barrytryan
@barrytryan.bsky.social
unsanctioned ramblings. makes films and tv,(from Dead Man’s Shoes to Everybody’s Talking About Jamie to The Pigeon Tunnel), plays RPGs like BiTD, WFRP. he/him
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It's a bit like the Meltdown Festival on the Southbank, but instead of music it's a season of Mörk Borg #TTRPG games and we've been lucky to get guest curator for this season @savagespiel.bsky.social
Jan 2026, 19-25
More info on The Raspy Raven Discord, link in bio
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Jan 2026, 19-25
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November 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
It's a bit like the Meltdown Festival on the Southbank, but instead of music it's a season of Mörk Borg #TTRPG games and we've been lucky to get guest curator for this season @savagespiel.bsky.social
Jan 2026, 19-25
More info on The Raspy Raven Discord, link in bio
Design by @groewe.bsky.social
Jan 2026, 19-25
More info on The Raspy Raven Discord, link in bio
Design by @groewe.bsky.social
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I teased this last night in What I’m Hearing but now confirmed: Paramount WILL release Rush Hour 4 after prodding from Trump on behalf of Brett Ratner. Distribution deal. Producer Tarak Ben Ammar is lining up financing. Get ready for the dumbest possible state-controlled media.
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I teased this last night in What I’m Hearing but now confirmed: Paramount WILL release Rush Hour 4 after prodding from Trump on behalf of Brett Ratner. Distribution deal. Producer Tarak Ben Ammar is lining up financing. Get ready for the dumbest possible state-controlled media.
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The Black Friday sale @Drivethru is on now! If you've been eying up our PDFs, there's no better time to grab a load of 'em!
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The Black Friday sale @Drivethru is on now! If you've been eying up our PDFs, there's no better time to grab a load of 'em!
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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November 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Scotland’s World Cup qualifying win reactions equivalent to small earthquake
Scotland’s World Cup qualifying win reactions equivalent to small earthquake
Celebrations to McLean’s jaw-dropping goal picked up by seismic activity monitors at Glasgow Geothermal Observatory
When Scotland qualified for the men’s football World Cup for the first time in 28 years, supporters were propelled into wild celebration – and even made the earth move in the process.
According to the British Geological Survey (BGS), when Kenny McLean scored from the halfway line to seal a breathtaking 4-2 win over Denmark, which are ranked 18 places higher in the world than Scotland, the reaction at Hampden Park was equivalent to a very small earthquake. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Scotland’s World Cup qualifying win reactions equivalent to small earthquake
Wicked for Good is a lot of very talented people muddling through a script that is just “and then this happened” with no real world logic or jeopardy. I’m off to watch Last Samurai Standing which in the first 10 mins has war, cholera and the potential for 18th century Squid Game.
November 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Wicked for Good is a lot of very talented people muddling through a script that is just “and then this happened” with no real world logic or jeopardy. I’m off to watch Last Samurai Standing which in the first 10 mins has war, cholera and the potential for 18th century Squid Game.
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Some have imagined what "Predator" would look like if that first shot of the spaceship flyby was removed? Imagine no longer.
The "Predator" Opening Titles, Re-Imagined
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The "Predator" Opening Titles, Re-Imagined
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The "Predator" Opening Titles, Re-Imagined
I recently had the pleasure of re-watching John McTiernan’s “Predator” (1987) for the umpteenth time with someone who had never seen the mov...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Some have imagined what "Predator" would look like if that first shot of the spaceship flyby was removed? Imagine no longer.
The "Predator" Opening Titles, Re-Imagined
fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...
The "Predator" Opening Titles, Re-Imagined
fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...
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Every time you make fun of a website name on a TV show or movie I just need you to know some poor person fought for their life with Clearances to even be able to use that
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Every time you make fun of a website name on a TV show or movie I just need you to know some poor person fought for their life with Clearances to even be able to use that
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Everyone is saying Home Alone but the subtle clues in the post are clearly pointing to:
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Everyone is saying Home Alone but the subtle clues in the post are clearly pointing to:
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More breathing space, 2024 one of the many etchings & engravings by printmaker Janis Goodman #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
More breathing space, 2024 one of the many etchings & engravings by printmaker Janis Goodman #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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Thank you to everyone amplifying this. It's massively appreciated.
