Andrew Bettridge
@andrewbettridge.bsky.social
Married, old gay guy in Brisbane.
Copywriter by day but I swear you’d never know it from my posts.
May post shirtless selfies in the future so I’d appreciate it if family and workmates could stay the hell away.
Copywriter by day but I swear you’d never know it from my posts.
May post shirtless selfies in the future so I’d appreciate it if family and workmates could stay the hell away.
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the number of times the character name Pasquini is said in Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976, Deodato) delighted me so much that i made an edit of some, but not all, of the 'Pasquinis'
December 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
the number of times the character name Pasquini is said in Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976, Deodato) delighted me so much that i made an edit of some, but not all, of the 'Pasquinis'
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I hate it when you’re scrolling and you see a picture of a shirtless man and you’re like, “Yay!” and then you read the caption and he’s missing and you’re like, “Oh.”
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I hate it when you’re scrolling and you see a picture of a shirtless man and you’re like, “Yay!” and then you read the caption and he’s missing and you’re like, “Oh.”
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Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
"Bradage de la traduction, plan social invisible : Harlequin passe à l’IA"
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
December 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
All my apps are now going SZCHWUUMP and WHUCKAWHUCKA and whatever happened to fucking unobtrusive?
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
All my apps are now going SZCHWUUMP and WHUCKAWHUCKA and whatever happened to fucking unobtrusive?
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(living an unexamined life) yaaaaaay haha yay wheeeeee
December 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
(living an unexamined life) yaaaaaay haha yay wheeeeee
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Catch the director's cut of Michael Almereyda's NADJA in a stunning new 4K restoration on January 11th. U.S. premiere! www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
To Save and Project: The 22nd MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation | MoMA
Film series. Jan 8–Feb 2, 2026. MoMA presents the 22nd annual edition of To Save and Project, an international festival dedicated to celebrating newly preserved film treasures from archives, studios, ...
www.moma.org
December 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Catch the director's cut of Michael Almereyda's NADJA in a stunning new 4K restoration on January 11th. U.S. premiere! www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
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Hunting for Harold Lloyd’s Legendary Christmas Ornaments.
The iconic film comedian of the silent era kept all-year round, the most magnificent trees in the land, covered in $25,000 worth of ornaments collected from around the world.
#ChristmasTree
www.messynessychic.com/2020/12/09/h...
The iconic film comedian of the silent era kept all-year round, the most magnificent trees in the land, covered in $25,000 worth of ornaments collected from around the world.
#ChristmasTree
www.messynessychic.com/2020/12/09/h...
Hunting for Harold Lloyd’s Legendary Christmas Ornaments
Harold Lloyd probably isn't a name that rings many bells in the 21st century, but spoiler – he's one of the most influential film comedians of the silent era, making up the the first trio of the sil...
www.messynessychic.com
December 17, 2023 at 8:43 PM
Hunting for Harold Lloyd’s Legendary Christmas Ornaments.
The iconic film comedian of the silent era kept all-year round, the most magnificent trees in the land, covered in $25,000 worth of ornaments collected from around the world.
#ChristmasTree
www.messynessychic.com/2020/12/09/h...
The iconic film comedian of the silent era kept all-year round, the most magnificent trees in the land, covered in $25,000 worth of ornaments collected from around the world.
#ChristmasTree
www.messynessychic.com/2020/12/09/h...
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You know, some days I sit and think about how absolutely wild it is that we've built a society where we don't provide a place for people to even sleep at night without having to pay for it, and that we've somehow made it seem like that's normal.
December 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
You know, some days I sit and think about how absolutely wild it is that we've built a society where we don't provide a place for people to even sleep at night without having to pay for it, and that we've somehow made it seem like that's normal.
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There’s an antiques emporium in Norwich of such unfathomable strangeness every visit produces fresh gasps of bewilderment and terror. Recent finds:
1. Mounted photo print of depressed steam train driver (£1)
1. Mounted photo print of depressed steam train driver (£1)
December 17, 2024 at 9:17 AM
There’s an antiques emporium in Norwich of such unfathomable strangeness every visit produces fresh gasps of bewilderment and terror. Recent finds:
1. Mounted photo print of depressed steam train driver (£1)
1. Mounted photo print of depressed steam train driver (£1)
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“The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.”
