Adrian Speed
@adrianspeed.bsky.social
A novelist and amatuer history communicator.
I broke my back up pair of glasses a month after my regular glasses fell apart. Replacements are £500 that I do not have.
I am legally blind without correction.
Normally my sad fantasy is to go stare at the sea but I can't even do that.
The UK government offers £17 to 'help' with my prescription
I am legally blind without correction.
Normally my sad fantasy is to go stare at the sea but I can't even do that.
The UK government offers £17 to 'help' with my prescription
September 21, 2026 at 8:48 PM
I broke my back up pair of glasses a month after my regular glasses fell apart. Replacements are £500 that I do not have.
I am legally blind without correction.
Normally my sad fantasy is to go stare at the sea but I can't even do that.
The UK government offers £17 to 'help' with my prescription
I am legally blind without correction.
Normally my sad fantasy is to go stare at the sea but I can't even do that.
The UK government offers £17 to 'help' with my prescription
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NSFW Artist Struggling To Improve On Sexiness Of Regular Muppets https://theonion.com/nsfw-artist-struggling-to-improve-on-sexiness-of-regular-muppets/
September 21, 2026 at 4:00 PM
NSFW Artist Struggling To Improve On Sexiness Of Regular Muppets https://theonion.com/nsfw-artist-struggling-to-improve-on-sexiness-of-regular-muppets/
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Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
September 20, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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September 7, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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No really this whole privacy section is incredible and every review should have one.
September 14, 2026 at 8:11 PM
No really this whole privacy section is incredible and every review should have one.
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The thing is a bus driver can only do so much to get you there faster, but they can just crash the bus any time
September 14, 2026 at 2:19 PM
The thing is a bus driver can only do so much to get you there faster, but they can just crash the bus any time
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In an incredible move, Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada has announced a gender-affirming care clinic for trans youth, asserting tribal sovereignty and defying the region's ban.
It is one of the biggest cross-movement solidarity moments in Canada.
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It is one of the biggest cross-movement solidarity moments in Canada.
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Canada First Nation Leaders Announce They Won’t Comply With Alberta Trans Care Ban
“This is about more than one health service,” officials wrote. “It is about Indigenous sovereignty. It is about our responsibility to care for one another.”
www.erininthemorning.com
September 11, 2026 at 5:18 PM
In an incredible move, Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada has announced a gender-affirming care clinic for trans youth, asserting tribal sovereignty and defying the region's ban.
It is one of the biggest cross-movement solidarity moments in Canada.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
It is one of the biggest cross-movement solidarity moments in Canada.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
You know I kinda miss the days when I got a magazine maybe twice a year and it told me what games to buy, and on my birthday I'd get one or two, and at Christmas I got three or four. That was a good way to engage with gaming.
September 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
You know I kinda miss the days when I got a magazine maybe twice a year and it told me what games to buy, and on my birthday I'd get one or two, and at Christmas I got three or four. That was a good way to engage with gaming.
The latest trailer proves that people don't mind when Samus talks, she just needs to talk like what she is: a slightly psychotic, deeply alone, and terrifyingly dangerous bounty hunter.
September 10, 2026 at 10:49 AM
The latest trailer proves that people don't mind when Samus talks, she just needs to talk like what she is: a slightly psychotic, deeply alone, and terrifyingly dangerous bounty hunter.
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2003: Everyone's mad because the new Zelda game doesn't look like the Spaceworld tech demo
2026: Everyone's mad because the new Zelda game looks like the Spaceworld tech demo
2026: Everyone's mad because the new Zelda game looks like the Spaceworld tech demo
September 8, 2026 at 3:18 PM
2003: Everyone's mad because the new Zelda game doesn't look like the Spaceworld tech demo
2026: Everyone's mad because the new Zelda game looks like the Spaceworld tech demo
2026: Everyone's mad because the new Zelda game looks like the Spaceworld tech demo
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If Werner Herzog (rightly) said this to me, I would simply crawl into a hole and die.
(also, gonna adopt “Go ahead and fail” when dealing with AI bros)
(also, gonna adopt “Go ahead and fail” when dealing with AI bros)
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
![Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.
A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v5vphilwcf6nunioeyrpxw6g/bafkreibeadpx66jtqlttglhgbgkew6g65haxqngz5yt6p3ybwyi5zney54)
September 8, 2026 at 10:52 PM
If Werner Herzog (rightly) said this to me, I would simply crawl into a hole and die.
