John
@wildpark.bsky.social
Games, security awareness, culture change, Eurovision.
overcast.fm/+ABFPLrrMVaM TRiE is often a bit hit and miss but this episode is a corker - they bury the lede in the title but the first section on the Disney+ deal with OpenAi is fascinating. Osman cites Karl Marx (quite properly in my opinion) and they discuss the motivations and likely outcomes.
The Bitchiest Celeb Interview Of All Time — The Rest Is Entertainment
What is the cattiest Hollywood interview of all time? Should we ignore ‘notorious a-hole’ Quentin Tarantino? Is Richard Osman a Marxist? Disney has signed a highly controversial deal with Open AI, lic...
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December 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
overcast.fm/+ABFPLrrMVaM TRiE is often a bit hit and miss but this episode is a corker - they bury the lede in the title but the first section on the Disney+ deal with OpenAi is fascinating. Osman cites Karl Marx (quite properly in my opinion) and they discuss the motivations and likely outcomes.
Just complimented a woman on the train for her necklace (lovely South American style jewellery). She in her turn said that she’d heard me on the phone and I had a lovely voice.
And now we both feel great and the world is a little bit a better place.
And now we both feel great and the world is a little bit a better place.
December 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Just complimented a woman on the train for her necklace (lovely South American style jewellery). She in her turn said that she’d heard me on the phone and I had a lovely voice.
And now we both feel great and the world is a little bit a better place.
And now we both feel great and the world is a little bit a better place.
Hard to believe it’s London, really.
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Hard to believe it’s London, really.
Reposted by John
Does anyone know of any geek/nerd events taking place anywhere in the UK next weekend - 31st Oct, 1st Nov, 2nd Nov.
I’ve found out about 3 I’ve not been aware of in just past couple of days and I don’t want the same to happen next weekend.
Please repost.
I’ve found out about 3 I’ve not been aware of in just past couple of days and I don’t want the same to happen next weekend.
Please repost.
October 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Does anyone know of any geek/nerd events taking place anywhere in the UK next weekend - 31st Oct, 1st Nov, 2nd Nov.
I’ve found out about 3 I’ve not been aware of in just past couple of days and I don’t want the same to happen next weekend.
Please repost.
I’ve found out about 3 I’ve not been aware of in just past couple of days and I don’t want the same to happen next weekend.
Please repost.
I’ve been involved in the web since pretty much its beginning - I remember when Danny Sullivan started Search Engine Watch, for example, because there were sufficient different search engines to be worth writing about. And Simon’s article is sadly true.
Well worth a read (and Simon is a nice guy).
Well worth a read (and Simon is a nice guy).
Entertainment websites are disappearing, or having to double down on clickbait etc to keep going. A few thoughts, and a presumably futile request to Google for some guidance.
filmstories.co.uk/news/okay-th...
filmstories.co.uk/news/okay-th...
Okay then, Google: tell us what to do | The future of entertainment websites
Google's search results are, sadly, damaging lots of websites. What does Google actually want? And is it what a human being would want?
filmstories.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I’ve been involved in the web since pretty much its beginning - I remember when Danny Sullivan started Search Engine Watch, for example, because there were sufficient different search engines to be worth writing about. And Simon’s article is sadly true.
Well worth a read (and Simon is a nice guy).
Well worth a read (and Simon is a nice guy).
Interesting that two different news sources can take the same event and spin an entirely different story about it via the headline. In one, Kimmel is defiant, in the other, he’s repentant to the point of tears.
I wonder which one it was.
I wonder which one it was.
September 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Interesting that two different news sources can take the same event and spin an entirely different story about it via the headline. In one, Kimmel is defiant, in the other, he’s repentant to the point of tears.
I wonder which one it was.
I wonder which one it was.
I am (very slowly) catching up with a podcast called “Improvised Radio Theatre - With Dice” (
tekeli.li/podcast/inde... Michael Cule and Roger Bell-West talk about RPGs each month. It’s great :-)
But I just caught up on an episode where they look to the future …. 1/2
tekeli.li/podcast/inde... Michael Cule and Roger Bell-West talk about RPGs each month. It’s great :-)
But I just caught up on an episode where they look to the future …. 1/2
tekeli.li
September 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I am (very slowly) catching up with a podcast called “Improvised Radio Theatre - With Dice” (
tekeli.li/podcast/inde... Michael Cule and Roger Bell-West talk about RPGs each month. It’s great :-)
But I just caught up on an episode where they look to the future …. 1/2
tekeli.li/podcast/inde... Michael Cule and Roger Bell-West talk about RPGs each month. It’s great :-)
But I just caught up on an episode where they look to the future …. 1/2
Very happy to be speaking at this. Come along (virtually) and hear me talk about my favourite frauds!