~ Man Ray
Admiration of the Orchestrelle for the Cinematograph, 1919
#ManRay #Surrealism
~ Man Ray
Admiration of the Orchestrelle for the Cinematograph, 1919
#ManRay #Surrealism
July 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
“The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.”
~ Man Ray
Admiration of the Orchestrelle for the Cinematograph, 1919
#ManRay #Surrealism
~ Man Ray
Admiration of the Orchestrelle for the Cinematograph, 1919
#ManRay #Surrealism
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The PM who demonised & divided on race & culture, coddled the Hanson fringe & refused Indigenous rights, denied a complex past & delayed a rushing future says the current bloke hasn’t done enough to protect. Hmm.
December 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The PM who demonised & divided on race & culture, coddled the Hanson fringe & refused Indigenous rights, denied a complex past & delayed a rushing future says the current bloke hasn’t done enough to protect. Hmm.
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Hero, this is the guy all those Americans with their guns claim they'll be during a mass shooting, but never are. This man actually disarmed the mass shooting terrorist loser while being himself unarmed
Bless the Muslim man who disarmed a terrorist shooter in Australia!
Bless The Muslim Man Who Disarmed a Terrorist Shooter in Australia
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
www.thegodpodcast.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Hero, this is the guy all those Americans with their guns claim they'll be during a mass shooting, but never are. This man actually disarmed the mass shooting terrorist loser while being himself unarmed
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I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
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sorry for ruining your entire life with my perfect and beautiful thoughts
December 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
sorry for ruining your entire life with my perfect and beautiful thoughts
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mas é óbvio que ele iria se arriscar pra ir tirar um cochilo no melhor lugar
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
mas é óbvio que ele iria se arriscar pra ir tirar um cochilo no melhor lugar
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
Pluribus is the story of an alien hive mind that, to survive, has to calm down the world's angriest woman.
December 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Pluribus is the story of an alien hive mind that, to survive, has to calm down the world's angriest woman.
HAHAHAHAHA! Today I tried muting words on BlueSky to protect my mental health and I couldn't do it until I went through an ID check. HAHAHAHHA!
The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
HAHAHAHAHA! Today I tried muting words on BlueSky to protect my mental health and I couldn't do it until I went through an ID check. HAHAHAHHA!
I watched a trailer for Heated Rivalry and now I have body dysmorphia.
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I watched a trailer for Heated Rivalry and now I have body dysmorphia.
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Searching for a new litterbox and dying laughing at this cat who looks like a toilet astronaut.
December 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Searching for a new litterbox and dying laughing at this cat who looks like a toilet astronaut.
“Wake Up Dead Man” was a lot of fun, except for the bit where Josh O’Connor’s says, “I hated that old man!”
I was born on the same day as Josh Brolin.
I was born on the same day as Josh Brolin.
December 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
“Wake Up Dead Man” was a lot of fun, except for the bit where Josh O’Connor’s says, “I hated that old man!”
I was born on the same day as Josh Brolin.
I was born on the same day as Josh Brolin.
Wait ‘til you see where Rudolph’s reverse light is.
December 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Wait ‘til you see where Rudolph’s reverse light is.
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Similar to its precursor (smart cities), the real money in these speculative projects lies not in any eventual product but in the ecosystem of summits, workshops, and gatherings that circulate the idea and monetize the fiction itself under the pretense of design or planning.
Yet another example of what Michael Lewis has described as “an experiment in capitalism with too much money”. Searching for this kind of ‘spatial fix’ not new, as @quinnslobodian.com describes in Crack-up Capitalism.
www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Similar to its precursor (smart cities), the real money in these speculative projects lies not in any eventual product but in the ecosystem of summits, workshops, and gatherings that circulate the idea and monetize the fiction itself under the pretense of design or planning.