BREAKING: Drivers of electric cars to pay "smugness tax".

it would rock if RUSH HOUR 4 is a co-production between Paramount and August First Film Studio

"So everyone is pissed off because they are skint all the fucking time, any ideas on how to address this?" "Er... make little treats more expensive?" "Brilliant!"

Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for

Why would The Criterion Collection do this?

Someone bragging on FB about how they had enhanced a photo with AI. See how this house with ivy on it and a bush in front has become a collapsing portal into hell.

One of those books which is totally rewiring my brain about a topic which I thought I knew a bit about:

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Every one of these is better than the last.

Bitchin Bajas and Natural Information Society releasing a joint album and then their own separate albums in the same year is putting undue economic pressure on fans of minimalism and electronic drone.

How the fuck is this not a Blue Monday sale?

AI is pivoting from ‘what if you didn’t have to talk to your wife?’ to ‘what if you didn’t have to talk to your kids?’

A spectre is haunting America.

Look what’s finally hit the UK @willsloanesq.bsky.social

Facebook reminding me that it was 10 years since this candid shot of me having a cig in Tony Wilson Place with no coat on.

I used to love listening to the ashes all night, another thing my wonderful and beloved children have taken from me.

Who was it who posited that the narrator of 'Driving Home For Christmas' was the ghost of someone who had died en route?

Let me solve this mystery: 1 - things stopped costing £1. 2 - they stopped stocking random cool shit that made it worth a visit. Poundland is now basically a smaller, shitter Home Bargains.

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

Can’t wait until literally fucking nothing happens and nobody faces any consequences about this.

My 5yo had to postpone her birthday party by two weeks because she had chicken pox and now guess what, half her class has chicken pox and can't go.

I hadn’t noticed that there was a new Bonnie Prince Billy album this year, and I thought “I must get that as I have all his albums”. Then I looked and the last one I bought was ‘Wolfroy Comes To Town’, almost 15 years ago. Where does the time go

Seems like this is a problem the government might want to do something about instead of people from abroad wanting to live here?

"It's ecstasy time!"

Known to fans of Julian Cope’s KRAUTROCKSAMPLER as the ‘extremely crap white gloves’ performance.

Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow

Cloudflare outage is stopping my university library communicating with Endnote, an extremely niche annoyance I admit, but one which is making me tear my hair out.

Amazing stuff. One of my favourite bits of pub trivia is that UN, DOS, TRES… RESPONDA OTRA VEZ was created by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, director of Spanish horror classic WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? (1976).

Fave Martys in honour of the short king of cinema TAXI DRIVER GOODFELLAS KING OF COMEDY THE WOLF OF WALL STREET A PERSONAL JOURNEY WITH MARTIN SCORSESE THROUGH AMERICAN MOVIES

I wonder why…

The conservative version of MeToo

Top 5 movie genres: - 68 minutes of b&w sexual deviancy in New York - French people pretend they are in an American film - vampires but, like, for sex - Japanese people smoke - dudes rock! (but not in a gay way… or is it?)

Cursed cinema layout.

We were having a nice coffee by Grasmere when a massive fuck-off swan marched up out of the lake.

As I understand it, Labour’s current strategy is ‘yeah, we are awful, but if you don’t vote for us you will get much worse’, a strategy which recently flopped disastrously in the US.

HOW DO LIKE YOUR SLOW-CINEMA LOVING FUCKING POPE NOW, EH?

This could be used like his threat to annex Canada as a means to isolate the pro-Trump parties, but again, Starmer can’t as he has to dance to Trump’s tune.

Well, if it’s 80% off…

"They all agree wives aren't invited." Deliciously unglamorous portrait of life at a London advertising agency in 1970, centred around the annual Christmas party. Includes some spectacular hairdos and some rather outmoded attitudes to, well, everything. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Every time Rizzle Kicks turn up I must ask my fun trivia question: What is the connection between Rizzle Kicks and Kula Shaker?

THE RITCHIE BLACKMORE STORY is incredible because he’s a total dickhead with zero self-awareness and the whole thing is a vehicle for him to share various grudges about ex-bandmates.

This is IMMENSE music kalimalone.bandcamp.com/album/magnet...

Removing best before dates from fresh stuff was supposed to cut down on food waste but now I end up throwing stuff away because I can’t remember when I bought it or how long it has been there.

I want to get my daughter a cheap (<£50) mp3 player for Xmas, but there aren’t any branded ones anymore. The cheapo Temu-type ones all seem to have horrible interfaces which don’t play the songs in order. Has anyone got any recommendations?

Big shout out to those who first heard ‘Crucified’ in 1991 when the Pet Shop Boys played it on Radio 1 whilst standing in for Simon Bates as part of Bates’ Mates.

I’ve made you all a new reaction meme for when something interesting happens. I’d like this to replace Michael Jackson with the popcorn, and the guy from Trailer Park Boys with the folding chair. Thanks.