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Liam Mason

@liamthemason.bsky.social

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Women's Football Fan. D&D DM. Former Podcaster. Terrible Golfer. Always Sweary. TERFs And Tories Not Welcome. He/Him. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸.

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Liam Mason @liamthemason.bsky.social · Nov 8

If you like:

Doctor Who
Star Wars
Women's Football & Rugby
Sport in general
Quizzes
Wrestling (TNA mostly)
Tabletop Games
D&D (Teifling Paladin for life)
Oxventure
Muse
Pizza
Chatting nonsense about films

And importantly, telling bigots to fuck off

We'll get along.

Liam Mason @liamthemason.bsky.social · 8h

The opening party on Ghost Ship is pretty rad. Or the bread cutter in Fear Street.

But yeah, the sleeping bag death on Jason X is funny as all hell.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 14h

This is the correct energy. Rapid and withering response. British politicians too often cower before a voracious press. You have to go at them as hard as they go at you.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 2d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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🥀your ghoulfriend gore-igan.⚰️ @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 2d

This has to be the MOST cynical attempt to pretend individuals hold equal responsibility for climate change as corporations I've ever seen. I mean, who can say who's worse: tech billionaires draining earth's water and electricity for AI data centers or selfish people trying to breathe?

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 2d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

local12.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Things Farage won’t answer:

1. Why did he lie about buying a house in Clacton?

2. What did he know about Welsh Reform Leader Nathan Gill’s Russian Bribes?

3. Why did he lie about meeting the Russian Ambassador?

4. Why is his flagship council Kent raising taxes and cutting services?

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 1d

Idea: keep the inhalers, get rid of half a million cars per year.

Headline:
Climate pollution from inhalers has the impact of half a million cars per year, study finds

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Chip but a ghost 👻 @ctthumbs.bsky.social · 1d

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Umberto @umberto2.bsky.social · 1d

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 2d

tweet screenshot
Matt the outlaw
@cursedgloryhole
Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Andrew | TheSpoilist @thespoilist.bsky.social · 1d

Aside from the obvious, what a fucked up country.

Herb Scribner @herbscribner.bsky.social · 1d

Hack — Sleep on vacation.

Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report

An Amerisleep.com survey revealed that 37 percent of Americans used vacation days in the past year just to rest.

www.newsweek.com

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Liam Mason @liamthemason.bsky.social · 2d

Burn all this AI shit to the fucking ground

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 2d

Please tell me that the Williams family will sue OpenAI out of existence.

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 3d

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again...

'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Liam Mason @liamthemason.bsky.social · 3d

Mine is the sequel 28 Weeks Later, the initial jumpscare, how quickly everything goes south, the pan shot seeing hundreds of them chasing the lone runner down. Nightmare fuel!

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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John86 @john86l.bsky.social · 3d

You don’t have to be called Steve or Stephen to work at Blackpool, but it does help.

A club statement from Blackpool saying Steve Bruce has been sacked along with coaches Steve Agnew and Stephen Clemence. Stephen Dobbie and Steve Banks will take temporary charge.

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Liam Mason @liamthemason.bsky.social · 3d

Absolute 🚀

Barclays Women’s Super League bot @barclayswslbot.com · 3d

KIRSTY HANSON THAT IS OUT OF THIS 🌍

The #AVWFCOfficial forward hits a sublime first-time strike into the top bins 🗑️🤤

#BarclaysWSL

Liam Mason @liamthemason.bsky.social · 3d

Diabolical decision!

Liam Mason @liamthemason.bsky.social · 5d

The joy I felt seeing a Nazi getting chased out

Victor 🌊 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @vicjager.bsky.social · 5d

Did this idiot think the class was just gonna go "Please go on, we'd love to hear more Nazi bullshit"?

Liam Mason @liamthemason.bsky.social · 5d

Unfortunately the AI slop it's using to replace actual people is terrible

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Sean @stholeary.bsky.social · 5d

Gail Kim said people who used to work at AEW agree with her bigoted takes about Riho & it's further proof TK has done a great job ridding the locker room of garbage people.

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Rachael "Syril's Beret" @rachael1918.bsky.social · 5d

And while I have your attention, remember to donate to MAP! www.map.org.uk?form=cinema4...

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 6d

These World Cup ticket prices may look high, but don't forget the US ones include a month-long stay in an ICE facility.

fact sheet showing INSANE ticket prices for world cup, running from hundreds into thousands of dollars.

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 5d

You can protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and unequivocally condemn the antisemitic terror attack in Manchester.

Don’t let politicians or the media tell you that you can’t do both.

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