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Darren Ewing

@sadknob.bsky.social

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writer. telly director. earned a few shiny things. scotland is home. i own a pub in ireland. working on a project in chicago. science. history. athiest. he/him/his. ALT: me holding a pencil & a blue butterfly. BNR: bogart & malone in "the big sleep" 1946.

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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · Nov 16

"okay! i've got all the sheep! hallo?! boss?? I HAVE ALL THE SHEEP!"

photograph of a black kelpie in tasmania called "izzie" who is entirely surrounded by sheep (charlie mackinnon)

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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 5h

there's a chill in the air. that means it's time to break out my scary halloween "snoopy" tea mug.😎

one side of a white and red tea mug with bats surrounding the word "fangtastic."

looking down into a white and red tea mug to reveal wee birdy "woodstock" (from peanuts) with bat wings.

side view of a white and red tea mug with "snoopy" on it dressed up like dracula.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

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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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 4h

aye... i was starting to worry that he would get it because he's trying to take credit for the gaza strip ceasefire. never before in the history of ever has anyone deserved it less.😑

Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 4h

this makes me very happy.

The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 5h

BREAKING: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday, for "keeping the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness."

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado

Machado is 'a brave and committed champion of peace .. who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness,' the committee said in a statement.

ebx.sh

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 5h

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan democracy crusader:

The Venezuelan opposition leader has become a symbol of democratic resistance against an increasingly authoritarian regime.

Guess we extra know why Trump didn’t even make the list

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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 5h

there's a chill in the air. that means it's time to break out my scary halloween "snoopy" tea mug.😎

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 8h

Go for it, Taylor!

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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 10h

i have a guess...

he wanks at that job.

he got it because he wanks exceptionally.

he is an exceptional wanker.

Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 10h

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10h

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 11h

i have been to tuvalu. funafuti is a magically beautiful place. it saddens me to realise that one of our numpty billionaires could save them without spending more than a drop in their bucket. this is an important story, and as always, lyndal, i appreciate the work and will pass it along.❤️

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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 11h

I spoke to Tuvalu’s Minister of Climate Change Maina Talia about the different ways the island country is addressing climate change including the @fossilfueltreaty.bsky.social, storing Tuvalu’s culture with unesco and the world’s first climate visa

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

‘We don’t want to disappear’: Tuvalu fights for climate action and survival

Pacific island nation explores new ways to survive climate change but needs help to build protective sea walls now.

www.aljazeera.com

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 11h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Jay Peters @jaypeters.net · 12h

Discord has named 5CA as the third party vendor that was compromised in the data breach: www.theverge.com/news/798084/...

Jay Peters @jaypeters.net · 1d

NEW: Discord tells me that "we have identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had government-ID photos exposed" in the data breach announced last week.

www.theverge.com/news/797051/...

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

www.theverge.com

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David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 18h

I am so tired of people equating "edge" with "good" writing, and people implying I can't be a serious writer because of the things I love. Bradbury himself inoculated himself early against such foolishness. Love what you love. Write what you love. Tell everyone else to fuck the fuck off.

“Friends made fun. I tore up the Buck Rogers strips. For a month I walked through my fourth-grade classes, stunned and empty. One day I burst into tears, wondering what devastation had happened to me. The answer was: Buck Rogers. He was gone, and life simply wasn’t worth living. The next thought was: Those are not my friends, the ones who got me to tear the strips apart and so tear my own life down the middle; they are my enemies.
I went back to collecting Buck Rogers. My life has been happy ever since. For that was the beginning of my writing science fiction. Since then, I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”

Ray Bradbury. “Zen in the Art of Writing.”

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 17h

The same people who just gave billionaires tax breaks have shut down the government rather than keeping our healthcare premiums from spiking.

Tells you everything you need to know.

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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 17h

reposting this twice...

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 17h

Your "that's an insult to [thing negatively cited]" rejoinder is not funny; I'm quite confident in asserting that.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 17h

Your "that's an insult to [thing negatively cited]" rejoinder is not funny; I'm quite confident in asserting that.

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Rob McCallum @robmccallum.bsky.social · 17h

It’s not even worth arguing with opinions on Autism like the ones I’ve been seeing that croaky roadkill eating brain worm former smack head spewing. He’s insane

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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 17h

i'm the opposite, but i think it's because i'm old enough to remember when god talked to moses.😐

Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 17h

i met bob at a dinner back when the world was new during production of a film called "last starfighter." i was very close with his daughter kelly. he was the most thoroughly entertaining person i ever met.

i want to be your plus one at that cabaret evening if yer man agrees.❤️

Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 17h

🤣 i think your commentary on them would make a good streaming channel!

Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 18h

lolololol - now i'm up to speed on this saga (thank you @nameshiv.bsky.social 😎) i read this and laughed heartily. poor drake... always seems to be stumbling over his own bullshit. truth be told, i wish that were the case in government right now.

president lamar has a nice ring to it.😀

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18h

NEW: Federal judge dismisses Drake's defamation case against Kendrick Lamar storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The issue in this case is whether "Not Like Us" can reasonably be understood to convey as a factual matter that Drake is a pedophile or that he has engaged in sexual relations with minors. In light of the overall context in which the statements in the Recording were made, the Court holds that it cannot.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

> @jesskarl.bsky.social
@opinion.bloomberg.com

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 18h

aye... hallmark is where careers go to die—a sort of retirement home for numpty ideas. it would have been different if their business model wasn't squeezing every drop of blood from every turnip. they are on the forefront of AI scripting right now.