My dog and two cats love to throw up on the floor and they represent 60% of the household. As a leader I can't just ignore public opinion so I also throw up on the floor sometimes to stay popular

The Wikipedia page on Sarah, the teenage heroine of Labyrinth, is more than two-thirds the word count of its page on Sherlock Holmes, and around twice that of its page on Luke Skywalker.

"But Pagliacci, I am the Doctor."

I was trying to get to sleep last night by thinking of an anagram for HESTON BLUMENTHAL, and I eventually came up with NHS BUMHOLE TALENT.

Tiny Tim was dead to begin with. Marley did NOT die. No one learned anything.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.

He's making a list, he's painting it black, no Commie should work as a Hollywood hack. Joe McCarthy's coming to town.

There are some corners of the fridge which have bred the most terrible things.

It's not that I care about the Vlinx, but if it's not there to be the K-9 equivalent in a UNIT spinoff, what's the point of it at all?

I’ve added the story I sent out with Christmas cards in 2024 to my website. It’s called ‘The Santa Bug’ and is another Imogen Tantry story, a sequel to ‘Mission to the Stars’ and ‘Dendrotheology’. A stellar Christmas to you all. purserhallard.com/the-santa-bug/

The War Between the Land and the Sea was a bit of a mess in the end, I thought, despite the strong central idea. I'm baffled that recent Doctor Who has put so much work into establishing UNIT as an ensemble cast with a standing-set HQ, then used hardly any of it in a UNIT-based spinoff.

One of the biggest tricks of the car industry was convincing us that parking private cars is a public responsibility, turning shared space into free storage for personal vehicles.

Manic Piscine Dream Girl.

And Farage had a testicle removed in his twenties. There's a whole history of monorchism and fascism waiting to be written.

Manic Piscine Dream Girl.

AI discovers new way to be racist previously unknown to racists.

We’ve gone on Christmas holiday by mistake!

Ouch. Difficult to say "Our previous CEO was protecting a sexual predator" more explicitly than this. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Mystery novel set at a council of the early church. An unpopular bishop returns from the dead, swinging a crucial vote, and some hapless monk is tasked with finding out which of the saints present miraculously resurrected him.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1726: Fiction hates coincidences. Just because it happens in real life doesn't mean it will work in fiction. In 1379, in Yorkshire, there was born a girl named Diot Coke. This, although actually true, still doesn't mean you can use her name in your historical novel.

Watching Black Doves alternating with The Diplomat, I'm surprised how thrown I am by the way the interior of the US embassy in London is completely different in each. Surely there should be one canonical US embassy in London interior for the Netflix thriller universe?

This year's Christmas story is called "Guided Mistletoe", and I'm about to start signing 80 of them, to go in our (rather late) Christmas cards. If you're on our list, you should have one soon. Thanks to local printers Out of Hand Print for their help getting the copies printed. www.outofhand.co.uk

You know this is a trite thing to say but the thing about this insane proscription that gets me is that even if you take the stance that damaging military equipment is in itself terrorism then i'm sorry but what about the violent mobs outside asylum accommodation

Don’t forget “I have fucked you and now I realise it is I who am fucked”

I love how Meat Loaf's songs express the whole range of human emotion, from "It's hot outside and I want to fuck you" to "It's cold outside and I want to fuck you".

This review is very good. reactormag.com/entirely-too...

Gvt: if we make the official way to protest the legalisation of ai copyright theft a long, timewasting bit of admin, worded in corporate speak that makes ppl angrier & angrier, they might not bother Freelancers, used to chasing laughably small invoices with big companies for months: aww. Bless.

Glad to see the new edit of The Sea Devils still passes the Bechdel Test.

everything is terrible so here’s the swedish chef doing rapper’s delight

Hilariously obvious that what she means by "no clear consensus" is "no agreement whatsoever with our plan, which we're going to do anyway."

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

"Bluesky is an echo chamber." "Bluesky doesn't have enough reach" "Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right" I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.

Why the fuck is there a Wikipedia article on this? We're not the USA and this isn't a thing. This has never been a thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spouse_...

I realise that Benoit Blanc was created for film, and he works perfectly in that context. But he reads so like a character adapted from a Golden Age detective novel that every film makes me feel sad there isn't a series of Benoit Blanc novels for us to read as well.

Grandchildren Politely Decline David Cronenberg’s Bedtime Story Offer https://theonion.com/grandchildren-politely-decline-david-cronenbergs-bedtime-story-offer/

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

It’s weird how there’s always moves to make fiction more “interactive” with different endings etc. It’s like these people have never seen the same film twice a few years apart and had a completely different reaction. All fiction is interactive. That there’s an audience is the interactive part.

First saw Eraserhead at a midnight showing with a housemate at university. We got home around 2:30am very disturbed, and immediately drank a lot of coffee so we wouldn't go to sleep and start dreaming about it.

Ah, "middle-class Oxfordshire". An entire county where all the cleaners, security guards, shop staff, porters, bus drivers and binmen are exactly as posh as the Warden of All Souls, like one of those planets in Star Trek where everyone's Irish. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Just got my flu jab. There's a one-line box to fill in labelled "Medical history", which feels like a bit of an ask.

I had a dream in which I recognised some piped music as one Queen song being sung to the tune of another, but I can't remember now which songs it was. I've been trying to work out whether there are any it would actually work for. They rarely use standard metrical verses that you could swap over.

So is the idea now that the Sea Devils are one (of three?) species in a collective civilisation of marine sapients, or are the Big Fish meant to be related to the Silurians somehow? They certainly don't look much like ichthyosaurs.

I adore this episode from the life of St Columba, found in Amy Jeffs' book Saints. Experimental research theology worthy of Terry Pratchett.

I adore this episode from the life of St Columba, found in Amy Jeffs' book Saints. Experimental research theology worthy of Terry Pratchett.

I could be wrong, but I don't think it was typically the architects who sat out on the girders.

I've caught up with The War Between The Land And The Sea and it's pretty decent so far. Gugu Mbatha-Raw is always great. It's a nice premise and it hasn't dropped the ball yet. Bit difficult to believe it won't, but we'll see.

There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Mate, I wouldn't visit the USA right now for all the coffee in New York.

While this is true, I remember from when I stopped believing in Christianity the blissful relief of simply abandoning a position that you've put huge effort into justifying, despite your reservations about the people sharing it with you. Just admitting you've been wrong can be a beatific revelation.