F1 (2025)

It is weird being reminded of the existence of Richard Littlejohn. Like suddenly finding out the Ford Cortina was still in production.

I always felt Satya was the closest we had (not very) to a blunt and forthright big tech CEO, and “please buy my product so my business makes money” is indeed an act of public honestly 🤷‍♂️

Trying to think of a use of the phrase “let that sink in” that isn’t irritatingly sanctimonious, and I’m not sure even this sentence counts.

YOU: "idk, posting your artwork alongside nude photos of yourself, doesn't that seem shameless & unprofessional?" KEITH HARING:

Wouldn’t it be nice if geopolitics wasn’t just situating everything on the Venn diagram of a geriatric fascist being: plausibly a Russian asset, afraid of being exposed as a pedophile, senile, and actually that stupid and narcissistic. Even cutting it down to three would be a plus. Good grief.

Mucking about with a quick seared jalapeño and pepper pseudo mole.

Last night, knowing I had an early start today, I did remember to take my shopping out of my bag, but did not remember to put the office door pass in. So on the one hand I had to awkwardly ask for a spare, but on the other at least I didn’t try to open the door with a bottle of Vivishine 🤷‍♂️

(scrolling Bluesky) I reject the premise. I reject the premise. Granted. I reject the premise. Not my fetish. Granted. I reject the premise. Funny. I reject the premise.

Captain, it is quite astonishingly Wednesday

I still believe in Gene Roddenberry's vision for the future

I finally cracked and googled what “stitch incoming” meant because I was pretty sure my contextual inference of “I’m about to say something incredibly obvious and ask you to find it shocking” was off. I’m pleasantly surprised to find it has an actually coherent etymology (stitch clips together). Huh

Brutal

Q: How do I unlock Sunglasses Macron? A: It's very difficult to unlock Sunglasses Macron in the course of a normal game because it requires a specific and unlikely sequence of events. While default Macron is ruler of France, the USA must choose the monarchy path and then lay claim to Greenland.

So help me, a screenshot of this might be the opener of my strategic planning deck in two weeks, before I fully go off on one.

Sudden flashback to 15 ish years ago, pre Grindr, when some friends, despairing of me not really dating/hooking up, created me a placeholder Gaydar profile. It had the bio “don’t message me, I’ll cut you” and someone did, saying that seemed a bit frigid. I will go to my grave confused by Men Online

Train home was cancelled (fuckery on the line near Stevenage) so I got the other line. Just checked to see how the later services are doing…

GRWGRRM: Get Ready W George R R Martin

It's not even tournament legal unless you use GW official condiments, and the Citadel mustard pots always dry out

Games Workshop has done a lot of sketchy things for money, but I still can't believe the new Tyranid detachment rule requiring you to eat your opponents' models

Bentham; my panopticon is a Torment Nexus style thought experiment, in this essay I shall… Politicians: panopticon Torment Nexus is our policy

Right. Time to have a huge mortadella sandwich about that meeting

who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters

I'm trying not to follow the news. I don't think it helps. Instead, yesterday I bought two books about trains. Today I bought another two books about trains.

Heading to London for a meeting that could have been a just fucking listening to me. In accordance with the prophecy.

What “Roll back climate change just enough that we keep the mild winters and drinkable English wine!” would miss in slogan catchiness, it would make up in chiming deep with the bones of the British bourgeois psyche. (It’s 10° in London in January)

*frantically googling* moral arc bent wrong how to fix wikihow diy moral arc fix moral arc technician near me

scoreboard

whenever I accidentally open threads from instagram it looks like the fake social media app they put into a city builder. "Wow, I love the mayor's new policy!" sims-ass website

There might be better ways of explaining British culture, but not the good bits.

I remember playing D&D with some randos when I was about 16 and one of the guys was this tedious, half-smart, shameless little rules-lawyer who ground every scene to a halt to eke out some marginal, usually pointless advantage. I remember thinking clear as day, "this sort of person runs the world."

Isaac Chotiner interviews Whale Probe from Star Trek IV

Finally reading The Honjin Murders, and it’s a delight.

Finally, a flag worth fighting for.

Eight or nine hundred years ago, I did a comics podcast, and so help me I’m pondering a limited series revival.

Made a cute salsa last night - four good sized fresh jalapeños, de seeded, about 1/3 yellow pepper, half an onion, bit of garlic, all pan seared until softening and blackened in spots, blended with a pinch of cumin and chicken stock, squeeze of lime. Served with seared courgette. Good time.

Learning this has made my day.

Looking at the gap between Normie News Outlets and Discourse On Here makes me wonder exactly where I am on the pickling-my-brain/wake-up-sheeple spectrum, but I’m pretty confident there’s a big old slosh of malt vinegar in the mix there somewhere.

if you’re ever worried you’re past your prime and haven’t achieved anything just remember bananas are best as bread and grapes are best as wine. the universe is probably just waiting to do something delicious with your corpse

on a zoom call

For years to come the answer to “I think you’re being a bit self-centered” will be “well at least I didn’t threaten to invade Greenland because I was cross about the Nobel Peace Prize”

Looking at the gap between Normie News Outlets and Discourse On Here makes me wonder exactly where I am on the pickling-my-brain/wake-up-sheeple spectrum, but I’m pretty confident there’s a big old slosh of malt vinegar in the mix there somewhere.

Good morning. I salute anyone who gets today’s Wordle in under four.

On this date in 1994 (which was 12 years ago, obviously) the first episode of The Day Today was broadcast on BBC2.

Waitress: You think we'll get five inches of snow? I haven't gotten five inches in years. My husband (to me): **stern DON'T YOU DARE glare** Me (garbled due to sticking my entire fist in my mouth): oob whab a shaaame

ANYWAY. Warhammer is great. Demented lore, brilliant models, fun to paint, and in theory there’s also a tabletop war game you can play as a bonus mini game after you’ve completed Calendars In Your Forties.

still surprises me when I meet people who don't know vegan hot dogs grow like this

We must act now!!!