Americans think British people are wimps for complaining about the heat. But what you don't realise is that most British houses were actually built in Britain, a cursed island that hates us.

At Miniature Painting Open a friend bought a bunch of us tiny plinths to see what we’d do with them. Made a start on my attempt.

My zero-stakes conspiracy theory is that spinach takes longer to wilt than it used to.

As Jabba the Hutt's son I'm often gatekept from progressive spaces due to preconceived notions about my family. At the same time, I acknowledge the reasonable concerns my presence would raise, and I'm working every day to unlearn the harmful attitudes instilled in me on my father's pleasure barge.

It's so cool how we're building an actual colosseum on the back of the mad emperor's palace again

Back to the Future II-ass timeline

In celebration of both World Dracula Day and Peter Cushing's birthday. 🧛

@greigarjohnson.bsky.social Appreciate the Dante’s Cardigan shoutout in the new video, which is watching in my office painted that exact colour. Like seeing a cameo from a beloved friend.

TERFs knocking on the toilet cubicle door.

“The bone-deep racist man-child we inexplicably allowed to become the richest person ever used his wholly owned social media platform to endorse one fascist party over another and the good news is this might, mind you I said *might*, help one milquetoast temporarily replace another milquetoast.”

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

Sneezons greetings

And a very happy airborne plant spaff season to you all

tom waits appearing to you in a dream to tell you he's made an incredible breakthrough and showing you a box with a bag of flour, a water bottle, a toaster oven and a hammer and calling it a "build your own crumbs kit"

"Quark encounters with direct competition from a nearby station, Gloucester Services."

18th October 2017: Less than 10 years ago there was broad, cross party support for trans people just living their lives. This bigotry at the highest level has been astroturfed into existence in less than a decade. It's a lie. A con.

logging on to bluesky

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

Imagine things being so bad that you've decided to try and trade off Jared Leto's popularity.

current news got me thinking about this story from last year

I love Google's AI search, this is just absolutely fine.

You can tell a lot about our current cultural moment by reading the TVTropes "Headscratchers" page for Jaws, where multiple entries basically ask, "Why is the shark so unusually large and aggressive?" and the replies all explain that Jaws is a movie about an unusually large and aggressive shark.

There’s a sentence that screams “failed state”

- dire news sire, the warlord of the eastern wastes hath quote tweeted one of your jokes about your concubines and it hath broken containment - hath he left a courtesy like - he hath not

This is me coming back off two days’ holiday

It's insane to me that this movie didn't spawn five sequels. It's perfect.

Google’s absolute unrelenting determination to make the internet much, much worse really is something to behold.

Not now, unmanned submarine mapping West Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf.

Do you ever think about the fact that the designers of General Midi were tasked with coming up with the 128 most important instruments in the world, and one of the answers they came up with was "Goblins"

If you leave your bag on a chair on a standing room only train, I 100% know who you vote for.

Hey, computers guy here: don’t fucking do this

Hey, computers guy here: don’t fucking do this

He’s offended because The Odyssey is about something near and dear to him: being an absent father while chasing vanity for 20 years

not unrecognizable but he does look like if Belgium had a dictator

For a movie that’s 36 years old, Dick Tracy’s make up & prosthetic artists did a fantastic job on the outlandish Dick Tracy villains that still holds up.

I'm really mad that this story has been going on for days and nobody has asked Christopher Nolan if the cyclops is going to be historically accurate

Trying not to judge the Madri-drinking lads lads lads on the opposite table on this train but one of them just described something as “like Corona but even better” and I really don’t understand how that’s your quality framework.

keir starmer, from what i gather

My entries for MPO this weekend. Now I just need to figure out how to get these to Bristol.

Got briefly logged out of this app yesterday and saw this login screen which is such an inaccurate representation of the Bluesky experience that I think it could be legally actionable

I will never stop talking about this: The lovely and profound "If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" is from an NYT article about the author accidentally being CC'd on an email where his friends were making fun of him for renting goats.

Every time I open Bluesky,

My entries for MPO this weekend. Now I just need to figure out how to get these to Bristol.

this feels like a psyop I am not mentally prepared for this huge child

It’s absurd that Wes Streeting doing anything should affect literally anything else. In a just universe he’d be excluded from the laws of physics.

Getting a lot more mileage out of this than I expected

Objectively hilarious

A highly enjoyable bit of cultural convergent evolution is that His Dark Materials has the same narrative structure as a 90s JRPG: First level: you, your childhood friend who will ultimately die have childish hijinks! Final level: you, your love interest and a motley crew fight God