Me, watching a guy argue with Gail Simone:

idly looking on maps at the location of my parents' house and it's genuinely quite weird seeing how big their front lawn is compared to everyone else's due to it a) being on the corner and b) having two giant trees with preservation orders on them in said bit of land.

reading @trungles.com live tweeting of reading Pride and Prejudice (it's hysterical) and now thinking of when I was reading Persuasion at the till. customer: 'so where are you?' 'she's received a letter?' 'I'm going to take five to let you read that.' me: 'huh?' *reads* 'FUUUUCKKKK' 'need a moment?'

There is a stage adaptation of P&P where Caroline and Darcy both know they can distract Bingley by throwing a tennis ball for him and telling him to fetch. He is played by a human and can talk and usually walks on two legs but has remarkably canine mannerisms.

its always genuinely weird looking at arbitary political borders drawn on the map with a pen Instead of , say, 'there's a mountain range / desert / river here' no shilly shallying. the whole of the geographical feature is the border, thank you.

Ready or Not 2 (disney+) is delightful. Bit slow to start, kicks in about the halfway mark for full gonzo funny scary murder splatterfest. Aussie blondes : they have 2 states : traumatised and Bitch Queen Bow Down. kathryn Newton is meanwhile embodying chaos gremlin supreme.

The whole of England belongs to ghosts, Harrowhounds, a thousand folkloric creatures that scurry and floats its fields. Horned hobs and hoofed impossibilities make nests in our churches, bleed from our dreams into stone manifestation. We live in a monstrous kingdom. – #CLNolan

We didn't see the pickled organ.

I noticed a neighbour had set up a little library box in their front yard. I checked the books and saw they were all jumbled up. I had only moved a few when a net fell on me. "Gotcha! Oh..." "What's going on?" I asked. "There's a feral librarian around." "Ah. Catch, tag, feed, release?" "Yup."

Goodnight from Iris Walker, kissing her hag stone to seal desperate wishes of escaping her job at Syon’s chicken factory. Goodnight from Mark Hately, trying hard not to think why the intruder he hears downstairs sounds like a child forcing its way through brambles. Goodnight from Hookland.

Looking for a way to beat the heat? Follow these simple steps: Enter a dark forest. Lie down under the ferns. Become one with the stillness. Let the moss slip in between the atoms of your body and intertwine, until you become one. Rest, forever.

Good morning to this warty boi, who I found in the garage and relocated outdoors before any of the cats could find him and ruin his day

All lawyers have to undertake a ‘conflict check’ before taking on a new client. For Nigel Farage & George Cottrell to be sharing the same lawyers, it means the convicted money launderer & Reform leader’s interests are aligned. In what way? And who’s paying? 2/

#TodayInQueerHistory July 21 (1980) The Olympic Games draw the eyes of the world to Russia, to Moscow, to see who will take home the gold. Before the XXII games commence, Italian activist Vincenzo “Enzo” Francone chains himself to Lenin's Mausoleum to protest the Soviet Unions anti LGBTQ laws.

"Why can't I get dates?"

Banning them. It’s not rocket science.

(this was inspired by seeing Neil Blomkamp go further down the "AI can make films, here look at this uncanny piece of shit I made when once upon a time I actually knew how to make movies instead of what I do now which is to yell COMPUTER MAKE DADDY A MOVIE NOW AND MAKE IT REAL BLOMKAMPY at an app)

People who choose AI as their creative output: - hate people and having to work with them - are all hat and no cattle, which is to say, they have "ideas" but don't want to even learn the work to implement them - hate the craft itself, and care only about content, about product, about "end results"

in Munich’s queer neighbourhood the lesbians stop and the gays go

Larry brought a mouse to us today upon his return from the FCDO. ive managed to find a less gruesome pic to post (slightly different to the twitter one). showing us all that despite being 19, he is still quite capable of doing his job. RIP mouse.

checked goodreads for what early heated Rivalry reviews were like, and huh, I didn;t realise I read it so soon after it was published. (June 2019)

This loss has really shocked me. The MonsterVerse films aren’t best known for their heart and humanity, but Kaylee Hottle gave them both in abundance as ‘Kong whisperer’ Jia Andrews. 18 is no age to die. She will be sorely missed.

She dated him for like three years???? Girl.

I mean no offence to these women but have they considered simply not dating massive losers

Mention of Bob Hoskins on the timeline has me watching this on repeat several times again

Good morning.☕️✌️

There's a big ad for meta glasses in my local Specsavers. It uses a female model for the photo, which feels like a very conscious "we swear these aren't for pervert men, honest guv" vibe to the whole thing.

Sharks get cancer. People claiming otherwise are trying to sell something to the desperate. And even if sharks didn’t get cancer, eating shark wouldn’t cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.

Nothing says “I should be taxed more“ more than using $82 million to argue that you should not, in fact, be taxed more.

There’s a chance to step inside the historic Middle Temple Hall, where Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night was first performed, as part of a Shakespeare-themed theatrical tour of the Middle Temple grounds. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/tic...

"How do you identify a good manager?" "We find that manager contributions are crucial for team success, and that people who self-select into management roles perform worse than randomly assigned managers." academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

I didn't see there's a video!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhHK...

I never understand recipes that say 'the tzatziki / raita will keep in the fridge for 2 days / 1/2 cucumber's enough for 4 people'

this is such a sad way to live your life on the other hand it’s happening to the worst people alive, so who’s to say whether it’s good or bad

imagine going on Gladiators, being about to do a strength challenge... ...and Tom fucking Stoltman walks out (Absolutely made up for Stoltman though. Open and frank about his autism. S-Tier supportive of kids at strongman live events. Now on one of his self-confessed favourite shows. Lovely stuff)

An artist posted a picture on LinkedIn with the caption, 'I drew a bird while I was angry. I'm no longer angry and now I love the bird. AI will never make me feel like this' Some absolute prick, who has 'Filmmaker. Helping filmmakers master their craft' in his bio replied:

"That’s therapy not art. Drawing or painting to alleviate pain or suffering is indeed beneficial. But it does not qualify it as art. Art unto itself has no purpose. And AI is just another brush in my toolbox." Pleased to inform you he's getting roasted in the replies but what a prick

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

Lots of things can seem like a vast unknowable conspiracy if you are stupid. Sometimes the answer is not that complicated.

Ask your post-war baby parents. They had classmates and kids on their road who went into an iron lung. If they deny this, they're probably senile or lying.

Well, I've got four of those, SO THANKS FOR NOTHING, SCIENCE

This is great. I tuned in just in time for this lovely bit of comedy camera work.

I understand this point, but "good vs good" remains one of the most compelling plots of them all, and any author worth their salt could put together characters who share their ethical sensibilities but still become enemies.

“Because you recently purchased a Robocop, we think you might be interested in these other Robocops” gizmodo.com/robocop-is-o...

Maybe they should have a bake sale?🤷‍♂️🤔

The political metaphor is strong with this one.

So--is the fact that nobody's making any jokes about Rob Liefeld doing NSFW covers because it's too obvious? Or because everybody looked at his feet and had their brains scrambled by the non-Euclidean geometry?

I thought the big World Cup trophy at the final was silly but now I've seen this photo of Little Yamal dancing next to it and have decided it was good.