Fraser Denholm
@fraserdenholm.bsky.social
Scottish Writer/Director
Quarterfinalist 2021 @goldenscriptnet, @screencrafting
Semi-finalist @FilmarkethubTV Pilot 2021
Currently doing an MLitt in Creative Writing at Strathclyde Uni.
www.fraserdenholm.com
Quarterfinalist 2021 @goldenscriptnet, @screencrafting
Semi-finalist @FilmarkethubTV Pilot 2021
Currently doing an MLitt in Creative Writing at Strathclyde Uni.
www.fraserdenholm.com
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It's cool that gAI companies can lose billions per year and be considered a success, while a film breaking even at the box office is a failure. We really have our priorities in order.
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
It's cool that gAI companies can lose billions per year and be considered a success, while a film breaking even at the box office is a failure. We really have our priorities in order.
Why are this government trying to destroy the Higher Education sector? WTF is wrong with them?
*pinches bridge of nose* Rachel explain to me again how the university funding model works
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Why are this government trying to destroy the Higher Education sector? WTF is wrong with them?
Post a movie where you're from.
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Post a movie where you're from.
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The argument in favour of AI is that it cuts employee costs for businesses that simply can’t afford those staffing levels.
But a successful businesses not having enough money to pay the required number of staff is a *decision*. And a side effect of endlessly moving money up, away from most workers.
But a successful businesses not having enough money to pay the required number of staff is a *decision*. And a side effect of endlessly moving money up, away from most workers.
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The argument in favour of AI is that it cuts employee costs for businesses that simply can’t afford those staffing levels.
But a successful businesses not having enough money to pay the required number of staff is a *decision*. And a side effect of endlessly moving money up, away from most workers.
But a successful businesses not having enough money to pay the required number of staff is a *decision*. And a side effect of endlessly moving money up, away from most workers.
Blender is an amazing piece of software, so powerful, so dense. I've been using it on and off for years and I've barely scratched the surface of what it can do.
Best thing? It's FREE! Its open source, hundreds of tutorials, thousands of user-built add-ons.
I just donated to help keep it going.
Best thing? It's FREE! Its open source, hundreds of tutorials, thousands of user-built add-ons.
I just donated to help keep it going.
Did Blender help you this year? Help back! 🧡
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
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#b3d
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
November 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Blender is an amazing piece of software, so powerful, so dense. I've been using it on and off for years and I've barely scratched the surface of what it can do.
Best thing? It's FREE! Its open source, hundreds of tutorials, thousands of user-built add-ons.
I just donated to help keep it going.
Best thing? It's FREE! Its open source, hundreds of tutorials, thousands of user-built add-ons.
I just donated to help keep it going.
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Hell yeah @rianjohnson.bsky.social (reposting with alt text)
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Hell yeah @rianjohnson.bsky.social (reposting with alt text)
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
When did the UK come up with the rule that every PM must be worse than the last, and every Home Secretary more evil than the last?
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
When did the UK come up with the rule that every PM must be worse than the last, and every Home Secretary more evil than the last?
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Fifteen years of ideological choices to strangle & gut the public realm - NHS to schools to social services to local museums - is what underlies the anger "tearing our country apart"; immigration is simply the scapegoat that the far right are pushing people toward.
Why can't Labour just say this?
Why can't Labour just say this?
November 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Fifteen years of ideological choices to strangle & gut the public realm - NHS to schools to social services to local museums - is what underlies the anger "tearing our country apart"; immigration is simply the scapegoat that the far right are pushing people toward.
Why can't Labour just say this?
Why can't Labour just say this?
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Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that the British Medical Association, which represents Britain's doctors, is a threat to the NHS. Streeting took a record £225k from private healthcare-related donors in just two years.
British Medical Association ‘threat to future of NHS’, says Streeting ahead of doctors’ strike
Health secretary accuses doctors’ union of ‘cartel-like behaviour’ and tells it to ‘get real’ over pay demands
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that the British Medical Association, which represents Britain's doctors, is a threat to the NHS. Streeting took a record £225k from private healthcare-related donors in just two years.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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Wes Streeting is a flat faced plum with all the genuine ideology of a chicken salad and the passion of a bannister. But hey, so long as he speaks well on radio 4, your favourite podcasters and times columnists will sing his praises on here, innit. God we deserve so much better than you wankers 😆.
