Why did nobody tell me that ITVX have had a load of really great TV series and films added to their streaming service lately? Fringe, BSG, Farscape, 24, Orphan Black... Something to get me through the next few weeks...

It takes a special kind of idiot to declare war on the Pope and then expect the Prime Minister of ITALY, a country that's over 80% Catholic, to support you.

I know some football radio commentators can be a little biased towards their local side but this one, who keeps declaring that every shot by his team missed because of a deflection when I can see on the TV that the opposition defenders/keepers tackled or saved it, is doing my head in.

Phew! The latest Starship Alexandria episode is now live! @aptshadow.bsky.social recommends the movie Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves but will it be recommended to the fleet? starshipalexandria.com/episode-12-d...

It really is something watching UK opposition parties trying to one-up each other on how much they'd subsidise fossil fuel usage while we're in a *supply* crisis rather than do what is needed and encourage less usage and increased renewables. All supposed principles abandoned to chase cheap votes.

Oh and a dose of extra contempt for the accounts which said 'they're all the same' and 'it doesn't matter.'

@mrjamesob.bsky.social #LBC There's no need to tell people to do things to reduce their costs by "catching a bus" etc because these are things that adults should be able to work out for themselves. It doesn't require anyone in power to tell us this. Their job is to do things to help us do it.

Is the crowd taking part in a 90 minutes silence? Who died? (I mean other than the game of football if this display is anything to go by) #ENGURU

Scarpetta is nuts. It jumps the shark several times in just 8 episodes (I haven't read any of the novels so I don't know if those moments are just invented for TV) and plot gets losts towards the end. Great cast though. Not enough to distract from how nuts the story is but nice try.

Today on Starship Alexandria, Emma and I talk about Bester's Demolished Man starshipalexandria.com/episode-11-t... whilst in the patron's bonus episode we look at Vance's Rumfuddle patreon.com/StarshipAlexandria , added to which, there's some SA merchanise to grab! starshipalexandria.teemill.com

In Doors of Eden on character mentions the human tendency to conflate confidence with reliability as the flaw that dooms us, and we’re sure as hell leaning into it these days.

Whoever named this group was definitely Cockney. #totp

"Stop! He who would remortgage must answer me these security questions three... 'ere the other side you see..." "Any one wrong answer will see you instantly launched into the Gorge of Eternal Security Flagging."

When did trying to remortgage with your existing provider over the phone become just like trying to answer the questions at the Bridge of Death in Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

The silver puffer jackets and shades on those models was certainly a... erm... choice. #OpeningCeremony #WinterOlympics

Watching the Winter Olympics opening ceremony with 3 dancing giants heads while listening to REM on #totp and somehow it works...

Really enjoying 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms'. Was a little surprised by the episode length but it is a short story so it makes sense. Daniel Ings stealing every scene he's in with his Lyonel Baratheon.

I don’t think a state that is threatening wars of territorial aggression and has random death squads wandering about its mid-tier cities assassinating civilians should be hosting the World Cup

It's fairly clear now that one thing an awful lot of people on this site don't understand is subtext.

Apparently dawn came and went about 44 minutes ago but it's still pitch black outside. Those are some SERIOUSLY thick rain clouds...

That feeling when you know you've seen your new Reform Party candidate somewhere before and for once it wasn't on Crimestoppers.

How did these Blake's 7 characters get on #totp ?

It's no The Kids Aren't Alright #totp

Negasonic Teenage Warhead? #totp

I see that Trump and his regime has just started an illegal war (under their own Constitution) and has started bombing Caracas. So much for 2026 being a better year than 2025...

I think I may have overdosed on chocolate biscuits. Current post Christmas feeling:

Note to self: Don't have a 5 hour kip on the sofa after Christmas dinner again unless you really really really want to be wide awake in the middle of the night...

“Rain smacked Los Angeles. It splattered on the palm trees, sizzled on the neon, gurgled down the dirty boulevard. The town was sick. They hadn’t seen sunlight in almost a day. But I had the cure. A fifth of magic and a sack full of cold, hard joy. ‘Ho,’ I said once. It was enough.” -Noir Santa

Who at The Guardian thought that using a variation of Trump's MAGA slogan for their Guardian Charity Appeal 2025 was a good idea???

I see the #GoldenGlobes continued its long tradition of not even nominating one of the best TV shows of the year #Andor

You arranged this World Cup Draw as a meeting when it very fucking clearly could have been an email #WorldCupDraw

Is there any way to fast forward a live event? Asking on behalf of a planet. #WorldCupDraw

An unexpected amount of bitchiness in this #WorldCupDraw

It's November 1998 so I can't blame her for putting her kit back on. It's a bit parky outside. #totp

Paul Heaton dressed like he should be selling stuff that fell off the back of a lorry in a Guy Ritchie movie. #totp

Back from watching #WakeUpDeadMan (first time I've had the opportunity to go to the cinema *and* there be something I wanted to watch on in what seems like years) and enjoyed it a lot. Daniel Craig's Foghorn Leghorn act as fun as ever but Josh Brolin might have stolen the show though.

I am so utterly over this type of political reporting. It belongs in the bin. Literally, focus on the substance!! Our lives depend on understanding the substance, not the gossip/surface.

And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.

Had some great and completely unexpected news today and can't stop smiling. ...Of course, #SWFC kick off in about 40 minutes so that'll probably do the trick... 😁

I'm looking at the big fella at the back and all I can think is "Was he in Snatch?" #totp

I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.

Frankenstein movies have always left me cold and initially I thought that maybe Guillermo del Toro's new version was going to be more of the same, despite how gorgeous it all looks and the cast, however I really enjoyed the 2nd half of the movie, especially the performance of Jacob Elordi.

The reason Amazon can't get Bond up and running is because every supervillain their ai script generator comes up with is just Jeff Bezos in a variety of wigs.

I suspect there's also a strong element here of far too many journalists and BBC managers spending too much time on X and getting a wholly misleading impression of how big a story the Trump edits were. They're excessively influenced by right-wing activist opinion, and particularly US opinion.

It's a great irony that Panorama accurately reporting what Trump did 5 years ago angered the UK right-wing so much that they've just forced out one of their biggest allies in the BBC... Oopsy.

So basically the rest of the human race in #Pluribus are like Gene Wilder as Leo Bloom in The Producers, having a panic attack whenever someone shouts at them?

GET THAT OUT!!!! #swfc

Oooo! The original series of Edge of Darkness starting on #BBC4 tonight at 9:15pm. Great series. That's my evening's entertainment sorted then...

It's ok everyone, this happened in a State full of people who are totally fine with the idea of vaccinating against those diseases.