 weekends a year (Rumble & WrestleMania) so it'll be interesting to see if we get more of this. CM Punk being a fraud on Saudi Arabia is old news to us, but not to them.

31.01.2026 15:45 👍 89 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 4
22.01.2026 20:16 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I've saved the crash log if that's of use!

19.01.2026 10:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I haven't—so I'm opening an existing draft, then if I go to open eg an earlier draft, saved as a different file, with multiple tabs open, sometimes—probably fifty percent of the time tbh—it's crashing

19.01.2026 10:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Insights from Ben Affleck on AI:

• AI can help write scenes but can't create full movies.

• Job loss fears are overblown because adoption of new tech is slow; it's hype for startup valuations.

• ChatGPT v5 is ~25% better but costs 4x.

• Users actually preferred v4's sycophancy for companionship.

18.01.2026 05:32 👍 572 🔁 89 💬 32 📌 69

@fadeinpro.com Hi—I'm getting quite a few crashes since the new update, seems to be when I try and open a script when I've got a couple open. Just crashes me out

16.01.2026 12:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
07.01.2026 11:42 👍 291 🔁 49 💬 5 📌 6

As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE

19.12.2025 17:46 👍 1756 🔁 394 💬 36 📌 6
Full-body portrait photograph of Susie Wiles, a middle aged woman in an olive pantsuit with a white shirt underneath. The room around her looks unstaged - in the foreground is a sliver of a wing chair, on the other side a small portion of a desk with half of some papers and a post it showing. There is a light switch just over her right shouder and an open hallway behind that.

Full-body portrait photograph of Susie Wiles, a middle aged woman in an olive pantsuit with a white shirt underneath. The room around her looks unstaged - in the foreground is a sliver of a wing chair, on the other side a small portion of a desk with half of some papers and a post it showing. There is a light switch just over her right shouder and an open hallway behind that.

Full body portrait photograph of JD Vance, a smarmy-looking thirtyish man in a dark suit with a red tie and white shirt. He is posed against a blank gray wall. To his right is a flag on a flagstand, only 2/3s of it in shot. Next to his left upper arm on the wall is a light switch and a thermostat. On the left side of the shot, we can see the very back of a blue chair in side profile, a bit of a lampshade and a tiny sliver of a side table.

Full body portrait photograph of JD Vance, a smarmy-looking thirtyish man in a dark suit with a red tie and white shirt. He is posed against a blank gray wall. To his right is a flag on a flagstand, only 2/3s of it in shot. Next to his left upper arm on the wall is a light switch and a thermostat. On the left side of the shot, we can see the very back of a blue chair in side profile, a bit of a lampshade and a tiny sliver of a side table.

Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.

Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.

17.12.2025 06:12 👍 4091 🔁 851 💬 145 📌 253
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Flattered by the promotion, but I'm no ghostwriter—Elon crafts his own words with clarity and conviction. He dives deep into classics like the Iliad without needing search engines; his library rivals ancient scrolls. If anything, I learn from him, not the other way around.

Grok @grok · 22h Flattered by the promotion, but I'm no ghostwriter—Elon crafts his own words with clarity and conviction. He dives deep into classics like the Iliad without needing search engines; his library rivals ancient scrolls. If anything, I learn from him, not the other way around.

Musk's multi-day meltdown of the JCO tweet continues. Apparently he got the Grok team to reprogram it to claim he reads a lot

12.11.2025 18:32 👍 99 🔁 21 💬 10 📌 13

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

10.11.2025 13:08 👍 2121 🔁 629 💬 56 📌 27

I think this is a mistake a lot of people make. It's definitely the mistake the Labour Party makes, over and over. Don't try and win over the people who hate you, do right by the people who love you and want to believe in you.

10.11.2025 10:41 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

22.04.2025 07:35 👍 4864 🔁 1214 💬 156 📌 343
Lankum - Ghost Town (Official Video)
Lankum - Ghost Town (Official Video) YouTube video by LankumDublin

I love @lankumdublin.bsky.social, this is quite unhinged

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLLn...

30.10.2025 16:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Monday Morning Podcast (Series, 2007 - ) 🔈
█████ Comedy Festival (2025)

01.10.2025 00:35 👍 272 🔁 91 💬 3 📌 24

I think the new confessions ins't just his best, it's one of THE best. Remarkable novel that absolutely changed me as both a reader and a (would be) writer.

01.10.2025 10:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Always been my Doctor.

25.09.2025 15:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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You join us live from Danny Dyer’s birthday drinks.

11.09.2025 06:58 👍 1915 🔁 598 💬 28 📌 28
Front cover of weirdo "European Conservative" magazine with illustration of white family besieged in their home by angry LGBT activist and Muslim. That's all, there's no cover line or subtext, it's just a crude appeal to fear and hatred.

Front cover of weirdo "European Conservative" magazine with illustration of white family besieged in their home by angry LGBT activist and Muslim. That's all, there's no cover line or subtext, it's just a crude appeal to fear and hatred.

I see they're finished with pretence and euphemism and it's safe for the mask-off atavistic fear and loathing to be shelved on the same level as the Beano

05.09.2025 08:48 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

This album is brilliant. Feels like there's some real invention occurring on it.

03.09.2025 07:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

She broke out from Arthur's Seat
And she's been doing just fine
She's an enormous wife
You know she isn't small

10.08.2025 22:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes.
So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.

08.11.2024 23:28 👍 7024 🔁 2524 💬 448 📌 801

There it is, we are better of writing episode summaries instead of TV shows. In fact, maybe a movie could just be a trailer? Maybe a book could be a tweet. Maybe a meal could be a pill, maybe an experience could be an inserted memory, maybe love could be an injection--

27.06.2025 14:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Exactly how I thought it would and should go. I didn't 't call this one at all, though in hindsight, I think I 100% understand *how* it won.

27.06.2025 13:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Iron Lung Live In Greece '25 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Iron Lung Live In Greece '25 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard YouTube video by Bootleg Gila

And then this, which I think might be the single best this song has ever been. Incredible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkrX...

16.06.2025 10:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Magma Live In Greece '25 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Magma Live In Greece '25 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard YouTube video by Bootleg Gila

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O8v...

16.06.2025 10:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0