Stephen Graves
@stephengraves.co.uk
Special Projects Editor at Decrypt, director of short films (The Dead of Winter, premiered at @frightfest.bsky.social), player of D&D, painter of little Warhammer/MESBG men. @stephengraves on Twitter.
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Anyone in Wokingham, Berkshire: my cat Monty has been missing since November 11th, he is microchipped and registered lost, and was last seen wearing a fluorescent yellow collar.
Please share and let me know if you have seen him.
Please share and let me know if you have seen him.
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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 5:51 PM
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
Presenting the trailer and full line-up for COLD SNAP: SHORT HORROR FILMS FOR WINTER NIGHTS!
❄️💀🕯️
December 11th, 7pm at ActOne Cinema
🎟️ Book your tickets here! 🎟️
www.actonecinema.co.uk/movie/cold-s...
❄️💀🕯️
December 11th, 7pm at ActOne Cinema
🎟️ Book your tickets here! 🎟️
www.actonecinema.co.uk/movie/cold-s...
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Presenting the trailer and full line-up for COLD SNAP: SHORT HORROR FILMS FOR WINTER NIGHTS!
❄️💀🕯️
December 11th, 7pm at ActOne Cinema
🎟️ Book your tickets here! 🎟️
www.actonecinema.co.uk/movie/cold-s...
❄️💀🕯️
December 11th, 7pm at ActOne Cinema
🎟️ Book your tickets here! 🎟️
www.actonecinema.co.uk/movie/cold-s...
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Incredible name, 10/10, no notes.
there are four in total, with rapidly diminishing quality, though one has the best actor name ever in the shape of Yolanda Squatpump
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Incredible name, 10/10, no notes.
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I think we need to call out the science fiction writers who thought that billionaires would fund sexy android replicas of some lost lover.
Metropolis would hit differently if Rotwang builds a machine and all it does is say 'Joh Fredersen, your eyebrows are weird. You must have a small dick'.
Metropolis would hit differently if Rotwang builds a machine and all it does is say 'Joh Fredersen, your eyebrows are weird. You must have a small dick'.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I think we need to call out the science fiction writers who thought that billionaires would fund sexy android replicas of some lost lover.
Metropolis would hit differently if Rotwang builds a machine and all it does is say 'Joh Fredersen, your eyebrows are weird. You must have a small dick'.
Metropolis would hit differently if Rotwang builds a machine and all it does is say 'Joh Fredersen, your eyebrows are weird. You must have a small dick'.
Amazingly it just keeps escalating.
On May 11, 1950, while working on the Rawlins National Bank in Wyoming, a construction crew unearthed a whiskey barrel that contained a human skeleton with its skull cap sawed off & an odd pair of shoes. Dr. Lillian Heath, now in her 80s, was asked if she knew anything about it...🧵
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Amazingly it just keeps escalating.
A movie that takes place where you're from.
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from.
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This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes
The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
"But as the images these tools could generate got ‘better’ – sharper, cleaner, more convincing – they slipped across a line into a kind of creepy I didn’t like. Oily. Rubbery. Like fairy treasure that turns to shit when you see it in broad daylight."
Nailed the uncanny valley effect of AI imagery.
Nailed the uncanny valley effect of AI imagery.
BLOG POST: An attempt to put into words my *feelings* about generative AI and why (a) I don't like being tricked into consuming it and (b) I just don't care about things that are made using it.
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/11/21/a...
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/11/21/a...
AI farts stink up your art
Purely as a matter of aesthetics, on an emotional, instinctive level, I reject the use of generative AI in the creative arts. When people were playing with Craiyon a few years ago, I found somethin…
precastreinforced.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"But as the images these tools could generate got ‘better’ – sharper, cleaner, more convincing – they slipped across a line into a kind of creepy I didn’t like. Oily. Rubbery. Like fairy treasure that turns to shit when you see it in broad daylight."
Nailed the uncanny valley effect of AI imagery.
Nailed the uncanny valley effect of AI imagery.
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The greatest comic short story of all time. The original Peanuts strip that inspired the masterpiece. From Detective Comics 500 by Len Wein & Walt Simonson
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The greatest comic short story of all time. The original Peanuts strip that inspired the masterpiece. From Detective Comics 500 by Len Wein & Walt Simonson
I've now had a credible report that Monty was run over a few doors down from my house on 11th November. I have now conducted close searches of every garden he could possibly have reached. Over a week on from the accident I am sad to say that I don't think that Monty is coming home. 🐈⬛
Anyone in Wokingham, Berkshire: my cat Monty has been missing since November 11th, he is microchipped and registered lost, and was last seen wearing a fluorescent yellow collar.
