This is Australia but holy shit

Pick up a new book. Page 9: “I had nowhere else to go.” Me:

Who wants to chip in a tenner? www.worldofinteriors.com/story/richar...

In case anyone is interested in how I do these, heres a quick time lapse

Trans folk aren't killing people. Black history isn't killing people. Empathy isn't killing people. Feminism isn't killing people. Left wing YouTube isn't killing people. It's guns. It's literally guns.

Which movie do you consider to be perfect?

It has long been my opinion that Hollywood is frittering away the generational dance talents of Channing Tatum & Tom Holland by not putting them in a musical together. Not a remake, but akin to Gene Kelly & Donald O’Connor in Singin’ In The Rain. I strongly believe this would make a billion dollars

We never had music in the car, ever, because neither of my parents liked it. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I realised how sad that was.

Tag yourself. I’m ‘Vintage’.

Is there any worse sound at 7:15 on a Saturday morning than your husband plaintively calling “Do you want to come and help me catch a mouse?” from downstairs?

Dudes rock

[Withnail, close to tears] “I have become vulnerable in the night-time economy”.

Frank Turner’s “Love, Ire & Song” nails it every single time

She really is the best to ever do it. I will always adore Le Guin.

Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2

(this goes into more detail, but the "Symbol's Unique to a Submarine" list is rather wonderful. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_...)

On the Jolly Roger. It's a Royal Navy tradition for a submarine that has engaged in combat successfully to fly one upon their return to port. This is HMS Conqueror returning home in 1982

Happy first birthday to these beautiful idiots. Not quite so small now, but definitely still as daft.

I loved Lissa Evans’s Small Bomb at Dimperley so much that I immediately want to read it all over again. It’s a complete joy. And I haven’t fallen so hard and fast for a man in a book since Teddy in Life After Life / A God in Ruins.

Shamelessly reposting this not for the (strong) tailoring advice, but because sometimes seeing Gene Kelly dancing - twice - makes the world a little brighter for a minute or two

It's time to do that thing you've been wanting to do

I couldn't get tickets to the world premiere of Frankenstein in Imax. They sold out in milliseconds. My only choice was to get there 40 minutes early and wait in the standby line. Guillermo del Toro walked by, saw me waiting, and had his team give me one of his personal guest tickets.

I’ve been saying for AGES that this would happen, and annoyingly I was right [adjusts “Cassandra” baseball cap]

Be existential to each other…

Red - (My fave illustration from this year)

Looking at the people who attended that state dinner, it’s time to bring out the sign again

This is also not a good sign

That’s not a good sign

Timeline Cleanse!

“the enemy arrives not by rubber dinghy but by private jet” (traditional English proverb)

Real life Andrex puppy alert!

I would like to bring back chatelaines as everyday fashion items, please. I think life would be better if we could carry our little treasures around with us like magpies. “Here is my antique penknife. This is my emotional support acorn. And that’s my special super shiny rock. Her name is Elizabeth.”

They Tropic Thundered Anaconda

Realised it was going to stop raining for a bit, ran upstairs and chucked on my exercise kit and got out of the door to do a quick 3 mental (and also physical) health miles. I don’t even know who I am any more.

The problem with finishing a book is that one half of my brain is very tired and wants to lie down for a year, while the other half is already pacing; picking at the woodwork with its fingernails and muttering “Book? BooOOOk?”. Meanwhile the other half is watching both of them, unimpressed.

Data centres, is it? Cool cool cool we don’t need water anyway www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Daily bunny no.3079 is sworn to secrecy

I just learned that AS Byatt could apparently write 6,000 words a day “without much trouble” and I feel a bit sick now

yeah - no apologies for the screenshot rather than RT but you needed to see the reply too

BREAKING: Justice Gregory Carro has dismissed the first degree murder charge against Luigi Mangione in his state case, finding the DA put legally insufficient evidence before the grand jury. More TK.

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

No thank you this is not what I ordered. Take it back, please.

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky.

One of my very very favourites, Jamie Parker, is playing the Baker in the Bridge’s production of Into The Woods: if you know me in person or we’ve been around social media together for a while, you will know that this made me make a very specific sound that only dogs & small children can hear

Sheer. fucking. spite.

The Kid decided he was going to teach me about metalcore & deathcore. Deep magic, witch.

I love this film SO much, so very much. It’s a - if not *the* - perfect rainy afternoon film, when it’s grim outside and you want something that makes you feel better about the world. This is that film. It has everything.

Terror.

Not before time, news on 2024’s finds from the investigation on Erebus & Terror, with some very interesting items found including a raincoat! welcome is the news Parks Canada won’t be doing any further active research on the wrecks, at least for the time being. parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nu/e...