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Liam Mason

@liamthemason.bsky.social

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Women's Football Fan. D&D DM. Former Podcaster. Terrible Golfer. Always Sweary. TERFs And Tories Not Welcome. He/Him. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸.

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Liam Mason @liamthemason.bsky.social · Nov 8

If you like:

Doctor Who
Star Wars
Women's Football & Rugby
Sport in general
Quizzes
Wrestling (TNA mostly)
Tabletop Games
D&D (Teifling Paladin for life)
Oxventure
Muse
Pizza
Chatting nonsense about films

And importantly, telling bigots to fuck off

We'll get along.

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 8h

Digital doodle of the three people in inflatable frog costumes in the quoted post. One has a sign saying, “frogs together strong”

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Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 23h

VAR screen during a PL game showing the "decision" as "you love to see it"

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 22h

If People Magazine wants to restore their credibility, they'll recognize me as Sexiest Man Alive. I've earned it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Scalise: "If Nobel wants to restore what used to be a once dignified prize, they can restore their credibility by awarding President Trump the Nobel Peace Prize. He's earned it."

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Liam Mason @liamthemason.bsky.social · 1d

It's been mentioned multiple times over the years but Prometheus is just full of the dumbest people:
Take off your helmet on a new planet, ignoring isolation protocols, running in a straight line in front of a crashing ship!?!

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 2d

screenshot from The Insider - Russell Crowe's Jeffrey Wigand seen from behind in a white collared shirt and gray wig, standing slightly off-center (on the right side of the frame) in his dark hotel room. caption for Pacino's Lowell Bergman (in voiceover) reads, "I'm running out of heroes, man"

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 2d

every fucking time

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 2d

It’s quite a feat for Isabel Oakeshott to be the only white person in a London tube carriage given she lives in Dubai

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

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Liam Mason @liamthemason.bsky.social · 2d

The opening party on Ghost Ship is pretty rad. Or the bread cutter in Fear Street.

But yeah, the sleeping bag death on Jason X is funny as all hell.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2d

This is the correct energy. Rapid and withering response. British politicians too often cower before a voracious press. You have to go at them as hard as they go at you.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 4d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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🥀your ghoulfriend gore-igan.⚰️ @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 4d

This has to be the MOST cynical attempt to pretend individuals hold equal responsibility for climate change as corporations I've ever seen. I mean, who can say who's worse: tech billionaires draining earth's water and electricity for AI data centers or selfish people trying to breathe?

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 4d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

local12.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4d

Things Farage won’t answer:

1. Why did he lie about buying a house in Clacton?

2. What did he know about Welsh Reform Leader Nathan Gill’s Russian Bribes?

3. Why did he lie about meeting the Russian Ambassador?

4. Why is his flagship council Kent raising taxes and cutting services?

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 4d

Idea: keep the inhalers, get rid of half a million cars per year.

Headline:
Climate pollution from inhalers has the impact of half a million cars per year, study finds

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Chip but a ghost 👻 @ctthumbs.bsky.social · 3d

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 4d

tweet screenshot
Matt the outlaw
@cursedgloryhole
Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Andrew | TheSpoilist @thespoilist.bsky.social · 3d

Aside from the obvious, what a fucked up country.

Herb Scribner @herbscribner.bsky.social · 3d

Hack — Sleep on vacation.

Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report

An Amerisleep.com survey revealed that 37 percent of Americans used vacation days in the past year just to rest.

www.newsweek.com

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 12d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Liam Mason @liamthemason.bsky.social · 4d

Burn all this AI shit to the fucking ground

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 4d

Please tell me that the Williams family will sue OpenAI out of existence.

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 6d

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again...

'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Liam Mason @liamthemason.bsky.social · 5d

Mine is the sequel 28 Weeks Later, the initial jumpscare, how quickly everything goes south, the pan shot seeing hundreds of them chasing the lone runner down. Nightmare fuel!

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