Also, I just remembered I've got to go to the UK next month.

I wouldn't say I'm a misanthrope; it's just that other people are dirty, and annoying, and they smell, and I hate them all.

Monday.

The Highway theme tune slaps so hard.

Finally catching up on the latest Alien: Earth hijinks. Those wacky extra terrestrials are just all sorts of madcap, knockabout fun, right?

I see yey more DEBATE ME guys have hit Bluesky.

I finally got round to listening to lovely @gruffrhys.bsky.social's new record, gang. It's every single tiny wee bit as astoundingly charming as you could possibly hope. Suffice it to say, I cannot wait to see him in Berlin again next year - in my birthday week too!

I recognised Palestine *before* it was absolutely politically unavoidable for beleaguered politicians.x

*BUYS ENTIRE SERIES IN APPLE IMMEDIATELY*

Ready for the booksellers to descend at the @gardnersbooks.bsky.social Trade Fair! Come one come all to the @publishingscotland.bsky.social stand in the London Room!

It's five to eleven on a Saturday night and I'm here reminding you that *none* of the streaming giants have yet given us a prestige drama about the fucking Mitford Sisters.

Watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid again because you hardly need an excuse to, right? It always strikes me as jarringly contemporary in style and story even though it's a film from the 1960s about stuff that actually happened at the turn of the last century.

This developmentally challenged pigeon in a porkpie hat is the single greatest impulse buy of my career.

Same energy but the wee eyeball guy from Alien: Earth.

Last days of summer? Hope you're all having a wee smasher of a day, babes.x

It's sad that so few people these days remember Berlin's other other electronic music scene.

Want to feel old? This is what Ian Brown looks like now: #TotP

I'm not one for hyperbole but hearing that England United song again was more traumatic than life in a village on the eastern front during the First World War. #TotP

John Collins winking at the camera before the Brazil game at France '98 is a core memory. More than his goal tbh. #TotP

Remember when Jimmy Fallon joined Bluesky, posted twice, got absolutely rinsed and never posted again? That was when I knew this app had the juice.

Oor Party, Your Party, A' body's Party.

Wow we should base our entire economy on this technology

"Yer da sells becherovka."

When I was a kid every school day was Talk Like a Pirate day. The teachers were always telling us we had to practice our three AAARS! ... I'm so sorry. I'm blocking and reporting myself for this.

62 today. Happy birthday Jarvis Cocker.

For Date Night we went to the Berlin Literature Festival to listen to three distinguished Americans talk for 90 minutes about how phenomenally fucked everything is, gang.

Timeline cleanser with Bertie the #cat.

Jesus [whispering]: I always knew gamergate was never about ethics in games journalism...

From a 2025 standards perspective, the absolute greatest praise we can heap on Robert Redford by way of eulogy is to say he was a famous, rich, white man, and an [self sic] historically gigantic ride, but he didn't seek to abuse any of those attributes to be a complete and utter bastard to people.

All the comedy edgelord "You can't say anything these days" lads will be along to support him any minute now... Any. Minute. *glances at watch* Just you wait. It'll happen... ...

"So here in the UK we had to call it 'Boss Cat' because there was a already cat food brand called 'Top Cat' and that, of course, would have been problematic for the publicly-funded BBC. It was lost on nobody, however, that, whatever it was called, it was basically just Sergeant Bilko but with cats."

I remembered it's Alien: Earth night when I was on the phone earlier so I doodled everyone's fave character on a Post-It. I've only just left the office though so it's going to be too late to watch it by the time I get home... Truly, the Lord has forsaken me.

Hollywood Guy: What's your pitch? Movie Producer: Paul Rudd stars with Jack Black who plays Jack Black in a film about a guy who's exactly like Jack Black being Jack Black in the vicinity of a guy who's played by Paul Rudd. HG: I'm listening... MP: And... There's a snake? HG: LET'S MAKE A MOVIE!

Putting my desk in the standing position always seems like an impeccable idea for about 6 or 7 seconds.

Wednesday.

I think Telebugs was my gateway drug to @bistheband.bsky.social.

Here's a thing that's probably right up your Straße, you big mad oddball.x

So we're loving Daredevil: Born Again. It's really very great. Having realised that Kingpin is Private Pyle from Full Metal Jacket has been pretty revelatory too.

As a chap who grew up watching Tomorrow's World in stunned wonder at the promise of the internet and the surely unlimited potential of humankind with all knowledge at its fingertips, I'm pretty constantly all like totes wtf at how phenomenally stupid things turned out tbqhwy.

Makes you think.

Seems appropriate to upgrade this gif's quality somewhat today.

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

Hey ladies. Thing is, if you go to a rally where people who throw Nazi salutes are welcomed (and are even invited to speak), you're literally attending a Nazi rally - and that's a pretty indisputably racist kinda rally to be at. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.