Doug Wept
@thiefoftime.bsky.social
Casually idling through your content and frequently seized by matters environmental. The Calder's flashy catchment.
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From 2000-2020, 15 of the top 20 worldwide top-grossing films have been about:
1) Fighting the return of an overwhelming evil thought dead,
2) Fighting an enemy that takes over via deceit and gaslighting,
3) Fighting against impossible odds because your conscience gives you no choice,
4) or a mix.
1) Fighting the return of an overwhelming evil thought dead,
2) Fighting an enemy that takes over via deceit and gaslighting,
3) Fighting against impossible odds because your conscience gives you no choice,
4) or a mix.
January 27, 2026 at 3:25 AM
From 2000-2020, 15 of the top 20 worldwide top-grossing films have been about:
1) Fighting the return of an overwhelming evil thought dead,
2) Fighting an enemy that takes over via deceit and gaslighting,
3) Fighting against impossible odds because your conscience gives you no choice,
4) or a mix.
1) Fighting the return of an overwhelming evil thought dead,
2) Fighting an enemy that takes over via deceit and gaslighting,
3) Fighting against impossible odds because your conscience gives you no choice,
4) or a mix.
Not into fascists.
Not into the weather at the moment, absolutely vile damp and cold.
Sausage casserole is psychic defence against the latter but suggest something punchier for the former.
Not into the weather at the moment, absolutely vile damp and cold.
Sausage casserole is psychic defence against the latter but suggest something punchier for the former.
January 25, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Not into fascists.
Not into the weather at the moment, absolutely vile damp and cold.
Sausage casserole is psychic defence against the latter but suggest something punchier for the former.
Not into the weather at the moment, absolutely vile damp and cold.
Sausage casserole is psychic defence against the latter but suggest something punchier for the former.
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Slop Will Eat Itself.
Shocker - ChatGPT and other LLMs/similar AI models collapse in on themselves like a flan in a cupboard when they start eating their own data.
AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data from the Internet, can lead to a collapse in th...
www.nature.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Slop Will Eat Itself.
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You may’ve seen coverage of a new report on the threat to national security from environmental collapse.
A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!”
A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉
A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!”
A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉
Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn
Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:42 AM
You may’ve seen coverage of a new report on the threat to national security from environmental collapse.
A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!”
A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉
A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!”
A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉
A takeover attempt by an academy chain whose values do not reflect that of our local schools has just been sent packing by our community.
Its pissy strop letter is quite something for a CoE academy chain, really proud of the teachers for doing what was best for the kids and pushing back.
Its pissy strop letter is quite something for a CoE academy chain, really proud of the teachers for doing what was best for the kids and pushing back.
January 20, 2026 at 10:17 PM
A takeover attempt by an academy chain whose values do not reflect that of our local schools has just been sent packing by our community.
Its pissy strop letter is quite something for a CoE academy chain, really proud of the teachers for doing what was best for the kids and pushing back.
Its pissy strop letter is quite something for a CoE academy chain, really proud of the teachers for doing what was best for the kids and pushing back.
Is ice Trump's political kryptonite?
it's more or less impossible to find issues that poll this badly and he's decided to make it a major, public priority www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...
January 18, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Is ice Trump's political kryptonite?
Exciting news for Palestinians.
Territorial integrity and sovereignty are fundamental principles of international law. They are essential for Europe and for the international community as a whole.
January 18, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Exciting news for Palestinians.
Would now be a good time to tell him to go fuck himself bigly?
January 17, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Would now be a good time to tell him to go fuck himself bigly?
Wes Streeting is a Labour Jenrick; change my mind.
January 17, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Wes Streeting is a Labour Jenrick; change my mind.
New boylesque name.
Ernest Hyperbole
United States, Census, 1900
United States, Census, 1900
January 17, 2026 at 12:24 PM
New boylesque name.
January 17, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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Hours before Trump is due to meet María Corina Machado, the Nobel Peace Center restates:
"A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot."
"A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot."
January 15, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Hours before Trump is due to meet María Corina Machado, the Nobel Peace Center restates:
"A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot."
"A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot."
Being a taxi driver for a teenager is a very effective way of reducing middle age drinking.
Think I'm nearly at the point where I'll reach her to drive myself, in my car.
Think I'm nearly at the point where I'll reach her to drive myself, in my car.
January 10, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Being a taxi driver for a teenager is a very effective way of reducing middle age drinking.
Think I'm nearly at the point where I'll reach her to drive myself, in my car.
Think I'm nearly at the point where I'll reach her to drive myself, in my car.
Donors from the world's most polluting industries are getting pretty spectacular returns from Trump.
Worried he may have uncharacteristically undervalued himself.
Worried he may have uncharacteristically undervalued himself.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Donors from the world's most polluting industries are getting pretty spectacular returns from Trump.
Worried he may have uncharacteristically undervalued himself.
Worried he may have uncharacteristically undervalued himself.
Cool project
Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
Intertapes — Main
Obscure tape finds and their stories
intertapes.net
January 9, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Cool project
Thoughts and prayers to all the children of Calderdale who thought they were getting a snow day today.
Deeply irresponsible forecasting.
Deeply irresponsible forecasting.
January 9, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Thoughts and prayers to all the children of Calderdale who thought they were getting a snow day today.
Deeply irresponsible forecasting.
Deeply irresponsible forecasting.
Snowpocalypse my arse.
January 8, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Snowpocalypse my arse.
January 7, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Looking forward to my heating being fixed tomorrow.
January 4, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Looking forward to my heating being fixed tomorrow.
Christmas decorations packed away and sitting down to watch Trump's #Venezuela press conference to help understand just how fucking far from peace on earth and goodwill to all men we are this 3rd of January.
January 3, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Christmas decorations packed away and sitting down to watch Trump's #Venezuela press conference to help understand just how fucking far from peace on earth and goodwill to all men we are this 3rd of January.
Tense day for world leaders everywhere in Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices.
January 3, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Tense day for world leaders everywhere in Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices.