Stephen
@godofhammers.bsky.social
Prescriptivist on the streets, descriptivist in the sheets. En-fucking-thusiast of tmesis. Petrichor fan. Skeleton-to-be. Kinsey 4.
The people demand a season two breakdown!
February 13, 2026 at 5:03 PM
The people demand a season two breakdown!
I started watching The Tudors this week, and while itʼs growing on me the best thing about it has been finding this blog post by @tudorblogger.bsky.social detailing the historical inaccuracies episode by episode
tudorblogger.com/2015/02/03/h...
tudorblogger.com/2015/02/03/h...
Historical Inaccuracies in ‘The Tudors’ Season 1
Episode 1 “In Cold Blood” Assassination of the Duke of Urbino – Henry VIII had no uncle at this time, and so the scene that was included was completely made up. Charles Brandon and the daughter of …
tudorblogger.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:52 PM
I started watching The Tudors this week, and while itʼs growing on me the best thing about it has been finding this blog post by @tudorblogger.bsky.social detailing the historical inaccuracies episode by episode
tudorblogger.com/2015/02/03/h...
tudorblogger.com/2015/02/03/h...
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Harry’s got a lot to be proud of this month #DiscoElysium
June 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Harry’s got a lot to be proud of this month #DiscoElysium
I enjoyed this line from the BBC earlier with absolutely no self-awareness. Great symbolic weight, you say?
February 12, 2026 at 8:43 PM
I enjoyed this line from the BBC earlier with absolutely no self-awareness. Great symbolic weight, you say?
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February 12, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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this may be the most English man ever to exist.
“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
February 11, 2026 at 7:04 PM
this may be the most English man ever to exist.
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Next time I see someone getting their groin whacked I’m definitely saying “oh the Frenchman”
February 11, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Next time I see someone getting their groin whacked I’m definitely saying “oh the Frenchman”
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this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:28 PM
this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
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Would it kill Disney to hire someone who actually likes the movie industry to run it...?
Disney's new CEO Josh D’Amaro says movie premieres may happen in 'Fortnite'
(via Matt Belloni)
(via Matt Belloni)
February 10, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Would it kill Disney to hire someone who actually likes the movie industry to run it...?
Dominic Toretto should've been a bi icon the minute he said this
February 10, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Dominic Toretto should've been a bi icon the minute he said this
Two things I learned from this:
1. I am near the orbit of German cannabis legalisation advocates, who sound cool in theory but I probably wouldnʼt go to the pub with them.
2. Opposing me as godofhammers is a person called @notthegodofhammers.bsky.social — we must never meet or Bluesky will explode
1. I am near the orbit of German cannabis legalisation advocates, who sound cool in theory but I probably wouldnʼt go to the pub with them.
2. Opposing me as godofhammers is a person called @notthegodofhammers.bsky.social — we must never meet or Bluesky will explode
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 9, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Two things I learned from this:
1. I am near the orbit of German cannabis legalisation advocates, who sound cool in theory but I probably wouldnʼt go to the pub with them.
2. Opposing me as godofhammers is a person called @notthegodofhammers.bsky.social — we must never meet or Bluesky will explode
1. I am near the orbit of German cannabis legalisation advocates, who sound cool in theory but I probably wouldnʼt go to the pub with them.
2. Opposing me as godofhammers is a person called @notthegodofhammers.bsky.social — we must never meet or Bluesky will explode
For the 320th anniversary I hope we get a one-off PM just for the day, a really big name who you thought would never do it. David Attenborough, maybe.
February 9, 2026 at 4:06 PM
For the 320th anniversary I hope we get a one-off PM just for the day, a really big name who you thought would never do it. David Attenborough, maybe.
Delrio's on Blossom Street (this recommendation comes from a colleague I trust on food but I haven't got round to going myself)
February 9, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Delrio's on Blossom Street (this recommendation comes from a colleague I trust on food but I haven't got round to going myself)
Even this episode, which features shockingly few close-ups of feet or unnecessary racial slurs
February 9, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Even this episode, which features shockingly few close-ups of feet or unnecessary racial slurs
Though if you want to see Noah Wyle doing medicine then all of ER lands on Netflix tomorrow. Having watched it in 2020, I would definitely recommend!
February 9, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Though if you want to see Noah Wyle doing medicine then all of ER lands on Netflix tomorrow. Having watched it in 2020, I would definitely recommend!
I'm just trying to watch The Pitt and these fuckers are making it as complicated as guards where one always lies and one always tells the truth
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February 9, 2026 at 12:59 PM
I'm just trying to watch The Pitt and these fuckers are making it as complicated as guards where one always lies and one always tells the truth
...and if they didnʼt know exactly what show they were making, no wonder the marketing was equally confused
"We didn't know exactly what time slot we were going to be at but we presumed we were going to be pre watershed so we didn't have a raging sex scene with a fish," says McTighe of the level of intimacy
February 8, 2026 at 7:44 PM
...and if they didnʼt know exactly what show they were making, no wonder the marketing was equally confused
Itʼs always interesting when a creative team is *this close* to seeing a problem ahead of time...
"We always refer to it The War Between internally because it takes a very long time to say" says McTighe of the shortened title
February 8, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Itʼs always interesting when a creative team is *this close* to seeing a problem ahead of time...
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I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny
February 6, 2026 at 1:40 PM
I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny
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Bezos burning the Washington post to the ground is as firm a reason for the continued bbc licence as ever there was. Eventually everything that can be owned by a billionaire will be owned by a billionaire and at that point its future will be determined by the whims of a man making 166k per minute.
February 6, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Bezos burning the Washington post to the ground is as firm a reason for the continued bbc licence as ever there was. Eventually everything that can be owned by a billionaire will be owned by a billionaire and at that point its future will be determined by the whims of a man making 166k per minute.
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While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships.
We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
Jeffrey Epstein’s Money Mingled With Silicon Valley Start-Ups
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:38 PM
While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
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![A classic tweet from @kennykeil
[Bluto subtweeting after getting his ass whooped]
I don't know who needs to hear this but spinach isn't a personality](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dwqmtoy5uzacqe3bt5ib44oo/bafkreidsxaapkreaeus7oqavtvgeqb6u6jnd57gcutdxtcw4mgluiszimi@jpeg)
Those guys were making an Adam Curtis documentary in real time!
February 5, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Those guys were making an Adam Curtis documentary in real time!
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it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
February 5, 2026 at 1:16 AM
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
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Hot Take 2: if this is Mandelson's position, there is no reason for him not to issue a statement to this effect. If he has not issued a statement to this effect, the BBC's "understanding" of his actual position may be inaccurate. Stop letting people play this game.
February 4, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Hot Take 2: if this is Mandelson's position, there is no reason for him not to issue a statement to this effect. If he has not issued a statement to this effect, the BBC's "understanding" of his actual position may be inaccurate. Stop letting people play this game.