This looks absolutely mad in the best way and I'm rooting for it- and for the great @floaker.bsky.social of course.

The duck who lives here must be absolutely fucking massive.

Hamnet is an incredible piece of cinema. Seeing it in a packed cinema with an audience living and dying by every look on Jessie Buckley's face was one of the best cinematic experiences I've had in years.

Seeing this a few hours after confirming my next rheumatology appointment might have made me a little emotional. scitechdaily.com/anti-aging-i...

Stands to reason that Tanahashi is also the greatest of all time at retiring.

Everyone at the party was hyped when I showed up and it felt good but later I found out the bene gesserit had already been here for thousands of years seeding the myth of the “crazy ass white boy “

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

I'm a regular guy, I put my trousers on the same way as everyone else: falling into them through a hole in the ceiling via a contraction operated by my long suffering dog

Ho Ho Ho! Discworld Order Episode 19 on the Hogfather is out NOW as a Christmas treat. Dr Jane Carroll, an associate professor in Children's literature, joins Mark to discuss Pratchett's Christmas novel. We talk about Dickens, latin puns, bickering & where this ranks among the Death books

WB: What do you have planned for Batman 2? Tim Burton: We open on a newborn baby boy WB: Aww TB: No. The baby is ugly. He kills and eats a house cat while it's still alive. His parents try to kill him in his crib, but to Gotham's woe, they fail WB: ... TB: Also it's a Christmas movie

people have mistaken trolling for working heel. A good heel is somebody who makes you want to pay money to see them get beaten up or humiliated. If they annoy you, frustrate you, anger you, anything else, and it *doesn't* translate into you spending money, they're not a good heel.

A timely reminder that the lyrics to Deck The Halls scan perfectly to the tune of War Pigs by Black Sabbath. 🎶 DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL TROLL THE ANCIENT YULETIDE CAROL OH LORD YEAH 🎶

Let the record show that I still think MJF is a case study of how talented people can give into all their worst shitty smarky impulses and become a net negative for pro wrestling.

I am entirely fine with Cena tapping out and don't get why the crowd was so mad about it BUT it sounds like HHH got a lot of shit for it that he couldn't cope with because he's a clout-chasing manbaby and that is also entirely fine with me.

Of all the matches that could have happened, I'm really glad that Red Velvet got the rub of being the first to take a belt off Ultimo Moné. Hope it sets her up for a damn good run.

so if you lucked into owning a home that's now worth £2 million, you are just a small bean washed along by the tides of economic change and should not be expected to take responsibility for it, but if your kids stand to inherit it they shouldn't pay tax on it because you worked *really* hard for it?

I have been prevailed upon to get Letterboxd, help boxd.it/hre37

I'm so glad I saw Wake Up, Dead Man in a cinema with an audience. What a gloriously weird, blackly funny, almost meditative mystery that deals with faith, guilt, religious extremism, misogyny and multiple wank jokes. Benoit Blanc is up there with Poirot.

RIP Udo Kier, a true original 📽️ his one and only social media post:

A child poverty strategy with the 2-child limit in place would *not* be a credible child poverty strategy. *All* of the growth in child poverty since the 2011/12 low point is for children in scope of this policy.

Rashomon but it's the worst journalists you've ever read in your life discussing how their engagement fell apart

WWE realised a while ago that the first time the women had a gimmick match, like a Rumble or a TLC match, they could put it in the main event and then never bother prioritising it again. AEW didn't even try that for Blood and Guts.

del Toro: don't worry del Toro: i'm going to acknowledge byron with a big quote at the end Shelley: Shelley: why del Toro: because, you know del Toro: he's del Toro: um del Toro: i mean it kinda fits? Shelley: Shelley: put my fuckin quote at the end Shelley: i wrote the fucking thing!

I'm having my bi-weekly crisis of "Do I genuinely talk too much, or am I just falling into the age-old misogynist trap of thinking women shouldn't take up so much oxygen?" The answer may be a bit of both.

Me, asking if I can take my gigantic Chinese leftovers home: "I didn't realise I was ordering food for two people!" The waitress: "Yes. Maybe you come back with your friends..." I think I've just been turned into dust.

After a quieter September for my matches of the month, I had a lot to talk about in October. Among other stuff, we have a foray into sumo, Senka's first title shot and a lot of Meiko Satomura. Give it a read, tell a friend, you all know the deal. ramblingsaboutwrestling.com/2025/11/01/r...

Nice of Arch Enemy to throw up a title card

A hurdy-gurdy, violins, a mandola, whistles, bagpipe AND A HARP? In THIS economy? Eluveitie, you're insane!

New to this app for 2025... Here follows the official Things I Saw at LIFF 2025 Thread.

Because people think you're a bitch if you don't. See also: add emoticons, softening qualifiers, and any other happy-go-lucky, no-worries-if-not! flair.

I saw Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein last night. Imagine watching that on your telly.

So, people are going to have to pass A level english to live here are they? I hope they study what I did at A level, Translations by Brian Friel, about the colonial evil of the English forcing people to adopt the English language

Thatcher would have been 100-years-old today. But she's not. She's dead. Enjoy yourselves.

Somebody tell me what job I should do next, please. Hearing rumours that the original dream of finding ancient tombs is hard to get into lately, what with the curses and all.

Actively disgusted by this cynical weaponisation of a tragedy. Opposing a genocide has nothing to do with what happened and I would go so far to say these words are incitement. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Surely somebody who had to prove their competence and their worth again and again like Gail Kim did - and who made their name with matches against bigger opponents - should know better.

Anybody else occasionally sit down to update their CV and suddenly realise that they have no skills or abilities?

By the time I got to the front of the queue the cheapest SOAD tickets left were £142 each at the back of the stadium. I'll take my chances on the general sale or keep my money, ta.

Highest 2 Lowest is a stressful watch, not least because everything and everyone is so carefully choreographed that even people you're meant to trust seem dodgy as fuck at points. I'm glad we've got Spike Lee but he drives me mad sometimes.

The extra attention and smiles you get from the staff when you're having dinner alone confound me sometimes. Mate, I'm ordering a pizza and reading a book about cults. This is my best life.

If ever there was a time for AEW to stoop to WWE's level for counter-programming, it's to outdraw a Saudi WrestleMania. Do a stadium show in a city the fans can actually visit, have the whole indie weekender around. You know Tony's petty enough.

I’ve said it before and will doubtless say it again: I love that Hangman insists on always calling his title the MEN’S World Title. It immediately puts the women’s version on the same level. It would be great if the company as a whole followed suit.

I swear. It's important for accessibility anyway, but I personally want a transcript for your video so I don't have to watch the fucking video.

Today was the worst day of my career- so bad that George @puropodcast.bsky.social finally let me show him Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. "Well, I was never bored."

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Hurrah for managing to get the cheap seats for Manchester Dynamite before they all got sold out from under me. I'm too old for this Ticketmaster stress bollocks.

A really interesting conversation, even if I have a different take on Soul Music. What sticks with me is how Pratchett describes the feeling of hearing and making music, the euphoria of a truly great gig, better than anyone - but I think this ep gets to the heart of some issues I readily forgave.

It's new episode time! Dermot Byrne returns to talk about the 16th Discworld novel, Soul Music. We discuss dated references, groanworthy puns, and Pratchett’s takes on education. Spotify bit.ly/4mHrhWh Amazon bit.ly/3UTRTHb Apple bit.ly/3I0vyVs