It didn’t!

I have reached the hotel and I shall not be venturing back outside this evening as outside is the bad place (cold, rainy) and inside the good place (warm, a hot shower)

I do worry about Mary Poppins when we have weather like today

Journeying has begun From my vantage point in the midlands, it appears that many trains heading north (uphill) are facing delays while trains heading south (downhill) are not

Make👏Pat👏Butcher's👏Ghost👏A👏Permanent👏Character👏In👏EastEnders

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

it's time to hoist the banners, it's time to arm the knights

Wonderful! Surely there are some enterprising LARPers and cosplayers out there to bring these to life?

Wondering if my decrepit umbrella has one more weekend in it

Thought Bubblers, it is going to be cold and wet all weekend so dress appropriately especially for the queue outdoors. On the bright side, the queuing will be in Harrogate and not Leeds Docks! 🥶

normalize name changes for anyone tbh. even if you're not trans, you should be able to just choose a name you feel good about and not have it be a big deal

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke history is a fucking joke lmao

Please stop trying to log in using the password "Blueskylouvre" they keep trying to disable my account

All I’m going to say about the new Running Man film is that, considering the amount of thirst I see from fans of Lee Pace on the TL, it does those fans a bit dirty as he remains behind a balaclava for most of the movie. He does also wear a beret so maybe it balances out?

Oh, Jiminy! 👀

Wes Streeting always looks like he could have been one of the kids from Village of the Damned only he accidentally used his powers on himself and is hoping that’s Shepherd's Pie in his knickers

My lungs sound haunted

high-level drug dealers: "we never mention anything illegal over text. basic details of transit and logistics are discussed only via encrypted comms." child sex traffickers: "lmao the future president hurt himself in my pedophile mansion bc he was too busy oogling naked children"

So that's gonna be awkward when all the evidence is out in front us just like it has been for a long time that Trump's a pedophile & nothing happens to him & he's still the president.

there's a priest who's job, twice a day, is to lift a floor stone in the nave and check the water level with a Holy Dipstick and communicate if the sluice needs adjusting again, i am not exaggerating

i fully agree with this theory and in my actual field, british architectural history, The Problem is that Salisbury Cathedral is built on top of a lake and no i am not exaggerating

discovered today that the main mother yeast my mum uses for her breads is older than i am, which is stunning to think about. i have eaten older entities than myself. disconcerting way to start the day

A very good day to be a comic fan (me) as the new book by @decassette.bsky.social has arrived and it is a huge tome of gorgeous looking pages that I hope to have started before meeting the artist at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social this weekend. A Garden of Spheres… BOOK 1!

“Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s name to be hyphenated” is not a fucking news story. We are not a serious country. Drag him to prison.

im hearing now, that all the nerds who got their pants pulled down while distracted by the Northern Lights, will be charged as sex offenders

So many lovely aurora photos on the TL this morning

No plans to oust Keir Starmer say MPs to the press as they arrive at Number 10 carrying daggers, pikes, flails, mace and, in one case, a poleaxe

TOLD YOU IT WAS VISIBLE bsky.app/profile/gari...

The last annual review concluded the SS Richard Montgomery was perfectly safe! And as a demonstration of exactly how safe it is it also banned aircraft from flying anywhere near it in case, y'know, the wreck spontaneously makes itself a lot safer in a manner incompatible with continued aviation...

yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing

I like the Carry On films but the lore is too confusing, impossible for modern audiences to accept these people could play a major part in the French Revolution AND lose their bras on camping holidays

Learned that Penguin Books do little figurines of their mascot in Australia for Love Your Bookshop Day but don’t appear to offer them for sale or as gifts in the UK, where Penguin Books was founded

You just know they own a Cybertruck

Maybe the next Bond could be a Search for Spock deal? Then after, a fun trip to the 80s for Humpback Whales

Talk of Bond has reminded me of the film The Matador with an excellent, post-Bond performance from Brosnan. Deserves the same level of love that Dalton’s performance in Hot Fuzz gets.

Have a movie where "Bond" is just a code name given to 007 and previous Bonds still exist in that universe. Bring back Brosnan and Dalton as old Bonds who don't really give a shit anymore, but help out the new Bond.

wait I thought we had already established that James Bond is a Dread Pirate Roberts situation

This is a delightful read about a really fun, not uniquely British phenomenon but definitely not a worldwide one, on Hollow Ways, which I personally consider to be deeply sacred spaces

What they always mean by leftwing bias - without exception - is that they saw two queers kissing on EastEnders or someone with blue hair on Strictly. It's never deeper than that

I think there's an argument that the BBC being perceived as biased towards the left (clearly it fucking isn't) allows it to do far more damage than any of the widely recognised as right wing media sources.

I kid, I won’t reconsider. The Emily Maitlis stuff this morning being one of many reasons why.

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

I haven’t been a licence payer for a long time but if they ended every news broadcast with “Go fuck yourself, Donald Trump”, Ron Burgundy-style, then I might reconsider

R.I.P. Tatsuya Nakadai I only saw Kurosawa’s Ran for the first time very recently and Tatsuya Nakadai was excellent in it. An underrated Kurosawa regular.

Die My Love is great Lynne Ramsay never misses

OH HELLLL YES!

I saw a random reddit comment where someone theorized that Pennywise and Mary Poppins were the same species of primordial psychic entity, but Pennywise feeds on fear while Poppins feeds on joy. both of them eat kid emotions because fear and joy are more intense in kids. This is Canon for me now.

My nephews and nieces are like “yeah we have a non-binary kid and a trans girl in our class” no big deal. Mainstream transphobia from media and politicians is driving hate

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Might have to mute Pluribus for a while. I want to watch it but had planned on waiting until December so I only had to resub to Apple TV for a month (and also watch the new Slow Horses) but it’s looking like Pluribus might be as big as Severance.