Leo Collett

Big dafty and member of The Thought Clouds (a mostly imaginary band)

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

There’s a scene from the 1960 film version of The Time Machine that has been haunting my dreams of late.

In the film, the Time Traveller (Rod Taylor) has traveled almost a million years into the future, expecting that when he arrived he would find an advanced civilisation marked by the pursuit of learning. Instead, he finds the Eloi, a race of simple creatures in togas who are bred like cattle, and eaten, by the subterranean Morlocks.

In the film’s most harrowing scene, he’s taken by one of the Eloi to a centuries-old library housing the last books in existence, which crumble to dust in his hands.

“What have you done?” the Time Traveller demands, as the dreams of centuries turn to ash. “Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating! A million years, the sensitive men dying for their dreams, for what? So you can swim, and dance, and play.”

In the last couple weeks I see a lot of men on this platform arguing with a straight face that we should let AI generate our writing for us, that it’s the future, that there’s no fighting it. And I need you all to know that THIS is the ultimate end of a world in which everyone has machines write for them. There will be no more thinking, no more creative expression, no more art or literature. It’s what C. S. Lewis called “the abolition of man.” We will be no different from cattle and our libraries will turn to dust.

When ease and entertainment become the highest good, it’s not shocking that people will find clever ways to avoid work and study. But nor should it be surprising when the ultimate fate of the Eloi becomes our own.

[Leo Collett @leoconsole]

@ExeterCavern The Webb Brothers?

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

I often wonder if those criticising the current Prime Minister remember any of the previous five.

[Tim Burgess @Tim_Burgess]

Go to that gig. listen to that song, dust off that record player, learn to play that guitar.
Music helps us through. Life can be overwhelming at times. Music can help, I promise you that

x

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

If divorced dads whose kids don't see them could go back to dressing up in superhero outfits and climbing up buildings instead of ushering in fascism I think we'd all be better off quite frankly.

[Leo Collett @leoconsole]

We have a new single out today. Written by @TweeterRAdams produced by J Francis Harvey at Studio 8330 https://t.co/lV4BXzgSaX

[Complete Control PR @pollybirkbeck]

Fun thread to make you (well, me) feel very old 🥳❤️

[Leo Collett @leoconsole]

@pollybirkbeck @kendall_laceyUK Carly Simon was too?

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

The new fox hunting ‘season’ has started.

This vile pastime must be brought to an end.

RT if you agree!

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Wouldn't it be great to not have to think about this man ever again?

Five more days. https://t.co/tTgeqxNqYm

[Emo Philips @EmoPhilips]

more work, but you can taste the difference

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

You know what would be an October surprise?

The media actually treating Trump like the existential threat to democracy he actually is.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Seems strange that no one is talking about Trump being a confirmed rapist and 34-times-convicted felon who is on bail conditions for both pending state felonies and pending federal felonies

I guess major media decided that’s only worth 1% the ink of Joe Biden having a bad debate

[coxonauts @coxonauts]

😘

[Brendan May @bmay]

Still, a quiet room for Starmer’s son’s GSCE revision.

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Their defence? You guessed it! "Trail hunting"!

We need a proper ban on hunting - a proper deterrent and proper punishments to END fox hunting for good!

A fine of a few hundred quid is not good enough!

RT if you agree!

[The Vinyl Whistle @whistle_shop]

SHED SEVEN TEST PRESSING

We've got another wonderful @shedseven test pressing to give away to one lucky winner!!

Simply RT this post, or pre order Liquid Gold (out next Friday) for your chance to win!

https://t.co/M43HZRXaIg

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Dear Media
Liv Garfield, CEO of Severn Trent Water. THE BEST PAID CEO in the water industry.
Paid £3.2M in 2023 for dumping sh*t in our rivers. Can we have some more outrage on this, please?
#BBCBreakfast #GMB