Nolan: “This character is super smart. But he’s suffering from trauma. He can’t remember who he really is. He’s a lethal killing machine. Lots of people have suffered. He fears that all the pain is his own fault. Eventually he sails off into the sunset with the woman he loves. Who should we cast?”

I have left my wife and son at home, and have gone to local cinema on my own. I hope I make it back.

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Ah, I am rembering now why I don’t really watch football.

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

I would to hear Freudian, Lacanian and Guatarrian analyses of this news story.

My brain was momentarily thrown here and it took me a moment to work out why. An excellent example of how the eye unconsciously bounces around the page finding connections of its own.

Just finished this. Stunning. One review (can’t remember where, sorry) described it as a novel of ‘epistemological collapse’. An excellent encapsulation. The last novel I read that achieved that effect with such an intensity was Dhalgren.

No notes.

New post: The Consequences of Tolerating the Far Right mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-... The rise in the far right is not a result of changes in people’s attitudes, but is due to the political elite eroding the social norms we used to have against racism and dehumanising minorities.

Half of UK welfare is pensions, 1 in 3 people on Universal Credit are in work, disabled people are disabled, more of them since Covid hit, but the welfare bill as % of GDP is stable (lower than most developed countries) and is forecast to stay stable and below OECD average for the next 5 years.

Defence spending shortfall? Why not squeeze the multibillion profits of UK defence firms or even nationalise them? If the answer is: “the UK cannot defend itself against Russian tyranny, but it’s more important not to upset defence firms” then don’t we need to question the terms of this debate?

Scaffold built in Washington - world tunes in to watch removal of Donald J Trump. Recyclable headline?

Will Farage, Musk etc be condemning white people in general for the actions of this violent white person, and advocating rage or violence in response? Will the BBC be laundering their 'legitimate concerns' about those white folks?

The key to a good Sunday roast is timing. And I can confirm that declaring beer o’clock at 11am, can result in an inferior meal.

We’ve had one of these since the 1990s (when they were briefly fashionable). Our model only goes up to 27C.

Once again, I have spent the hottest day of the year standing over hot coals, burning meat.

My go to track for days like today in UK:

Nothing to complain about at all? Nil issue.

Rocket has been looking at the spring menu.

If you ever leave food or drink in a room and walk away, the cat will have licked it by the time you get back. They have done this with a mouth that recently ate raw mouse. Don’t stress about this. Just accept it and move on.

Please tell me this is not serious. OK… I’ll give it a go: I wandered lonely in the cloud Whose data centres climate kills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of witless online shills.

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Asking ‘what about?’ is a basic question of scientific and moral inquiry. It the question that helps us identify flawed logic and hypocrisy.

One of my local kebab shops offers a sophisticatedly teasing option.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

We keep telling the cat that if he doesn’t stop being so grumpy, we are going to get some kittens. But he would kill them. And we would probably forgive him.

Ah. A good old-fashioned afternoon of family viewing.

I dont want to alarm anyone unnecessarily, but about an hour ago I saw Nigel Farage crossing Tower Bridge on a tank.

Some say that if there’s an anti-democratic criminal regime that sponsors terrorism in other countries and which is opposed by much of its own population, one should bomb that country hoping the people take over. This is utterly wrong and I will always be opposed to missile strikes on Washington.

Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.

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My phone has looked through my photos and decided this is one of my ‘Pet Friends’.

8.30pm. One of us: “Why is he making so much noise? Er… did anyone feed the cat?” Cat: “You will all burn in hell for this.”

I am just enjoying the Windows 11 update. Further evidence that the IT industry is hell bent on destroying itself.

Started rewatching The Wire for the 4th time. What is stunning is the entire thing, every series, character, situation and theme is there in the first 5 minute scene. How are you defined? What role do you play in this system? Can you change that? Is it fair? Is this the American dream?

Partner: ‘ This is pickled cucumber.’ Son: ‘Yes, I remember. It’s like cucumber. But worse.’

Sunday afternoon. ‘Where Eagles Dare’ on BBC. Burton and Eastwood kill Nazis and Nazi collaborators. It’s like a childhood weekend afternoon from 1975. The kids will be watching similar things in 2045. Hopefully.

Radio4 PM feels the need to get a ‘forensic image expert’ to describe the ICE shooting video. “Is it raining? We are too frightened to say. So we asked someone else to look out the window.”

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Trump’s America is a rogue state. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

This just in: calculator has apologized for saying BOOBS

I’ve been making jokes in various places here about watching the hootennay. The sad truth is that I am old enough to remember when Jools Holland was Clive James.

The levels of Jools Holland’s Hootenany. 1. Fuck off, I spend New Year’s Eve in the pub! 2. I am watching Jools Holland’s Hootenany, but deep down I feel I should be in the pub and that my life is over. 3. I am looking forward to Jools Holland’s Hootenany.

I am a king’s henchman despatched to recover the mummified corpse of one of his ancestors.

Rest of family has fallen asleep already. So traditional Boxing Day afternoon for me. Light fire. Prepare plate of Stilton and biscuits. Glass of Port. Alien on the TV.

Central heating engineer: “I have optimised the day and time settings on your boiler. It will automatically turn on the heating everyday at 5am, turn it off at 11pm and break down completely one week before Christmas.”