the entire concept of "cream soda" sounds unnatural to me

wrote about The Other Place www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What four classic video games do you find yourself replaying no matter how old they are?

new gig for Jean Jacket

We are seeing world events like the kidnapping of Maduro through the lens of the most depraved AI you can imagine. And if you thought the Grok CSAM shitshow was bad, it’s likely getting worse. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social: www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...

if you’re not masking in 2026 you’re cringe !

OK, at this point if you or someone you know is still on Twitter they are supporting this. There is no way around it. Twitter promotes CSAM. Start shaming them.

[doing backing vocals for Sam Cooke] Science Book

2025 movie watching! I watched a bunch of movies and some of them: pretty great! As always, this list of my favourite films of the year is determined by UK release dates.

inexplicable resistance to Imperial norms

60% of the way through the decade, what are your fav movies? 2020: Apples 2021: Drive My Car 2022: Nope 2023: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret 2024: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2025: One Battle After Another Did a quick browse of Letterboxd to bring up shortlists.

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?

Youtube thumbnail with a title on it like “KISSED MY DEAD BEST FRIEND’S BOYFRIEND?!”

Only person in the cinema laughing at the BARRY LYNDON callback in THE HOUSEMAID (2025).

As I am only halfway through Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin, and unlikely to finish before Thursday, here are my favourite books that I read in 2025.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

A story about an outsider in a world shaped by alien influence, gradually falling in love with someone from the alien culture, while knowing, on some level, that they can’t really be together.

Absolutely spectacular.

We're doing Le Guin's Earthsea, BOYHOOD style, with a Ged and Tenar who age over years through the films.

it’s her day.

Channing Tatum isn’t playing Gambit.

Last-minute gig idea! A knock-off VHS that looks a bit like a classic Disney cartoon:

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

Not going to do a Top Five or whatever because, well, whatever, but here's a brief thread of some songs that were released this year that I love and have listened to a lot.

Conservative estimate of the number of times I have accidentally deleted a screenshot instead of saving it since the iOS 26 update: probably a billion

Sam Gamgee: no dialogue plant care with accidental asmr vibes Merry and Pippin: it's ya boys, doing pranks Frodo: one post from a few years ago of him playing something moody on guitar Otho and Lobelia Sackville-Baggins: horrific couple influencers

HELL YEAHHHHH!!!!!

A Hole in My Heart (Lukas Moodysson, 2004)

idea: a letterboxd clone that is used exclusively for logging rewatches of individual sketches from I Think You Should Leave

iOS 26 is excessively animated. there’s too much going on here.

This great thread culminates in an even greater article. Great bit of queer history.

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listening to some music. you guys ever heard of this stuff?

thinking about her

"We're just normal men. We're just innocent men."

if I were a despotic president you would find me on the studio lot directing my own stuff

the world needs more Joe Pera Talks With You

That’s Pluribus, baby!!!!

in my "in my thirties era" era. this has been the case for several years and it will be the case for several more

The core issue lies in the idea that society must accommodate the best few and leave the rest to either measure up or die, rather than that it's every society's duty to accommodate every member by default

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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

They should have normal person on the judging panel of Portrait Artist of the Year who can say “actually that one’s shit”

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MAD MAX THE ROAD WARRIOR MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME MAD MAX: FURY ROAD tough to leave off FURIOSA, but I guess he's a purist

What fictional villain traumatised you as a kid?

I’m not Predator-head by any means (only see the OG and PREY) but PREDATOR: BADLANDS is, imo, a fantastic sci-fi action-adventure movie. So much imagination, great pacing, exciting and funny and brimming with cool creatures and tech.

Pluribus, hell yeah