(also, gonna adopt “Go ahead and fail” when dealing with AI bros)
(also, gonna adopt “Go ahead and fail” when dealing with AI bros)
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September 5, 2026 at 11:30 PM
This is the right level of critique. It's not that Harry potter is bad, because it isn't. It wouldn't have sold billions of copies if it was bad. But it is just okay, in the more you look at it the more you see that meanspiritedness
Let’s not forget what Ursula K. Le Guin had to say about JKR and Harry Potter.
![Remember when Ursula K. Le Guin savaged J.K. Rowling in a 2004 Guardian interview?
“I have no great opinion of [JK Rowling’s writing style]. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the “incredible originality” of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a ‘school novel’, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aq5ehloxmqczfgco7s24ffy3/bafkreibykzxxk3i7tnxamgyvwsevx644uivhhsn4dujlzg2ybealjaimf4)
September 6, 2026 at 7:14 AM
This is the right level of critique. It's not that Harry potter is bad, because it isn't. It wouldn't have sold billions of copies if it was bad. But it is just okay, in the more you look at it the more you see that meanspiritedness
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Let’s not forget what Ursula K. Le Guin had to say about JKR and Harry Potter.
March 26, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Let’s not forget what Ursula K. Le Guin had to say about JKR and Harry Potter.
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I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you
March 29, 2026 at 4:55 PM
I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you
I got an AI to look at some sci-fi from a Roman perspective and it spat out:
Why must these free men sell their labour at all if the state is so rich? If machines perform servile tasks, why have free citizens not been liberated into more honourable occupations?
And now I need to go stare at the sea
Why must these free men sell their labour at all if the state is so rich? If machines perform servile tasks, why have free citizens not been liberated into more honourable occupations?
And now I need to go stare at the sea
September 1, 2026 at 10:10 PM
I got an AI to look at some sci-fi from a Roman perspective and it spat out:
Why must these free men sell their labour at all if the state is so rich? If machines perform servile tasks, why have free citizens not been liberated into more honourable occupations?
And now I need to go stare at the sea
Why must these free men sell their labour at all if the state is so rich? If machines perform servile tasks, why have free citizens not been liberated into more honourable occupations?
And now I need to go stare at the sea
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Uncle Phil Classic Mode Ending
November 22, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Uncle Phil Classic Mode Ending
AI data centres will soon consume more energy than the US domestic population, so maybe we should just pay workers.
September 1, 2026 at 10:56 AM
AI data centres will soon consume more energy than the US domestic population, so maybe we should just pay workers.
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we have thousands of potential dolly partons and tim curries already walking amongst us. most of them are begging for rent money or getting crushed at a shitty job
“How will we ever replace them?”
FUND. THE. ARTS.
FUND. THE. ARTS.
August 26, 2026 at 7:54 PM
we have thousands of potential dolly partons and tim curries already walking amongst us. most of them are begging for rent money or getting crushed at a shitty job
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This interview with Melanie Buggey, who just swam across the Georgia Strait besting a 60-year world record, has me in absolute stitches. What an icon lolll www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
August 23, 2026 at 6:35 PM
This interview with Melanie Buggey, who just swam across the Georgia Strait besting a 60-year world record, has me in absolute stitches. What an icon lolll www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
JK could probably fund the transitions of every trans person in the UK, and give them a lumps up now and still be one of the richest women in the world. So that's probably where I would start.
There’s a dollar amount Joanne could donate to trans charities that would have me changing my opinion. Weird tweets aren’t going to do it
August 22, 2026 at 6:09 AM
JK could probably fund the transitions of every trans person in the UK, and give them a lumps up now and still be one of the richest women in the world. So that's probably where I would start.
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There’s a dollar amount Joanne could donate to trans charities that would have me changing my opinion. Weird tweets aren’t going to do it
August 22, 2026 at 3:15 AM
There’s a dollar amount Joanne could donate to trans charities that would have me changing my opinion. Weird tweets aren’t going to do it
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I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling.
They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
August 20, 2026 at 12:02 PM
I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling.
They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
When I was six, watching the video tapes in 5am before my parents woke up, I thought that Vader perceived reality using the Force. It gave him a mystique and connection to the Force that made his speech "the ability to destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the power of the Force" much truer.
August 20, 2026 at 8:54 AM
When I was six, watching the video tapes in 5am before my parents woke up, I thought that Vader perceived reality using the Force. It gave him a mystique and connection to the Force that made his speech "the ability to destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the power of the Force" much truer.