I don’t want to spoil anything but good LORD this week’s issue of the Phoenix is incredible. You’ll see why when you get it. Amazing work everyone involved 👏👏👏

It does feel like the end times, when you're casually listening to the radio and they're celebrating how it's a lovely sunny day with 'no chance of rain', and meanwhile everything smells of ash as a fire has been burning in Manchester for 3 weeks. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Sometimes somebody famous dies and I panic. Stop, wait, did they know they were so admired? Did they know they made things that moved us? In this case, yes. I feel, right away, yes.

Oh no, not Sam Neill.

I wondered why Manchester was so foggy. Oh. Oh. Fucksake. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Keep calling this AI crap out. It works

I might just watch Widows Bay again.

Jazz musicians love to play 'pop goes the weasel' mid song, and more power to them. I wish musicians of other genres were as brave.

I believe that the country who voted for Boaty McBoat Face and Lad Baby can vote for the Bin

Jazz musicians love to play 'pop goes the weasel' mid song, and more power to them. I wish musicians of other genres were as brave.

I have family members who are politically disengaged, who will definitely not have known about Farage's gift before he decided to make it the top news story by stepping down

Writing a comic and I want to name every character 'Brannigan'.

I went to the Ai Weiwei exhibition in Manchester yesterday, and it was very very good. Both impressive from the level of craft and also profoundly critical of empire. All empires. Made my little brain swell with thoughts and emotion.

You're telling me they play sports in the middle of the night?!

We need some more Sherlock Holmes films/TV shows. How about one where he's a robot called 'Karl 7' and Watson is a squirrel? They both still wear their fancy hats.

Better late than never!

This is important: if you’re in the UK and you care about creatives, I encourage you to sign this letter. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

They trapped a race car.

I’m currently on the look out for freelance Narrative Design/Writing/Games work - if anyone knows of any upcoming opportunities please think of me so I can throw my CV in the right direction…

I know the USA has a lot of issues at the moment, but they really need to stop populating their version of The Traitors with gobshite reality stars.

Rare red warning. Risk to life. Stay out of the sun. Avoid unnecessary exposure. Picture editor: "Counterpoint: Run the fun-on-the-beach shots?" We won't improve heat coverage until we stop illustrating public health emergencies with beach photos. www.independent.co.uk/weather/heat...

I love Devo. (I just saw Devo)

Everyone this man has hired has a name that you would make up in a panic at an improv show.

Reform are not The Voice Of The People. They’re just the voice of people the urban, university educated middle class core of the media haven’t met, so find weirdly fascinating. “Can you *believe* the things they say!?”

Alex Jones has gotten richer since a jury decided he owed the Sandy Hook families more than $1 billion. But they still haven’t seen a cent. But now they will. Thanks to the Onion.

I'm so hyped for another 'Summer of sport'.

Are you a musician? Apparently this is one of the databases that the music GenAI programs like Suno are "trained" on. You can search this to see if any of your work was stolen. I was very disappointed to see my late father's music on here. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

It arrives on people’s screens the same way as the BBC or Channel 4 or Sky now. Make it behave. Bring it to heel. Then you can ban it, if you want to, for the perfectly understandable reason that it’s breaking the law in your country. It’s a broadcaster. A publisher. Make these people grow up.

Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.

Man, it is criminal that electricity in the uk is still so expensive.

In Los Angeles? Come to the first FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW next Sunday at Elysian Theater! Weapons and Barbarian director Zach Cregger is doing monologues and check out this cast! Not in LA? Stream it from home for only $6! An extremely low price! famouspeopleimprov.com

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Unsubscribed after the first sentence. I can't take a bookshop seriously if they think the 32 degree heatwave we had in late Spring was "lovely".

Some actual Doctor Who legends were signing at a very local comics show yesterday, so I stopped by, why not?

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

I remember seeing this a while back. It’s nice when someone you’ve always thought probably is a decent sort, proves to be exactly that. www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...

I know this is not the important thing here, but it's depressing to hear Marjane Satrapi described in news reports as an "author & illustrator" who was "best known for the book and film Persepolis". Technically true, but oddly mealy-mouthed. She was a comic creator and Persepolis was a comic.

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

Very rare that I agree with Starmer on much these days. Farage wants anger on the streets. He wants, as he put it yesterday, "pure, cold rage". He's scum.

The media are portraying last night’s riot as a “protest”, and the rioters just aggravated locals, perhaps triggered by Farage. In reality, at the heart of it are highly motivated fascists who’ll travel miles and work hard to build this kind of violet mobilisation. bsky.app/profile/bobf...

They should make you login to websites with some kind of usb handshake peripheral, can they do that?

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Sarah’s book is jaw-dropping, and Meta has been pulling this clown shit for over a year. As the article points out, it’s clearly a personal vendetta rather than good crisis comms. Too bad the Streisand Effect exists!

The abhorrent racism aside, Burnham is right that there is something quite desperate about Reform's recent activity. See also Zia 'white people are the biggest victims of racism' Yusuf's recent posts