Sam Matterface: You have to give Argentina credit for the way that they work. Everyone on BlueSky:

Shakira now has more World Cup final appearances (2) than Gerard Piqué (1)

[guy who’s only watched yesterday’s game] why is nobody scoring

I'm happy to report that I have finished both Advisors Alliance and Growling Tiger, Roaring Dragon: nominally dramas about Sima Yi and Three Kingdoms wrangling, but will live in my heart as The One Where Tan Jianci Has a Bad Moustache

(He did the mesh) He did the Gilgamesh (The Gilgamesh) He and Enkindu sure did mesh (He did the mesh) He ripped off tons of flesh (He did the mesh) He did the Gilgamesh

Mothmom #kaseyart #penandink

You'll never guess who's here! 😲 He's decided he needs to shift the washing machine to access [something], which is either worrying (what's he going to break) or reassuring (could not have done this on my own)

Must feel so good for text after you hit ctrl-x, floating in liminal space, before ctrl-v thrusts it back onto the desolate page

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

Spider Man Rides The Tube Not every superhero swings through the city, some catch the tube instead. It took a few attempts to nail the timing, but I finally made the SpiderMan poster look like Spidey is hitching a ride on a passing train. Captured at Oxford Circus station.

>cancel job on checkatrade >repost job >two days go by, no bites >receive notification that the same guy has picked it up >receive email apology (timestamped 4:30am this morning) with promises to do the work on Saturday Sure, fine. I'll be surprised as anyone if it actually happens 🙃

thank you nearby pub, i gather something exciting has happened in the football

I am nine episodes to the end of the double-whammy cdrama pair Advisors Alliance (42 eps) and same-year sequel Growling Tiger, Roaring Dragon (44 eps) and it's certainly been. a journey. it's so serious! very dad tv vibes.

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

absolutely enraging government statement at the end of this

“Fuck this, I quit.” “Wait Stan, you can’t just-“ “Later, losers!”

apparently one of my name twins is planning an event in vermont. i know this bc the vendor wants her to use docusign for the contract and it's come to me instead

three guesses what hasn't happened :)))

any minute now a plumber will turn up to fix the kitchen tap. (supposedly.) he was originally booked for the 3rd, then the 8th, then the 11th. yesterday i was just about to cancel the checkatrade express booking when i got an apology and 'really for real this time' confirmation for today. we'll see.

Part of Spielberg’s genius is basically saying “I’m gonna make three of cinema’s biggest freaks the leads of my family friendly big budget dinosaur movie and you’re gonna love it.”

a thousand monster / dinosaur / megafauna movies since Jurassic Park have tried and failed to replicate its magic, but the thing Jurassic Park understood is that we aren’t just hooked by the Big Toothy Creature, we’re hooked by the moment a crotchety old grump rediscovers his sense of wonder

Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially

🫡

Sam Neill (1947–2026)

managed at least three little jobs today in addition to routine chores, including building a terrible self-assembly shoe rack where I had to whittle each bit to get it to fit together while watching a Zhang Yimou spy movie on Kanopy

it's 30C outside and 30C inside and I've just swapped some shelves around bc moving (small) furniture in the heat was less uncomfortable than another evening looking at the offending shelf and thinking "one day, I will move you"

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

the way they wait for snoot boops has destroyed me 🥹

final working day for this academic year, heatwave persists, two meetings scheduled, and since I slept until 5:30 today I'm almost human

A heatwave cartoon for @newscientist.com

I'm rolling the dice on trains having a/c and am heading to campus for today's forecast high of 34C 😬

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

anyway I've been watching Thunderbolt Fantasy and almost forgot for a minute that they're all puppets, I'm impressed!

"open the windows after dark to let the cool air in" okay but it's 8pm, 31C, the sun won't even set for another 90min, and at this point in the year it won't ever get dark enough to be considered "night", just different definitions of twilight 🙃

Something I love about Count Binface is that he’s clearly been played by several different men at this point, while remaining the same character. This makes him a quintessential British Hero like Doctor Who and James Bond.

Check out this sword stuck in a stone!!

good news we're back! most importantly my ridiculous fan is back, here on a 28C day

love to return home to a total power cut 🥲😭🫠

I don't actually have any interest in seeing the movie but I think we can all agree she is 1000-ships hot

6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."

five working days left this academic year, then it's three weeks of use it or lose it annual leave aaaah

Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

the only time a train delay is allowed is when it means I can slide on a slightly late service that should have left just as the first leg of my trip arrived at the station, thereby saving me a 30min connection

Programme aired on 20 December 2025, but the initial legal letter was sent first to ITV, then inexplicably rerouted via Channel 4 before finally being dumped in the Costa outside BBC Broadcasting House.

guy working at the coffee shop has decided Gerard Way's cover of Hazy Shade of Winter is an appropriate summer Friday afternoon soundtrack, and tbh I'm inclined to agree. mind over matter 😂

And they do not want worm medicine

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases