Such insight over on X (and not anything very silly that I suggested a name for)

A rare exception to University Challenge's splitting of all music into "popular music" or "classical music" tonight, as "country music" has clearly been deemed never to be popular enough to count as that

Time for Herbie Goes Bananas youtu.be/VRU2ujV2fDw

This is Audible Yes I know I turned the volume up to listen

Got some company at the coffee shop

Bir rude of the BBC to have an entire ceremony to say who in sport is the most spotty

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

A couple of days late to this detail, but from IGN: Rockstar tried to NDA a group of MPs who were meeting them about claims of illegal firings for union busting, incredible, that's the most Rockstar thing to do, well done. Hilarious move. www.ign.com/articles/gta...

James Acaster getting his 'food hell' on Saturday Kitchen –  late contender for TV moment of the year

Hello and welcome to my new podcast The Rest Is When You Have A Little Nap

It's worth noting that the Government has a massive majority and could fix this in an instant with a one-line piece of legislation. It doesn't want to.

profoundly sad www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

Incredible headline.

Excellent week for me in getting printed-versions-of-internet-things - the @puzzmo.com notebook with puzzles on each page, and the @vole.wtf DOCTYPE magazine with entire web apps to type in to use. Wonderful nonsense.

the dumbest timeline continues to get dumber

Amol Rajan updating his CV

BBC DIrector General and News CEO gone: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Breaking news (apparently)

This such a perfect patriotic 🇬🇧 Fleet Street cock-up. It's one thing for a news outlet to be duped by a competent hoaxer. Excruciating, yes, but there's a fairly long history of such fuck ups. But to put out a statement SAYING you'd been hoaxed but you'd actually just emailed the wrong guy?

When he says “hit it, Joe”, I don’t think first time viewers are going to be prepared for just how hard Joe hits it.

When Rory Stewart isn't talking, Rory Stewart powers down

Roblox

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Oobah Butler's got a new documentary on Channel 4, and within the first 10 minutes he's inspired by Steven Bartlett to hustle and so starts a child sweatshop, lovely work no notes

Some light reading in this coffee shop

Updating my Goodreads every Monday evening to mark my progress on Paradise Lost

This is a story about cliches. But it's also, a story about more than just cliches. It's about introductions to multi-part. narrative documentaries. It's about how we all understand things start. And it's also about what it means to be human, probably.

In fairness, "Have I Got News For You" can actually be read as a question, and it just turns out the answer is "no, no I don't have news for you"

I still think about this Onion headline *at least* 10-15 times a week

I'm going to start a Facebook page with fake screencaps of unsolvable The 1% Club style questions, and it's going to become the most commented on page in the country

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

Incredible NFL coverage on Channel 5. They heard your feedback about not liking the weird game show things so decided fuck it what if it was worse and we couldn't keep the live feed from the States stable at all

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

I went outside for a lovely walk this afternoon and I come back on line to read a) Virtual Boy Is Back and b) Notices Bulge was on a casing and I'll be honest parsing reality is a bit of a struggle

V&A East Storehouse is a pretty cool spin on museum stuff - you've got to be ready for it to be a bit of a grab bag of items without themes, sections etc, but if you want a wander and an 'oooh', fantastic

Only Connect mentioning NYT Connections was exactly what I was hoping for

The BBC News obsession with a live blog hits new heights as from the title I presume this blog is going to be running long non-stop for the next 3 months

Started the fans, please and thank you.

In a shared office for the week and genuinely just heard and is an accurate description of what happened is "Santa's here, he's delivered the tiramisu"

I don't want to say Manchester is a parody of itself but it's raining inside the station

You may not like it but this is what peak posting performance looks like

Well this is mad and fun

Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Day 2 of the Big Swedish Church Move and the SVT live stream is interviewing the team in the catering tent about how many cups of coffee they'll make. Continues to be must-watch TV. www.svtplay.se/video/KMyy33...

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

Entirely baseless assumptions I have made up #73: Søstrene Grene shops are actually just a front for a cult.

I’m doing a printed mag of type-in web pages (like ‘80s computer mags did with BASIC programs) and it just occurred to me that one of them could be an image Any illustrators fancy the challenge of making an image that’s (a) a fun surprise when you see it, & (b) a very small SVG file when exported..?