Tomorrow marks 10 years since the greatest piece of art of our generation

This NYT-Connections-alike is very upsetting thomaswc.com/2025.html

Just zoomed in on a sign in the window in the proof of delivery photo a courier uploaded of my parcel dumped on the floor in a communal area

I'm still morbidly curious to know what went on with Huey Morgan's sudden 6 Music exit. No mention on his recorded show today of it being his last, and his show is still in the schedules again from 10 Jan – but now has an updated description which says it's hosted by 6's deputiser-in-chief Deb Grant

Any radio/media peeps with the inside skinny on Huey Morgan leaving 6Music? Sounds like a bottle of whisky & revolver in the study situation….

This is how cults work, by the way. They convince you to buy deeper and deeper into the cult’s project and cut yourself off from friends and family, who might help you to realise your new mates are roasting your brains.

"Because it's where our constituents are" was barely true at any point and it's certainly not now. ‘A stream of negativity and abuse’: why are Labour MPs still sticking with X? - www.ft.com/content/5b0e...

Half Ma’am Half Brisket

This photographer's pension plan just started paying out

Paedophale (is this anything?)

Customers have asked over the years, why don't we stock David Walliams books? Because we know what the publishing industry has known for years. You won't find his books in many indies, because we have the luxury of choosing what we stock and who we promote. 1/2

David Walliams hosted an ultra-sleazy secretive men-only dinner where the waitresses were seriously sexually harassed, propositioned, groped, & frightened, 3 years running, and never really apologised, and somehow got away with it www.thebookseller.com/news/trade-r...

Anyway, there’s a few more to take down who’ve always liked them young

A friend has sent me this photo from the website of the Sandringham Estate. That fireplace looks *remarkably* familiar, doesn't it? bsky.app/profile/jame...

FT defends London, one of the greatest cities in the world www.ft.com/content/dd79...

At least it was adult women and nothing more than that. *leaves post to age like the finest milk*

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.

Meanwhile the BBC has suddenly announced Huey Morgan is leaving 6 Music in just over a week's time, with comments disabled on their Insta post. I never forgave him for making nasty and extremely obviously wrong public comments about Lauren Laverne many years ago, so good riddance from me at least

So the old boss of HarperCollins suddenly stood down in October, and his replacement is a woman, and suddenly HarperCollins cares about all the open secrets about Walliams! You love to see it

Who are they even going to call? Just the Mirror? Labour List?

I note that when I read of someone gendering a chatbot - something which acts like a human and acts in servitude - it's always a man gendering it as she/her. I don't think this is nothing actually!!

This has some privacy safeguards but not the one I was hoping for: an optional ticklist of my contacts from which to choose exactly which ones to upload. Immediately deleted mine once I established this.

No one is on Twitter, never was.

oh this is fascinating

Pessimistic reading: the green paper is so broad because the secretary of state has no interest or grip on the brief so this spits out as 'IDK, you tell us'.

This guy apparently has more empathy for Donald Trump than for doctors

As usual the right wing press is trashing the noble legacy of Big Dog

I'd noticed our DLR trains had got shorter recently. No surprise why – and still no news on what the work is that they're doing to return the new trains to service 😬

Well all those right-wing people who were furious about anyone speaking ill of the murdered when C Kirk was killed are going to be raging when they see what Trump posted about Ro… no, I just cannot be bothered, what is the point, these people are not worth even talking about

Unforgivable though it is that the government appointed her to the EHRC (and won't just clarify the Equality Act in parliament to be as trans-inclusive as its drafters intended), I do think Stephenson's predecessor would not have said this last bit and it'll have a lot of terfs spitting feathers

5. Riot Women by Sally Wainwright is a brilliant TV series with a diverse cast of rounded, interesting and funny women. Note: there are big highs and lows and it needs a lot of content warnings. On BBC iPlayer in the UK.

HAHAHA oh my god

Seeing some snarky takes on Robin Ince's decision. Absolutely bang wrong. Not everyone functions on the same cynical plane as you, old fruit.

The number of murders in the capital in the first nine months (1st January to 30th September) of 2025 is the lowest since monthly records began and represents a fall of almost 60 per cent compared to 2003. www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...

Unlike Clarkson, or Sugar, Andrew Neil actually fronted BBC politics programmes, at the same time was the publisher of a right-wing Conservative magazine and freely expressed his very right wing opinions on Twitter. Not once did he come under pressure to step down

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

On the utter shamelessness of the Farage apologists www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...

"You know how I wrote an enjoyably ridiculous sitcom and in it this guy keeps a list of people who he thinks have wronged him because it's obviously a hilariously laughable concept? Well anyway, I do that"

2. Lewisham Libraries have launched an Adult Reading Challenge this winter to complement the children's Summer Reading Challenge. Weekly prompts and book suggestions, with cards for readers to share reviews in libraries. A great idea! 📚 libraries.lewisham.gov.uk/digital-cont... (& on Instagram)

Sad that it has come to this; awful that the Labour Govt has done nothing to remove the odious Johnson appointees from the BBC…

The fact you have to say "any compassionate employer" is the point. Not every employer is compassionate!

Had a quick check re this very specific (transphobic) formulation "biological male who identifies as a woman" the BBC has started using. It seems to be very recent and, so far, mainly used in articles likely to be read by terfs. www.google.com/search?q=%22...

It's wild. We have so many real problems as a country, and instead a large chunk of our political class would rather hallucinate that one of the safest big global cities in the world is actually dangerous.

You'd be pretending that something online was your dead grandma, like the way people pretend that this is the actual Independent newspaper

Assuming Robbie Gibb Corp had some lines ready about the need to immediately boot out all trans people from single sex facilities and, that having been denied, they've used them as a template anyway.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Journalists have an incredibly important role in a democratic society and the sheer level of incompetence and lack of rigour that's tolerated at the most senior levels of the profession are both damning and sickening.

This is a real disaster for those - pretty much the entirety of the British media - advancing a maximalist reading of the For (Some) Women Scotland decision.

Nigel Farage won't apologise for his history of racism because "if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too,'" a Reform source tells the Times. So essentially he was a racist and he believes his supporters are racists too

Nigel Farage at a press conference earlier refused to answer further questions about his racism, and instead resorted to just shouting "Bernard Manning" at a reporter from ITV

I suspect the real reason Nigel Farage is getting so rattled by the racism allegations is that: 1) He knows he said all these things so can't properly deny them 2) He knows that he carried on saying them well into adulthood