Energy I'm taking into 2026.

Why?

Here’s to 2026

The Storytellers reading of Dracula on BBC Radio has been a Christmas treat. Michael Fassbender reads Jonathan Harker’s entries. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

We were in first place in this film award voting. A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours. Now it's personal. Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS. Reshare? VOTE! www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...

This is the second time in recent memory that the goat has been destroyed by a literal force of nature. First the birds, now the winds. How the fuck do I write *this* up?

Here you go. If you’ve got an hour for some stories and music. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Even AI has had enough of his BS! A Christmas gift to us all. Please get help Graham.

"My family business" as if he's running a fucking fifth generation bakery in Didcot high street and not a multinational fucking corporation based out of Singapore to avoid tax.

Hmm et by birds last year, a "go home, you're drunk" this year? It's like fate has decided that "right, if they are stopping the arson, I'm getting creative".

Yep, trading in the XBox was a good call.

Well, one final plug of my fundraiser for Crisis, Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and @aktcharity.bsky.social as the year wraps up. Over £1000 raised (£1200 if we count GiftAid) and 89 scary films watched across the October and Christmas Challenges.

Recent reading: after really digging The Hollow Man in preparation for seeing #WakeUpDeadMan, I decided to go back through some more of John Dickson Carr's oeuvre, enjoyed this one a lot too, a fine Impossible Crime. Why aren't there more adaptations of these out there?

"But Pagliacci, I am the Doctor."

Well then, another reason why a certain Christmas Doctor Who audio is one I haven't made a tradition of relistening to.

Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question: Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends. Make. Friends.

#OnePerfectShot American Psycho (2000) Dir. Mary Harron, D.o.P. Andrzej Sekuła.

Is ALF inside this printer? @alfsplaining.bsky.social

COMMISSION SOME SITCOMS, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

If billionaires contributed enough to a California's economy to matter, they wouldn't be billionaires. Individuals hoarding cash and taking out loans based on stock valuations contribute very little to society. You'd think the New York Times would get that, but I suppose they're paid not to now.

Billionaires are parasites, and they consume more value by living in California than they return to the economy. They want the social benefits, the location, the connections, but they do not want to fund them. Let them fuck off to Wyoming and enjoy no-tax paradise in the middle of fucking nowhere.

You boy, what colour are you?

Alas! It is 31 years since the world was deprived of one of its more colourful culinary characters: Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey – better known as double bigamist, child abandoner, amphetamine user, dangerous driver, and celebrity cook Fanny Cradock

Make a Bond movie casual. From Russell With Love.

Good news! The escaped Cirque du Soleil acrobats living in the woods performed their annual Christmas sacrifice last night, and it wasn't one of our top players.

The principle I go by is to treat every person like a person. You never know who will be successful, nor do you know who will become a dear friend. So just be kind and engaged. The only people who hate being treated as normal are nightmares. Not clicking with them is a secret bonus.

SELL IT TO WHO, BEN?? FUCKING PUMAMAN??

Having a bit of a pallette cleanse after all the scary Yuletide stuff, so revisiting a trio of really damn good Spaghetti Westerns. It also fits in with my challenge of seeing almost all of the films featured on Moviedrome by the end of next year.

"IT'S AVATARIN' TIME!"

To put that in perspective, they could wipe out world hunger, US Medical Debt, and provide shelter for all the homeless of America... and that wouldn't actually cost one of those trillions.

Seeing this in my local library as a kid started me on a long, incredibly journey.

#Dunesday is going to be a thing, huh?

Stranger Things' final season releasing in chunks with the finale being the last one and also being offered theatrically is very funny to me. Netflix bumbles into figuring out that spreading a show out keeps the conversation alive and that you can get money from people going theaters

Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:

BRB, writing a folk horror...

Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight (2002)

"The Time Monster" being screened not once, not twice but three times on Boxing Day 2025, with the first two episodes of "The Three Doctors" thrown in twice for good measure. What a time to be alive.

If you've never seen it before, take the time to watch this little Christmas Cracker, a great example of what could be done with the old British B-Movie format, and a very different sort of role for Peter Cushing.

Am I the only one who gets a bit annoyed at all the posts about Christmas being over the second Christmas Day is over? Look, it's twelve days, enjoy them, don't rush getting everything away. Even though the shops are getting out Easter Eggs, you don't have to start planning the next holiday now.

So he was really calling on the Ancient Spirits of Christmas?

Storytime!

Last chance today!

Avengers: Doomsday, only in theaters next December.

That's Gaslighting. They are Gaslighting someone with dementia with a machine that runs on plagiarism. There's nothing heartwarming about this.

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

the thing with glinner is that every single person who shares his beliefs is exactly the same level of dangerous creep as he is, the only difference is that he's that one extra step of broken-brained enough to not be subtle about it

I think someone had just blocked me for posting this