In for my first League game of the season. Cagier than I would have liked, but the first half performance was outstanding

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Best present yet this year: my little logo brought to life

SCROOGE: you there! what day is today? BOY: today? it's Christmas Day SCROOGE: the spirits did it all in one night! BOY: NINETEEN SEVENTY THREE [Life on Mars plays, a Ford Cortina suddenly crashes into Scrooge's front room] GENE HUNT: OI, DI Scrooge, get in, we've got a nonce in Didsbury to bust

and indeed merry christmas to *all* the group chats, everywhere

Suspect I enjoyed Metroid Prime 4 more than many, but wow — what an absolutely awful ending

Not a game to settle any discomfort about the team right now, but I'll take any win I can get

If he can't get off on a "personal use" excuse then I don't know what Europe's coming to.

Eating the elusive Good London Taco

You’re running out of time to eat them, but here’s my exhaustively updated guide to London’s best mince pies, including some old favourites and some new stars

I'd take Way of Water any day of the week, but Fire and Ash still has the juice. I want more of these, but the next one does need to find new pockets of Pandora to explore

A single dish specialist has to really nail that one dish — sadly Khao So-i’s modernised take on the Thai noodle soup doesn't pull off that trick

Traffic to UK porn sites has dropped 77% since age-verification went live. UK legislator celebrates, saying she's "very pleased" with the drop, calling it a "green shoot." I don't know how they can make it any clearer that they view AV as a tool to police adult sexuality. Organize accordingly.

I do enjoy living in the normal timeline, where regular things happen

2025 was meant to suck for Google, so how come it didn't?

New Knives Out is good Knives Out

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.

I think this might be the first moment I truly feel like Fiorentina are getting relegated this year

I bought another domain name: doesthetrumpphoneexistyet.com If the yanks fasc would still let me into the country for that, they certainly won't after this toot 😌 /ht @dompreston.com

What a reassuringly boring choice

This is exactly why I subscribe to @graceonfootball.com

I got engaged! Would you be shocked to hear that food was involved?

This is clever — an attempt to separate Google Maps’ review scores from some of its algorithmic weighting and present a more neutral restaurant map. Though it’s missing a lot of places!

Been playing a fun game in my head for the last few days trying to decide which of these catastrophically bad merger options would be worse for all of us

This week's post for paid subscribers: a recipe for pork and cabbage baozi that I pried out of Vivian's mum's hands

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Nice quiet morning to be holding down news by myself

I will be at CES... and I want to know what gadgets I absolutely must see *and touch* and quite possibly *film* for @theverge.com and my Today I'm Toying With video series! Does your gadget seem like a fit? Don't pitch me text: DM me photos or a video clip! www.theverge.com/gadgets/7128...

Already seeing dividends from my "scan first, shoot only when I'm absolutely positive there's nothing left in the room to scan" approach to Metroid Prime games

Bought a new mattress in the sales, smartly timed a collection of my old one for the day after it arrives. New mattress now delayed, old mattress still getting collected. So I guess I have two nights of sleeping on... the floor?

Anyone who’s eaten Whole Beast’s cooking before will not be desperately surprised to find out that their first permanent spot is off to a good start

I completely forgot this was coming, but it looks like a blast. Guess I need to find time for a rewatch!

So excited for the Metroid bits of this game, increasingly nervous about some of the rest

it's that time of year when a bunch of people start pretending their personal distaste for the avatar franchise can bend reality in their favor against the inevitable tide of james "big jim" cameron's next guaranteed blockbuster smash hit. you can ignore them, they are fools

Went and got engaged last week, highly recommended

In one sense, Your Party is moving agonisingly slowly; in another, it really is speed-running the traditional factional left-wing collapse

Listening to Last Christmas because it is an all-time banger and George didn't die on Christmas Day for you to disrespect his memory by participating in Whamageddon

Everything I’ve heard about Your Party, from the disorganisation, infighting and needless bureaucracy to this kind of stuff, has been one embarrassing cliche about leftism after another

Second-best. If it weren't for the Caicedo red, we would have lost that

Red absolutely the right decision. Arsenal now need to manage their yellow cards REALLY well.

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Sweeney is probably right that AI use - at least to some extent - is going to become ubiquitous. What might matter more is labels that reflect how AI is used - just as a coding tool, or to generate scripts, art, and voice lines wholesale?

I am speechless

UK politicians are beginning to murmur about restricting kids' access to VPNs, but could it actually happen?

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Top of both tables, just as we should be

This isn't a review of Dove, because I didn't eat at Dove the restaurant, I ate at Dove the 10-per-service burger bar

You couldn't have convinced me I'd be excited about a Far Cry TV show, and yet one 'Noah Hawley and Rob Mac' announcement and here we are