something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Carpe Jugulum is at the top but it only works because of the cumulative impact of the previous books. So after that: Wyrd Sisters Lords and Ladies Maskerade Witches Abroad (Can vary depending on the time of day)

To put it in even further perspective — Lockheed Martin produced both the spacecraft for the Artemis mission and the PRsM missile that shot tungsten pellets into an elementary school in Lamerd.

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Today is an important day in our household calendar: Shelving Day, when 2 or 3 times a year we have to figure out where the hell to put all the new books we have bought between us. Pretty sure we've just cleared out more books than some people own and somebody really should have intervened by now.

Your mileage may vary on how long you can listen to me talk. I get it. But... Granny Weatherwax vs vampires! Pratchett vs fascism! Verence vs Big Aggie's brose! Mark vs keeping me on topic! Carpe Jugulum is dark, weird, creepy and hilarious. Hope we did it justice.

They: Hi! Through our unhallowed ransacking of the world's knowledge, your computer can now talk to the dead. Me: Can it talk to my printer yet? They: haha no

Once when walking home from watching a Rumble at a friend's house, a tipsy George @puropodcast.bsky.social seemed to be moving erratically. I turned to see he was just silently doing the Ministry of Silly Walks beside me until I noticed. Completely unrelated: we've been together 13 years today.

This is my Woodstock.

This. TBC, the reason my family won't support anything HP-related is NOT because I have some grand moral view that it's only acceptable to support work created by good people. It's because she is literally, publicly using the $ from her books/show/games/etc to do bad things that hurt people I love.

Willow really is the best. ❤️

I have to say, the Bride yelling "Me too!" in one of the final confrontations of that film was maybe a bit on the bloody nose.

Best injury report ever? STARDOM has announced that Fukigen Death will not be performing tonight due to "unexpectedly being in a good mood" #aewfanhub #aew #stardom #wrestlesky #prowrestling

The last time a sibling of the monarch was arrested in 1554, Elizabeth Tudor wrote some poems that became the basis of my dissertation. I'm assuming Andy's got very little worth reading.

EXT: Day. The grave of Noel Edmonds. A figure lies face down in the freshly dug soil, sobbing inconsolably. CAPTION: GREYFRIARS BLOBBY.

Has anyone suggested that Emerald Fennell re-read Wuthering Heights as an adult?

You know what they say about the Winter Olympics: you snood, you luge

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Such a shame that people have been talking about a Rumble win for Liv for years, and when she finally gets one it's non-canon.

Please also remember today the words of Romani Holocaust survivor Karl Stojka: “It wasn't Hitler or Himmler who deported me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who were given a uniform and then believed they were the master race."

Hive mind: imagine I may be about to find myself with this Wednesday night to kill in London town (and a hotel to crash in). How should I spend it? So far I've gotten as far as a screening of Sorcerer at the Prince Charles but am open to all sorts of ideas.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

The specific moment when you feel a book lose at least one whole star from your eventual review because it had to throw in some really stupid shit just to kill all your goodwill. Haven't had one of those in a while.

I spent all 2.5 hours of Marty Supreme angry at the almost entirely awful characters making bad decisions and yelling. I couldn't stop watching, but I do have a headache.

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.