What I love about this story is, absolutely, these will be circumstances that were 100 per cent foreseeable and foreseen by anyone who had worked with child actors for longer than the c10 minutes in aggregate across the production team’s career.

Best surprise in awhile is a @iwriteok.bsky.social and @jkass99.bsky.social Warhammer 40K podcast dropping out of nowhere. I’ve wanted to listen to these two nerd out about 40K for a long time.

“Voluntary” price caps in a ruthlessly competitive and low margin sector, while loosening sanctions on a murderous regime. Good day for the grown ups are back in political charge, sensible and calm economics, etc

What - and I think I’m pronouncing this correctly - THE FUCK

I’ve done an inexplicable thing.

Very happy for all the men on my timeline about their imaginary friend "Wemby." From what I can tell he's some kind of playful giant or large golem with hands the size of dinner plates and love for all

Coheed and Cambria and Grogu

One of the interesting tangential aspects of Trump's visit to China is that he can't control the media output. Some of the photos are UNREAL. Had to check this carefully suspecting it was altered or AI gen, but I have found it on three known press outlets with credit to a global photo agency. 😱

[frantically dialing the Dad Joke Hall of Fame]

“Christopher Nolan is casting nonwhite people so he can win an Oscar” yeah man you sound like a real industry insider

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

The band Die Twice “channel everything from Jeff Buckley to zeppelin” which of course in practice means “they sound like the first Muse album”

Really, there is more that unites us than divides us 🥹🤲

I know this is an unpopular take but I suggest: 1) read it before you hit send 2) if you fucked it up, delete it and redo it 3) read it more closely next time Three fewer steps, and bulletproof. I’ve never understood the fervor for an edit button.

This is fucking mental

Is that Chekhov’s Gun in your pocket or will you just be pleased to see me later?

I'm willing to test this theory

Should resign as a porn performer after he was discovered to be a Reform councillor.

honestly at least they backstabbed Caesar quickly, this Starmer thing is taking foreverrrrrrr

i'm mcalmontmaxxing, bro. i'm butlerpilled.

I arrived in Eindhoven at midday and there were already kids waiting outside the venue to see Creeper tonight. They have spent the day in the rain wearing full Sanguivore vampire make-up and costumes. It’s a 500-cap club and the band are on at 9PM. Wild

Wes out of health dept but not PM, we may look back on this as the golden era

I can remember a conversation with a mate who worked in comms in early 2010. One of the papers (the Guardian?) had just launched a politics live blog. His reaction, and mine, was basically “what they are going to write updates about politics all day and every day? That’s mad”. A more innocent time.

it’s just a mystery why so many Reform candidates and councillors, found to be racists & Nazi-admirers, are drawn to Farage

It is very funny to me that the movie Nuremberg (2025) essentially has one line that’s a “LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT” equivalent

Dammit the Americans are insisting on reminding us how they pronounce 'squirrel' again.

"Hello, welcome to Bluesky. Please wait, and one of our scolds will be with you shortly to explain why your joke doesn't work"

I would like to make my position extremely clear: Woke 1? Wasn’t real. Never happened. Didn’t take place. Woke 2, however? Extremely real. Never been more real. Targeting your grandmother.

watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now

in starmer’s defence, it must be *quite* hard, psychologically, to accept that everyone in britain hates you. you’d explore other possibilities first, wouldn’t you?

Just an observation, I have discovered over the last 48 hours that a lot of people I know personally I had down as very apolitical a) were very engaged in the senedd election b) hate reform to a degree, and expressed in terms, frankly too spicy for Bluesky

One of Wakefield's new Reform councillors.

“No, I honestly barely even go to the gym bro”

someone just demanded to know who should replace Starmer, in a "aha can't answer that, can you!" kind of way, but at this point the honest answer is: literally anyone. he is so bad at this that literally anyone would be better.

Reform doing well among stupid racists in majority-white areas, results show

who could have predicted that pissing off all your voters would lead you to lose elections?

a good few days on and I'm still in wonderment at SNL UK parodying the inadvertent horror of that sinister British Pork advert; someone had clearly wanted to write about this insanely niche moment of pop culture for a long time and took their shot. SNL UK has provided true unexpected weirdness

‘Thanks, or just a voucher is fine’

It’s cute when Americans pretend to understand British elections

Can't wait to see how Labour's strategy of showing open contempt for the people who voted for them while desperately sucking up to people who'll never vote for them in a million years works out.

If you turn on any streaming service there is about a 70% chance it will serve you a high-budget original movie you’ve never heard of, starring taron egerton

People who are critical of Zack Polanski (and I’m increasingly one of them) need to be able to recognise that, even if you think he’s handling antisemitism within his party really badly, he is himself a victim of antisemitism.

Just a reminder that Róisin Murphy is an actual ghoul who needs to get in the bin and stay there

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

SHAFT

"Quote from Count Dankula" — the Russian government