I have lots of thoughts about Disclosure Day but the most pressing one - the CGI animals were so bad, you might as well have just had cartoon animals and never mentioned it.

Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers also stars Paul Rudd, who only looks like he's aged about seven years despite this film being made OVER 30 YEARS AGO.

I was worried about this because we'd sold almost no advance tickets, but we had a nice turn-out. My talk was about the Halloween movies and how franchises get weird, and the other talk was about translating Shakespeare into German.

Just finished playing Disco Elysium and absolutely loved that. I know I could go back and explore more stuff, but I feel like I got my version of the story and that's stuck with me. Funny, weird, dark... great time.

My friend took his family to see the Michael Jackson movie and his son claimed it was the greatest movie he’d ever seen but I’m a real MJ fan so I don’t believe the accounts of little boys

Musk deserves more ire than he's gotten, not less. But there's plenty to go around, and much of it should be directed at the army of sensible, respectable suits who've nodded along while fascists flood the zone with racist bile, eagerly sanitising their talking points for as long as I've been alive.

it costs us over £600 a month to have our 3yr old in nursery full time and that’s after the free working parent hours and tax free childcare but yeah it’s probably the phones

Musk is a generationally repulsive monster. But he didn't make the Today Program's Justin Webb say that migrants in NI “have been able to come here and get access to services’ that local people can’t”. He didn't make the BBC head its live coverage of the pogroms with “Belfast Knife Attack Latest”.

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No seriously they're stuck in a shit pub being yelled at by Fatboy Slim

Huge crowds of antifascists in Glasgow today

How to legitimise the right wing anti-muslim racism of Tommy Robinson 1. Invite the poisonous little snake to debate at the Oxford Union 2. Congratulations

Mind you, in other strangeness from history today, it’s 36 years since Dick Tracy was first premiered (at a small theatre in creator Chester Gould’s home town), so it’s time to remind ourselves of the lengths Warren Beatty will go to to stop anyone else making a Dick Tracy movie

If you’re pro-AI and not part of the corporate elite, you need to ask yourself a question: What makes you think you’re safe? Tech CEOs want to destroy *all* our jobs, not just the people currently suffering. You’re not a special little exception, you’re food like everyone else.

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Well it's been a bit of a struggle, but the US and Canada eBook editions of The Violent Hour are now up an available for pre-order on Kobo! www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

Will There Be Unicorns

Seeing a crappy-looking barbers in Wood Green with an AI poster out-front, and all I can think is all these businesses putting so much into AI content just to look like a crappy barbers in Wood Green.

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These are always great fun. Come along

We're doing Mystery Talks tonight at @allgoodbookshop.co.uk - two twenty minute talks and you find out the topics when the talks begin! I'm doing one of the talks tonight, so if you're up for coming and being in the audience, that'd be lovely. allgoodbookshop.co.uk/mystery-talks

Maybe we send soldiers there, just temporarily, until things calm down. Shouldn’t take more than twenty or thirty years.

Yes, clearly, we should arm more people in Belfast. That'll definitely quieten things down.

Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments. Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs

There are times pareidoilia is a curse.

Watching the UK hurtle back to the 19th century is beyond depressing 😡

Watching some folks in my industry trip over themselves to dogpile this lady to essentially say "shut up & dribble" has been so disappointing & it's the exact reason why so many below-the-line folks fear publicly talking about exploitive work conditions.

Tell you what, if one of the tasks is "support a weirdo transphobe", Ayoade's getting an easy five points. #taskmaster

So disappointed with this pick. It's like the execs finally pushed them into panel show territory.

TLDR: Pay for some news. The NYT is 2 quid a month. The Guardian is choose your own payment. The Times can be less than 50 quid a year. The Londoner is about 40 a year. Local papers do it for 20-40. The I can be 30 a year. Pick something. If it’s free, you’re getting mostly lies.

I focused on the families with trans kids I know who have fled here from domestic (Texas) and international (the UK) threat. If we are a refuge we must be the refuge.

Thank you everyone who donated overnight, by my count it's at about £1500 which is wild. My gf thought she'd get about £100 at most when I offered to fire out a link! This will help so much ❤️

Tell you what, if one of the tasks is "support a weirdo transphobe", Ayoade's getting an easy five points. #taskmaster

It's a remedy to what I think the weaker Who stories fall back on; if you hang on a madman in a box will come along to save you. Dragged up with McCoy my memory is of a Doctor always needling others to be better. It sits better to me than running around spouting technobabble and waving a wand.

The key idea here - anyone could be the Doctor. You could be the Doctor.

Right, I'm thinking total do-over. Getting rid of everything other than the following: The Doctor is a time/space traveller. The TARDIS is a ship. A handful of monsters, because they're useful. That's *it*. Everything else is up for grabs. Continuity done. The Doctor is something else.

Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums. Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?

Absolutely this. There's been a growing right-wing social media narrative in Ireland that they have more in common with the British than immigrants.

Your future, our present.

This is a pretty cool concept

The weird thing about the last almost decade of Doctor Who is that they've tried so many approaches. Kind of back to basics soft reboot- failed. Doubling down on the lore - failed. Single episodic adventure season - failed. Bigger, more comedic, more magical - failed.

That's me, a pile of neuroses in a trenchcoat #art #sketchbook

Right, I'm thinking total do-over. Getting rid of everything other than the following: The Doctor is a time/space traveller. The TARDIS is a ship. A handful of monsters, because they're useful. That's *it*. Everything else is up for grabs. Continuity done. The Doctor is something else.

In the wake of Belfast riots, I just sent this to @mayor.nyc.gov to implore him to require the city post NOTHING on X except emergency notices. Please contact your own reps. There has to be a line. This is a public safety issue. They must get the hell off of X. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Guaranteed, if this was on when I was 14, this would be the point my parents would walk in.

Been watching Moriarty: The Patriot on Crunchyroll and I honestly think their Sherlock Holmes, from the second he turns up, is an all-timer. He's sort-of a sexy dickhead, and it's both radically different and very much the same.