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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 46m

Paid-for DLC though

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 3h

it's not disgusting, but [proceeds to describe the most disgusting thing imaginable]

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 7h

Wild how many replies are like "they must simply also be evil, or greedy, or passionately anti-trans" etc. etc. rather than "Maybe they don't live every day on social media"

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 8h

Exactly. It's people who are comfortable enough that they have the leisure time needed to sit on Facebook etc. on their phones all night, every night, marinating in conspiracy theories

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 4d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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Jack Boot @jackboot.bsky.social · Dec 13

You probably don't remember me, but I was your sommelier once. I kept returning to your table with the same bottle of wine until you found it to your liking.

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 20h

Every day we stray further from God's Light

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 20h

Apropos of nothing, just remembered how we used to call online news & comment etc., "new media"

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone replying to tell me I should darken my room or brighten my screen is getting blocked

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

I am once again begging filmmakers to start lighting their night scenes again. Moonlight and starlight are both available, as are torches, campfires, and any number of plausible light sources! What I'm watching right now may as well be a podcast

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

That's when I ditched it as well. It'd obviously been in decline long before that with low engagement and a lot of the people I followed having drifted away, but that morning felt like the definitive "This will never be fun again" moment

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Diane Keaton, I hope wherever you are now your forks are somewhat closer

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Collin Murr @collinmurr.bsky.social · 4d

Doctor: You've got Hepatitis C.
Edward G. Robinson: Ah that's a shame. Which one is it?
Doctor: Hepatitis C.
Edward G. Robinson: Right, I've got hepatitis, see? Which one is it?

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I think that's usually a protest of some kind when it happens

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Isn't that just "France" though

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Watching NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, a film that is mostly about whether or not you should hide in a cellar

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

I think in your heart you know already what it's going to be

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Diane Keaton, I hope wherever you are now your forks are somewhat closer

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · Dec 2

I'm just going to say that I'm not a big crier but if Kermit even just put one of his little flippers gently on my shoulder I'd probably sob for an hour

This is from "trivia from MUPPETS MOST WANTED"

Danny Trejo's mother passed away as he was filming his last scenes in this movie. As he was finishing his scenes so he could fly back to Los Angeles, California for the funeral, the cast and crew offered their condolences and sympathies to him. Trejo, known for his tough guy roles and demeanor, shrugged off the sympathies. When Steve Whitmire offered his condolences in character as Kermit the Frog, Trejo broke down crying.

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Incidentally, Jared Leto is in the forthcoming Masters of the Universe movie as Skeletor. I'm sure this'll be fine.

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 2d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

"Buy it", "sell it", the game's getting hard, 'cause someone's dealing you a losing card

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

This has reminded me of a 90s Rice Krispies advert voiced by Craig Charles that pointed out each Rice Krispy was made from a single grain of crisped rice and ended with "what on earth did you think they were made of?"

jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Unsolicited pic'n'mix

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 2d

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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