Once spotted Bradley Walsh in the same cafe as me in Glasgow.

This is why my Tism sucks. I've done all the tasks required for tomorrow- save for the washing up- as I've fallen down a rabbit hole with one of my anchor topics. I have several: Titanic, Chernobyl, the history of gaming, the fall of the USSR, WW2, Fukushima, ghost towns in the USA, Centralia...

I've just finished watching #TitanicSinksTonight. Inventive docudrama, but AI, two poorly misinformed "experts" let it down badly. Glad that they give Lightholler the condemnation he deserves though. One thing it does though, is show the sheer hell that people went through.

By the way, it's Taskmaster Champion of Champions day for all who celebrate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rx_...

Matthew Baynton clearly has the balls for #Taskmaster, because... Well after that last episode, we've all seen them.

I have reached a point in my life where I admit that I am an adult: I am now in possession of a Costco Card.

If l see one more fecking person talking about Scotland shouldn't be Independent because it weakens Europe, it's what Putin wants & should stay subjected as part of the UK l'll proverbially explode. This was always on the cards for Lab, Tories & Lib/Dems in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 to support a pro Putin talking party👇

If anyone doubts our ability to thrive as an independent nation, show them this

Right folks- I don't use NGL- So I'm going to have a question amnesty today. Throw me a question, I'll answer it. Don't be shy, and don't feel awkward.

No, it's footie fans. Not the average guy in a Celtic shirt travelling on his own (I am usually that guy) and just wants to sleep. It's the groups. The "we're the greatest team and we're going to demonstrate our ability to chant on the plane" lot. One slight Brexit bonus- not as common now.

So... If this movie had to be released in my lifetime, then the answer is Hostel. If not, then it was a VHS copy of The Silence Of The Lambs I borrowed from a classmate, as I'd just read the book prior.

I can't. However, here are some of my faves. Kurosawa, Miyazaki, Ang Lee, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Coogler, Spike Lee, Tarantino, Alice Guy-Blaché, Guy Ritchie, Agnes Verde, Kathryn Bigelow, Spielberg.

Why is this in my saved photos?

Not all heroes wear capes.

By the way- Has anyone else watched #Gladiators Xmas special this year? How strong IS Cyclone? Wow!

Well, following a cold as balls day out with poetry, I'm now snuggled, can't get warm and bunged up to fuck. Bollocks, please don't be the lurgy.

Nah, the world went to hell when Harambe was killed.

Time to watch #Gladiators as it's the celebrity episode.

My poetry today has been incredibly pointed- but I couldn't go and celebrate the birth of a boy in Bethlehem from two thousand years ago without acknowledging what's going on there now. If Christ was born tomorrow, he would have likely been destroyed by an Israeli rocket before he could even walk.

🚨PSA🚨 Brassed Off is available to watch on the Channel 4 app. Nothing more festive than a film about Maggie Thatcher savaging mining communities. It is such a good film- empathy, humour and righteous fury. Pete Postlewhaithe's best performance and that is saying something.

Brigitte Bardot is dead. An absolutely odious fascist is now no more. Anyone for tea?

#PoetryInThePark was awesome, ilbut VERY cold. Great poetry from @fionaswriting.bsky.social, @bruthavoodoo.bsky.social, @finhall.bsky.social and many, many more.

Keeping it geeky today, as Poetry In The Park day for me is also New Comics Day, so at Plan 9 in Aberdeen with @bruthavoodoo.bsky.social, this was my haul

Let me explain why she should have been paid as much as the men- Think back to 1998 and name me a male wrestler other than Triple H, Stone Cold, The Rock or Shawn Michaels. In fact, name me one of their opponents. You can't. But you remember Chyna. She won't be forgotten.

This. We didn't deserve you, Joanie Laurer.

There's this burger place on King Street that I frequent. It opens til the wee hours and all the meat is halal, but by the saints, it does one of the best burgers in Aberdeen.

Fingers crossed for AEW

My thoughts are with a lot of people tonight, but in particular, Glasgow's queer community, as apparently the POLO lounge is under threat as the hotel above it is an inferno right now. Hope everyone got out safely.

Thanks to the SNP my wife received her bus pass on turning 60. The department of Transport in England just stated that as of 2026, the age for englanders getting their bus passes, is to fall in line with the pension age of 67.

I'd want to say so much to my younger self. So very much. But I'd end up just buying him a beer, a videogame and just tell him that it all works out okay in the end. No matter how fucked it might seem at that point in his life.

Ledbury Boxing day hunt - the sooner this elitist minority pursuit is outlawed the better.

Some ~personal news~

As they said. Everyone knows, Jake Paul. Everyone.

As I prep to go to a queer ISH bar for Drageoke, I'm chuckling to myself that I finally got to use a Tim Curry gif. Even if it was having a dig at a shite film. My litmus test for people is this: where do you know Tim Curry from?

Yes, I've seen #Avatar, but to be honest, apart from the visuals, it's a bit pants. I've already seen FernGully Meets The Smurfs meets Dances With Wolves. A thousand times. Want to watch good sci-fi about why we should look after the planet? The war between the land and the sea has you covered.

The NHS is most excellent dude.

Next stop is Aberdeen, thank fuck. Home, shower, dinner, kip. Maybe Cheerz. Maybe.

How i am walking out of 2025 ..

If you agree with anything on this- i.e. if you like or agree with hunting foxes on horseback with dogs- then you're a cunt. Them the rules.

D3 to D4. Or black.

There's a retired lecturer on this train who has just made me move carriages. Why? She's rude, annoying, loud and arrogant. After seeing her treat a ScotRail member of staff like dogshit, I asked if I could move to the other first class compartment. I did this for fear of saying something unpleasant

90 mins or so and I'll be back in Aberdeen. Thank goodness.

Actually, I'd like to see Nigel Farage being forced to fight to the death against Boris Johnson, but there we are.

I don't usually get involved in Edinburgh's footie but MON THE FUCKING HIBS.

Yes you are

Foreign medics NOT shunning NHS Scotland because of anti-migrant rhetoric from London parties talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/27/f...

I'm always reminded of this: I'm a fish, I'm an Orca, sinking yachts off Mallorca, I'm a sinner, I'm a whale, I'll hit you with my tail! (To the tune of "Bitch" by Meredith Brooks)