My daughter's friend - from the same local state school - has had a torrid time at Oxford, her Leeds accent constantly mocked, to the extent she's had to change the way she speaks. This was posted on her college's official social media account yesterday. I have no words 😡

Love this

Oh this is good. This is very good.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

If you like indulgently long films about completely repellent characters who shout at each other relentlessly, you're gonna love Marty Supreme!

Struggling to think of any dystopian cyberpunk fiction that *doesn't* begin its back story with a pointless war in South America, but okay.

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

Absolutely MAGNIFICENT threat to start the year. Happy New Year my beauties!

Happy new year comrades!

Hello all. Always a bit sad that the music chat on here isn't as lively as it was in the old place, used to love sharing our end of year musical round-ups. Anyway, in the spirit of that old Twitter tradition, here are my TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2025. What humdingers did I miss?

Should I ask my dentist to stop wearing sandals? I was shunned by a horse in Chepstow. Why do workmen refuse my offers of tea? Compression socks give me eczema. I blocked the pub toilet. Now my dog barks when I say Dundee. 3/3

Why is the writing on shampoo bottles getting smaller? Baboons stole my plimsolls at Longleat.     Halloumi makes my teeth squeak. So why have my children hidden my culottes? £12 for a jar of coffee? I got my forearm stuck in a fruit machine in Powys. 2/3

Top Adrian Chiles Columns of 2025: I’ve given up wild swimming. So why does my Volvo smell like mince? Should I tell the postman he has halitosis? My first wife wouldn’t let me wear shorts. I buried my father with my bare hands. It’s time we stopped talking about glamping. 1/3

Good god. Have you ever seen anything hotter in your life?

RIP Chris Rea. I’m off to crack an egg in my bath. Seems only right. youtu.be/H0WiwB1Cjbg

As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE

Duck Quacks Ass Off All Day To Come Home To This Shit https://theonion.com/duck-quacks-ass-off-all-day-to-come-home-to-this-shit-1851177872/

Hello music lovers! I'm 1/4 of an album of the month podcast, and we've just done our Top 10 Albums of 2025 pod, which I hope some might enjoy: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... And here's our top 40 songs of the year, in a handy playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/7w1... RTs welcome. Thank you!

This is a phenomenal listen, and a wonderful way to appreciate the genius of WHMS on this dark day.

Interesting that you still see some journalists arguing that they *need* to be on Twitter for their job. If @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com can manage, why can't you? Indeed, why don't you get THE FUCK OFF THERE RIGHT NOW?

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Rob Reiner's first seven films: 1. Spinal Tap. 2. The Sure Thing. 3. Stand By Me. 4. THE PRINCESS BRIDE. 5. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. 6. Misery 7. A Few Good Men. Good lord. Even Spielberg included 1941 in his first seven. And that was after playing Michael Stivic. I hope this news isn't true. But...

Bit of Friday music fun... We're nearly a 1/4 of a century in, so what are your favourite albums of the past 25 years? This isn't a bad list though it's lacking surprises. What are your underrated gems that we should all know about? Here are mine..🧵 observer.co.uk/culture/musi...

Bit of Friday music fun... We're nearly a 1/4 of a century in, so what are your favourite albums of the past 25 years? This isn't a bad list though it's lacking surprises. What are your underrated gems that we should all know about? Here are mine..🧵 observer.co.uk/culture/musi...

Stealworkers

Gosh, the movie poster really is alive and kicking. What a marvellous list.

Everyone needs to get off X. Now. Government. Politicians. Your Aunty Judith. All of them are fueling this racist extremist billionaire

If you don't follow Charli XCX's Substack, can I hugely recommend that you do. In only a few posts, she's already giving one of the most insightful and nuanced windows into pop culture and her life as a pop star that I've ever read: itscharlibb.substack.com/p/the-death-...

recruitment agenda update

Good morning 🌈

You will be visited by three spirits

Martin Parr, Elland, West Yorkshire, England, 1978

"The band hated that makeup. If we didn't put on makeup, they wouldn't have let us in those white clubs. They figured we weren't gonna bother the white girls." -Little Richard #BOTD Ahead of the curve ... Little Richard in 1952 by Michael Ochs

Long, weary existential sigh #thecricket

Joking aside, it's amazing to witness how quickly AI has turned every single business's website into a hellscape of mangled nonsense.

Thank you, oh cricketing gods, for the existence of Joe Root. #Roooooooooooooooooot

SHAME on everyone who has pushed and paid for this. You are not feminists. You are not allies. You KNOWINGLY work with ultra-conservative and far right organisations. SHAME on you. Also, your daughters think you’re shitheads.

🚨SHAMELESS WORK NEWS KLAXON🚨 This is what I've been working on all this year, delighted we can finally share the news with you! And what a dream duo with @whiteboarfilms.com and the marvellous Bel Scholey (with whom I recently made TCND S2). Filming starts in the new year, let's go!

What's so sad is that I bet if you ask them if trans inclusion was ever an issue, the answer would be "of course not." We're probably talking about a tiny number of individuals too. The vindictivness of GCs is poison www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"I've got a great idea for a TV show, do you want to hear it?"

In the words of a very experienced writer friend of mine, "Surely none of us really believe that going through development hell is the way you get a show made anymore?"

It's 1st December so let me post my annual reminder of an absolute GEM of a Xmas album you almost certainly won't know. @memphisindustries.bsky.social made an album in 2020 with their artists each writing a Xmas song. It's magical and deserves a much wider audience: open.spotify.com/album/59PKqn...

yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal

This is torturous #thecricket #theashes #ENGAUS

And repeat!

STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKES!

You can’t assess a wicket until both sides have batted like shit on it #TheCricket

Well this is delightfully poised… #EngAus #cricket #thecricket

Anyone can be banned then. I've been mistaken for a man, a trans man and a trans woman before. It's encumbent on all of us to make this as unworkable as possible.

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Since 31st October 2024, at least 340 trans people have lost their lives to anti-trans violence, or suicide. Transphobia kills. Please be an ally every day. tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from...