This evening's viewing habits are already covered.

Okay, I've checked my gamercard, and the following games are set to become lost media in July 2027: Tokyo Jungle Noby Noby Boy Rain Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars

How it started. How it's going. #COYS

I remember reading a list of games that would, effectively, cease to exist because of this. Tokyo Jungle chief among them. Seriously, Tokyo Jungle was great. Completely insane, but great.

...anyway, here's some actual excitement: my monthly film roundup.

So it turns out that not being allowed to actually own anything has made it remarkably difficult to actually be helpful, as my recent particularly frustrating odyssey proved. (1/however many)

The good news for the Whitgift Centre is that it is not the deadest mall I've seen in the past week...

What's it like inside your head?

Just perfect

I'm sorry, Mel Brooks, but you knew the rules.

Let me guess: is the answer "houses"?

I'm onto my third pair of pyjamas of this bloody heatwave. Why yes, my house was built in the interwar period.

Can we stop treating Prime Day like it's some kind of religious festival? It really cheapens the reverence for Shark Week.

Crash (1996, David Cronenberg)

You know that OpenAI is a perfectly legitimate business when you block their ads on Youtube for the dozenth time and are asked if you want to block all ads for clothing, or pest control, or whatever category they're pretending to be this time.

when AI companies go bankrupt

So the options from my DVD collection for days like today are The Thing or 30 Days of Night. ...no, not Snowpiercer. Never Snowpiercer, because it was f'n dreadful.

Time to take my mind of the weather and crack on with that retrospective article I've been commissioned to write on ... oh ...

Desperately searching that app to find a single cool place in the same Travelcard zone as me.

Londoners, there is a webpage for you to see where your nearest "cool spaces" are when the extreme heat hits - places with water, air-conditioning & shade. Have a look and spread the word, especially to those who may need this but might not think to look for it: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/

...oh no, I'm about to have people assuming that's the reason why I use my initials as my penname again, aren't I?

Here’s an idea. Let’s not ask Nigel Farage what he thinks. We’re all well aware exactly what he fucking thinks. Maybe ask some grown ups instead.

"A second leaked Deftones album has hit the internet."

The classic centrist move of get elected and then decide you don't actually need to serve the people who put you there

This is, of course, the most important news story of the day.

Hello again, my heatwave friend.

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

"Jesus Christ, not another one." - Larry

Well that's the most centrist sentence I ever read...

The best thing that can be said for Spain vs Saudi Arabia is that, no matter how dull it gets, there's so few people in the stands there's no chance of a Mexican Wave breaking out.

A former BBC programme editor/reporter/writer writes: this is absolutely mad, given the dangerous situation Europe is in. The correspondents being jettisoned have years, decades of experience. Tech bros don't get it.

I'm really surprised that Trump is refusing to accept responsibility for screwing up the Reflecting Pool while blaming others. So out of character for him.

I may have uttered a new sentence earlier: "It's too hot and I'm too drunk to read Clark Ashton Smith's purple (and slightly racist) prose."

That Reform UK electoral campaign in Makerfield in pictures:

It Came from the Trump White House!

It's almost as if being hit in the head for a living is not good for people.

Guessing this will provide more thrills than Switzerland/Qatar...

Remember how Dan Quayle became a lifetime punchline because he couldn't spell the word potato correctly...?

For anyone curious, the scaffolding is finally coming down today. So at least I will no longer think I live inside the Pompidou Centre every time I look out of the window.

I find this attempt to make hot dogs for every World Cup nation really patronising. Anyway, for dinner I'll be having a plate of chips with guacamole and Oaxaca, which I will call Mexican poutine...

So this bubbled up on my feed again, having posted it three years ago. Still sadly relevant.

Is it a problem that I heard this sentence in Chris Mason's voice...?

My biggest complaint about school reunions not really being a thing in the UK is that it means that I memorised the script to Grosse Pointe Blank for nothing.

The BBC 10 o’clock news says the right wing idea of ethnic minorities being given preferential treatment in criminal justice is likely to become a “growing fault line in our politics” WITHOUT POINTING OUT THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. What’s the point of the news if it doesn’t correct disinformation?

The phrase "two-tier" policing first entered Britain's political mainstream in August 2024, when people supporting the Southport rioters were complaining of their treatment But it is not a mainstream term - it originated with far right and conspiracist groups trying to push their own narratives

I heard a rumour going around about how he has all the best tunes...

"I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique."

Whenever you feel like you ended a conversation on a somewhat embarrassing note and you need to find a hole to crawl into and cringe, remember that Lou Reed's final online post was the following image.

Thanks for everything, Bob.