Jay Blanc
@jay.blan.cc
NB Gray-Ace, Pronouns are They/Them, Social Democrat. Have a problem with any of that, then you do not need to read my posts.
I might have made a mistake in ordering chips, naan, paratha *and* chapati with the curry.
November 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I might have made a mistake in ordering chips, naan, paratha *and* chapati with the curry.
My elevator pitch-line for a remake of Chopping Mall - Dead Malls, Dead Jobs, Dead Teens.
November 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
My elevator pitch-line for a remake of Chopping Mall - Dead Malls, Dead Jobs, Dead Teens.
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Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
July 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
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We can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory.
They're all blood, you see.
They're all blood, you see.
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory.
They're all blood, you see.
They're all blood, you see.
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New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
Just discovered that as well as being a generally duff update, ios26 *still* hasn't fixed the problem where you can't answer phone calls if you picked up the phone from 'standby mode'.
November 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Just discovered that as well as being a generally duff update, ios26 *still* hasn't fixed the problem where you can't answer phone calls if you picked up the phone from 'standby mode'.
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Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
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Currently, every living former Korean president from the right is a convicted felon, and every living former Korean president from the left is a booktuber.
I mean, it's only one guy, and he only just started his channel, but it does explain the vibe of the parties.
I mean, it's only one guy, and he only just started his channel, but it does explain the vibe of the parties.
November 29, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Currently, every living former Korean president from the right is a convicted felon, and every living former Korean president from the left is a booktuber.
I mean, it's only one guy, and he only just started his channel, but it does explain the vibe of the parties.
I mean, it's only one guy, and he only just started his channel, but it does explain the vibe of the parties.
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This is just to say
I have binned
the condiments
that were in
the back of the fridge
and which
we could not possibly
have been saving
for any discernible purpose
I ask no forgiveness
They were antique
so cold
and so impossibly past their use-by dates.
I have binned
the condiments
that were in
the back of the fridge
and which
we could not possibly
have been saving
for any discernible purpose
I ask no forgiveness
They were antique
so cold
and so impossibly past their use-by dates.
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is just to say
I have binned
the condiments
that were in
the back of the fridge
and which
we could not possibly
have been saving
for any discernible purpose
I ask no forgiveness
They were antique
so cold
and so impossibly past their use-by dates.
I have binned
the condiments
that were in
the back of the fridge
and which
we could not possibly
have been saving
for any discernible purpose
I ask no forgiveness
They were antique
so cold
and so impossibly past their use-by dates.
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
The people complaining about "USian" need to understand the cultural history of "Manifest Destiny" and "American Exceptionalism". That last phrase being *in of it's self* an example of "American Exceptionalism" because it only applies to, and infers ownership of America to US Residents.
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The people complaining about "USian" need to understand the cultural history of "Manifest Destiny" and "American Exceptionalism". That last phrase being *in of it's self* an example of "American Exceptionalism" because it only applies to, and infers ownership of America to US Residents.
Today's BluSky discourse is people from US America getting offended that people call them US Americans or USans.
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Today's BluSky discourse is people from US America getting offended that people call them US Americans or USans.
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“It’s only fair that you pay back the costs of going to university because you’ll get a better paid job at the end of it … but we’re going to make you pay back those costs even if you get a job at near minimum wage because we’d otherwise have to tax millionaires.”
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage on.ft.com/3M2AYkD
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage
Surprise move from chancellor means some university graduates in England may have to pay back debts sooner
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
“It’s only fair that you pay back the costs of going to university because you’ll get a better paid job at the end of it … but we’re going to make you pay back those costs even if you get a job at near minimum wage because we’d otherwise have to tax millionaires.”
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
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Since 2011 fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury a whopping £133bn and added to yet more climate emissions. Freezing it yet again is reckless & irresponsible #budget2025
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Since 2011 fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury a whopping £133bn and added to yet more climate emissions. Freezing it yet again is reckless & irresponsible #budget2025
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Narrative design is seen as "expendable" because it's not "top-level game design", says BAFTA Breakthrough participant Cara Ellison. But narrative is "the thing that actually keeps people picking the controller back up."
www.gamesindustry.biz/bafta-breakt...
www.gamesindustry.biz/bafta-breakt...
BAFTA Breakthrough profile: Cara Ellison
"Your game's story or narrative, even if it's not a traditional narrative, is the thing that actually keeps people picking the controller back up"
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Narrative design is seen as "expendable" because it's not "top-level game design", says BAFTA Breakthrough participant Cara Ellison. But narrative is "the thing that actually keeps people picking the controller back up."
www.gamesindustry.biz/bafta-breakt...
www.gamesindustry.biz/bafta-breakt...
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To reiterate - the Scabs were being treated so badly that they *also* unionised.
I'll tell you how bad Labour are fucking up- in Birmingham, the bin men have been on strike for 11 months against a 20% pay cut. The agency workers they hired as scabs have been treated so badly that they themselves have now voted for strike action.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
To reiterate - the Scabs were being treated so badly that they *also* unionised.
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Just one more reason to sign this petition
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Just one more reason to sign this petition
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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MPA Rates ‘Zootopia 2’ PG-13 For Sexually Awakening Content https://theonion.com/mpa-rates-zootopia-2-pg-13-for-sexually-awakening-content/
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
MPA Rates ‘Zootopia 2’ PG-13 For Sexually Awakening Content https://theonion.com/mpa-rates-zootopia-2-pg-13-for-sexually-awakening-content/
Something is happening in Alberta. www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi... Apparently, supporting Trump and his policies isn't popular in Canada right now for some reason?
Current Recall Petitions - Elections Alberta
Recall is a process to remove a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from office between elections by collecting sufficient signatures in the Member’s electoral division. The following recall peti...
www.elections.ab.ca
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Something is happening in Alberta. www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi... Apparently, supporting Trump and his policies isn't popular in Canada right now for some reason?
I would like it if there was a YouTube tech reviewer that only reviewed products that were affordable to regular people.
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I would like it if there was a YouTube tech reviewer that only reviewed products that were affordable to regular people.
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders expedited processing of a FOIA request for files related to DOJ's handling of the Epstein files. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders expedited processing of a FOIA request for files related to DOJ's handling of the Epstein files. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
For attention of @graham.loadingreadyrun.com
I’m very sorry to announce this to the rest of the country & the world, but a transitional logo has been chosen for the 2034 Salt Lake City Olympics & this is it. Why does it say Utah? We don’t know. Why is the font illegible? Yet another mystery. Did they go ugly on purpose? Again, no idea.
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
For attention of @graham.loadingreadyrun.com
A reminder that I don't care about the delay of GTA6, because I will not buy a Rockstar game due to union-busting activity and misconduct towards their staff. And I hope that the legal actions taken against Rockstar for union-busting and unfair-dismissal by the IGWB Union are successful #gta6 #union
The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A reminder that I don't care about the delay of GTA6, because I will not buy a Rockstar game due to union-busting activity and misconduct towards their staff. And I hope that the legal actions taken against Rockstar for union-busting and unfair-dismissal by the IGWB Union are successful #gta6 #union