Hi friends. Marlene broke her ankle on New Year's and is going to need surgery for it. It's also going to keep her from working for a good little while. A friend very kindly set up a GoFundMe for her, and any help is appreciated.

Protip: if you're keeping a tally of how many books you read this year, remember that you get to count Fighting Fantasy books towards your total

Un-RTed that John Rentoul tweet, on the basis that it's not healthy to RT disingenuous timewasters into your feed

With the Traitors having a "secret Traitor", I am excited for the British public to conveniently remember how to use singular They/Them pronouns for a month.

It's still January 1st in the continent of America, so my final new year manifestation is for someone to sort out the distribution issues with Strange Days, because not being able to watch that on December 31st is a perpetual source of irritation

fuck it HURTS that I understand this

Lars von Trier's Beethoven's 2nd

The people who ask when Bernie last went to temple when assessing his status as a high profile American Jew are telling on themselves in a way they might not realise

I often wonder what The Incident was that meant that by Kirk's time they had taken out the bar on the Enterprise, and I wonder if it's related to why Kirk wasn't allowed a grill in his quarters

NEW EPISODE Kirstie (@kirstenhoward.bsky.social) and Joe (@joewriteswords.bsky.social) flush the holiday season down the toilet with the most unpleasant Christmas movie ever, #elves: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

If I can manifest an R.E.M. reunion then let's see if I can manifest a Dance Hall Crashers reunion, I bet that would require way less psionic energy, and also money

Yórgos Lánthimos's Days of Thunder

That was incredibly quick

If that R.E.M. rumour in Popbitch is true then I will fight every one of you, with weapons of your choosing, to get tickets

There’s this muppet on TikTok who transcribes and then scats incredibly difficult jazz solos so well and I could not possibly love a thing more

My New Year's resolution is to post less often on Bebo

358 days to new Doctor Who

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

If you're even slightly interested in the X-books, I recommend starting your year with Paul's state of X-Nation overview of the Age of Revelation and the line as a whole, as it's a good, measured, thoughtful piece

As someone else pointed out here, it's a decade since the Feig Ghostbusters, and it's time to say it's actually good, but I'd like to go one further and say that all of the Ghostbusters films are at least decent, though they all have their problems. This has been Al's Tepid Film Takes '26

Happy New Year to the haters, the losers, and the far left marxist transgender extremists, which I think covers everyone here.

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

happy birthday to every horse and statistically some people

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

And to Tiny 2025, who DID die, the little rat bastard,

Happy new year to Libsyn, who emailed to tell me they'd billed me their new, raised monthly fee within four minutes of the bells

Happy new year, everyone. Good luck, I love you, you absolutely rock, let's do this

Always weird to see Scottish Bsky tweeting about entirely different telly than rUK telly at this time of year. Everyone else watching the undercooked boogie woogie while we're off to the tartan goblin market

Karen Dunbar funnier in three minutes than QotNY managed in 30

I wish you, and me, and all of us, strength & solidarity & joy in the new year as we find our way together: which we have done this year already, and will arise tomorrow to do again. /thread

the point is that together we can find a way. the point is that. together.

you are here at the end of a year in which I'll bet you wondered what the point was, at some point

together? in solidarity? is there anything we can't do: for those suffering in an increasingly inhuman justice system; for our trans kin targeted by this wretched government; for immigrants scapegoated by the callous and the cruel? for, in and through all this, ourselves?

we in this country (and, I'd argue, the world, but I'm not here to argue tonight) are challenged to make of our present situation something better. it's a tall order

snakes leave behind whole skins. all manner of flying creatures, not just butterflies, do them one better, whole new selves from wriggling worms. rocks into gems. mystics die to the flesh to be reborn in the spirit. rebirth is the rule, not the stray exception, if we can grasp it

Had to tap out on Queen of the New Year. BBC Scotland has a documentary about Auld Lang Syne that's older than my eldest kid but I would rather watch that, or sandpaper my eyeballs

If you hit play on Tremors (1990) at exactly 11.33pm, then at the stroke of midnight you will be watching Tremors, which sounds like a win to me

I don't know about favourite, but this Atarashii Gakko video is proper boss youtu.be/pHMH408ltEM

If this year isn't better than the last then I propose we track down Adam Duritz and break his knees

Bachalo has arguably never been better. Only those first few issues of Generation X/Next approach it

If anyone lives in the vicinity of Oxfam Morningside, it might be worth your while popping in at some point in the new year - I've just dropped off about 70 Marvel Hachette hardbacks

Important thread

mike f on how one of his accounts got nuked rip homniegh see u on the other side

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Sitting in a burger place and Champagne Supernova comes on. Telling my kid about how when I was 15 this was the biggest song in the world in my peer group. Listening again now and wow, that thing about your brain not developing fully until you're in your 20s is suddenly plausible

The adoration of the baby cheeses

One of the best to ever do it

Ootnaboot

Suzanne Moore's column has real "one day she plans to wrap the moon" energy