Dan Whitehead
@danwhitehead.net
Writer for books, comics, TV and games. Worked on Star Wars, Looney Tunes, LOTR, and more. Ella Upgraded, Hex Loader, Frankenstein Texas, Speccy Nation, Blondie (Z2), Terrahawks (Time Bomb), Minecraft (HarperCollins)
Find my stuff here: danwhitehead.net
Find my stuff here: danwhitehead.net
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Dan Whitehead
@danwhitehead.net
· May 10
I've got a new book out! Cult Britannia is a 400-page beast covering hundreds of weird and wonderful world of British horror and science fiction movies from the quaint post-war 1950s through to the end of the post-modern digital 1990s.
Available in paperback and on Kindle here: amzn.eu/d/ghGmoNA
Available in paperback and on Kindle here: amzn.eu/d/ghGmoNA
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Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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Me getting ready for family Christmas telly viewing:
November 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Me getting ready for family Christmas telly viewing:
Me getting ready for family Christmas telly viewing:
November 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Me getting ready for family Christmas telly viewing:
My great uncle Reza fled Iran and arrived in the UK in the 70s. All he had was some Persian rugs, which he sold to start his life over. Starmer’s Labour would have denied him that chance and a huge part of my family would never have existed.
Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them.
What the fuck are we?
What the fuck are we?
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
My great uncle Reza fled Iran and arrived in the UK in the 70s. All he had was some Persian rugs, which he sold to start his life over. Starmer’s Labour would have denied him that chance and a huge part of my family would never have existed.
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Big very scary announcement that I never thought I'd have to make so I put nice music and a relaxing nostalgic background on it for you.
November 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Big very scary announcement that I never thought I'd have to make so I put nice music and a relaxing nostalgic background on it for you.
The Running Man would be immediately improved if Glenn Powell and Michael Cera swapped roles, and I’m not even joking.
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The Running Man would be immediately improved if Glenn Powell and Michael Cera swapped roles, and I’m not even joking.
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CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
www.sudancoup.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction
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NEW VIDEO: In 1996 Kenneth Branagh released an epic 4 hour version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. In 1997 it got an official videogame adaptation that fell into deep obscurity.
Until now.
Until now.
HAMLET: THE VIDEOGAME
YouTube video by Alien Bob
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
NEW VIDEO: In 1996 Kenneth Branagh released an epic 4 hour version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. In 1997 it got an official videogame adaptation that fell into deep obscurity.
Until now.
Until now.
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Dave would like me to post my shop link but with actual samples, haha! abbybulmer.myshopify.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Dave would like me to post my shop link but with actual samples, haha! abbybulmer.myshopify.com
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Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help them survive and fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union.
Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Support Rockstar Workers Fighting Unfair Dismissals!
Last week over 30 members of staff at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar were fired en masse in a “calculated attack on workers”. The IWGB described Rockstar’s actions as ‘the most blatant and rut...
actionnetwork.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help them survive and fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union.
Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Ayn Rand’s Fantastic Four.
November 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Ayn Rand’s Fantastic Four.
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I'm doing a Loki signing along with some MASSIVELY famous authors on Dec 6th at @booksellercrow.bsky.social in South London. Come and get Christmas signed books as presents for bookish friends and family of all ages. www.thebookseller.com/news/the-boo... #KidLitUK #Booksky #UKKidlit
The Bookseller Crow to host signing day with Holly Jackson, Jessie Burton, Lucy Mangan and Louie Stowell
The Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace has announced a Christmas signing day next month, featuring Holly Jackson, Jessie Burton, Lucy Mangan and Louie Stowell.
www.thebookseller.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I'm doing a Loki signing along with some MASSIVELY famous authors on Dec 6th at @booksellercrow.bsky.social in South London. Come and get Christmas signed books as presents for bookish friends and family of all ages. www.thebookseller.com/news/the-boo... #KidLitUK #Booksky #UKKidlit
OK, who had "Mr Beast turns out to be a gross right wing goober" on their bingo card?
*everyone raises their hand*
*like, literally everyone*
*everyone raises their hand*
*like, literally everyone*
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 AM
OK, who had "Mr Beast turns out to be a gross right wing goober" on their bingo card?
