My wife's watching some programme about chefs getting Michelin stars and I wasn't very interested until it turned out when you get awarded one the actual Michelin man turns up

ok genuine answer and possibly a subskeet of most of the replies here but anything that tells writers to ignore writing "rules"/structure and write from the heart can be really quite damaging - I know writers who think reading books on structure is an admission of failure which is so silly!

I think we're going to have to switch the Enigma machine back on to break this impenetrable code.

This is a really fun thread, but the thing that I think it's most useful for is collecting how advice can be clearly poisonous and actively wrong if taken further and wider than intended. One day I'll do a thread/post on my theory of The Three Stages Of Advice. Today is not the day.

Hopefully they throw the booky wook at him

Well that’s one way to deal with a bad review I guess

It's so tough picking a product on Amazon. Do I buy the YHJUNNGOV or the SWALGDYS?

Spooner's career as a continuity announcer was short-lived

The Telegraph here advocating an surprisingly aggressive response to unwanted Christmas gifts.

Sleigh bells ring are you listening? In Hyde Park, coke is glistening A typical sight, a massive fist fight Brawling in the Winter Wonderland

Thom's top three visual gags of 2025. in no particular order

Every time I see this there's more. This is what I love about people

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

No one ever makes any jokes about Jonestown. Then again, that's probably because the punchlines are way too long... 🤔

Samuel L Jackson is 77. This is wonderfully in-depth interview conducted by @bilgeebiri.bsky.social Jackson is insight as usual on the technical aspects of acting but as you can see below, he’s just damned entertaining & straight-talking: www.vulture.com/article/samu...

Looking up reviews for travel wet wipes and -

me sexting

Ash: where's Pikachu Misty: I can't wait to try this new fusion restaurant Brock: I'm so hungry I could eat a Ponyta! both: *laughing* Ash: guys waiter: here's your pikka masala Ash: no

What’s good about Walliams is we don’t have to separate the art from the man

One of the awkward things for the last few years has been trying to stop my kid from getting into a certain author's books because of how much of a pain it would be when one of those investigations finally got through a legal team.

Interesting to revisit this in light of recent news stories.

As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE

To everyone on Bluesky finding out about Walliams and despairing at the fact that "I read those books to my kids" I just want to reassure them that it's OK. He didn't write them.

Me seeing the Daily Mail and the Telegraph both turning on him this week:

Huh. Well, I guess it's always the ones you most suspect

Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day. "Where there any other contenders?" "Um, no?" "A hollow victory, then".

*scrolling through feed* Am I the only freelancer who's working on Monday?

(In my best French accent) "No, you misheard me Candace cheri, I said she has 'HAPPiness"

I heard there was a secret meat With paprika, and spicy heat But you don't really care for sausage Nduja ...sorry, I can delete this. I've just seen a few posts in this format and I wanted in.

Josh O’Connor calls THE LAST JEDI “so beautiful.” “The end of that movie - how anyone could be a Jedi... I just remember seeing that movie in the cinemas and I wept of that last image with the boy. It’s just one of the most iconic images in cinema” (Source: @letterboxd)

A jury of my peers? TWELVE murderers?!

Watching that remastered Beatles Anthology thing and they really have gone too far with the upscaling

Discourse

All of me would go, half would leave

I dunno, I'm gonna need you to throw at least another label in there before I can get this one

Fantastic detail from the PA court coverage of Lib Dem peer Lord Razzall getting his second driving ban of the year.

Pair this up with Conditioner Gordon

MANTRAS IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY OVER THE YEARS survive til 2025 stay in the mix til 2026 accept that we are all fallen and none of us will get into heaven til 2027

Wallace Shawn felt insecure in his role as Vizzini in the Princess Bride. Rob Reiner would constantly reassure him. What a perfect and generous director's note this is: “I don’t really have a Sicilian accent.” “That’s okay, Wally. This Sicilian talks just like you. He talks exactly like you.”

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

The Odessa Steps sequence in The Untouchables

Manufacturing consent

'AI is coming' I tell the museum stakeholders as I proudly cut the ribbon of our new Artificial Insemination exhibition

People often ask me if I worry because my wife's career means she comes into contact with a lot of attractive and charming men, but that's not really her type so...

i stand by this statement every year

incredible content from my phd granting institution

uh oh