The single most unrealistic thing about Doctor Who is that the Doctor as somehow never had a companion with the same name as a previous one. There should have been at least three Donnas by this stage.

Word would like a word, too.

Buy Ciara's Art. It's absolutely GORGEOUS! (Pst Recommended you on a Reddit Post for an Irish person looking to fill their home with art from some homegrown talent) 😘

At what point did being completely wrong start counting as an “opinion”? Claiming vaccines cause autism isn’t an opinion. It’s utter bullshit. And then they say, “Well, that’s my opinion, you have to respect it.” No. I don’t have to respect stupidity. Fuck off.

An art supplies question for the blue sky hive mind and, I should definitely flag the great @moviessilently.bsky.social I want to get a friend in the US, who used to paint, a fun water colour set or such like for Christmas. Are there any decent US based suppliers who take web orders?

A 1957 Christmas comedy about early AI starring Katherine Hepburn with a trailer that features the chilling line: “Meet [the Desk Set], the girls and boys that make the office such a wonderful place… to love in.”

This should not be possible.

I’m officially Ian Palmer BA MA AWPF now. Considering how ill I generally am still, I’m rather proud that I was able to get my Associate of the Welsh Photographic Federation last month. I had to produce a panel of 12 images (see 2nd photo). Still find it hilarious is did it with an Alien Lego theme😂

HE IS RISEN 🙏

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

A cultural impact so enormous that even I - a Brit born, bred and raised who's never had a cup of Folgers coffee - know what it is

City of Armagh James Black, 1810 (#Armagh County Museum)

I cannot envisage this being good in any way shape or form, but I'm not sure anything can be worse than that that Aaron Sorkin bio-pic about them. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

It's telling that "Christian Movie" means a culture war, Pureflix style branding, and not films like this when it's used.

Diageo refusing to pay their workers in Belfast the same salary they do in England is very on brand for that particular shower of gowls. I hope the strikers prevail.

This, however is the happiest short story

I have only watched the first episode of Spartacus: House of Ashur but so far it is very much my thing. Equal opportunities nudity. Insane hyperviolence. Political intrigues. Well-trained thesps chewing on the dialogue. I salute the most metal of TV franchises.

Kneecap waving a flag thrown onto the stage at a gig is terrorism, heavily reported in Britain and debated in the Commons. Loyalists putting * live pipe bombs * on people's cars to terrorise a sport club into shutting down is not terrorism, and ignored in Britain. And he'll only do 18 months.

let he who was not obsessed with Hitler as a schoolboy cast the first sto- oh wow okay you're all picking up stones, huh. really thought liking Hitler was a more universal thing than it was, well you learn something new every- OWW stop casting stones at me

Paramount Pictures’ Twitter (X) account was reportedly hacked today and their bio was updated: “Proud arm of the fascist regime”

Not only is Ciara's art beautiful, but it also often sends me down research rabbit holes as I try to catch up with her breadth of knowledge. I can't tell you how many times her newsletter alone caused me to spend an additional three hours reading Irish legends. Check out her shop!

Ummm... Kushner is also mixed up in this.

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

Every year Hallmark should release one Christmas movie that follows it's usual small town folksy formula, except that, in the middle, the two main characters should have an elongated, upsettingly graphic sex scene. And Hallmark shouldn't indicate in any way which movie it's going to be.

“Trailer Park Criterion” took me smooth out.

It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.

A must read 🧵 for Attorneys General and their significant others.

SHAPES OF POWER®

Exactly two years ago today Alex Philippe called me while I was at a Sepultura gig and said "Hey! Come to LA and let me interview you about Texas Chain Saw Massacre!" I did, and you can now watch the end result here, either on physical media or streaming 💜

this has become a very important video to me

This. A million times this.

No words.

Spain is coming through. Bravo.

Thinking about Titanic and how the Democratic Party are like the Steward who yells at Jack and Rose for breaking White Star Line property as the ship is sinking around him.

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

Carmen - Klick Klick [Germany, New Wave, Synthpop] (1982) https://redd.it/1ora38j https://youtu.be/U0hyRMfdrPE

“I am disappointed to discover that my work is unsatisfactory to the man who threw Harvey Weinstein a bachelor party in 2007, a decade after his then-girlfriend Mira Sorvino told him about Weinstein’s multiple incidents of sexual harassment of her.”

"Women naturally want to do womanly things because God created us with those womanly desires in our hearts."

Netflix are going to be so mad when they realise that Warner Bros forget to renew the copyright notice for Teenagers from Outer Space and that that movie's actually been in public domain since 1987. Don't be surprised if the fall-out from that SNAFU scuttles the whole deal.

it's cool how every day there's a news story about the CDC changing vaccine recommendations and it's right next to a news story about how a kid died from a disease that last killed in 1893 but any reporter that tries to connect the two gets fired by a venture capitalist for taking up ad space

There's a bit in Victoria Woods 'Pat and Margaret' where Thora Hird says "we didn't have dyslexia in my day, you were just sat at the back with raffia" and I think about that a lot

"Ireland’s participation remains unconscionable given the appalling loss of lives in Gaza and humanitarian crisis there, which continues to put the lives of so many civilians at risk. RTÉ remains deeply concerned by the targeted killing of journalists in Gaza during the conflict". The right call

Romulandale Dawson's Quadrant One Trek Hill Pretty Little Tribbles My So-Called Starship Gossip Gorn The NCC-1701-OC Veronica Mars Base Degrassi: The Next Next Generation 13 Reasons Why (the warp core is malfunctioning)

It is one of my oldest and dearest friend's birthday today, and thinking about her this morning made this gorgeous Cynthia Hopkins song pop into my head. "Hallelujah, Hallelujah, for the day that you were born..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=4whn...

Man Totally Nerding Out About Superiority Of White Race https://theonion.com/man-totally-nerding-out-about-superiority-of-white-race/

Like MAGA, transphobes have gotten everything they wanted in 2025. And, like MAGA, they've never been more vitriolic toward the institutions they've captured, more disgusted by their wounded victims, more ready to plough forth into realms of cruelty that even they would have balked at a year ago.

Serve the public trust.

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

Death continues to come for the wrong people. variety.com/2025/music/n...