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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 48m

Man these heroine dealers are so PICKY about their customers

Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 55m

Ah! They’ve updated the code. It used to be,

“…you know, I’ve heard that some people can’t tell the difference between ginger and ‘brown’…”

A series of colour samples around around the deep orange/brown end of the spectrum

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1h

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 8h

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1h

Been on a strong tea of ginger, lemon & garlic to help the bronchitis but I’m completely clear-eyed about the efficacy of such things vs actual medicine.

I’ve an annoying friend who smugly said, RE: the tea,
“…and it helped right?”

Like, I DON’T KNOW! There wasn’t another me that DIDN’T do that!

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder if he thought that - maybe - a Nobel Peace Prize might be exchangeable for one Heaven Token…?

The gold gilded, deco Heavenly Express train from the Tom and Jerry cartoon ‘Heavenly Puss’. It sits atop the clouds before a blazing sunset. Good cats walk aboard

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16h

Invading Norway because he didn't get the peace prize would be so on brand.

Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 16h

another day in very normal times

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 2h

Lol

Stevie Rae Williams🍷🐈‍⬛ @stevie1666.bsky.social · 2h

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize Winner… Maria Corina Machado. Suck it up #Trump😁

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 3h

What’s ironic is that we had conversations throughout the day about several mutual friends and she kept expressing her bafflement that they’ve all but broken contact with her. 👀

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, this is sensible.

I wanted to send her a load of links after she’d left but then that would have entailed continuing to have the fight, over messages, ad nauseum and i had dinner for kids to make and bedtime to do.

Think I might just have to let her go. Too many red flags now.

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 22h

Ok…about to attempt my first run after 1.5 months of grief, injury and prolonged sickness.

My lung capacity is fucked, I’ve lost a lot of muscle and I’m 42 now.

This might hurt.

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 23h

What is today’s excellent news?

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 23h

I wrote (and rewrote about three times) a Doctor Who audio with lots of ‘thee and thine’ space vikings that my producer (wisely) shit-canned.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

Recently, I had to defend my decision to not work for Rowling to an old friend I had over.

She yelled at me and asked me to prove that JKR is actively working against trans people.

…How do you tell someone that you don’t have time to give a dramatic reading of the last 5 years of Twittter!?

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

I think that the pandemic massively exacerbated this problem because the ranks of the ‘chronically online’ were suddenly swollen with more regular 9-5 folk - who all started to go native and become conflict-seeking dopamine junkies.

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I could go back in time and tell 12 year old me that the mother-bought pink ARGOS skateboard could be wielded with the moody self-possession one finds here with the (very good) synthwave artist DreamKid.

Synthwave musician DreamKid stands at the bottom of a municipal staircase, covered in cool and colourful graffiti’s

He wears black ripped jeans and a black leather jacket over a colourful tshirt. He has short, side buzzed hair that is dyed bright pinky-purple and he carries a dayglo white and pink skateboard under his right arm

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a shame that ‘Sliding Doors’ became such a culturally resonant term for the idea of our lives hinging on infinitesimal differences. I say this because (and I’m not sure if you’re aware of this) the film ‘Sliding Doors’, is fucking gash.

The actor John Lynch (looking nervous in a red shirt) and Gwyneth Paltrow (looking fed up with him in a burgundy top)

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

Also, I started listening to them when my son was first born and I needed company in the dark hours.

Today I dropped his five year old-ass at the school gate and the player ticked over into the first episode of their most recent (final…?) season.

Will savour.

Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

I listen to lots of TTRPG podcasts & had one myself. This is something special.

An appeal of the form is its knack for emulsifying ‘feelings’ and ‘fart jokes’.
It could just be their Canadian-ness but their earnest runs deeper & their dumb goes dumber.

They fucking LOVE making this world for you.

The cover for the podcast ‘Spout Lore’. Three fantasy figures (a Led Zepplin chic looking elf, a halfling in a wolf hood wielding two daggers and a huge bearded, bald barabarian) stand framed inside an irregular hexagon. Behind them is a hand drawn map

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

Some say that, in creative endeavours, you should ask for forgiveness and and not permission - which I think there’s merit to…

…unless you’re Bill Burr, in which case, you shouldn’t have wanted to do it in the first place mate.

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

Apologies for brain fart but it made me think of this. Begins with a monologue from Jeremy Irons about the fate of the great auk

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Still Life at the Penguin Cafe - David Bintley, Simon Jeffes and the Royal Ballet 1988 Laserdisc Dub

YouTube video by Darren Lock

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

I listen to lots of TTRPG podcasts & had one myself. This is something special.

An appeal of the form is its knack for emulsifying ‘feelings’ and ‘fart jokes’.
It could just be their Canadian-ness but their earnest runs deeper & their dumb goes dumber.

They fucking LOVE making this world for you.

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

What a pull

CancerCop @cancercop.bsky.social · 1d

The *most* important take from #TheTraitors tonight.
Jonathan Ross’s flight suit is from the film Event Horizon, which is the scariest space film after Alien/Aliens.
If you want a horror film for Halloween (obv, if not watching OG Halloween) May I recommend Event Horizon

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

10/10 would prefer x

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

…I appreciate that getting things 1:1 on what constitutes ‘The Good Numbers’ is pretty much the whole darn shooting match, but even so

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

What politicians rarely give me is this; I want them to be FUCKING GOOD at spreadsheets.

I want them horny for ALL the numbers.

I want to, broadly, agree with them on which (and which are not) ‘The Good Numbers’

And for them to be laser-focused on the numbers going up (or down) as the case may be

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

You know, it really fucking sucks (but is ALSO absolutely par for the course) that we now have to sit through ‘The Force Awakens’ of Nazi Germany

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