I call my fists Statler and Waldorf because they're bare ...barely putting up with this meme!

Oh shit waddup

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Javier Bardem from No Country For Old Men, but instead of killing you he's just very interested in making sure you Stay True To your Art

I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.

M. John Harrison's Viriconium trilogy in one sentence.

Communities need used-book shops. As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories... We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.

It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That’s when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running.

Seriously, just one of the best onscreen presences to ever grace the silver screen. The definition of raw magnetism. RIP, Udo.

R.I.P. Udo Kier (1944—2025)

Congratulations to British fascists, who have quite thoroughly retoxified their own favourite symbols in just a few months, just by association with them.

My favorite piece of content today.

"It was partly inspired by ‘Do The Strand’ on the Roxy Music album, For Your Pleasure, and we thought that was quite funny. In our own mad world, we created a dance which was obviously anti-fascist' ’Do the Mussolini (Head Kick)’ (1978) The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire buff.ly/GphQnBX

TS ELIOT: In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo RAPHAEL: Typical. Typical. LEONARDO: Did they say anything about the rest of us?

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance

Listening to Steve Reed explain on the radio today that he can't say what Mahmood's plan means for kids of people who give birth after they've been granted asylum because that's a hypothetical Q govt can't be expected to answer right now made me think these reforms are going to unravel quite fast

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

Tapping the Vonnegut sign again: "Yes, this planet is in a terrible mess. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any “Good Old Days,” there have just been days."

everything is a joke but nothing is funny anymore

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

Music is basically a detective novel where the musicians are the suspects/criminals, the listener is the detective and of course the music is the crime. The listener tries to determine what happened and what was the motivation, while the musicians try to obscure this, so they can get away with it.

I for one am having a #beerforkeir

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You: but what do you mean when you talk about writing in the “Third Person Wanker”? Me: I think I sort of mean something like *this* owen-booth.com/2025/11/11/i...

My last word on the matter

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

But how is this new version of Hamlet going to explain the fact that he died at the end of the last one?

John Le Carre was right about the British establishment and how the alumni of the best schools will sell out their own country for status and money and in particular a desperate desire for American attention

Who up gruntin & sweatin under a weary life

Who up bearin they fardels

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...

A company at the heart of the government’s PPE operation was paid about £1.4bn during the pandemic, after being steered into the VIP lane. PPE worth £178.5m from its contracts ended up on a “do not supply” list. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 🧵 1/7

This is why the Right jumped on the trans issue. They know their politics is based on disgust. If your reaction to trans people is disgust, they can start you on the journey down the road of legally enshrined prejudice and discrimination, and fury at people who dare point out what you're doing.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.” Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

Excellent essay here on the slow strangling of mass literary culture in the West - most clearly in the US, but it's obviously happening here too

Or can he? @barneyfarmer.bsky.social

Wise advice from Laura Mulvey to her students: ‘You can’t write until you’ve thought…’

this is incredibly lucid and valuable research.

Wouldn't GDP rise dramatically as robots killed off humanity? When one dude left, the GDP per person would be nearly infinity

Calm. Employment. Respect. Grass. I’ve given up all chance at inner peace. I’ve made my feed a sunless space. I share my replies with shitposters. I wake up every day to an account I made 2 years ago that lead to only one conclusion.

"You think I'm cringe? Yes, I am. Revolution is not for the ironypilled. Look at us: Transes, Palestinians, SWs... blocklist-fodder. We'll all be banned before Singal is. And yet, 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚. Where are you, doll? You're here! You're not on X, you're 𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘, and you're ready to 𝙋𝙊𝙎𝙏"

The book spam I'm getting has taken a strange turn