Friends! If you haven’t booked tickets yet to see this adaptation of ‘Dracula’, then you must! A genre savvy, modern, feminist, queer take on a tale that permeates pop culture. Not hugely subtle. But energetic, contemporary, ironic, entertaining and thought provoking 🤩🧛🏼‍♂️😍 lyric.co.uk/shows/dracula/

Worth re-sharing this one with the alt-text added in. 🔭 “And that's how it was for the next ten nights. A flare, spurting out from Mars – bright green, drawing a green mist behind it – a beautiful, but somehow disturbing sight. Ogilvy assured me we were in no danger….”

I like that. “some might reasonably say: “Brexit Boats” “Farage ferries.” “ReFuk returns” Consequences, consequences.

@bsky.app it would be an error to take a prudish stance to adult content and sex work related posts here. This platform should embrace the diversity of human experience and human expression. A narrow minded and censorious stance would only stifle the joy and creativity of the breadth of life.

Instead of an account blackout to protest BlueSky’s anti-sex T’s and Cs update, how about you share content from adult creators whose work you love? We’re drowning. It’s not just me, I don’t know anyone who produces adult content who is doing well right now.

If we tell Trump he can be the first US President to be dipped in molten gold I think he'd go for it

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

I’ve used copilot and GPT5 to do basic background research on publicly available information on the molecular biology of commercially significant biopharmaceutical molecules. Speaking with my technical colleagues, it’s clear that the answers are woefully inadequate. Confidently wrong. #DunningKrugAI

Basil loves a view.

This is unexpected.

she looks like something you didn’t know was there and discover only after you had the film developed

A selection of art from the galleries visited in Geneva ce soir 🤩

What would happen if trump had another (more serious) stroke whilst on his state visit to the UK?

I often think about this study that shows ducklings swimming in a single-file formation behind their parent conserve energy through wave-riding, where trailing ducklings gain forward push, and wave-passing, where energy transfers efficiently along the line. Get your ducks in a row.

There are still some very profound tweets on Twitter.

Excellent to see @deeringrob.bsky.social and the lovely Julia, post Hampstead Heath parkrun. Very nice chatting with you this morning 🤩

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

every time you hear someone try to launder false goodwill for a fascist like Charlie Kirk when talking about his death, please think of this.

Again, the exhausting thing for me in the current era is not only being treated like fucking idiots by actual idiots, but the mainstream press position that treating me like a fucking idiot is in fact the reasonable position.

This is a masterclass in narrative tension

If you spend just 5 mins researching Nigel Farage's partner Laure Ferrari you will suddenly see clearly how much the media chooses to ignore the big stories for political gain. For a start no one seems to be asking where an unemployed former waitress found £900k to buy a house outright in Clacton

If only there had been some clue that he was like this.

@laurenlaverne.bsky.social The Great smooth Run medals debacle this year might yield something for ‘The People’s Playlist’ this week? Mistaken identity… being in the wrong place… getting lost… incorrect allocation of praise? Or a related theme? www.bbc.com/news/article...

I was initially surprised that Rayner hadn’t sought more advice on her tax liability. And £40k is a lot of money. But @timleunig.bsky.social makes a good point here, especially as a court told her to set up the trust. Goes to show quick takes can be bad ones. open.substack.com/pub/timleuni...

I was expecting it, but still jumped a little 😅

Probably not an omen.

Lucy Connolly, a woman who admitted inciting racial hatred after using social media to post about setting fire to hotels housing asylum seekers is to speak at the Reform UK Conference today. That spells out all you need to know about Reform UK and their dangerous, hateful agenda.

This woman will be protected by generations of crows h/t: Autumn Buck / firstdatejunkie

Whispers *that's the French flag mate*

A new, excellent example of Betteridge's law.

Played a cow in the Nativity in the 70s & was furious I hadn't got a speaking role. The boy playing Joseph soiled himself with explosive diarrhoea in assembly so I had to step in. Since then I've acted in TV dramas, a famous soap and countless adverts; thank you God of shitting.

Whatever you can come up with within your imagination, nature is weirder!!!

Am continuing to enjoy Alien Earth 👍🏼

im literally shaking. just got back from the store, where a masked man in a big coat grabbed me by the arm. he said: "listen here suit man. you didn't clock nuttin on the boss' sleeves, see? button that yap or you’ll get yourself fitted for cement shoes, capisce?” then he disappeared into the fog.

I wonder what it is like for Trump, to be unwell (quite seriously it seems), and to be confronted with the clear knowledge that a very high proportion of his fellow Americans (not to mention people overseas) are fervently wishing him ill. It is perhaps different than when he’s feeling healthy.

The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.

God these mirror universe episodes in Star Trek are tedious.

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

waka wake

I absolutely agree. It was so glaring I wondered if it had to be a plot point? 🤔

Getting slightly alarmed now by the ongoing cavalcade of shipping notifications that I’m receiving for bulk orders of spring bulbs I made, then forgot about, over the last six months or so 😬🌷🪻💐🌸

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

i've decided that making fun of british food is now gen x coded. continue this discourse at your own peril

Basil-cissus entering the danger zone.

Remember: the greater the emphasis placed on a lawyer being “distinguished” or “leading” the weaker the legal argument will tend to be. A good legal argument does not need such epaulets, and a bad legal argument is not saved by them.

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival