One for your Saturday evening. If the conjunction of folk horror and immersive media tickles your fancy, then we’re open for funding. Also. If we get this one over the Line, guess what’s next on the slate…?

Timeline cleansing

Tommy Lee Jones had a meeting with Hill about playing Dallas in Alien. It took a decidedly strange turn. Hill:

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

Weird to see a rash of posts and comments elsewhere citing ‘unconfirmed reports’ from Iran about the ‘elimination’ of Ayatollah Khamenei… and find out they are actually citing each other as the unconfirmed reports.

Love this

idk why but when i saw this i was like "oh no duck be careful" and it took a moment for me to realise "wait, that mother fucker can fly."

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

I see the efforts of rogue conservationists to rewild the Solent with shipping containers continues apace...

If Cuba collapses, the US is not ready for the humanitarian and migration crisis that could follow. They are facing infrastructure collapse due to more than six decades of delaying capital investments which could trigger a huge exodus to Florida — Stephen Miller’s ultimate nightmare.

Sorry, but I’m picturing the National Pork Board as something Americans serve charcuterie on.

Your move, Bryan Johnson.

“Is that a falcon-headed god, or are you just pleased to see me?”

Been saying "bontles" to myself all over again

For some time now, @tomabba.studio has been examining how we engage with story and narrative, in a series of exquisitely strange and beautiful projects. Now he's teamed up with one of our very best writers, @davidmbarnett.bsky.social, for something that sounds pretty damn awesome to me.

In honor of the Andor trailer out today, I today repost my greatest online achievement: The Andor Characters as Dril Tweets series. I'm going to put them out as I get spare time over the next couple days, as I'm going to put alt text on them too. Starting with the man himself CASSIAN ANDOR

I can't stop laughing at this (source: imgur.com/gallery/take...)

R.I.P., Richard Dimitri, star of Johnny Dangerously "You lousy cork-soakers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of farging iceholes...like yourselves."

I have never heard or seen a photo of this animal. Remarkable.

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

Footballs Often, "the size of" doesn't inform us whether they mean length, area, or volume - but in this case I'm guessing volume. I quite like washing machines for this purpose because they are roughly 1 metre cubed www.theregister.com/Design/page/...

Do Android Phones Dream of Electric Sheep?

The Master and Margaritas Half Price, Only in Happy Hour

Wasn’t Landrover Discovery also in 2001?

Vauxhall Nova by Samuel Delany.

Tinker, Taylors of Harrogate, Soldier, Spy

iPhone Robot

Jurassic Center Parcs

I Have No Mouth And Ice Cream

$20.01 A Space Heater Odyssey

The Left Handheld Vacuum Cleaner Of Darkness.

Graham Chapman would have been 85 today, which seems as good a time as any to remind ourselves of this Barry Cryer anecdote about the times when he and Chapman were writing material together for Ronnie Corbett

If On a Winter's Night a Traveller Breaks Down, It's OK He's with the AA

There was, of course, Stranger In A Strange Landrover Discovery.

I hope, in the final seconds of his life, he’s granted a single moment of awareness of how utterly mean and barren and meaningless his life was, and I hope that’s the thought he carries with him into the dark.

I don't know... I think I romaine fairly amused even if the actual memory of her tenure has somewhat wilted.

*searches 2026 bingo card for the phrase ‘beloved walrus penis’*

@stuartmaconie.bsky.social - I think the challenge with Zappa is to dissociate him from the tiresome Groovy! brigade and judge his music on its own terms. I find the trick is NOT to picture the moustache. As soon as that comes to mind all is lost: it’s just lava lamps and paisley all the way to hell

It's totally inaccurate - a lettuce has a heart.

Iceland owed Desmond Bagley big time, back in the early 80s, when their international terminal was basically a shed in a corner of the American airbase at Keflavik. Every time we met another tourist, they said, "I'm only here because I read Running Blind!"

Cos it’s true.

"Who is the man who appears unexpectedly in an OS map..?"

I wish they’d come and fucking pay me. The Polish and Estonian tourist boards must owe me a few quid by now.

RIP @themerl.bsky.social's mentions, I guess...

Nicolas Cage’s Walthamstow Nazi Flag Chaos. Three more from them later in the show.