Join us for a special Film Stories event in London to celebrate our 500th episode, with tickets now on sale. More information right here:
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Film Stories 500 | Join us in London for a very special event
Join us for a special Film Stories event in London to celebrate our 500th episode, with tickets now on sale. More information right here:
filmstories.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Thank you to everyone amplifying this. It's massively appreciated.
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A local bakery just posted this photo on Facebook. I’ve gotten stuff from her before. Nice older lady. I do not know if she made it but…it’s perfect. Perfect.
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 AM
A local bakery just posted this photo on Facebook. I’ve gotten stuff from her before. Nice older lady. I do not know if she made it but…it’s perfect. Perfect.
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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🚨🚨 " The BBC is far from perfect but it remains the most trusted news source in the world. To live up to its promises, it needs more independence, not less. More secure funding, not less. It needs to be set free, not shackled; defended, not attacked." Great stuff by @chrischirp.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🚨🚨 " The BBC is far from perfect but it remains the most trusted news source in the world. To live up to its promises, it needs more independence, not less. More secure funding, not less. It needs to be set free, not shackled; defended, not attacked." Great stuff by @chrischirp.bsky.social
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Keep mid-level writers and actors and crews in work. Be lovely, that would.
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Keep mid-level writers and actors and crews in work. Be lovely, that would.
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Play For Today, please. A comedy one. A sci fi one. A horror one. Cheers.
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Play For Today, please. A comedy one. A sci fi one. A horror one. Cheers.
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Interesting nugget from BBC staff call this morning: Tim Davie said the biggest number of complaints the BBC is handling right now concern the corporation giving Nigel Farage's Reform too much airtime. bsky.app/profile/jake...
New: BBC employees in open revolt about Robbie Gibb on all-staff call this morning. BBC chair Samir Shah said attacks on board members are "disrespectful" and shut down talk of a Conservative coup as "fanciful." deadline.com/2025/11/bbc-...
BBC Chair Shuts Down “Disrespectful” Attacks On Board Amid Staff Anger Over Robbie Gibb’s Role In Trump Scandal
BBC chair Samir Shah dismisses talk of Conservative coup on staff call, during which unrest over a Donald Trump-shaped crisis was on display.
deadline.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Interesting nugget from BBC staff call this morning: Tim Davie said the biggest number of complaints the BBC is handling right now concern the corporation giving Nigel Farage's Reform too much airtime. bsky.app/profile/jake...
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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We’re very happy to announce that multi-award-winning animation studio Blue Zoo will receive a BAFTA Special Award next month, recognising the studio’s extraordinary 25-year legacy and its significant social and cultural impact 🎉
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We’re very happy to announce that multi-award-winning animation studio Blue Zoo will receive a BAFTA Special Award next month, recognising the studio’s extraordinary 25-year legacy and its significant social and cultural impact 🎉
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A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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The premium this week is the precursor to something I'm working on coming out in the next week or two (which will be free). But one thing I can't stop thinking about - how has nobody else simply added up all the funding and revenues and costs? Hell, I should've done it months ago.
In an analysis of OpenAI's costs, revenues and funding from 2023 to 1H 2025, it raised $28.6bn in cash ($10bn rev included), and had $13.7bn in cash losses.
Reports say OpenAI ended 1H 2025 with $9.6bn. It should have $14.9bn in cash. There's a $4.1bn+ hole.
www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...
Reports say OpenAI ended 1H 2025 with $9.6bn. It should have $14.9bn in cash. There's a $4.1bn+ hole.
www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...
![A Brief History of OpenAI’s Revenues and Costs
If there are other articles reporting OpenAI's revenues or costs, please do get in touch. But I don't think anybody has ever done a full run-down. Behold!
On February 9, 2024, The Financial Times said that “OpenAI’s revenues have surpassed $2bn on an annualised basis,” with the company apparently hitting it “In December 2023,” according to “two people with knowledge of its finances.”
There was no mention of any comment related to OpenAI in this article.
On June 12, 2024, The Information reported that “OpenAI has more than doubled its annualized revenue to $3.4 billion in the past six months or so, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has told staff.” This amounts to around $283m in revenue a month at the end of calendar year Q2 2024.
This appears to be sourced from something that Sam Altman told staff.
Curiously, this is the only time I’ve seen OpenAI comment on one of these stories, with “...an OpenAI spokeswoman [saying] the financial details were “inaccurate,” without elaborating.” I have read every single one of these and I cannot find another instance of this happening. This makes me believe, along with other information from sources, that these numbers are particularly accurate.
