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Stuart Ian Burns

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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · Jan 1

If you’ve enjoyed any of my doings this past year feel free to buy me something off of my wish list if you like: www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/...

Check out my list on Amazon

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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 5m

He isn’t submitting a film (as this title suggests) he’s on the judging panel. The festival is specifically screening for plagiarism and slop. Not that the people condemning him have read the article.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 17h

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 6h

The Broken, 2008 - ★★★★
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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, it's on Prime. Added to list.

Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 1d

*Checks internet*

Wow, that cast is *stacked*

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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 1d

I feel very fortunate that I was able to defer my loan from 18 through to 46 when it was forgiven. In the meantime an initial £3000 had ballooned to just under £9000 in the meantime.

Ros @hurricaneros.bsky.social · 1d

Out of curiosity I recently looked at my student loan statement after a few years of disengaging with it (beyond it just coming out of my payslip every month) - because of interest, I now earn MORE than I did the previous year. And I was on the smaller, pre-9K loans!

It's a TAX, just call it a tax.

Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 1d

You’ll be surprised what the Student Loan interest rate really is! How much it really costs, and why you may not pay it…

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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 1d

From baseball to Bajor. From captain to Emissary. From a station to the edge of the wormhole…
The definitive account of Benjamin Sisko’s journey is finally in paperback.

Star Trek autobiographies series - The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko

Out now: https://bit.ly/4oTaukD

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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 1d

Torchwood decommissioned: www.bigfinish.com/news/v/the-f...

The future of Torchwood - News - Big Finish

Award-winning, full-cast original audio dramas from the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blake's 7, Class, Dark Shadows, The Avengers, Survivors, The Omega Factor, Star Cops, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian G...

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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 1d

This is charming. Certainly resonates with me more now than it would have done twenty five years ago. youtu.be/QsWScY7tqkM?...

'Butterflies' Special (BBC Children in Need 2000) (Upscaled to 1080p)

YouTube video by Darren Page

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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 2d

Underwater, 2020 - ★★★★
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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. For the BBC Four crowd.

TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 3d

Ladies and gentlemen, from 50 years ago this evening (and this hour)…

Cher

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The Cher Show Full Episode Featuring Labelle and Mac Davis (10/05/1975)

YouTube video by Cher

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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 2d

This week's Monday treat. Damn.

Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 3d

"free speech zones" even have a Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_sp...

Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 3d

I now live next to a park which has concerts and other events which can get quite loud so I've invested in a pair of these which do an excellent job of muffling the sound. Not total silence but enough so I can concentrate on reading or what have you: www.3m.co.uk/3M/en_GB/p/d...

Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 3d

I once lived in a flat where the wall was so thin I could hear my neighbour having sex every other night, or at least I could hear the women he was with. I eventually resorted to nailing duvets across the wall which helped to muffle the sound. But it was never this bad. Take care.

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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 3d

In other news, the original DVD release of Ken's Much Ado About Nothing (which looks like it was the VHS master slapped on a disk which is why the colours are off) has slightly more screen area than the most recent BD:

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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 3d

The Invisible Man, 2020 - ★★★★
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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 3d

Mary Reilly, 1996 - ★★
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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 3d

The Village, 2004 - ★★★★★
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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 3d

The Others, 2001 - ★★★★
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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently it's constantly being hit by AI sifters. But it has other problems - it frequently has things "available to watch" which haven't actually been online for over a year.

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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 3d

Also the first few bars of The Life of a Showgirl sound like Zendaya is Meechee. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx5Y...

zendaya is meechee

YouTube video by Gabriel Gundacker

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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 3d

What I appreciate most is by having the same team work on the whole album with her, it has a cohesion that some other pop albums albums have lacked because its an ambulation of different producing teams. Plus it's short.

Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 3d

Finally listened to Showgirl. It's fine. She's still not quite over the influence of having rerecorded her back catalogue and trying to live up to the past. Only a couple of obv singles. Top three tracks:

The Life of a Showgirl (obvs)
Wood (which is hilarious)
Ruin The Friendship

Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 3d

My head canon is that its the Buffy in one reality dreaming of the Buffy in another reality, the one we're watching in the television show, both part of the multiverse which includes the reboot comic, the s8+ comics and the Audible series all of which are sure to be ignored in the continuation.

Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 3d

You might find my old project useful. feelinglistless.blogspot.com/2022/02/cata...

Cataloguing BBC Radio 4's In Our Time using Dewey Decimal Classification.

Radio In Our Time is a weekly live BBC radio discussion programme in which the broadcaster Melvyn Bragg and several academics elucidate ...

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