Perhaps my favourite single of theirs.

Vol 2 came out in Danish two years ago, and 3 isn't out yet. Surprised anyone dares translate a septology when she had trouble writing even vol 2!

"As Scandinavian septologies go, it’s more fun than Jon Fosse's, more ballsy than Solvej Balle's." Me in @theobserveruk.bsky.social on Asta Olivia Nordenhof's The Devil Book, an "erotic thriller" that opens in the least romantic way possible: a chance encounter on a replacement bus service.

Duolingo channeling the zeitgeist

I wish Bluesky critics would acknowledge this simple, somewhat horrifying fact

I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.

It still counts as listening if you read the book version of the audiobook.

"As Scandinavian septologies go, it’s more fun than Jon Fosse's, more ballsy than Solvej Balle's." Me in @theobserveruk.bsky.social on Asta Olivia Nordenhof's The Devil Book, an "erotic thriller" that opens in the least romantic way possible: a chance encounter on a replacement bus service.

Is... is today's blue the most obscurely niche Connections category yet? As in, I haven't heard of *any* of them. #stupidgame Connections Puzzle #834 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

If it's a crime for a man to bring his toilet seat into B&Q and hold it up against all the new toilet seats to check they fit then I'll guess you'll just have to arrest me now!

If you have two followers, you are ahead of half of all Bluesky accounts. If you have 400 followers, you are in the top 1%. bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Favourite 10 TV comedies in no particular order. Blackadder s2&3 One Foot in the Grave I’m Alan Partridge s1 Human Remains Simpsons s2-8 A Bit of Fry and Laurie Victoria Wood (1989) Fawlty Towers Alexei Sayle’s Stuff Fisk (because we just watched a brilliant ep tonight)

[showing you round my house] and this is where the magic happens *opens door to reveal my basement warhammer 40k gaming table*

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I recently got a lot of flak for saying that 'The Thursday Murder Club' will appeal to people who like knitted postbox toppers, but the marketing people at Netflix clearly agree with me.

WOT NO COLIN’S SANDWICH (sorry just trying to join in the general disgust emanating from comments on this tweet)

Just seen Fawlty Towers referred to as a “BBC miniseries”, and now I want to die.

SEVERE WEATHER* *drizzle

you busy? the monolith from 2001 A Space Odyssey is here. it wants us to—yeah, beat each other to death with bones

Proof if needed that there’s good people out there

'It was only a matter of time before someone asked the question: “What if Minder, but snooker?”' Lots of fun in this week's Year of Listing Dangerously from 1983, inc "films so old you could feel yourself developing rickets just watching them" and "Larry Grayson acting like a baffled aunt in BHS."

“Worthy fellow writers, critics with pious and generous hearts! What a pity that no one is thinking of setting up a little inquisitorial literary tribunal in which you would be the torturers!” George Sand has a pop at literary critics in the introduction to her 1831 novel Indiana.

No matter what reason i follow someone for, at some point it turns out that they really, really like Doctor Who

This reminds me, I have a distinct memory of Theresa May as PM saying, when people complained that Brext was making the county poorer, “People voted to be poorer.” Which was correct of course but I recall she got shit for it. But now I’m wondering if I imagined it as I can’t find it anywhere?

The graphic that the Lib Dems post when they come second in a council election is the Lib Demist thing I have ever seen

Have been waiting for someone to write this piece. This is such a weird and sinister development.

Extract from a new book John Cleese has written about Fawlty Towers for its 50th anniversary. Given the book includes “gorgeous commissioned illustrations and archival imagery” and is still only 224 pages long, I suspect this extract contains the bulk of it.

Want one of these from James Ellroy in his next book.

This is Alex Bowler. Not a man to mess with as (a) he’s very tall and (b) I’ve seen him unclip a Brompton in 25 seconds flat.

Remember the real enemy is the BBC, not the voters who choose Reform despite having access to the same information that you and I do.

“before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” honestly why? I’m only going to need the one, for the guy I’m getting revenge on

The Booker Prize shortlist will be announced on Tuesday, inc conversations with the judges and readings by actors of judges’ correspondence from the Booker archives… Stream it here:

Wild that a man who, I guess?, thought it was funny to allegedly post a death threat on Bluesky didn’t want to talk about it when asked by the press.

this is a very funny piece

All the science fiction potential of Ai, and the best use case these guys can come up with is “what if you’ve spent ages laying out the specific ingredients for a particular recipe and you’ve forgotten what it is”.

Dear Apple, in iOS 26 please switch the ‘discard’ and ‘save’ buttons when editing an iPhone screenshot, so I keep accidentally deleting them and having to do it again. You did? Great!

Uncanny matching of my reading tastes by the publisher who sent me this.

Now, it hasn't been said to me, rather I have witnessed this: someone REVERSING on a ROUNDABOUT because they had missed their exit. I fish that memory out every time I think I'm an idiot, and I immediately feel much, much better.

Found Uncle Dynamite in a charity shop today, which means I now have (I think) all of the Penguin 1990s Wodehouse books in this look with illustrations by Chris Riddell. Titles in order of publication.👇 Curiously, Uncle Dynamite is the only one that isn’t a Blandings book. Why was it included?

Flaubert on arriving in Alexandria in 1849: "I gulped down a whole bellyful of colours, like a donkey filling himself with hay."

R. S. Thomas, from “Lore.”

It’s the 50th Anniversary of Fawlty Towers. In the first episode “A Touch of Class” an actual touch of class is when Basil sniffs the brick the pretend Lord Melbury’s uses to give his briefcase weight. You can see him wondering if they might be special secret upper class bricks.

welcome to the tonight show! i’m your host joe rogan (applause) president trump went golfing this week looking more healthy than ever (laughter) trump says he set a new course record (more laughter, rogan starts sweating) please… (sniper red dot appears on his forehead)

Anyone who wants to read the story and see that it’s actually a good report of what Trump and his acolytes have done, can do so here:

Gerald Wiley's handwritten draft of Fork Handles (or Annie Finkhouse? as it was originally called).

The perfect ‘thank you’ for that person who got you a big personalised Toblerone

1939

faintly ridiculous that @timharford.ft.com has to spend his time pointing out the obvious, but here we are on.ft.com/3VWYtgs