single out on Friday - tune your streaming dials to Boa Morte!

Elfen safety gone mad

Complaining about the cost of bike sheds is just a perfect example of how nobody knows how much things actually cost now.

If you are whinging about a secure safe bicycle storage facility at a hospital which cost about what you'd imagine it would cost, we can't be friends

Kate Beaton is the best and is On Here @katebeaton.bsky.social Mystery Solving Teens will always be my favourite but her graphic novel Ducks is devastatingly good.

Go see the Beastie Boys live

I sometimes wonder why the high gravity time dilation future war gimmick in Halo Jones has never been done on film/TV. Even if the science doesn't strictly work, it's such a cool concept. @2000ad.bsky.social

Of course Trump would be a "somewhat of a" rather than "something of a" guy.

Might repost some decent posts I made when there was nobody around to see them. Or that everybody saw and hated.

This meet cute (1993) could have been an email cute (1998).

This continues to confuse and anger me. What is a "visual hive"? An allergic reaction or insect colony that is not invisible? Either way, why would I want one for my mind?

It doesn't say "novel" so I'm going to have to go with The Best of Myles. The Third Policeman the funniest novel by a country mile and a very honourable mention for Ulysses.

15 years of this grade A banger by @boamorteband.bsky.social youtu.be/yWEwJI3rH3Q?...

The Good, The Bad or The Ugly

Stopped in for a quick coffee, forgot to read the small print, now I'm going to be late for my next meeting.

Look we all need to sit down and sort out that “death of the author” and “separate the art from the artist” do not mean the same, freely interchangeable thing.

*Tommy Bowe voice* NINE herons?

World's largest corporate investor has to transmit his thoughts via underground outlets such as the BBC and Fortune 500 CEOs because the mainstream just won't touch them. Incredible levels of LinkedIn posting.

First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of.

Doomsday clock set to “Glenroe”

Starting a Clover Hall of Shame for #LáFhéilePádraig (Reminder: ☘️ three leaves = emblem of Ireland 🍀 four leaves = not emblem of Ireland) #SpéirGhorm

What a treat. Go see it if you can.

I've no problem with Threshold highlighting this issue but as a lifelong pedant I wish they'd stop using this apples to oranges comparison. The valid comparison is between units in long term vs short term let, not how many listings of each are visible at any one time.

Barnardos Online Safety Programme team is delighted to be at Google HQ today for Google’s Growing Up in the Digital Age summit “Protecting, Respecting & Empowering Young People Online.”

Casablanca might be genuinely hype-proof

Incredible to witness in real time the overnight creation of a new codeword that is now ubiquitous across UK right wing politics and media.

Bluesky can now enjoy this Twitter all-timer

Unless I dozed off there is literally no mention of arson in The Crucible so I'm not sure how it becomes a "recurring theme".

Ah yes, Edward Said, well-known for his fanaticism.

They say it's hard to make new friends as you get older so thanks for this Instagram.

Wuthering Heights is a classic romantic novel because it is actually bad but people think they can fix it.

This comma causes me almost physical pain. @politico.eu @politico.com

Encountering a new form of weird content which purports to teach you the "right" way to stay in luxury hotels, based on recondite insider information which is clearly both made up and irrelevant.

I like that Google Maps has decided to go with "Imbolc (Observed)" as the name of Ireland's new February public holiday.

I'm so hilariously out of step with today's coffee culture. I don't think I'd risk a coffee in any one of these places. Let me know if I'm missing anything.

Episode 11 is the peak of Twin Peaks The Return.

Saw a screening of Mulholland Dr at the Lighthouse cinema this week and I literally can't stop thinking about it. It's not like anything else but also it's better than anything else.

This photo is from mid-February. Imagine thinking that spring is still a month away.

This is the foreign policy version of “Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?”

Guy who has only seen Andor, reading this obituary: Getting a lot of "Andor" vibes from this.

We don’t dance on the grave of NFTs enough. I had a year where I was repeatedly told by bozos I was going to be irrelevant and extinct for not embracing them, I should be allowed a victory lap.

Tortured by the thought that my nemesis on LinkedIn puzzles doesn't even know she's my nemesis, as she always does them earlier than me. LinkedIn puzzlers will understand.

Reviving my annual book thread: some of the books I read in 2025. 1. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. Good insubstantial fun. I coincidentally visited Monterey this year, Cannery Row is now just a strip of tourist shops.

Spending Stephenses's Day in Microsoft Windows country.

Literally a genre-defining thread.

So many people refuse to believe this, even though we've had Facebook as a live experiment for like 20 years. In part this may be because media types get a lot of pushback from anonymous posters and generalise this into a universal internet phenomenon.

Yeah I'm DTF