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August 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Very happy to be speaking at this. Come along (virtually) and hear me talk about my favourite frauds!
Deeply amused that when translated into Arabic and then back to English, the Kevin McCloud show, Grand Designs, translates as “The Rich Also Cry”.
Which, if you have ever seen the programme, is a /perfect/ title.
Which, if you have ever seen the programme, is a /perfect/ title.
August 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Deeply amused that when translated into Arabic and then back to English, the Kevin McCloud show, Grand Designs, translates as “The Rich Also Cry”.
Which, if you have ever seen the programme, is a /perfect/ title.
Which, if you have ever seen the programme, is a /perfect/ title.
“He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armour.
It was gilt by association.”
PRATCHETT!!!!
(Night Watch reread - first time in many years. And the literary landlines have just started …)
It was gilt by association.”
PRATCHETT!!!!
(Night Watch reread - first time in many years. And the literary landlines have just started …)
August 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armour.
It was gilt by association.”
PRATCHETT!!!!
(Night Watch reread - first time in many years. And the literary landlines have just started …)
It was gilt by association.”
PRATCHETT!!!!
(Night Watch reread - first time in many years. And the literary landlines have just started …)
Playing “Mind the Gap” - a London Transport Uno variant with the family on holiday. Can’t get my family to understand my joy at this win.
August 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Playing “Mind the Gap” - a London Transport Uno variant with the family on holiday. Can’t get my family to understand my joy at this win.
This thread is absolutely worth your time reading. Absolutely put a huge smile on my face. Thank you @delafina777.bsky.social for sharing it.
funny story, I signed up for personal training at a local gym and was assigned a former NFL linebacker as a trainer
giant man, covered in tattoos, big muscles, loud voice
I am someone who just… doesn’t have a particularly well-assembled body
giant man, covered in tattoos, big muscles, loud voice
I am someone who just… doesn’t have a particularly well-assembled body
“men can’t express their feelings because they get taught as boys to toughen up if they cry”
*stares in Was In Ballet For Her Entire Childhood*
*stares in Was In Ballet For Her Entire Childhood*
August 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This thread is absolutely worth your time reading. Absolutely put a huge smile on my face. Thank you @delafina777.bsky.social for sharing it.
Here’s how good accessibility benefits more than its focussed audience. I’m with my 6yo daughter at the theatre and for the toilet I have a choice of taking her into the gents, or trying to make sure the ladies is clear. With gender-neutral toilets I wouldn’t worry. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
August 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Here’s how good accessibility benefits more than its focussed audience. I’m with my 6yo daughter at the theatre and for the toilet I have a choice of taking her into the gents, or trying to make sure the ladies is clear. With gender-neutral toilets I wouldn’t worry. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
I’ve just realised - my general disdain for shows like Critical Role et al (nothing against them personally, but RPGs are for participants, not spectators #HillIWillDieOn ) is basically punk. Screw watching people. Get 4 dice, get up there and do it yourself.
August 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I’ve just realised - my general disdain for shows like Critical Role et al (nothing against them personally, but RPGs are for participants, not spectators #HillIWillDieOn ) is basically punk. Screw watching people. Get 4 dice, get up there and do it yourself.
Watched the Lionesses final - I’m not a football fan but my 9yo son and his mate are. And they’re just as happy to cheer for the male team (if they ever give us cause …)
July 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Watched the Lionesses final - I’m not a football fan but my 9yo son and his mate are. And they’re just as happy to cheer for the male team (if they ever give us cause …)
Listening to an 80s playlist on Apple Music and they’ve got some great tunes on there. Most surprising so far has being their choice to use what they claim is the original 12” of Soft Cell’s Tainted Love.
It’s awesome. But also very, very strange.
It’s awesome. But also very, very strange.
July 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Listening to an 80s playlist on Apple Music and they’ve got some great tunes on there. Most surprising so far has being their choice to use what they claim is the original 12” of Soft Cell’s Tainted Love.
It’s awesome. But also very, very strange.
It’s awesome. But also very, very strange.
It’s a hard world out there - Green Ronin do some great stuff and don’t deserve to be treated like this by Diamond’s bankruptcy. Please consider donating to their legal fund and / or sharing their post.
