My rule of thumb is to have two books on the go: one fiction, one non-fiction. Ideally they should either complement or directly contrast each other to help keep moving but that's not the hard and fast rule because sometimes I breeze through 4 NFs in the time it takes me to read 1 F and vice versa.

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

ok pals, please hold your thumbs for me, I’ve applied for a job at the London Film Festival that I’m grossly over qualified for, but would a) get me working b) get me involved with film stuff, my beloved. If y’all can pray to any gods /goddesses you believe in, that would be gratefully appreciated.❤️

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

Yeah, but can our schools and our NHS cope with this influx of 200,000 people coming from a Muslim country? 😜

Here are the five hottest things you can say to your autistic partner, in order of “lemon and herb” to “this Nando’s has caught fire”.

Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV

Omg. A BBC correspondent just bitchslapped Kier Starmer with some cold facts and he looks kicked in the balls. BBC: "Nobody likes you. You tried to win Reform votes and failed. You lost the Muslim vote. Doesn't this prove that there is no change coming from Labour?" Ouch. 🤣

It's interesting to see so many people speculating about what Muslims collectively think about the Greens' stance on trans people's rights and whether that could be a problem for their strategy while the Tories fielded a gender crit and absolutely ate shit.

To be absolutely clear: this is the lowest percentage of the vote in a by-election for the Conservatives or Tories since the party was founded at the time of the Glorious Revolution in 1689.

underappreciated but very funny gorton and denton sideplot: the conservatives nominating literal sex matters (uk terf group) trustee charlotte cadden, only for her to get the worst result for the conservatives in by-election history and lose her deposit

Saw it at GrimmFest last year, deffo one of my films of 2025. Jade Croot is astonishingly good, I ended up crying at the resolution. Just beautifully done but ffs DONT STEP INTO THE FAIRY RING YOU FOOL!

OMG NO

very important video please watch

The Mini-MAGAs of Reform UK want to launch their own version of ICE, to be called UK Deportation Command. Their Shadow Home Secretary (their term) Zia Yusuf says the aim is to deport 280,000 people a year. As imaginative as their failed attempt to set up DOGE in English councils.

Ruben Ray Martinez Passenger in ICE Shooting Dies in Car Crash Joshua Orta, 25, a close friend who was with Martinez during the shooting and the only known eyewitness, had planned to formally sign a statement and assist with further inquiries into the incident before he was killed over the weekend

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

OK, everyone who's pointed out that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor hasn't been arrested for sex crimes can I please remind you that Al Capone went to jail, not for bootlegging, bombing, murder, blackmail, torture, shootings or the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre but for TAX EVASION. Jail is jail.

Andrew: I'm worried I'll be alone on my birthday Thames Valley Police: Relax

NEWS! King Charles puts phone on silent

Americans waking up to news that Prince Andrew has been arrested for Epstein ties

'At a moment when your government is rounding people up and building camps to concentrate them — and you know *everyone in the world knows it* — some ambivalence when you’re at an international competition is not just understandable but unavoidable." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Today would have been Justin Fashanu’s 65th birthday. Justin was Britain's first Black £1m footballer and the first professional footballer to come out as gay. He was beautiful and talented. I knew him (we had a brief thing). He was hounded by the press and the crowds and took his life aged just 37.

“Get your crown on, you’re nicked”

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

please god let him be the trigger that causes Consequences for the other named dickheads in the files 🙏

i genuinely thought this was a wet owl photoshopped onto a doctor's body for a full two seconds. Dr Hoots is startled by what he's seeing here

With every fibre of my being, let me say this in a loud, clear, booming voice: this should have happened when Virginia Giuffre was alive to see it.

Hope the police waited until after 9.30am to arrest Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. It would be a shame for him not to have the chance to use his bus pass on his 66th birthday.

Andrew uses his one phone call to call Babestation.

📯 ANDREW ARRESTED ANDREW ARRESTED THIS IS THE ANDREW ARRESTED KLAXON 📯

may be his birthday but today is a gift to all of us

I refuse to believe the King wasn't behind that little detail. "Tell Andrew. I want him to know it was me."

oh to be the person behind the counter at the cop shop who gets to say 'can you confirm your date of birth? oh it's today. happy birthday' what a treat

That bit near the end of Goodfellas where Karen Hill in a panicked frenzy as the cops bang on the door flushes coke down the toilet but it's Sarah Ferguson flushing royal titles away while singing Rule Britannia.

Get Hannah Waddington out in front, ringing a bell and shouting SHAME

Parade him through the streets in a cage and let us pelt him with fruit, you cowards!!

You KNOW there's a person at LBC who thought, for just a MOMENT, about swapping these images around.

I attended a school by Tewkesbury Abbey where the bones of Edward IV’s younger brother are stored in an underfloor vault. George Duke of Clarence did a lot of misconducting in his various public offices and he was eventually drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine. Sometimes we got to see the bones. ☠️

great example here of why setting up a live blog isn't always the best response to a developing news story

Is this a good time to remind the world that the parliamentary and diplomatic protection unit of the Met mentioned here is where Wayne Couzens and David Carrick were both armed and employed. www.lbc.co.uk/article/met-...

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

Etsy just kicked witches off their platform. What could possibly go wrong. www.vice.com/en/article/e...

Post a banger not in English youtu.be/DXo_xX_Hqro?...

But… but is there *ANY* way this could be a woman’s fault…?

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."