The only people more deluded are the Streeting stans

“why are you still on twitter” -> whiny, makes you sound like a scold “oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile

“Chaos is coming.”

Anyone who says money can’t buy you happiness has never lived a life such that approximately £1200 would fix 90% of your current worries

Everyone, in and out of America keeps hoping/assuming that surely, eventually, something or someone will stop Trump. Some constitutional guardrail. Some court ruling. Some level of corruption, scandal or abuse too big to be ignored. We wait, and wait in vain. Better to act for ourselves.

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Another visit to the juke joint in my mind. #NowPlaying

It depresses me that I know it's Sunday.

I am definitely going to give up the booze tomorrow.

It's all about the oil. But the world doesn't need Venezuelan oil right now.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

this is all happening because 80,000 people in the 6 states where votes actually count googled "joe bidon still presdinant?" on election day morning

An AI chatbot does not have PERSONHOOD. It has no agency. It cannot meaningfully apologise. It cannot speak on behalf of another. It cannot speak for itself; it has no self. Stop asking it for quotes for articles. Stop printing its quotes.

In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I. On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence. www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...

Happy New Year, everyone! 💫

I actually had to make use of my own website. Today is Thursday.

Can't say I'm upset about this.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

I have just eaten a chicken Kiev smothered in melted cheddar cheese and chased it with a multivitamin pill, a couple of ibuprofen and a pint of water. Happy New Year.

#NowPlaying The Doors and thinking about how I'm now twice the age Jim Morrison was when he died and how I thought it was romantic to die at 27 and how fucking stupid that was and how fucking stupid I was at 27. Happy New Year.

@ianhagues.bsky.social Did you manage to finish Ulysses?

Spending the remaining hours of 2025 in the hill country of northern Mississippi - the best place for the blues (apart from my head). #NowPlaying

If you keep telling social liberals to fuck off to impress the Times, don't act all surprised when they actually fuck off.

So much respect for people like Tressa. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I love sparkling water because sometimes what I really want is to be perfectly hydrated but also in a small amount of pain

If I make it through this year, I think I'm gonna put this bottle down / I guess as time goes on I'll grow to miss it less than I do now #NowPlaying

Do you know how hard it is to be rich, famous, and gorgeous in France and STILL get done for racism? These elegies can't miss out the racism, even if she was a cinema icon.

I will always look upon my Last.fm scrobbles over the last 20 years as a perfect reflection of my mental health over the same period...

I am listening to The Doors because I bloody love The Doors. www.last.fm/user/Guerril...

This is how I feel about Google's AI overviews (having just searched for a HST quote...)

having spent a while watching this I would say that it was at its absolute funniest on the seventh, maybe eighth replay

Got away with just the one Bluesky reply...

This year's favourite Christmas memory is going to be picking up the book my mum's reading and discovering she's used a mint humbug as a bookmark. Whatever's to hand runs in the family.

And cats love them...

One day late for Boxing Day, but it is #Caturday.

Jonathan is correct here but this was the point where the leaders of the white people world decided there would be no laws or rules any more: they had won the Cold War, they were heroes and moral titans and they could kill anyone they wanted, destroy other countries for any reason they fancied.

They’re not rural, they’re monied. The people who have pink tarmac in their villages and get their hedges cut by Norfolk CC. While an urban area in Norwich, Yarmouth of Lynn which would benefit from a youth club and bit of love gets nothing. They won’t vote Labour or Green anyway. Fuck ‘em.

It's time. Going to Rick's.

I again urge you to ask which is more likely: that millions of members of the public have gone insane, or that a comparatively tiny number of people at the heart of media and politics - who all know each other and often work together - have driven *themselves and each other* crazy.

The Guardian reviewer feels the same way I do about The Lowdown. I've watched all eight episodes twice already, it's that good.

A Christmas Day Reckoning. #NowPlaying www.last.fm/user/Guerril...

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

Proper face-tingling cold this Christmas, as it should be

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Today feels like a Saturday to me.