Making Christmas wish lists was a lot easier when physical media for films weren’t all out of print. 😢

I once did a deeply puerile thing and rang the Home Office to ask for comment on the growing campaign to abolish the Home Office, which was basically "one think tank paper and some posts". The note of genuine panic in the flack's voice is something I cherish to this day. See how you fucking like it.

I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate

I am slowly compromising over the years, but I’ve managed to successfully ban Alexa from the house at least. Reading Yanis Varoufakis’ Technofeudalism and the way he apparently spends all day talking to it, feeding it more data, and then complaining about it, I feel that was the right decision

Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.

The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.

He'll we celebrating his 100th birthday in one week, so we should all take notes...

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

Hey, remember when former prime ministers used to not publicly criticise current PMs, rather than plot to replace them with someone more pliant towards the policy preferences of the billionaire tech bro whose money bankrolls their think tank? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

This is a really interesting set of survey results because, on the one hand, GPs are saying that mental health is overdiagnosed while, on the other, they are lamenting the lack of mental health support. Your patients are either faking it or they aren’t, doctor. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don’t really give a shit about the Crown Jewels, but I have extremely strong feelings about wasting apple crumble.

Disgusted on behalf of Cynthia and Margaret to be forced to share this cover with that shitheel

For the Queen Mothership Cthulhu Dark Fiasco

The most hopeful thing Starmer has ever said.

“You see the transgenders were simply fooled into thinking they had a place in our society they should simply have realised they are an unwanted underclass and stayed in the closet those poor fools”

It’s pretty funny that this is almost the exact same amount of money Netflix paid for Warner Bros and HBO and CNN, all that for this

We’ve gone from TERFs scolding us for using phrases like “pregnant people” to trying to make “biological people” happen. The reaction against clearer meanings has been to insist on gibberish in the name of “scientific accuracy”.

The never ending march of progress

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS

A lot of the other faces of Nyarlathotep try to keep it subtle but FIFA Nyarlathotep is “hells yes I’m Nyarlathotep!!”

*youth pastor voice* Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

Well they hated Sandra Dee and she was an Australian immigrant, so at least they’re consistent.

It is very, very odd to me that GW are currently doing this marketing campaign where they deliberately echo the anti-immigrant protests to promote their very fascist bootboy poster children. Is it even irony? I’m struggling to understand youtu.be/b9BUxAvehPw?...

It’s weird that I watched Dredd (2012) and Children of Men last night, and when I finished, reality had coagulated into an approximation between the two.

I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.

I hate it when people misuse the word “decimate” and one tenth of me will die on this hill

What I don’t quite understand is why the US government are using a still from a 30 year old box office failure to illustrate themselves. I get not understanding satire, but associating themselves with failure I’m not so clear about.

Farage is gambling that people are ready to differentiate between “good” racism (ie harmless banter) and “bad” racism. It’s a remarkable gambit (as opposed to simply apologising and shutting it down), ironically because he fully intends to use this as an opportunity to irrevocably blur the line.

This is a Christmas movie, right?

A GP just called me “buddy”. I bloody hate “buddy”

You might argue that bringing up stuff from his teenage years as opposed to focusing on his current racist career is a distraction, but Farage’s increasingly incredible attempts at rebuttal have entirely justified it. He just can’t accept responsibility for *anything*.

I agree with 2016 Pete Hegseth: “There have to be consequences for abject war crimes.”

We desperately need the current government to change voting. Confidence in politicians is at an all-time low. People have been voting holding their nose and no one is getting results they want. The press in the UK have moved everything right, it's disgusting.

if you genuinely want to argue that the Equality Act, when introduced, intended to make unlawful an approach to trans inclusion that has existed *since the 1970s*, I absolutely cannot take you seriously

So it’s NOT my imagination

Sexy!

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

The people who used to assure you that Jeremy Corbyn is an astute political genius are now assuring us that Zarah Sultana is a brilliant political operator. I’m sure they’re onto something. I mean on something: youtube.com/shorts/s6auQ...

A collection of thoughts about Ed Davey's reaction to the Mansion Tax and how it's become representative of a larger problem in the Lib Dems. www.libdemvoice.org/the-lib-dems...

I spent the last five days on my feet all day lugging heavy boxes of books around and I’ve been fine. Today on my day off my body seems to have gone “right, time to fall apart!” Ugh.

Why isn’t he wearing a tie? Show some respect!

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.