Well, that was a fucking ride.

⚓️ Now taking pre-orders for the Widow’s Bay Pamphlet! Link in the comments ⚓️ I designed this tourist guide featuring lots of nods to moments and events throughout the series, and in case there’s any doubt, zero AI was utilised in the creation of this.

2026 update

Coming up on the 10th anniversary of Brexit! Yup. Ten years since 🇬🇧 decided to make it harder to travel, take away job opportunities, increase bureaucracy, remove young workers from businesses & take a chunk out of our GDP because Nigel Farage & Boris Johnson convinced us to cut our own nose off.

The under 16s who use Bluesky will be both be furious about this

NEW | Raging about stupid policy from a desperate PM… MAKING MEDIA STUDIES COMPULSORY WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN A SOCIAL MEDIA BAN Teach kids how to truly understand what they're bombarded; don’t pretend we can prevent them from encountering it. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/making-med...

Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.

The government is tabling new legislation to stop under-16s treating this house like a hotel. Further measures to stop them treating you like a bloody taxi service will follow.

At 95, his generosity was undeterred. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...

Highlights of #ExeterComedyFestival 1 Mcclaine Bierne Louise Leigh Tony Law Paul Foot Lou Wall William Adamsdale Spencer Jones Get Changed Theatre Co Mike Wozniak Adam Riches

#ExeterComedyFestival highlights 2 Nish Kumar Ahir Shah Bridget Christie Sophie Duker Will Adamsdale Kate Cheka Alice Lowe Mike Wozniak Josie Long

This time last week.... #ExeterComedyFestival highlights 3 Flo & Joan Muttonbird & Pigeon Olaf Falafel Rob Auton Mark Watson Amy Matthews Marcel Lucont Locally Sourced Comedy band

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A trillionaire is a wealth creator in the same sense that mosquitoes are blood banks.

Hockney's stuff was always somehow miraculous for me but never more so than with the wettest day anyone has ever captured RIP boss

I've always been a little suspicious of calling any artist 'the greatest' as though there were some league table. But as the years passed, and the work continued it's restless advance, and the way of seeing never faltered, it became clear to me that David Hockney really was ours. RIP.

Totoro/Panton

The herald of the Last Times is here.

“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013 www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Nu Blu

New aftershave in Lidl: gives you the precise aroma of a widowed policeman investigating the murder of his daughter, drawn into a wide-ranging political conspiracy involving nuclear weapons.

The 2020s in one post.

The most unrealistic thing about this film these days is Devon having "an excellent train service to and from London".

This review perfectly sums up Widow’s Bay: “[…] a horror-comedy that manages to be both an incredibly funny and dense laugh-out-loud joke machine and a genuinely scary and menacing fright fest. Neither generic marker takes precedence over the other; they are mutually, ecstatically intertwined.”

Title and credits now in for #HiPathoFilm courtesy of @jeremyamarshall.bsky.social

Men will literally build a replica of Devil’s Tower in their kitchen, drive to Wyoming, and board a spaceship instead of going to therapy.

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

I'm Rob, an illustrator, designer, and writer from the UK. With a background in graphic design, I now spend my time drawing spaceships, robots, and other strange stuff - either for myself or for indie games and publishers. 1/n

One of the top five Doctor Who lines.

I wrote this about my old obsession and my new favourite TV show. quantick.substack.com/p/for-all-ma...

A little vid from the opening night of the #ExeterComedyFestival on Weds - chock full of joyous turns from the likes of Paul Foot and Mike Wozniak. Some tix left - book ‘em!

I'm trying to draw a number 8 on its side, but it's taking FOREVER.

The film score for The Apartment was performed in A-Flat.

SLOP WILL EAT ITSELF

Mummy's Pride

I'm on a panel with @gralefrit.bsky.social and Alice Lowe about making your own comedy on Friday, and I believe we haven't sold out yet

Yes! I'm going to this, I think it's going to be really interesting and a bit different to all the stand up. Still tickets for this, so do come along www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/whats-on/exe...

Months of dedication for no money from many of the people involved, just to make something worthwhile happen in our town, so reposts very welcome.

Exeter Comedy Festival kicks off today with the Gala. Still tickets available. Loads of great acts on throughout ECF. The big names have sold out but there are some real gems with seats available. We're so lucky to have this going on, don't miss it! www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/book-tickets...

A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies! A chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!

Don't tell me it's the political movement, or the policies, or the public will and not the individual. This woman destroyed much of what I loved about Britain, the way Trump is fucking America over now. That Jesse Armstrong line from Succession about Logan Roy appealing to "the meagreness of men".

Happy 96th birthday, Clint Eastwood! Two years ago, for his 94th, I ranked his films as actor for @theguardian.com. (Could easily do a separate Top Twenty as director.)

Finished ep 3 of Widow’s Bay. V good. Matthew Rhys is a delight.

Donkey suppositories? You know what you can do with those.

Devon Holiday

RIP Marcia Lucas, whose skill as a film editor and storyteller made a clunky independent film called STAR WARS greater than the sum of its parts. Rightly referred to as "Lucas's secret weapon," Marcia had an uncanny talent to see a film from the perspective of an audience--and won an Oscar for it.

Want to be the first to hear this year's Clarke Award shortlist AND see a brilliant keynote address from award-winning journalist, writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed? We have good news! Also tickets are free 🙌 www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist...