This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Thought about this for a few minutes, and dibbled around between assorted nominees, but I think I know my answer now: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946). It still amazes me every time I see it even though I know what's coming. To recapture being entirely unprepared as I sat down to watch it... yeah.

ok this is a good poster with a good tagline

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Three people you don't want to get into a public beef with are Kendrick, Isaac Chotiner, and The Pope

Ah, that explains it

Maybe, instead of just banning older kids & teens from vast swathes of the online world, governments could collectively act to force social media companies to do something about making their products less harmful all round?

Holy shit www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...

When people say that the economy being good feels completely disconnected from their lives, this is what they mean. Okay, shoes are AI now, and they get $50 million for that. Reading that sentence doesn't feel like getting bonked on the head with a bowling pin at all.

looks like they're being processed after getting arrested for trying to steal some super cheap cider from a mini tesco's

I was doing a talk about medieval history at my son’s primary school, and for fun I put on a medieval style dress I had, and took my longbow to show the kids. Walking there, I had to cross an old bridge over a river… where I passed a falconer carrying a hawk on his glove going the other way.

I have to start doing the thing I’m anxious about doing, but keep finding other things to do around the house to delay it - because if I don’t then I’ll actually be doing the thing I’m anxious about doing. But I’m also anxious because I’m not doing the thing I’m anxious about doing, but need to do

Strong start to the day: seeing Tobias Forge (precisely 3 months younger than me) referred to as an “old man”. Try not to trip over the shrivelled husk of my agèd body on your way out, kids

Love this. Watched some turtle hatchings in N. Cyprus. Sex of the hatchlings is determined by how deep the egg they come from is buried in the sand & thus the temp as they develop. So you get Cool Guys (eggs buried deep) & Hot Girls (eggs nearer the surface)!

virgin mary punching the devil, england, 13th century

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

In further guitar-learner adventures, I have just managed to play the C chord for the first time! It took me putting one finger down at a time until I finally stopped messing it up, but I GOT it.

I see your timeline cleanser and raise you this, the ultimate post.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Zsolt Hegedus, a leading candidate for health minister in a future Hungarian government, danced enthusiastically on stage as the opposition Tisza party celebrated a landslide victory that ended Viktor Orban's long rule.

I am SO excited about this: Haymitch has been one of my favourite HG characters* since I first read the books - and after reading his story, I’m 100% on board with seeing it on screen *see also Finnick

Regardless of whether it’s a house or a hotel, a significant part of me finds the idea of staying anywhere called Hill House… unsettling

I had some people round for dinner last night, and I tried to impress them with a sauce created from vodka, gravy and nitrous oxide. But all I've done is make myself an absolut laughing stock.

The sad thing about having a family who absolutely do NOT share your musical taste is that it has taken the verbal equivalent of a pinboard covered in red string to explain why accidentally discovering a song by Emigrate with guest vocals from Cardinal Copia has thrilled me so much.

It’s not even an “après moi, le deluge” mindset, is it? It’s a belief that it’s *impossible* for there to be anything else beyond them and their lifetimes - and they want us to believe that’s true. But it’s not. It never has been, and it never will be.

beowulf where "hwæt" is translated as "stop! collaborate and listen"

<hoarsely> i'm not crying you're crying

If I believed in God, and believed in the Devil, this is exactly the kind of the thing I’d expect the Devil to do.

Reunited with my true loves

Look, I love a teacake as much as the next person but I think I’m pretty much tapped out on Tunnocks jokes now

Hello. I just found out that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”, and now I need you lot to know that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”. youtu.be/voqCQSDAcn8

There is no McTry.

It wasn’t a fluke! I just did it again! It feels like something might have finally clicked. I really, really love my guitar

A standard Thursday afternoon

Keep thinking about how good this impression was. 😂❤️

This is a very small, very stupid thing - but. I just had one of those vanishingly rare guitar leaner experiences where you pick it up and actually feel like you're doing something: for the first time, I just managed to repeatedly switch between E and Em while strumming WITHOUT stopping.

Singing 'Your own, very disappointing, NATO' to the tune of Depeche Mode.

Yes more Michael Palin yes please and thank you

God, this mantasy business really is the “but when is it International Men’s Day?” of genre fiction, isn’t it?

Plagues and Popes, the two genders

Yesteryear is absolutely WILD: I had such a good time. (You have to read this book)

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Me: Miles Caton couldn't play the guitar and learned it in a couple of months, specifically for Sinners. So, you know, crack on. Also me: [physically unable to stretch my third finger to the right fret for Dm, using my fourth finger, then forgetting that I actually have fingers] This is going well.

Indentured labourers typically had shorter periods of indenture than this in the 19-th century British empire.

"Moon's haunted"

We just introduced the Kid (completely cold) to From Dusk Till Dawn. He had absolutely no idea what was coming, and it was a total delight: I thoroughly recommend watching ridiculous films your 18-year old knows nothing about with them.

Being remembered forever isn't difficult. All you have to do is carry a bag of onions everywhere you go & hand them out as gifts. People will think you are some kind of quaint onion fairy. "There goes the onion lady!" they'll say as you pass out onions. Work smarter, not harder.

Went to (a lovely) dinner with friends, had some whisky and then spent 30 minutes giving them my optimistic Luddite, “people are fundamentally good and kind” speech and now I’m worried they won’t want to be my friends any longer

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”