they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

Still the greatest video ever made. Sorry. I don't make the rules...

if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good

Today in cringe openings to press release emails, "hope you're having a lovely week so far". At 9:01am on Monday. It's been an alright minute, thanks.

Mine is

Help me clear out some cupboard space –

Chewbacca is right

If you like scripted audio comedy - and why wouldn't you? - you can help get some made by brilliant writers with amazing track records. Like Andy Hamilton, for example - whose credits include Old Harry's Game and Outnumbered! leadmojo.co.uk/smelt

Share a bird pic you took

Rachel Talalay's YouTube channel is a proper masterclass in directing – the real-life challenges, not just the theory. And as a bonus, you get to watch lots of Doctor Who clips.

David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Burnham and any other northern Labour politician needs to bring the government down over this. It is absolutely disgusting that yet again we're faced with another 5 years of cuts to our infrastructure. Just fucking build it and invest in our communities. You want growth? That's how you get it.

If you are blaming an AI for your mistake - it's still on you. It's like blaming your car for running somebody over.

Oh fuck, I have to look at my emails today

Just call this one the War Mayor and keep the mainstream numbering clean.

Kate Stewart’s been here.

Gone Fishing is something special, especially at Christmas. A reminder that, despite *all of that*, the world is still full of friends and rivers and dogs.

Wait, what?

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

PSA: if you’re watching Muppets Christmas Carol on Disney Plus, don’t forget to go to the extras tab and select the full length version with When Love Is Gone.

New greatest life achievement unlocked… I’ve had a submission accepted to Harry Hill’s mattress-themed Instagram advent calendar.

Bad day to be a sex offender, huh

Two new people have logged Secrets of a Wallaby Boy on Letterboxd! I wonder what they thought... Amazing how often this has happened in the past year. I seem to have made a uniquely divisive movie.

➡️ Banning exploitative zero hours contracts ➡️ Sick pay for all from day one ➡️ Expanding paternity, parental & bereavement leave ➡️ Strengthening protections for pregnant women, whistle-blowers and victims of sexual harassment ➡️ Making flexible working the default ➡️ Repealing Tory anti-union laws

🚨BREAKING: Employment Rights Bill passes in the House of Lords and will become law. This is an historic day for working people across the country, and the trade unions who represent them.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

My favourite bit was the erection gag. #TheWarBetween

I’m gonna become a conspiracy theorist about the completely nonsense trajectory of that bullet. #thewarbetween

I need Season 2 of the studio to be about how this got made

If you LOVED what @alfiejdshaw.bsky.social did with the Eleventh Doctor then I PROMISE you, HE'S DONE IT AGAIN with the Twelfth. These two sound SUPERB together! If you're looking for Doctor Who with emotions, humour, excitement and complexities, plus a GENIUS series arc, you will LOVE this.

Fantastic Manchester news site The Mill are offering pay-what-you-want subscriptions until the end of this weekend. Well worth joining up to support local journalism done properly, without the clickbait. manchestermill.co.uk/lp-3/?referr...

James and Tori meet on the Piccadilly line, but their attempts to get to know each other are interrupted by everyone from a hen party to William Shakespeare. I’ve been meaning to catch Cockfosters since my writer friend Tom Woffenden told me about it a long time ago and finally made it this week.

This is so fucking funny dude.

You heard it here first: Jacob Elordi tells @beccamford.bsky.social he'd rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-jacob-elordi-euphoria-interview

[12hrs into my ice interrogation] agent: in 2021 you posted “they should call him matt hardcock am i right fellas” can you explain that? me: do you know who matt hancock is? a:… [43mins later] a: he had his own app? for parkour? me: no the parkour was a separate issue

My train just left Manc and is scheduled to be 31 minutes late into London. That Delay Repay is teetering on a knife’s edge.

Kate Stewart: The human race is doomed Ibrahim: I’m horny

an impossible shot? New Doctor Who content on a shot we nearly cut out of The Star Beast A Shot that (Almost) Couldn't be Done. Doctor Who: Star Beast youtu.be/U1JkABy0UBA?... via @YouTube

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

SIMPLY HAVING A

No one told me that Pillion is a Christmas movie.

Knives Out > Wake Up Dead Man > Glass Onion Longer review on the link below. I tried to resist talking about The Last Jedi, and failed.

Audio giants Big Finish have delivered SIX new sitcom pilots. You're not getting that anywhere else because all comedy must either be a comedian with a parent or spouse, or a sideways look at something. Come and support new sitcom.

honestly this is a much better fucking way to do the budget. spare us two months of build-up and a day of bizarre red box theatre and commons bullshit, just stick a PDF on a website at some unnanounced time

The Ones Who Walk Away From X