You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? Confident of my chances here.

Excellent read this.

Some of the animation in AoT though - conveying the sense of speed during certain sequences. Breath taking stuff at times.

The Two Tinos of Tyneside (by me) #NUFC

Bruno. #NUFC

When your wife says ‘yes’ to a takeaway for tea.

Thinking about the roast potatoes I made last night.

Bruno. #NUFC

The Two Tinos of Tyneside (by me) #NUFC

🎶 And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back, so shake him off, Oh-whoa 🎶

Harvey Barnes misses a sitter then scores twice. Sounds like jug avoidance to me. #NUFC

“If you see something that doesn’t look right…” *stares at self in mirror* *texts 61016*

There are more news channels than music channels now - but less creativity on the one hand, and more bullshit talking points on the other seems about right.

What a game. So many memories attached to Ocarina of Time.

Big coat weather.

One of the most depressing things I've encountered is having a document I wrote run through ChatGPT. It's a first draft! I'm not precious about it, just tell me what edits you want and I'll go away and sort. I like doing it; writing is one of the few things I feel confident with. Or did anyway.

It’s always “YOU NEED YOUR HEARING CHECKED” and never “I’m going to get tested for mumbling”

Re-watching Attack on Titan, and it still blows my tiny little mind that one of the series biggest twists is treated like an almost throw-away line in season 2 of the anime (and it felt like the manga treated it in an equally glib manner). No spoilers, just wanted to shout into the void.

Morning, everyone

#3157 A helpful tutorial

Big coat weather.

This might be the worst year for adverts ever.

Well their immigration policy seems to be based on milkshake duck, so I guess this tracks.

If you want more significant numbers of asylum seekers to work and find their own housing, rather than rely on statutory asylum provision, then you presumably need to…allow them to work? What am I missing

It’s the obsession with it that’s the problem. Not going as far as ‘tearing the country apart’, but while Labour obsesses over the issue, and how to out dickhead Reform, other stuff just seems to be allowed to drift and either remain shit or get worse.

she better run

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

"Hi, I'm Bert Thomas from the National Please Don't Park Like a Twat Near a School Foundation, asking you not to park like a twat near a school."

When they said they couldn't fix the Bond problem, we all assumed they meant James Bond.

I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

Still marvelling at the North American major leagues going ‘yes, yes, we want that sweet, sweet gambling money’ before being forced to repeatedly say ‘no, not like that’.

Another entry in my #NUFC collection.

Newsround's coverage of The Epstein Files

Another entry in my #NUFC collection.

Yet another example how checks and balances are steamrolled by obscene wealth. Trump called for an insurrection. He did so in point of fact, and in the dog whistle substance. We're now going to pretend something empiric never happened to satisfy litiguous threat www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

I was going to complain about the mixed metaphor, but the source is right, a circular firing squad would do nothing to help you get out of a hole.

"And James Bond, who did NOT die"

As an extension of this, there’s nothing like feeling like written communication is one of your strengths only to have someone say to you ‘just get ChatGPT to do it’; or worse you write the damn thing only for them to say ‘let’s just run this through ChatGPT’.

Seem to have reached something more akin to a roundabout than a crossroads. The choice between sticking with a job that feels like it is slowly destroying me, switching to what would basically be 'same job, different company', or rolling the dice - all against a backdrop of 'gotta pay for shit'.

No, no, we cannot possibly reboot James Bond in someway - now leave me alone while I watch one of the 2025 summer blockbusters *check notes* Superman!

the fun thing about the BBC story is that I can't actually read about it for more than couple of minutes at a time because it makes me feel too insane :)

Bold early pitch for next director general of the BBC here

some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you

I think this is one of the parts that *really gets me* about the whole Panorama speech editing thing - no, it's not great for the integrity of the Beeb that it happened, and as such it shouldn't have happened, but we're also talking about someone who just seems to embody the word crooked.

i know quite a few people who have worked for or with the BBC and it's really quite distressing how all this yapping about shit at this level undermines the work people are actually doing for what we get to see, watch and hear every day

This. This is it.

I hate when they put repeats on. #NUFC

Remember when Sugababes brought in Big Sam for six months? #GirlbandsForever

I heard that they’re so aggressive one guy actually did a karate kick on the ball.

Final piece. Walking away from the tablet now. #NUFC