I had a joke about Yael and Sisera and tbh I think I nailed it

me, smart, a big-shot university president, paying the Danegeld: that should be the last we hear from the Dane

The second hand appliance store pickled onion Christmas window is back.

jonathan bailey going for that oscar in jaw acting

Our new indie rep cinema is doing a festival today titled "They Ate! Carnivorous Plants & Fashionable Humans" man how good that is

jesus that kicker

Looks like the lady in line ahead of me at Albertsons is having a day:

learned tonight that Stephen Sondheim, on the record, called VERTIGO (1958) "the most overrated piece of shit"

pitch black at 4:30pm! gross! no thanks!!!

It is genuinely delightful how much people in the past also had incredibly terrible ideas that they wrote down

dim sum dumplings with black, fresh coleslaw with white, braised with apple or red wine, cabbage and vinegar truly one of the GOAT food combinations

#NeverForget 🫡

I think it's important to situate a lot of this nascent AI spiritualism alongside historical antecedents; spiral cults are just the new incarnation of the "spiritual telegraph", a mode of coming to terms with technology that feels alien or disembodied

"The relationship between Israel and the Jewish Diaspora." You mean the one where you constantly hit me up for cash while telling me I'm not a real Jew and that I better not make any other friends if I know what's good for me? Yeah, man, great relationship there. Really worth maintaining

queueing today for the women's loo at a tourist site, participating in multilingual/sign explanations of 1) there is no paper 1b) I have tissues if you need them 2) the reason no one is using the second toilet is that it is really gross just could not IMAGINE caring if anyone involved was trans!!

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

I know it can feel like elections in places we don’t live don’t matter but y’all it is so fucking rough in these streets for queer kids rn and every single one of these victories is going to keep more of them with us so they get to be queer adults 💕

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

look I'm no branding expert but I possibly would have called these something else

oh hey it's Donald Sutherland, the weed-smoking professor in Animal House!

I can't recall another political candidate who seems this genuinely delighted to be among his desired constituents in my whole life. Not all of the other candidates have been insincere or undelighted even!

summoning circle: 🕯 🕯 🕯 dodgers 🕯 🕯turn down invite 🕯 🕯️to White House 🕯 🕯 🕯

catching up on the highlights and this was SO good, guys what a game

Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect

public transport is wonderful, there is a 20-year-old Batman across from me on the London overground cradling an open bottle of Tesco white wine and asking his friend Zorro in italian if he looks ok

I'm deeply enjoying British attempts to do Halloween, like the "Spooky Soup" I saw in cafe yesterday or these valiant attempts by M&S. Why is it spooky? Why is the ketchup "haunting"? What makes it a Halloween persimmon? I love it

Watching "The Last of Sheila" and ahh the lapels

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673

The pan over to Chewbacca made me laugh out loud with joy

we literally have a famously Jewish football fan club and it is Tottenham

I know many people who are not obviously awful or deluded who use ChatGPT and Copilot, and just realised they are mostly using it to search for relatively simple information that should be easy to find, but isn't, because there is so much dreck online and search engines don't help any more.

"Hedda" (2025) was great fun, esp Nina Hoss' Eileen Lovborg who is about 500% more interesting than Eilert and gets some great material to get stuck into (from a few scenes offstage in the play) Sorry but Tom Bateman is too handsome for Tesman! needs to be a big loser or at least loser adjacent

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

ahh just found out my brother was at the Mariners game, atmosphere envy off the charts

Cover of L&NER’s Wandering On The Continent booklet, 1937

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"Stereophonic" for the E Street Band (it's just Bruce yelling "STICK" at Max Weinberg for three hours including interval)

Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.

briefly concerned this was going to be like Lucky Town or Working on a Dream but no

I can forget how ludicrous the British class system is, until it protrudes into casual life, like overhearing a conversation this weekend between a posh young man and his parents who were paying for his house remodel (as they presumably had the house)

that's my senator ❤️❤️❤️✊

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

Putin taking huge risks to get Trump elected in order to destroy the American-led global order from within, succeeding, and then failing to get anything out of it because his brain was soupified during the pandemic is gonna be one of the greatest bag fumbles of all time

it's nice and good for stories be a certain length and have an ending

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

Is Caledonian Road (end to end) the best street for restaurants in London? For variety, quality, range

We went to The Producers revival last night and ahh it's still so good how utterly naff "Springtime for Hitler" is as a production obv not a new observation but yeah, fascist aesthetics are mostly just crap and tacky, and at constant possibility of falling into camp! nailed it mel!!

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