Please share and let me know if you have seen him.
Please share and let me know if you have seen him.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I've now had a credible report that Monty was run over a few doors down from my house on 11th November. I have now conducted close searches of every garden he could possibly have reached. Over a week on from the accident I am sad to say that I don't think that Monty is coming home. 🐈⬛
UPDATE: I have discovered that the person who called with the report of Monty being hit by a car was a prank caller.
So he may still be out there.
So he may still be out there.
UPDATE: I received a call from someone who saw Monty run over by a car.
They were vague as to whether he was lying by the road or if it just happened there (English wasn't their first language) but I have been searching gardens there to no avail.
I will keep looking but am braced for the worst.
They were vague as to whether he was lying by the road or if it just happened there (English wasn't their first language) but I have been searching gardens there to no avail.
I will keep looking but am braced for the worst.
Anyone in Wokingham, Berkshire: my cat Monty has been missing since November 11th, he is microchipped and registered lost, and was last seen wearing a fluorescent yellow collar.
Please share and let me know if you have seen him.
Please share and let me know if you have seen him.
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
UPDATE: I have discovered that the person who called with the report of Monty being hit by a car was a prank caller.
So he may still be out there.
So he may still be out there.
Reposted by Stephen Graves
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
UPDATE: I received a call from someone who saw Monty run over by a car.
They were vague as to whether he was lying by the road or if it just happened there (English wasn't their first language) but I have been searching gardens there to no avail.
I will keep looking but am braced for the worst.
They were vague as to whether he was lying by the road or if it just happened there (English wasn't their first language) but I have been searching gardens there to no avail.
I will keep looking but am braced for the worst.
Anyone in Wokingham, Berkshire: my cat Monty has been missing since November 11th, he is microchipped and registered lost, and was last seen wearing a fluorescent yellow collar.
Please share and let me know if you have seen him.
Please share and let me know if you have seen him.
November 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
UPDATE: I received a call from someone who saw Monty run over by a car.
They were vague as to whether he was lying by the road or if it just happened there (English wasn't their first language) but I have been searching gardens there to no avail.
I will keep looking but am braced for the worst.
They were vague as to whether he was lying by the road or if it just happened there (English wasn't their first language) but I have been searching gardens there to no avail.
I will keep looking but am braced for the worst.
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I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?
November 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?
Anyone in Wokingham, Berkshire: my cat Monty has been missing since November 11th, he is microchipped and registered lost, and was last seen wearing a fluorescent yellow collar.
Please share and let me know if you have seen him.
Please share and let me know if you have seen him.
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Anyone in Wokingham, Berkshire: my cat Monty has been missing since November 11th, he is microchipped and registered lost, and was last seen wearing a fluorescent yellow collar.
Please share and let me know if you have seen him.
Please share and let me know if you have seen him.
Reposted by Stephen Graves
Just start the new Bond movie like this.
Job sorted.
Job sorted.
November 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Just start the new Bond movie like this.
Job sorted.
Job sorted.
Just do this, it's absurdly simple. bsky.app/profile/step...
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 11:12 AM
Just do this, it's absurdly simple. bsky.app/profile/step...
That would be Anthony Horowitz, the guy who (spoilers) killed Bond off in his latest book?
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 11:10 AM
That would be Anthony Horowitz, the guy who (spoilers) killed Bond off in his latest book?
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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Peter Cushing’s long friendship with Christopher Lee began on The Curse Of Frankenstein when Lee stormed into Cushing’s dressing room saying ‘I haven’t got any lines!’ & Cushing replied ‘You’re lucky. I’ve read the script.’
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Peter Cushing’s long friendship with Christopher Lee began on The Curse Of Frankenstein when Lee stormed into Cushing’s dressing room saying ‘I haven’t got any lines!’ & Cushing replied ‘You’re lucky. I’ve read the script.’
Shot down the road from my home town in Bracknell!
As were The Offence and I Start Counting.
As were The Offence and I Start Counting.
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Shot down the road from my home town in Bracknell!
As were The Offence and I Start Counting.
As were The Offence and I Start Counting.
My campaign promises are simple.
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
My campaign promises are simple.
Truly the world's most pathetic man.
I know people think Musk only bought Twitter to help the rise of fascism.
While that’s important, I still think it’s secondary to his primary goal, which was to own the place where his fans praise him.
With AI, Musk’s use of the platform for love and validation is only getting more transparent.
While that’s important, I still think it’s secondary to his primary goal, which was to own the place where his fans praise him.
With AI, Musk’s use of the platform for love and validation is only getting more transparent.
November 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Truly the world's most pathetic man.