Makes sense, like when everyone finally fell in love with U2 once Apple forced their album onto everyone’s phone.

Finally got to watch Sinners this evening. Wanted to watch it last year in the cinema but missed my chance due to various reasons. But, I treated myself to it on Blu-ray recently. I hope it actually wins a bunch of its Academy Award nominations. 1/2

Kiddo has just declared they're a potato, and then giggled.

Sssh, don't tell the knitting squad, but I've been doing some crochet to unwind these past few weeks. It's a scarf. (Using up wool from previous projects.) #crochet #crocheting

So, you've watched all of Heated Rivalry and you're wondering: well, wtf next? Head on over to my blog, Geryow, and I'll walk you through what's out there for you post binge. Free wall (to stop the bots): geryow.com/so-youve-bin... #HeatedRivalry

Night Vale podcast would make way more money if every single person in the world listened to it, Night Vale chief Joseph Fink warns

Just finished watching Tron: Ares for the first time. It's not a bad film. It's not the best, sure. But it's not bad, just reasonably enjoyable. (Also, someone behind had clearly watched Mr Robot, going by the use of Bash.)

I've just learned that ITV4 has gotten the rights to show some NHL games in the UK! Starting at 5:30pm today. They're showing Buffalo Sabres vs Minnesota Wild. #NHL #UK 1/2

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

Daughter insisted on watching Pudsey and the Thread of Hope this afternoon. My eyes are now a little sore from crying.

Kinda gross how little mainstream news in the UK has reported on the sheer extent of the damage caused by Storm Goretti in #Cornwall last week. Local BBC and ITV news have been reporting but there's been little national from what I can see including traditional press. 1/2

Have gotten through the worst of the storm reasonably intact. Though can't say the same for surrounding roads. #Cornwall #StormGoretti

Storm is affecting TV signal. Trying to watch local news. Have got a DAB radio as back up, but won't mean much if infrastructure goes down. #Cornwall #StormGoretti

Stay safe, #Cornwall.

Been looking at my reading data for 2025 now that StoryGraph has generated it for the year app.thestorygraph.com/wrap-up/2025... (Feel free to follow me on there if you do use the service.)

sad to announce i've been kicked out of my seafaring writing group for suggesting we stop using the word "tempestuous", i'd tell you what the vibes were like but i'm a strong believer in not being a hypocrite

I noticed Skyrim is no longer listing itself as Steam Deck compatible on my system. Searching around suggests this happened some time last week after a Deck update. www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/... www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/... 1/2 #Skyrim #SteamDeck

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

Been reading "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams before it's due to be returned to library. You can blame Meta/FB for a load of s**t, but a chunk of blame should lie at the feet of regulators. Anyway more people should probably borrow it from their local library www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As if artists don't have enough to deal with, Amazon has a "Buy For Me" program in beta which is scraping indie shops for their items and putting them up on Amazon (often incorrectly), for their "AI agent" to buy from the other site. It is NOT opt in, and there is no opt out.

I find it weird that in 2026, we're getting continuations of both Scrubs and Malcolm in the Middle.

Again,

The kind of trivia I need in my life.

Culinary crimes being committed before me as my toddler asks, while we're having brunch out, can she have brown sauce on her toasted teacakes.

Watching on in horror as I examine a thread on r/Skyrim where some guy got his 9 year a copy of Skyrim and is letting the kid play it over Christmas break. This is an 18 rated game in the UK, but I'm guessing OP is based in the US. I hope the kid doesn't stumble into the Dark Brotherhood questline

Currently going through the annual battle of getting myself well enough to participate in Christmas.

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

When the subject of artists’ earnings comes up online, a question that often gets raised is ‘Why don’t you just work together to negotiate better rates?’ or ‘Why don’t you just form a union?’ If you don’t work in the arts or a related industry, this is fair question to ask. 1/

Hahaha ever since Craig of the Creek became the latest victim of Zaslav’s merger bloodbath I haven’t been able to find a steady job. This man has ruined careers, ruined peoples lives, and gets paid MILLIONS for it. Hahaha hahaha

With a dose of Goodhart's law just in time for Christmas, I reflect on what it was like to push myself to "read" 20 books this year and why I regret doing this. Read all about it here 📖 geryow.com/20-books-in-... (Free to read with an unpaid, site membership.) #reading #books #ReadingGoals

The spoils of war.

And there they were, saying they'd reached 85% of their annual fundraising goal when I was on desktop earlier. Well, Mozilla, I've got a new project for over Christmas: leaving you.

Driving in the snow // #xfiles Pencil and chalk pencil on moleskine

This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money. Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.

Happy anniversary to transatlantic wireless telegraphy to all who celebrate! This day in 1901 Marconi sent the first radio telegraphy message between Cornwall and Newfoundland. (I know I’m a cable gal, but i caught the cable bug via radio history)

Mother-in-law asked for a cardigan for Christmas, but it had to have pockets. All of her existing cardigans have pockets and buttons. Now, I can't knit cardigans yet. So we went looking around the local Sainsbury's TU clothing section. 1/2

Just seen the new Divinity trailer without knowing it would be the new Divinity trailer. And having only ever seen the previous games in passing, I could tell from the moment sh*t started going wrong in it that it was for a Divinity game. So, Larian must be doing something right.

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

Storm Bram sounds delightful outside my windows 😬

I see Cloudflare has once again shat the bed.

7:45am thoughts: Who funds the Go Jetters? 🤔

My kiddo just saw a pic of Tux for the first time, catching me scrolling through some news and I told her that was the Linux penguin and she said: "I love the Linux penguin." She's really into penguins at the moment.

Roof of my husband's car this morning. It is a bit nippy out. Very careful driving around anything that wasn't a main road, as it wouldn't have been treated by the gritters last night.

While I wrote my latest blog, #Fallout4 was updating on my Steam Deck. Just last week I had completed a second playthrough of the videogame. But everywhere online is rife with stories of the latest update breaking everything. Read all about it at geryow.com/is-this-upda... (free for free members)

DnD tonight. We're underground. Discovered some abandoned homes that were once occupied by Drow. We found some bottles of Drow Moonshine that is ??? years old. I suggested we roll for what the alcohol volume of all the bottles is with a D100. DM said I could roll. All bottles are 85% ABV. #DnD

While I wrote my latest blog, #Fallout4 was updating on my Steam Deck. Just last week I had completed a second playthrough of the videogame. But everywhere online is rife with stories of the latest update breaking everything. Read all about it at geryow.com/is-this-upda... (free for free members)

Anyone here have opinions, based on experiences, of studying through the Open University for courses in things like computing or cyber security? Just looking into further, guided study options. #OpenUniversity

Pagans in paperback early next year! With RED SPREDGES!

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.