Minor PS: if my last article about an author’s political stances led to a direct refutation by that author’s daughter, I would simply fade away from the mortification, but I guess some people lack the organ of shame.

I can't imagine reading about Vimes, a policeman who thinks the idea that "the innocent have nothing to fear from the police" is bullshit and who is a self identified bastard, and thinking "yes, this is talking about how good and brave the police are"

www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do... If you're doing the best of the classic era and you a)only include one 5th doctor story and it's Earthshock b) don't include any 6 or 7th doctor stories and c) the one thing you pick from the Williams era of 4 is Stones of Blood, you maybe need another draft.

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

Been to the tip, lads. Make a note, pre-9am on a wednesday it's pretty quiet.

Nintendo issued a formal apology for a controversial 1997 GamePro ad calling readers fuck faces if they didn’t play Donkey Kong Land III. paletteswap.site/dif...

A really small thing I would change about social media is ban anyone from talking about their MLM scheme without disclosing it's an MLM scheme.

I’m sad to announce that, after the police deployed facial recognition technology at yesterday’s Unite The Kingdom march, my thumb has been arrested.

A privilege to be invited on to #SongVsSong. Thank you to both @shadowtodd.bsky.social and @alinaisyou.bsky.social for making me feel so welcome! For N American readers and listeners, #IntoTheGroove is published on 21 July.

youtu.be/IKX9fGvF63E?... Always worth remembering that we could have had Gremlins 6 and 7 but instead we had... well, you know.

I dunno that he'd go full fash but he'd definitely bring in the Cybermen to consult on efficiencies in the NHS.

Mad Professor Green on Red Lorry Yellow Laurie London Boyz II Men at Working Weeknd

[The Moon Landing, directed by Hideo Kojima] Ground Control: Neil, this is Moon Landsman, he'll be guiding you through this mission MN: Your movement is based on STEPS and LEAPS. The STEPS are small, but the LEAPS are giant, remember that. Neil: Giant...leap? Michael Collins, shirtless: NEEILLLL

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rOo... Christ, how have we got to the point that there are kids that are this obnoxious? (The reporter doing full Day Today voice doesn't help, there's a couple of chases that made me think "they made good with their legs across open ground")

Facebook has just shown me a video that it turns out is by a guy I worked with 20+ years ago at Game. So that's odd.

youtu.be/-aH-pP3PAIc?... Every so often I remember Nick Lutsko exists and go and watch this again. Superb work.

The Vampire Diaries features a bunch of rings that make sure if you are killed by something supernatural you will revive a few hours later. This extends to being hit by a car, as long as the car is being driven by a werewolf.

Slightly Diminish A Book: The Player Of Yahtzee

Catching up on 1999 totp - Hepburn were alright weren't they? And seeing Destiny's Child in 1999 is like seeing early Lost episodes -"oh most of these characters are just going to get killed off and I don't need to care about them"

“The famous Russian writer picked-up a nasty chest infection visiting that Star Wars planet.” “Naboo cough?” “No, it was Turgenev who contracted pneumonia on Coruscant.”

Oh shit, new episode of Superego in my feed.

Youtube just showed me a short of a US social worker arguing with an insurance company over how many colostomy bags a month they were prepared to pay for for someone. Doctor said 24, insurance said 10 and they could wash out and reuse some. So yeah, thank fuck for the NHS.

Just heard the line "We cut to Laura linney from Love Actually empty an Uzi into an ape" on a podcast about the film Congo and nearly died laughing.

Food £200 Data £150 Rent £800 Used Boxed Sets of The Upper Hand £3,600 Utility £150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

here is your horoscope for today

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

Actually lost track of how many times I finished Alpha Protocol

Facebook has decided that adverts for Danny O'Dapper Laughs tour are what I really want to see. Great.

At a food market place for breakfast and there is a stall called Gourmegg. GOURMEGG

Picked up my new glasses and as the prescription on one side has doubled since my last pair everything seems like it's on a weird slant and I'm trying not to fall down.

SLICK MODERN MEN: "You cucks, you snivelling creeps, you left-behind nothings, too scared to embrace the majesty of AI, the future, you cowardly insects!" ALSO SLICK MODERN MEN: "hello robot what should i have for my tea?"

What if people responded to a post that wasn’t about Tony Shaloub by attempting to connect the post to Tony Shaloub. They did it again and again. You’d start to hate Tony Shaloub! So doing it with someone genuinely hateful is demented!

This is so Wes Anderson, I can almost hear the affectless Jason Schwartzmann voiceover saying "My mother used to design undercover disguises for the Stasi"

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

This one, yeah, in a country that didn't have Absolutely or Vic and Bob this doesn't happen.

I don't QUITE agree with this because there's definitely eras of SNL where this would happen (the Lonely Island Reba McEntire sketch for one) but this one really made me laugh, the delivery is bang on.

Oh wow, the automaton that never tires did a test of endurance faster than a human? Amazing.

God I wish it was Serafinowicz as Butterfield

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

The Taskmaster theme bass line really makes you appreciate a bass.

The strait of Hormuz is a jumping puzzle from a platform game

Peter mandelsons entire career is like a cursed pharaohs amulet that kills everyone that tries to use its power and every other week some Labour party idiot picks up and goes have we tried using the pharaohs amulet

And you should win things by reading.

You've got to admit, they did a cracking job patching him up after that incident in opening the Ark of the Covenant.

You've got the touch. You've got the power.

Just been introduced to Picture Slam and Jesus Christ we've run out of ideas for TV shows.

End me

Deadloch is the sweary dead pan humour you need Deadloch has just released its second season on Prime in the UK. The first season, set in the eponymous town of Deadloch is the deadpan, straight faced, extremely sweary black comedy about two police detectives investigating a murder in Tasmania.…

Asking if Trump is a fascist is like asking if Jesus is a Christian. Like, TECHNICALLY the answer is no, but you've missed the point.