*everyone raises their hand*
*like, literally everyone*
*everyone raises their hand*
*like, literally everyone*
We now go live to Andrew Cuomo...
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
We now go live to Andrew Cuomo...
I haven't seen New York this happy since the Ghostbusters defeated Gozer.
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I haven't seen New York this happy since the Ghostbusters defeated Gozer.
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THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH interview! “My Brain Broke, and Out Came Donuts” – @neillcameron.bsky.social Looks Back on ‘Mega Robo Bros’ and Forward with ‘Donut Squad’, the Latest Smash Hit Strip from the Pages of ‘The Phoenix’. www.brokenfrontier.com/neill-camero... @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social
"My Brain Broke, and Out Came Donuts" - Neill Cameron Looks Back on 'Mega Robo Bros' and Forward with 'Donut Squad', the Latest Smash Hit Strip from the Pages of 'The Phoenix' – Broken Frontier
Broken Frontier's Andy Oliver chats with Neill Cameron about 'The Phoenix' and the phenomenon of 'Donut Squad'.
www.brokenfrontier.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH interview! “My Brain Broke, and Out Came Donuts” – @neillcameron.bsky.social Looks Back on ‘Mega Robo Bros’ and Forward with ‘Donut Squad’, the Latest Smash Hit Strip from the Pages of ‘The Phoenix’. www.brokenfrontier.com/neill-camero... @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social
mentally adding "ON ROCK AND ROOOOOLLLL" at the end.
November 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
mentally adding "ON ROCK AND ROOOOOLLLL" at the end.
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As always, paying a fine - even a huge one - does not address the problem. They should be made to scrap any LLM trained on the stolen data and start over using only material they have legally acquired. Otherwise it's like fining someone for burgling your house, but they get to keep what they took.
OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
November 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
As always, paying a fine - even a huge one - does not address the problem. They should be made to scrap any LLM trained on the stolen data and start over using only material they have legally acquired. Otherwise it's like fining someone for burgling your house, but they get to keep what they took.
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Local newspapers were not perfect by any stretch, but allowing companies to destroy them not only impoverished communities, but left us all vulnerable to social media and the disinformation that's tearing our society apart from within.
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Local newspapers were not perfect by any stretch, but allowing companies to destroy them not only impoverished communities, but left us all vulnerable to social media and the disinformation that's tearing our society apart from within.
As I argued in my Kinect Star Wars review at the time, the dancing minigame was a more authentic depiction of actual 1970s Star Wars fandom than any serious Jedi adventure.
November 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
As I argued in my Kinect Star Wars review at the time, the dancing minigame was a more authentic depiction of actual 1970s Star Wars fandom than any serious Jedi adventure.
The perfect game doesn't exi-
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The perfect game doesn't exi-
This is peak Harrison Ford being Harrison Ford.
Joel Edgerton (Owen Lars in AOTC): "I tried to buy a house and the realtor said, ‘You know, one of the cool things about this house is Harrison Ford built the kitchen.’ And when I worked with Harrison, I told him this story, and he goes, ‘Yeah,’ and he told me the address of the house.”
han solo from star wars is standing in a room with a fighter jet in the background .
ALT: han solo from star wars is standing in a room with a fighter jet in the background .
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November 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This is peak Harrison Ford being Harrison Ford.
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OK, we’re in desperation times yet again 😩
Finances are tight, after doing so well at getting out of the hole. But things went quiet and I need to pull myself out again
So if you like LGBTQ+ inclusive comics, novels, romances etc, please grab something from my site! bit.ly/3P6TC9E
Finances are tight, after doing so well at getting out of the hole. But things went quiet and I need to pull myself out again
So if you like LGBTQ+ inclusive comics, novels, romances etc, please grab something from my site! bit.ly/3P6TC9E
November 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
OK, we’re in desperation times yet again 😩
Finances are tight, after doing so well at getting out of the hole. But things went quiet and I need to pull myself out again
So if you like LGBTQ+ inclusive comics, novels, romances etc, please grab something from my site! bit.ly/3P6TC9E
Finances are tight, after doing so well at getting out of the hole. But things went quiet and I need to pull myself out again
So if you like LGBTQ+ inclusive comics, novels, romances etc, please grab something from my site! bit.ly/3P6TC9E