My go to for film that's obviously better than the book is Ringu. Listening to people who read the book after watching the movie is always a treat.

also starship troopers

"name a movie that's better than the book I dare you" Muppet Christmas Carol. next

This is definitely one of those situations in which it's actually more generous to assume mendacity than honest stupidity.

No-one is paying attention to the true crisis of our age, which is that my big toe REALLY needs to click and it's absolutely refusing t - oh, never mind, it just clicked, as you were.

🎶Come on my gland Yeah, hormones would be grand Cos I'm needing ADRENALINE!🎶

I was, but then I got too left wing.

Decided to release this post early, given it's fully polished and fits in rather well with Pride Month. On #SNW Episode 1.3: "Ghosts Of Illyria", metaphors of light, information, and illness, and the extent to which Una's story works as a metaphor for being trans.

It's almost as if the UK is a deeply ableist country, including our so-called liberals

Fascinating how many people are happy to just ignore disabled voices on this (and many other things) and pretend that they know better isn't it

Phillips just revelling in how totally beyond consequence she's allowed to be, here. She's as aware as anyone she's most famous for telling Diane Abbott to fuck off, but no-one with clout is ever going to suggest that that counts as being mean.

anyway terf psychology makes a lot more sense when you realize their vanguard was estranged parents of trans children who thought their children were their hobby projects

At this point, I genuinely believe the entire public is being actively gaslit by both the media, and Esther Ghey herself, into forgetting that Brianna Ghey was murdered, by people she knew from school, in real life, who were partly influenced by transphobia, fuelled by the media and politicians.

Tom Morello says Fuck Tommy Robinson at the Download Festival today.

I've hated Serafinowicz for years, to the point I can't even remember what my original beef was. Nice of him to retroactively justify my loathing, I guess.

Starfleet Academy's first season is now available to buy digitally. It contains, conservatively, four of the best hours of Trek made this decade and I'm crushed it's been killed because of small, shrill cowards. Go check it out if you can.

This is how I want to be remembered

I think if I were a teenager, banning me from social media would be a great way to alienate me just ahead of me coming of age for my first vote.

Yeah, this. "Use the proper channels" is ever and only those in power shifting things back to their terrain when they're losing on another. It's the political tactical equivalent of demanding you run into a line of machine guns.

My first interview drops tomorrow on my Instagram, and it's Star Trek-related 👀 🖖🏻

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good! Let my favourite nominally centre left politician who obviously hates minorities be the enemy of the good instead!

Everyone's laughing, but I guess I *might* miss Mitch McConnell. Who among us can honestly say there's zero chance of accidentally pissing on the wrong grave?

Well APPARENTLY they only do cars and also I'm banned for life

A pill that some people on my feed might find hard to swallow: rejecting the blood-and-soil nationalism that underpins a lot of "authentic" food discourse also means you should not dismiss all Israeli food culture (for that matter, all Israeli culture) as fake and stolen.

The UK Government has moved faster to destroy the online communities of teenagers than it has to limit the power of a foreign white supremacist to launch race riots in the UK's cities and spread child pornography online

writing the lyric “concrete jungle where dreams are made of” and it becoming the single biggest new york anthem has gotta feel like the worst version of when you have a post with a typo go viral

I love everyone involved in it, but it's gotta be Supernatural. Literally the only show I have gone from buying every season of on DVD to stopping watching entirely, and I did that *five seasons* before it finally ended.

At last, someone is thinking about all those parents who a) want to ban their kids from the internet at night, b) can't get their kids to follow that rule without the threat of legal action, and c) have kids who believe they'll grass them up to the cops for checking TikTok under the blankets.

This is basically the only food opinion I will tolerate anymore. If you're going around saying "the food in [a nation of millions] is all bad", you are either a fool or a liar, and either way I'll happily take the dishes you won't eat.

Good news: Finished a 6000-word first draft of the "Vitus Reflux" essay. Bad news: It took six weeks, and I hated almost every minute of it. Good news: Finally figured out how to make it work a couple of hundred words from the end. Bad news: Have to rewrite the whole fucking thing now.

Was good to be able to link up with some people from the union, too.

Was similar in Newcastle yesterday. We didn't manage the same scale of anti-fash crowds as Glasgow, but it was certainly noticeable how effortlessly we outnumbered all three of the right-wing demonstrations we were in opposition to.

Also, this sign at Vienna pride which, honestly, fair.

Watched Frewaka. It creeped the shit out of me. 10/10 would rob myself of the possibility of sleep again.

Brighton ran off the fash, an embarrassment they won’t soon forget, we won, was a success for all antifascists (and TUFF) www.instagram.com/p/DZiKmOADGk...

I am very pro quant and materialism and empiricism and grounded scientific practice but the key thing with doing any of them good is you need a bunch of humanities and qual stuff to avoid fucking up and there are a lot of 20th century ideological hangovers that are built on denying this.

Worth occasionally letting the full scale of this nonsense sink in. Starmer has shat the bed so completely the smell has covered every single MP in his party, so the plan is to stake everything on getting someone who doesn't stink of shit, so he can CONTINUE ADDING SHIT TO THE BED.

I dunno, wholly willing to believe this is what an actual human artist drew for some fascists in order to take their money.

Right about now the fascists shudder check it out now

A few of the placards seen today as the fash got chased off Buchanan Street. Never forget: the far right are indeed dangerous and wicked; and they are also weird and pathetic, and we should say so.

It's not often that a living man gets such a vivid preview of how he will be mourned.

Good work Brighton.

Next month @gollancz.bsky.social is sending me on something of a mini-book tour. First stop is Waterstones Putney in London, so if you're in the area, come say hi!

I love Dimetrodon’s role as a constant asterisk in popular paleobiology *not actually a dinosaur *more closely related to humans than many existing animals *older than you think *etc

Just heard someone talking about "Cape Fear with Robert Denirio", and I'm wondering if I have finally become Too Old.

citizen! to deal with you accordingly we must know - are you holding the firebomb of legitimate concerns, or the placard of illegal opinions?

But he still wouldn’t have what he actually wants: our respect and adoration.

A similar one: that person on Twitter who briefly became Main Character for insisting fetch was harmful to dogs, and dog owners throwing balls were failing to be the adult in the situation.