George Lock
@georgelock13.bsky.social
He/him. Covers the Doctor Who theme a lot. Writes stuff no sane person would want to read. Will finish a project one of these days. PS Fuck the Tories.
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so fuckin mad that my favorite means of breaking up a run-on sentence -- the em dash -- is now associated with ai generated text.
what am I supposed to do now? use semicolons?? like a goddamn english major?
what am I supposed to do now? use semicolons?? like a goddamn english major?
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
so fuckin mad that my favorite means of breaking up a run-on sentence -- the em dash -- is now associated with ai generated text.
what am I supposed to do now? use semicolons?? like a goddamn english major?
what am I supposed to do now? use semicolons?? like a goddamn english major?
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Britain: a lot of history that citizens can get in trouble for describing in critical terms, and not much of a future.
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Britain: a lot of history that citizens can get in trouble for describing in critical terms, and not much of a future.
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Any of these people could talk about the barriers to creative expression based on class and income if they fucking wanted to.
But I imagine that doesn’t really pop into their brains that much.
But I imagine that doesn’t really pop into their brains that much.
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Any of these people could talk about the barriers to creative expression based on class and income if they fucking wanted to.
But I imagine that doesn’t really pop into their brains that much.
But I imagine that doesn’t really pop into their brains that much.
Never mind Murray Gold's Series 10 soundtrack finally releasing, my score to Doctor Who: Red Twilight Episode 2 has dropped on BandCamp! Come for the wintry John Carpenter vibes, stay for the terrible puns in the track names.
georgecmusic.bandcamp.com/album/doctor...
georgecmusic.bandcamp.com/album/doctor...
Doctor Who: Red Twilight 1x02 - The Frost Guard (OST), by George C Music
17 track album
georgecmusic.bandcamp.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Never mind Murray Gold's Series 10 soundtrack finally releasing, my score to Doctor Who: Red Twilight Episode 2 has dropped on BandCamp! Come for the wintry John Carpenter vibes, stay for the terrible puns in the track names.
georgecmusic.bandcamp.com/album/doctor...
georgecmusic.bandcamp.com/album/doctor...
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We have created a device that shall be integral to your life, to the point where it will be hard to function in society without one; we would prefer these devices to break annually and for you to purchase a new one at full price. If you don't, that's called hoarding. They're a thousand dollars each.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We have created a device that shall be integral to your life, to the point where it will be hard to function in society without one; we would prefer these devices to break annually and for you to purchase a new one at full price. If you don't, that's called hoarding. They're a thousand dollars each.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Great stuff from Mark!
If you want to read more about Palantir's aggressive expansion into the UK, it is something I have mapped quite extensively over time.
2022: bylinetimes.com/2022/06/30/h...
2023: www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-defaul...
2025: bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
If you want to read more about Palantir's aggressive expansion into the UK, it is something I have mapped quite extensively over time.
2022: bylinetimes.com/2022/06/30/h...
2023: www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-defaul...
2025: bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Great stuff from Mark!
If you want to read more about Palantir's aggressive expansion into the UK, it is something I have mapped quite extensively over time.
2022: bylinetimes.com/2022/06/30/h...
2023: www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-defaul...
2025: bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
If you want to read more about Palantir's aggressive expansion into the UK, it is something I have mapped quite extensively over time.
2022: bylinetimes.com/2022/06/30/h...
2023: www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-defaul...
2025: bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
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As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview.
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Ukip founder Alan Sked: 'The party has become a Frankenstein's monster'
He may have founded Ukip, but Alan Sked's moderate, Brussels-boycotting party has gone rogue. Stuart Jeffries meets the academic who's desperate to stop the bandwagon he first set rolling
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview.
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
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There are people who claim to be gay #DoctorWho fans, but if they don't own one of these, how can we be sure?
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
There are people who claim to be gay #DoctorWho fans, but if they don't own one of these, how can we be sure?
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Is Dream Phone Conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Dumb fucks say it's time to consider whether they're onto something x
November 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Is Dream Phone Conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Dumb fucks say it's time to consider whether they're onto something x
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While I'm not quite at the point of losing my house, the harm ai has done to my animation work income is huge, like 80% gone and it makes me wonder how many freelance artists and animators ARE losing everything while billionaire con men continue to rake it in.
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
While I'm not quite at the point of losing my house, the harm ai has done to my animation work income is huge, like 80% gone and it makes me wonder how many freelance artists and animators ARE losing everything while billionaire con men continue to rake it in.
georgecmusic.bandcamp.com/album/doctor...
The full score for last night's debut episode of Doctor Who: Red Twilight is now up on Bandcamp :)
The full score for last night's debut episode of Doctor Who: Red Twilight is now up on Bandcamp :)
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
georgecmusic.bandcamp.com/album/doctor...