This article also confirms that OpenAI gets a “roughly” 20% revenue share cut from Microsoft selling its models.
On July 24, 2024, The Information published that OpenAI “could lose as much as $5 billion” in 2024, “according to an analysis by The Information, based on previously undisclosed internal financial data and people involved in the business.”
Spokespeople for Microsoft and OpenAI did not have a comment.
On September 27. 2024, the New York Times reported that “OpenAI’s monthly revenue hit $300 million in August…and the company expects about $3.7 billion in annual sales [in 2024],” according to a financial professional’s review of documents.
That’s $300m in revenue in the month of August 2024. Details are important. OpenAI declined to comment.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreidkp2ogtpvnrhevelg4cudtu3u33wbmlsmfgnvqq76yzoxt3s6qbq@jpeg)
![On October 9, 2024, The Information reported that “OpenAI burned $340 million in the first half of 2024” and that its “cash burn was lower than previously thought,” based on “OpenAI financial documents viewed by The Information.”
These documents also “project [OpenAI’s] total losses between 2023 and 2028 to be $44 billion” not including stock compensation, and, laughably, that OpenAI would “make $14 billion in profit [based on the analysis] in 2029.”
OpenAI also, in this document, said that “model training costs could rise sharply in the next couple of years, to as high as $9.5 billion a year in 2026.”
This same piece included projections that OpenAI would make $12bn in 2025, $26bn in 2026, $44bn in 2027, $69bn in 2028, and $100bn in 2029.
There was no mention of any comment related to OpenAI in this article.
On February 21, 2025, The Information reported that OpenAI forecasted that “one-third of [its] revenue growth would come from spending by SoftBank to use OpenAI’s products across its companies,” with SoftBank spending $3bn per year. It took until November 5, 2025 for the joint venture involving this spend to actually form.
This is sourced to disclosures by OpenAI to its investors.
This piece also asserts that $3bn from SoftBank would get OpenAI to $12.7bn in revenue for 2025.
There was no mention of any comment related to OpenAI in this article.
In this piece, The Information reports that “...[OpenAI’s] spending on Microsoft-owned data centers should ramp up significantly in the next few years, more than doubling from $13 billion this year to $28 billion in 2028.”
On March 26, 2025, Bloomberg reported that OpenAI “expects to more than triple its revenue to $12.7 billion in 2025,” and that it generated “$3.7 billion in annual revenue last year,” according to a person familiar with the matter who “spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal communications.
In the piece, Bloomberg states that “OpenAI does not expect to be cash-flow positive until 2029, t…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreib5hbzqr6m6semfdbw4c53q3y2sfkajjiag5ymourhb3rf5uul3vi@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The premium this week is the precursor to something I'm working on coming out in the next week or two (which will be free). But one thing I can't stop thinking about - how has nobody else simply added up all the funding and revenues and costs? Hell, I should've done it months ago.
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Trailer for Bi Gan’s RESSURRECTION. It takes place over 100 years of Chinese history in stories about all your senses, it’s about a monster & movies & love and how we somehow invented a strange method for sharing dreams.
November 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Trailer for Bi Gan’s RESSURRECTION. It takes place over 100 years of Chinese history in stories about all your senses, it’s about a monster & movies & love and how we somehow invented a strange method for sharing dreams.
The Night Manager Series 2 | Teaser – BBC
YouTube video by BBC
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November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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WW1 British Brigadier surname generator (roll d6 twice for a hyphenated surname)
1. Hopton
2. Bletchley
3. Armsworth
4. Kensington
5. Pullwell
6. Fenton
1. Toss
2. Mallet
3. Ballup
4. Tugger
5. Smythe
6. Goode
1. Hopton
2. Bletchley
3. Armsworth
4. Kensington
5. Pullwell
6. Fenton
1. Toss
2. Mallet
3. Ballup
4. Tugger
5. Smythe
6. Goode
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
WW1 British Brigadier surname generator (roll d6 twice for a hyphenated surname)
1. Hopton
2. Bletchley
3. Armsworth
4. Kensington
5. Pullwell
6. Fenton
1. Toss
2. Mallet
3. Ballup
4. Tugger
5. Smythe
6. Goode
1. Hopton
2. Bletchley
3. Armsworth
4. Kensington
5. Pullwell
6. Fenton
1. Toss
2. Mallet
3. Ballup
4. Tugger
5. Smythe
6. Goode