Orange Monkey
@orangemonkey.bsky.social
Horror films, records, cats, witchy things.
An update on this. Roughly half the people who got through to a screening interview clearly didn't have the skills to do the job.
I AM BEGGING YOU. Don't use LLMs for your job application. They all read exactly the same.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
An update on this. Roughly half the people who got through to a screening interview clearly didn't have the skills to do the job.
Plan for Foo Fighters next year. In early for Otoboke Beaver then straight to the bar until the Foos come on.
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Plan for Foo Fighters next year. In early for Otoboke Beaver then straight to the bar until the Foos come on.
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Suggestion: Make yourself a homonculus for #Halloween - @johnreppion.bsky.social with the lowdown on how its been done, from medieval times to modern.
www.dailygrail.com/2017/11/how-...
www.dailygrail.com/2017/11/how-...
October 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Suggestion: Make yourself a homonculus for #Halloween - @johnreppion.bsky.social with the lowdown on how its been done, from medieval times to modern.
www.dailygrail.com/2017/11/how-...
www.dailygrail.com/2017/11/how-...
Absolutely gutted reading this. Both her books are beautiful and incredibly honest www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Baek Se-hee, author of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, dies aged 35
The Korean author’s hit self-help memoir, which follows her conversations with her psychiatrist, sold more than a million copies worldwide
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Absolutely gutted reading this. Both her books are beautiful and incredibly honest www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
I AM BEGGING YOU. Don't use LLMs for your job application. They all read exactly the same.
October 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I AM BEGGING YOU. Don't use LLMs for your job application. They all read exactly the same.
Sky Sports News not broadcasting on a Saturday morning is my three minute warning
October 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Sky Sports News not broadcasting on a Saturday morning is my three minute warning
I am 100% convinced that Twitter is the problem with politics. I'm also 100% convinced that it will be AI chatbots by the next election. The solution is that people start talking to people again, not their phones. But yeah, lol, good luck with that.
September 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I am 100% convinced that Twitter is the problem with politics. I'm also 100% convinced that it will be AI chatbots by the next election. The solution is that people start talking to people again, not their phones. But yeah, lol, good luck with that.
Alien Earth sums up all my feelings on modern television in the sense it is a story I would like to watch, told in an unfathomably dull and sluggish way. It also simultaneously feels incredibly impressive and deeply cheap. My toes curled at the Tool needle drop. I don't care about anybody.
September 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Alien Earth sums up all my feelings on modern television in the sense it is a story I would like to watch, told in an unfathomably dull and sluggish way. It also simultaneously feels incredibly impressive and deeply cheap. My toes curled at the Tool needle drop. I don't care about anybody.
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Is there a word for thinking your friend is responding via AI but you don't want to mention it in case you are wrong?
August 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Is there a word for thinking your friend is responding via AI but you don't want to mention it in case you are wrong?
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I know no one has money anymore but publications should probably consider getting proper editors and fact checkers in again, as opposed to "overworked people who'll give your copy a quick look over before publishing", which is what most of them have now
August 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I know no one has money anymore but publications should probably consider getting proper editors and fact checkers in again, as opposed to "overworked people who'll give your copy a quick look over before publishing", which is what most of them have now
I am significantly more worried about the harm people spending all day creating parasocial relationships with social media ai bots can do than I am about any version of a supposed job-taking digital overlord.
August 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I am significantly more worried about the harm people spending all day creating parasocial relationships with social media ai bots can do than I am about any version of a supposed job-taking digital overlord.
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it's another information crisis. we've had them before eg after the invention of writing & printing. they overwhelm us with info which makes us upset, angry & afraid. there’s often great working-together, thinking-together on the other side. let’s see if we can avoid bloody wars of Reformation!
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less. [you able to quote post]
August 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
it's another information crisis. we've had them before eg after the invention of writing & printing. they overwhelm us with info which makes us upset, angry & afraid. there’s often great working-together, thinking-together on the other side. let’s see if we can avoid bloody wars of Reformation!
Struggling to get excited about Wolves V City when Jamie Redknapp pops up looking like he's trying to tell you how great a deal a Timeshare in Magaluf is.
August 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Struggling to get excited about Wolves V City when Jamie Redknapp pops up looking like he's trying to tell you how great a deal a Timeshare in Magaluf is.
Some gold in this one www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
August 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Some gold in this one www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
First V-HYes at Videodessy was yesterday. All went fab. Thanks for everybody who came. Sign up now for info of September's film subscribepage.io/DDR3ge
August 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
First V-HYes at Videodessy was yesterday. All went fab. Thanks for everybody who came. Sign up now for info of September's film subscribepage.io/DDR3ge
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Morning
May 12, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Morning
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A gentle read for an August lunchtime, well, it depends what we mean by gentle. What if Wirral being weird is it’s super strength instead of something to make a joke about? By me for Liverpools Almanac
open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...
open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...
Wyrd Wirral
It's easy to dismiss Wirral as weird, but what if the ancient strangeness is something the peninsula should lean into, rather than ignore? Meet spirits of place on a walk along the coast.
open.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
A gentle read for an August lunchtime, well, it depends what we mean by gentle. What if Wirral being weird is it’s super strength instead of something to make a joke about? By me for Liverpools Almanac
open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...
open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...
Huge start for The Hundred.
August 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Huge start for The Hundred.
I love the London Rough Trade shops but walking past a massive Oasis display and seeing this on a table in Liverpool made my toes curl so much I nearly rolled out of the shop
August 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I love the London Rough Trade shops but walking past a massive Oasis display and seeing this on a table in Liverpool made my toes curl so much I nearly rolled out of the shop
They'll probably want to take a look at how the civil service does cyber security as well then.
VPN use is so high that the Labour party MPs are proposing to ban them.
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets
Labour could ban the use of Virtual Private Networks after use skyrocketed in recent days.
www.birminghammail.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
They'll probably want to take a look at how the civil service does cyber security as well then.
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fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/janes-r... If you can put a few quid in for my brother-in-law Bill, it would be greatly received.
Jane's Race for Life
I am taking part in the race for life in memory of my husband Bill who passed away in December of kidney cancer. He bravely battled kidney cancer for two and a half years and I know any money raised w...
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org
July 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/janes-r... If you can put a few quid in for my brother-in-law Bill, it would be greatly received.
I'm helping my friend Stef set up her own film club in Liverpool. You need to sign up for details but it's going to be very cool. subscribepage.io/DDR3ge. I'll be introducing the film and will do my usual loitering in the back.
July 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I'm helping my friend Stef set up her own film club in Liverpool. You need to sign up for details but it's going to be very cool. subscribepage.io/DDR3ge. I'll be introducing the film and will do my usual loitering in the back.