on Amazon in particular but probably in all similar markets the star rating has a *huge* effect on whether people will click through to the product page from a list of search results

Autumn is here

lol let’s take a wild guess

@tomhuddleston.bsky.social congrats!

maybe if the government used its giant majority to improve people’s lives in some way, I dunno

You mother fucker I have never once wanted to upload to OneDrive, just let me attach the file to the email

When do we get cracking?

are they still fucking going on about the Death Funnel or whatever they are calling it now

usually the president moves faster than the eye can see. There’s a sort of flicker at the edge of your vision and he’s suddenly across the room. That’s why this is such a serious and deadly issue

he does behave as if he’s the de facto party leader and he’s probably right about that

I know about 20 words of Greek but apparently my accent is so good that Greek people assume I’m fluent #έμμεσοςκομπασμός

People aren’t taking this seriously enough. If the escalator had been moving it would have been impossible for a shooter to draw a bead on the president as he would have been moving upwards in a straight line at a steady rate

oh god an origin story. We had that? It was the pre credit sequence of Casino Royale

Having a bite to eat

Useful article for any of you writers who've received these nonsense emails

lovely piece. I agree about the covers, too.

Farage’s swans and carp bullshit is two decades old! There was never any evidence re the swans and the carp thing was ‘some Poles fishing in literally two lakes didn’t realise you weren’t allowed to take the fish home with you.’ So they put up a sign! In 2006!

strong squad although I am a little concerned that two of those quicks are very fragile and Bash’s role seems to have largely become ‘buy a wicket’

With The Mandalorian getting its film trailer this week, here's a recap of every episode of The Mandalorian

CHOTINER: You enjoy a late night snack. ME: *chuckles* guilty as charged CHOTINER: You mentioned previously that plums are a favourite. ME: Oh. This. CHOTINER: Straight out of the icebox. ME: I can assure you that I was not aware that they were for breakfast. CHOTINER: okay, but this note...

when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

huh I’m starting to think it might not be real you guys

seriously

I’ve read a number of stories recently in which someone in the UK who is homicidally deranged has either used or attempted to obtain a crossbow and it does make me very grateful for our gun laws. In the US this guy would have an AR-15 and 1,000 rounds of ammo

A photo from home where Lenny is apparently being ‘a nutter’

do Americans have beloved baseball umpires or is that a phenomenon peculiar to cricket?

accipitrine is a nice word, hawkish, rapacious

oh we’re just doing straight up Alien Earth spoilers on the TL are we

yeah it’s on the WHO list of essential medicines and everyone makes it, this isn’t in itself a grift unless and until they give dr Oz the exclusive contract to supply it

RIP

shut the fuck up James

oh boy this is gonna get a lot of use in the group chats

Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart

intrigued to see Streeting’s recent pivot to being less wholly awful, can only imagine he’s seen that the top job might be in play and is oiling himself up for it

Cricket

I would like a kid’s novel about this please, in which of course the vampire is real

I am on holiday. My departure at 4:45am yesterday necessitated a conference between the Lads

that is definitely a problem for sprinting but I feel one I could easily solve

you couldn’t make Father Ted these days because Arthur Mathews won’t return your calls

horribly funny to be this desperate for cash and lacking in any moral compass

Whoa, these covers are sick

Hotel is appalling. We are all in the attic.

very funny to see John Boyne starting a sentence with ‘At the risk of sounding arrogant’, like Andre the Giant leading off with ‘At the risk of looking tall’

If your novel is set in the recent, pre-cellphone past and your plot depends on a dilemma that would now be resolved with a simple phone call, make sure the reader understands that by having a character say, "Too bad cellphones don't exist yet."

If I almost get run over at a pedestrian crossing by one more prick running a red light on a Lime bike I’m going to go berserk

Impressive how bad the Guardian’s new ad system is, big weird Temu ads just popping undismissably over the text

[job interview] Interviewer: It says here that you are a blowfish. Would you care to expand?