Wow. Thin Lizzy playing the Doctor Who theme music is not something I had come across before youtu.be/nbsoEcXAaiY

one thing you’ll only ever truly understand from being on social media a lot is that while every other country on earth should be mocked for their governments, the government of america - and america alone! - is NOT the fault of the poor ickle babies who live there, and making fun of them is MEAN

No one tell Wes Streeting.

First Venezuela, next Greenland? You don't suck up to bullies like Trump, he will just see it as a sign of weakness. Keir Starmer needs to get on the phone to our European allies including the Danish PM, and show a united front against Trump's threats.

In Doctor Who scholarship, Chortlemuffin was a 12-year-old in 1963 who became a revered fan guru in the 70s and 80s because of all the made-up details he remembered from the missing stories.

Of course the whole point of that much derided idea, liberalism, is that we should not expect nor need to “come together” in order to live alongside one another in security and justice. Maybe give it a go …

An absolute favourite bit of lunancy. Some people dancing to incidental music from The Moonbase in 1966.

I buy my bookmarks from the British Library like a fucking gentleman.

we keep hearing about McSweeney and AI. Given the well established tendency for LLM's to confabulate with their eager users, have we considered the possibility that Labour have spent their time in office appealing to imaginary voters? What a way for a major party to die.

Never let anyone tell you there are no new ideas. We're 48 hours into 2026 and they've already found a way to make Twitter worse. Anything is possible.

Ireland, you have the chance to do the funniest thing ever.

In Agadoo did Kubla Khan Push pineapples, shake the tree

Londistan does the best fireworks. It's haram to argue with me

Don’t worry gang, no one actually starts their New Year’s resolutions on the 1st. And you’d be silly to begin on a Friday, best save it for Monday. But Monday is the 5th so you’ve kind of missed the boat anyway and can safely put it off for next year.

Quote with a GIF that depicts the energy you’re going into 2026 with

A new year is but a fresh barrel of sack, and I shall drink to your shenanigans until the last drop is gone. 👇 See the full scene

Sadiq Khan, Keeper of the Flame

I take great delight that the London fireworks will have some people fuming about the multicultural aspects! 😆🤣🤣

Sadiq not giving much of a fuck about how this goes down in the Red Wall, here.

I can take or leave the London Eye 364 days a year, but it really comes into its own at new year.

Happy New Year to all you fucking reprobates.

Ronan Keating. Whose idea was that?

I contend that Fairytale of New York would be better as a New Year song.

One of the (many) weird things about antisemitism is there really was a tiny ethnic group doing disproportionately well in many fields due to a global criminal enterprise, but it was the Scots and the British Empire and wasn't even hidden

(arachnophobia warning 1:13 to 1:16)

"You reached for the secret too soon..." www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/p...

A political theme for the New Year wine

Were they ever seen in the same room together?

Look, one tech bro needs to take one for the team and actually read Lord Of The Rings so he can turn it into a podcast form that the others can understand. This can’t just keep happening.

Seeing a lot of people getting off the tube at Bank and thinking "you poor bastards".

Thinking about that time the US remade Broadchurch and kept David Tennant but recast Olivia Colman and then Olivia Colman went and won an Oscar.

Me, approaching the end of 2025.

These articles are invariably ridiculous. As ever, the next Doctor Who will be either (a) a respected character actor who is not yet a household name or (b) a talented young actor who has not yet had their breakout role. (Though in this particular case we could add (c) Billie Piper.)

how all youtube ads sound to me

On Chambers Street in Edinburgh, a tourist stopped me and asked for directions to Chambers Street.

Hey, I'm the High King of Britain! DM me for a place at the Round Table.

It's good to amplify this message whenever possible. The voices that drown out real issues with scapegoating and hatred really are a minority (as we see whenever it is put fairly to the test in e.g. WI or National Trust votes...neither notable hotbeds of leftist social liberalism).

I remember all too little of the interviews I did with rock stars when I was briefly employed as the music critic for a national newspaper, but there is this.

If you are the CEO of McDonalds you cannot say "we are taking on billions of dollars in debt in order to develop a new meal, splunch. The future is splunch. We have no plans for profitability but splunch will figure it out." But you can absolutely do this at a tech company

Fuck it, at this point they are clearly using Person of Interest as a manual. Fine. I'll need a billionaire coder with a backdoor into this, two jaded ex-CIA hitters, an actual AGI and its first disciple, a brilliant and ruthless hacker/killer. And a truly brilliant dog.

The single best era of Tik Tok was about three years ago a guy was like "hey magic isn't real and to prove that I want every witch on tik tok to curse me" and many tried and he kept dueting them to be like "I'm fine, still cruisin, no magic (cuz it's fake)" and they called him a powerful Warlock.

If you want to reject the touchscreen lifestyle and embrace manually fiddling about with stuff, I highly recommend learning how to play bass. It is has got all the knobs you could want, it has got wiggly finger to string interface, it is the answer to your touchscreen ennui.

Reading @adamroberts.bsky.social’s Fantasy: A Short History and so far failing to spot many dreadful puns slipped in. OTOH, this linkage between Adorno’s comments on Wagner and modern extruded fantasy product is very sharp indeed