The full score for last night's debut episode of Doctor Who: Red Twilight is now up on Bandcamp :)
The full score for last night's debut episode of Doctor Who: Red Twilight is now up on Bandcamp :)
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You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
So proud of everyone's work on this, such a blast to have been a part of! Roll on next week's episode!
youtu.be/_sWJpx2hwOc
youtu.be/_sWJpx2hwOc
Doctor Who: Red Twilight | Margin of Error | S1 Ep1
YouTube video by 77 Years Productions
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
So proud of everyone's work on this, such a blast to have been a part of! Roll on next week's episode!
youtu.be/_sWJpx2hwOc
youtu.be/_sWJpx2hwOc
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In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...
On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI
An incidental consequence of having written a book on tech-fascism and the so-called rationalist movement is that I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the ...
www.eruditorumpress.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...
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"we need to tax wealth probably."
"best i can do is milkshakes and robbing every refugee who arrives"
"best i can do is milkshakes and robbing every refugee who arrives"
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
"we need to tax wealth probably."
"best i can do is milkshakes and robbing every refugee who arrives"
"best i can do is milkshakes and robbing every refugee who arrives"
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The whole point of this is the cruelty and sadism. Labour are pandering to their contemptuous vision of the British public as a rabble of mindless racists who want to relish the sight of poor, helpless, racialised people abused; who see those people as inhuman and want them treated as such.
For fairly obvious reasons when people flee their countries of origin to seek asylum elsewhere they can't carry much. Often things like jewellery are all they have to hold onto. This isn't just stripping people of "assets", it is stealing their memories. 57/
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The whole point of this is the cruelty and sadism. Labour are pandering to their contemptuous vision of the British public as a rabble of mindless racists who want to relish the sight of poor, helpless, racialised people abused; who see those people as inhuman and want them treated as such.
Is it the words "THIS IS A FAKE" written in felt tip?
November 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Is it the words "THIS IS A FAKE" written in felt tip?
Really not sure how I feel about this tbh. Lorne Balfe has done great stuff, don't get me wrong, but are we still not over The Sea Devils' music being more weird than good? It's been 50 years now, that ship has sailed (pun not intended). Besides, I *like* Doctor Who music that's weird.
Starring Jon Pertwee & Katy Manning!
🎶 With NEW MUSIC by the legendary Lorne Balfe! 🙌 – woven together with Malcolm Clarke’s groundbreaking 1972 score – and updated sound design by the genius @markayresrws.bsky.social! 🔊
Graphic design by @georgieoboy.bsky.social!
And… action by HAVOC!! 💥
🎶 With NEW MUSIC by the legendary Lorne Balfe! 🙌 – woven together with Malcolm Clarke’s groundbreaking 1972 score – and updated sound design by the genius @markayresrws.bsky.social! 🔊
Graphic design by @georgieoboy.bsky.social!
And… action by HAVOC!! 💥
November 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Really not sure how I feel about this tbh. Lorne Balfe has done great stuff, don't get me wrong, but are we still not over The Sea Devils' music being more weird than good? It's been 50 years now, that ship has sailed (pun not intended). Besides, I *like* Doctor Who music that's weird.
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A short list of some of the cheeses I sell at work, ranked by how good a hypothetical album with the same name as that cheese is likely to be:
1. Black Dub Blue
2. MINGER
3. 1833
4. White Fox
5. Blue Murder
6. Eden Sunset
7. Mexicana
8. Rosary
9. Hawaiian
10. Green Thunder
11. Rockstar
1. Black Dub Blue
2. MINGER
3. 1833
4. White Fox
5. Blue Murder
6. Eden Sunset
7. Mexicana
8. Rosary
9. Hawaiian
10. Green Thunder
11. Rockstar
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A short list of some of the cheeses I sell at work, ranked by how good a hypothetical album with the same name as that cheese is likely to be:
1. Black Dub Blue
2. MINGER
3. 1833
4. White Fox
5. Blue Murder
6. Eden Sunset
7. Mexicana
8. Rosary
9. Hawaiian
10. Green Thunder
11. Rockstar
1. Black Dub Blue
2. MINGER
3. 1833
4. White Fox
5. Blue Murder
6. Eden Sunset
7. Mexicana
8. Rosary
9. Hawaiian
10. Green Thunder
11. Rockstar
Why does this actually kind of slap?!
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Why does this actually kind of slap?!
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bluesky are literally tech fash (rationalists, coiners, neoreactionaries), so when they say "toxicity" they mean hating on their fellow nazis
Bluesky staff keeps saying they want to get rid of the toxicity on social media, but they don't bother to ban the threatening white supremacist accounts and would rather ban people who are pissed at other people defending sex crimes against children. They're constantly own-goaling themselves.
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
bluesky are literally tech fash (rationalists, coiners, neoreactionaries), so when they say "toxicity" they mean hating on their fellow nazis
Been absolutely crunching the last two weeks and just finished the score for the first episode of @77yearsteam.bsky.social's Red Twilight series! Worn out but absolutely chuffed with the end results!
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Been absolutely crunching the last two weeks and just finished the score for the first episode of @77yearsteam.bsky.social's Red Twilight series! Worn out but absolutely chuffed with the end results!
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turns out Piss Christ really WAS just juvenile edgelordism
This is what male solidarity & collective action to oppress women looks like:
Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.
Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
turns out Piss Christ really WAS just juvenile edgelordism