Quick little newsletter while watching the Olympics: open.substack.com/pub/sabinast...

This is the future the left wants.

LINDSEY VONN 💔❤️‍🩹 #Olympics

I know all the words used individually, but seeing them all put together in that sentence doesn’t make sense to me.

The snowboarding drone shots are WILD! #Olympics

Olympics is easily one of my favourite things because you get thrown into these worlds of niche sports that have their own lore, history and drama to them. To the people taking part it's their entire lives and this is the moment they get numbers tuning in to watch. #winterolympics #olympics

How is that Freestyle Skiing / Slopestyle boy ok??? #Olympics

The Luge always looks so fun. How do the athletes not go “weeeeeeee!” while they go #Olympics

Rachel McAdams studied the ancient texts for Send Help

Måneskin should have performed, or should be performing, surely? #Olympics #WinterOlympics

Women’s ice hockey shootout! #Olympics

I want all of David Lynch's children to be able to enjoy long, financially stress-free lives, but it does kill my soul seeing his beautiful compound up on the open market. :( Here's hoping somebody COOL buys it + not a tech billionaire.

Ida Lupino's life as a film director in one picture: watching the Outrage dailies with her staff & cast RKO, 1950

FINNEAS defends sister Billie Eilish amid online backlash over her anti-ICE comments at GRAMMYs: “Seeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during her acceptance speech. We can literally see your names in the Epstein files.”

The Threads app it's nothing but a Heated Rivalry group chat and I’m not complaining.

Any excuse to repost this peerless thread.

The married Curling couples bickering at one another on the ice is my new favorite Olympic sport.

The Winter Olympics start on Friday.

[John Virgo sotto voce] One of the most shameful things l've ever seen here at the Crucible

If you can tear yourself away from the Winter Olympics, I'm hosting the post-film Q&A of this a week on Sunday: macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema/exhib...

i love reading reviews that are about what the writer wanted the movie to be instead of what it actually is

An underappreciated element of Bullseye is the often batshit questions I also very much did not know this piece of trivia

Luke Humphries just seems like such a lovely lad #WinmauWorldMasters

🍿 New year, new thread! 🍿 Favourite first time watches, January 2026: 🎬 Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs, 2025) 🎬 45 Years (Andrew Haigh, 2015) 🎬 A History of Sound (Oliver Hermanus, 2025) 🎬 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Nia DaCosta, 2026)

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There's a lot happening here.

So proud of my friend Sabina!!! She’s worked so hard on this project for so long. Everyone get ready to be blown away!!!

I’m fucking sweating, lol, you’re all lovely x

SOME NEWS, BYE!

Good to see Robert Aramayo get some well deserved attention #BAFTAS

"The real question here isn’t why Heated Rivalry is a hit—it’s why this kind of romance series is so rare in the first place." The great @gavia.bsky.social returns to Fansplaining with an incisive piece on Heated Rivalry, romance publishing, and the TV industry. Read or listen to an audio version:

Funny how none of the boys resembled anyone from #HeatedRivalry when I used to ice-skate and watch hockey at Solihull ice rink during the late nineties.

This is incredible

The pet influencers are pissed.

Incredible shot of the cockpit of Space Shuttle Discovery, taken by a camera mounted on the robot arm during the STS-128 mission (September 2009) as it passed over Central Asia.

the fruits

I love honesty boxes and always stop when I see one. This is my all-time favourite, near Applecross 😄

Ep 5 of Can You Keep a Secret? has an excellent Beckhams joke.

If Armando Iannucci and Stewart Lee making fun of Trump and his Board of Peace for half an hour sounds like just the ticket today, Ianucci's podcast can be found here. I laughed so hard: www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

I know there are MANY more important things going on in the world right now, but let us take a tiny bit of cheer over the fact that Delroy Lindo and Wunmi Mosaku just got nominated for Oscars.

God what a DAY !

Homebound robbed! #Oscars

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DELROY LINDO! #Oscars

THINK BIKE - JIMMY HILL (1978): The legendary football pundit presents this PIF from an equally legendary road safety campaign. Features some incredible, neck-crunching stuntwork (the example at the end makes me squirm)

Always loved this picture, that skeleton is so fucked up but chill about it

I did some cultural criticism and wrote about Connor Storrie and Club Chalamet. It feels like because of social media and online stan culture, people get way too famous, way too fast. Waiting to devour them are creators like Club Chalamet, who buy in like stocks: www.chron.com/culture/arti...