If you would like to help a (my) small company avoid having a bunch of our shit stolen by a much larger company, anything you can do would be appreciated, whether that is an actual contribution or just spreading the word. We're not in this alone, but we can use all the help we can get.
We've launched a GoFundMe campaign so we can defend our property in the Diamond bankruptcy case. The full story is at the link but basically, Diamond is trying to take consignment inventory that they don't own and sell it to pay big creditors. TY for help and shares! www.gofundme.com/f/support-gr...
July 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
It’s a hard world out there - Green Ronin do some great stuff and don’t deserve to be treated like this by Diamond’s bankruptcy. Please consider donating to their legal fund and / or sharing their post.
One of the many reasons I love Ursula K LeGuin:
“In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.”
Changing Planes, 2003
“In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.”
Changing Planes, 2003
July 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
One of the many reasons I love Ursula K LeGuin:
“In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.”
Changing Planes, 2003
“In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.”
Changing Planes, 2003
I posted this to Livejournal, 20 years ago, on July 8th.
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Yesterday, I walked home from work.
And I saw some beautiful buildings of all ages; Tudor half timbers next to Victorian mansions next to 21st Century towers.
And I saw a gaggle of Muslim girls in headscarves ...1/6
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Yesterday, I walked home from work.
And I saw some beautiful buildings of all ages; Tudor half timbers next to Victorian mansions next to 21st Century towers.
And I saw a gaggle of Muslim girls in headscarves ...1/6
July 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I posted this to Livejournal, 20 years ago, on July 8th.
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Yesterday, I walked home from work.
And I saw some beautiful buildings of all ages; Tudor half timbers next to Victorian mansions next to 21st Century towers.
And I saw a gaggle of Muslim girls in headscarves ...1/6
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Yesterday, I walked home from work.
And I saw some beautiful buildings of all ages; Tudor half timbers next to Victorian mansions next to 21st Century towers.
And I saw a gaggle of Muslim girls in headscarves ...1/6
Looks like Harry caught his train then …
June 21, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Looks like Harry caught his train then …
My iPad is called Eagle One because of Space:1999 - it’s such a utilitarian design. Like Red Dwarf it considered the spaceship more like a truck or lorry than a sports car. Practical, not romantic. Which of course made it romantic.
Hey Space:1999 fans! My pal Jeffrey Morris has a trailer for his documentary about the Eagle spacecraft! It looks very cool inded.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FQc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FQc...
The Eagle Obsession – Trailer (4K)
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June 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
My iPad is called Eagle One because of Space:1999 - it’s such a utilitarian design. Like Red Dwarf it considered the spaceship more like a truck or lorry than a sports car. Practical, not romantic. Which of course made it romantic.
Interesting that this is what the algorithm chose to feed to me this morning on Facebook. (And no, I’m not a US citizen.)
June 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Interesting that this is what the algorithm chose to feed to me this morning on Facebook. (And no, I’m not a US citizen.)
Like most people, I guess, I have a 'get up and go' playlist - one that I can use to energise me, to reassure me, to give me confidence.
It's called 'This is Me'.
This video is why. (and is the first track on there)
youtu.be/CiVnG_Phy7c?...
It's called 'This is Me'.
This video is why. (and is the first track on there)
youtu.be/CiVnG_Phy7c?...
The Greatest Showman | "This Is Me" with Keala Settle
YouTube video by Cinquanta Sfumature Clip
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June 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Like most people, I guess, I have a 'get up and go' playlist - one that I can use to energise me, to reassure me, to give me confidence.
It's called 'This is Me'.
This video is why. (and is the first track on there)
youtu.be/CiVnG_Phy7c?...
It's called 'This is Me'.
This video is why. (and is the first track on there)
youtu.be/CiVnG_Phy7c?...
When did drawer (a part of your furniture you pull out to put things in) start being spelled as draw - especially in UK English? Just seen it in the Rest Is Entertainment and I’m surprised Marina Hyde let that through #OldManShoutingAtClouds
May 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
When did drawer (a part of your furniture you pull out to put things in) start being spelled as draw - especially in UK English? Just seen it in the Rest Is Entertainment and I’m surprised Marina Hyde let that through #OldManShoutingAtClouds
#InformationSecurityBingo Hacker in a hoodie sighted! (On a slide…)
May 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
#InformationSecurityBingo Hacker in a hoodie sighted! (On a slide…)