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Wes Streeting is a flat faced plum with all the genuine ideology of a chicken salad and the passion of a bannister. But hey, so long as he speaks well on radio 4, your favourite podcasters and times columnists will sing his praises on here, innit. God we deserve so much better than you wankers 😆.
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NEW
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
emptycity.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
This never happened to the other fella'
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This never happened to the other fella'
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A brilliant example of what Lewis Goodall talks about when he argues why right-wing radicals keep winning. They don't play by the rules and simply don't care. Whereas the institutions they want to destroy do even when said rules are contorted to absurdity and are blatantly being used against them.
The founder of Newsmax was just on the Today programme pontificating about bias. Boy, the BBC loves to submit itself to flagellation.
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A brilliant example of what Lewis Goodall talks about when he argues why right-wing radicals keep winning. They don't play by the rules and simply don't care. Whereas the institutions they want to destroy do even when said rules are contorted to absurdity and are blatantly being used against them.
Can the government really be this clueless?
I just am struggling to suspend my disbelief here. How can they possibly struggle to comprehend anything?
I just am struggling to suspend my disbelief here. How can they possibly struggle to comprehend anything?
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Can the government really be this clueless?
I just am struggling to suspend my disbelief here. How can they possibly struggle to comprehend anything?
I just am struggling to suspend my disbelief here. How can they possibly struggle to comprehend anything?
Not buying back our own country's energy at market rates?
Not giving oil companies massive subsidies?
Curtailing profits?
Making Ofgen actually work for the people not the comps?
Nah, lets legitimise some more conspiricy folks and go for the green levy.
Not giving oil companies massive subsidies?
Curtailing profits?
Making Ofgen actually work for the people not the comps?
Nah, lets legitimise some more conspiricy folks and go for the green levy.
Chancellor considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Chancellor considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Exclusive: Rachel Reeves hopes to save up to £170 from average bill, though insiders warn move will be ‘disastrous’
Rachel Reeves is considering slashing funding for more energy efficient homes to pay for a reduction in energy bills, sources have told the Guardian, as the chancellor looks for ways to ease the cost of living in this month’s budget.
Reeves is finalising a multi-billion pound energy support package that is likely to cut taxes and green levies from people’s bills as she looks to save as much as £170 from the average bill. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Not buying back our own country's energy at market rates?
Not giving oil companies massive subsidies?
Curtailing profits?
Making Ofgen actually work for the people not the comps?
Nah, lets legitimise some more conspiricy folks and go for the green levy.
Not giving oil companies massive subsidies?
Curtailing profits?
Making Ofgen actually work for the people not the comps?
Nah, lets legitimise some more conspiricy folks and go for the green levy.
Good luck to Zohran Mamdami. I'm not a New Yorker, but we could all do with a little slither of hope/sunshine/goodness in our politics.
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Good luck to Zohran Mamdami. I'm not a New Yorker, but we could all do with a little slither of hope/sunshine/goodness in our politics.
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They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
Oh f*ck off.
To boost UK productivity, ordinary workers must bear more of the tax burden
The key to restoring both fiscal sustainability and productivity growth is to expand Britain’s most competitive businesses
search.app
November 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Oh f*ck off.
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if you believe that a better world is possible, you may be tarred as a doomer, because achieving a better world involves calling attention to what is wrong with this one.
your very optimism is called pessimism, particularly by people for whom the current world is more than comfortable.
your very optimism is called pessimism, particularly by people for whom the current world is more than comfortable.
October 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
if you believe that a better world is possible, you may be tarred as a doomer, because achieving a better world involves calling attention to what is wrong with this one.
your very optimism is called pessimism, particularly by people for whom the current world is more than comfortable.
your very optimism is called pessimism, particularly by people for whom the current world is more than comfortable.