Happy High Forks Night for everyone who observed this most ancient and sacred holy day. Night. Whatever. youtu.be/MomGjGp8REo?...

New anime for classic series you say? Ghost in the Shell? Evangelion? Could be anything.

@runningreb13.bsky.social Best dogs yet. Love them all.

Yet another trailer that leaves me none the wiser for what the actual movie is about. Taken literally, it's just Mando and his puppet pal doing more adventures, which… fine, but we had that anyway. How does being a movie up the stakes? youtu.be/uwild1rw7Aw?...

That's what you get for nicking her bra.

Hungary's president-elect is literally called Magyar? That's a little on the nose.

Oh, hadn't noticed before, but in one mission in Space Marine 2 you can see one of those Titan mechs with a whole city on its back. Just a background detail, but neat nonetheless.

Very Terry Gilliam.

UI which resizes as things load in, so that you misclick, is a curse. I hiss like a cat whenever i encounter it. Which is every single day.

I take it all back. There is such a thing as a good April Fool joke, and it's this one: youtu.be/59NORGNnWlQ?...

Finally going to try out Civ 6. I suspect I'm going to hate it.

Turns out I was right. Starts on a baseline of meaningless violence and works upwards. It certainly gets a lot more interesting as it goes. The controls take some getting used to as well. Loses marks for teasing Necrons and then not actually having any show up. Booooo.

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1835

Space Marine 2 is off to a very average start. I think I'm supposed to be wowed by the spectacle of so many enemies on screen but it so far feels distant and artificial. There's no plot to speak of yet either. Benefit of the doubt? First chapter is establishing a baseline on which to build. Still.

Illustrious company for @holland-tom.bsky.social:

This morning Borderlands 4 managed to crash so badly my entire character was erased, as well as any memory of me having unlocked any cosmetics. Luckily my first character seems mostly intact, but still.

Played through Portal to the end recently, only to find *afterwards* there's a ray-traced version available. So... I guess I'm playing Portal again tonight? Shame.

Bizarre, anxious dream last night, in which I was caught between two feuding families as the Troubles seemed to be kicking off again. Dreams being what they are, of COURSE I was inconsistent with which side was which. An inadvertent "both sides are as bad" satire on my part.

Thank god it changed "father" into "dad", otherwise I would never have got it.

The absurdity of these luxury palaces.

After a terrible night's sleep (the kind you don't even realise until it's too late) the old Anxiety Brain Jukebox had decided to put this on loop: youtu.be/AoWexi-DWFQ?...

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Wednesday

youtu.be/gj_aHCpZl4k?... Pppppppppancake day

Trad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Raxn...

Proof that Hannibal’s elephants really did cross to Italy via Spain? Incredible! And another reason to go back to beautiful Cordoba… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Larry the Cat celebrates 15 years as Downing Street’s chief mouser on Sunday. The 19-year-old tabby is serving his sixth prime minister, having survived a decade of political turbulence in the UK government.

I remember putting it on for the first time, expecting not to be impressed, that the Tories would by now be well worn into tiresome cliché. But it isn't. It's fresh, fast, light, and hits hard when it wants to. Play the Marseillaise.

Made of bricks. This is as disappointing as the trip to World of Leather.

February 15, 44 BCE: Plutarch (Life of JC, 61) details the Lupercalia on this day. The consul, Marc Antony, ran through the streets naked (as one does) hitting women with strips of fur. It is unclear to me if he had clothes on when then offering a diadem to Caesar twice. 🐺 But it was a bad look. 👑

Student quote of the week: "I love it when we do murders".

Monday's anxiety brain jukebox: It's Oh So Quiet - Bjork My Old Man's A Dustman (to the tune of The Girl From Ipanema) - Willy Rushden on ISIHAC

Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him.

And they didn't wash their hands, I'll bet.

$77 billion could have solved homelessness in America for over 8 years, but they had to make second life with no legs.

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1760

oh la la

Now, granted I know very little about the Deep Cheers Lore, but this bugged me lately: How is Frasier so rich? He moves back to Seattle, gets an absurdly opulent apartment, regularly attends expensive concerts and restaurants, and works for a radio station. That surely doesn't pay for everything?

You should read @alicefraser.bsky.social's lovely and sorrowful and human piece on Bondi Beach & then reflect that it's the sort of communication that's only possible when you don't view everything as an online argument that you have to win at all costs. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

the new year

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

"Mid"? Oh piss off. The OED wouldn't have given me that.

Show me how you draw / paint horses 🐎 Happy Year of the Horse, folks 💙✨

It's only a murder of crows if there's probable caws

Good to see @alexhorne.bsky.social is doing so well professionally.

It me

james cameron every few years

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was eventually traced to the slums of Whitechapel around 1888.

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again