oh boy this is gonna get a lot of use in the group chats

a big hamburger

I've had two (2) glasses of wine and I'm going to see if I can beat the Last Judge in Silksong

the one that annoyed me the most, and which followed me around for the longest, was the woman who wrote a book about shagging 12 men in a year, my friend if you're going to want me to spend £10.99 and read 80,000 words then I'm going to need you to actually put a shift in

why is this news how is this news why is he being interviewed I'm losing my MIND

Was at the pub when a friend said "have you seen St John of the Cross' 'Ascent of Mount Carmel'? I've always found it to be quite... Phallic. But I've looked and nobody's written about it! I don't think they've noticed!" And I looked it up like "how bad can it be if nobody's noticed?" This is it:

Reform’s new position on indefinite leave to remain is even more extremist than Donald Trump’s crackdown on US immigration. If any of Reform’s political opponents fancied saying they publicly, that might be nice. Handily, it’s even true.

think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all

also engenders a dangerous complacency where the mass civil society response that is required to actually push back on this stuff doesn‘t happen because people convince themselves “it won’t happen so why should they have to put their heads above water on it“

do think that if you don't even believe this to be true then......what are you doing in politics? you've clearly reached levels of nihilism which probably make life feel quite deeply empty, why bother being in a job that requires you to try to make things better in that case

really dislike that "Boriswave" used to be something you'd exclusively see being used by racist Twitter accounts but it's now made its way to the political mainstream, including today's Playbook headline

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

erm hello pardon excuse me, what

glorious....review? sketch? of Carbone from @charlotteivers.bsky.social: www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

Silksong's Sinners Road boldly asks "what if gaming wasn't fun"

The annoying thing here is that the Lib Dems talk policy quite a lot and get ignored by the media, which is what Davey's stunts were a response to in the first place. I don't think he's addicted to stunts. I'm sure he'd love it if his policies got covered www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

right well I've just come out of the Ritzy where I went to watch There Will Be Blood for the first time happy to go against every single film critic and cinema aficionado to say that it would not make even my top 100 of best movies I've seen Long Ass Movies Week is now: over, thank god

this month's Observer column is out! I tried to see if I could like basketball and instead I just became obsessed with...Lithuania? observer.co.uk/news/columni...

We are in hell.

this month's Observer column is out! I tried to see if I could like basketball and instead I just became obsessed with...Lithuania? observer.co.uk/news/columni...

PITCH: a dating show based on supermarket baskets 12 singles are asked to do their weekly shop then pick a partner based only on what the person bought

George Osborne was absolutely right that one problem is the corporation has “imperial” ambitions and this leads to it doing things that it just shouldn’t be doing, treating things as competitors which shouldn’t be.

thinking of getting into NFTs in 2026, as a bit

right so maybe controversially I will say the first phase of the fight is quite intensely fine but the second phase...........the second phase not so much* *yes I already know about the trick to make the second phase easier, but unfortunately "easier" in this context feels extremely relative

why economy bad? why not economy good for little while, where good economy go

have reached the point in Silksong Act I where there's just not a ton left for me to do aside from going to fight the Last Judge and get to Act II, but has the game maybe considered the fact that I do not want to do that

I WAS JOKING

>walk into a room in silksong >it’s dark >some kind of horrible unseen thing is snuffling or moaning or panting in the gloom >walk out of the room again

oh god I do actually really really really want to watch this, oh no

Tony Blair used to talk about the difference between the 3-second, 30-second & 3-minute conversation - the point being that simplistic policies, that poll well, collapse under the more sustained scrutiny of an election or time in govt. So what happens when there is *only* the 3-second conversation?

ah I don't like this at all, I actually think the vast majority of pornographers are men who don't meaningfully care about the safety of women at all, I really wish, with all my heart, it weren't the case, but if you believe "porn people are all good" then you live in such a small online bubble

In 2019, my world was blown apart by the death of my best friend Nichola. This week I wrote about how much she meant to me, and the specific challenges that come with grieving a close friend, in @theguardian.com

Haha, a PR offered to promote my book (for money) and when I said no, this is what she sent me!

Repugnant, morally bankrupt, creeps.

Psychologically very fascinating the extent to which the two historically major parties just hate their actual electoral coalitions.

The related point to the previous RT is the refusal to spell out hard choices to people, when May tried she got lamped, but we'd have been much better off if she'd been engaged with honestly, which is what she was doing

obviously the internet has become awful etc etc but I've just really enjoyed this gaming streamer I watch excusing himself briefly so he could stretch and walk for a bit, explaining that he needed to "unshrimp", something I'd never heard before but got immediately, isn't language great

A lot of work in the last couple of years on the 1945 world order has convinced me that a lot of people think the flawed and half-broken system of 2025 is an easy status quo and not something we crawled over broken glass to get

wrote about this last year and sure I wasn't in any way the only one but imo people voting for populist politics in the 21st century *is* a sign that they do just have too much faith in institutions, as opposed to not enough - they want to have their little tantrum but assume things will just hold

currently on my way home carrying a large bag that contains a beach towel, a bikini, four books and a little pot of chilli oil, and I mean if I had to be defined as a person,

CONTESTANT: Okay, I'll take "Cursed Screenshots" for 500, Alex {alarm sounds} TREBEK: Looks like we've got a Daily Double

this is something you just have to live with if you are even barely well-known online; people make up elaborate stories about you in their heads. it will always happen and you cannot give a shit about it, only stomp on it if they try to spread these weird tales to anybody you actually know.

who called them "the Huns" and not "H from Steppes"

typed "I imagine" in a message on Instagram and Instagram assumed it was the start of an AI prompt and isn't that quite the dystopian short story

right! well everyone seems to want to know about that janky podcast I worked on with Morgan McSweeney back in 2018, so I wrote about it - TL;DR it was........a mess: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/so-about-t...

Zuckerberg did one thing clever in his life, making a perving site he then pivoted into a site for your auntie to be racist on. Everything else has failed or he bought. He's not even proper evil, just an absolute dork with too much power.

I have to speak my truth: you can't call Zack Polanski "Hypnoboobs" Calling him "Hypnotits" is funny because it's a reference to the fact that he once claimed hypnosis can make breasts bigger and, crucially, it sounds like "hypnosis" "Hypnoboobs" does not sound like it, it doesn't work Thank you

right! well everyone seems to want to know about that janky podcast I worked on with Morgan McSweeney back in 2018, so I wrote about it - TL;DR it was........a mess: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/so-about-t...

I was stumbling through trying to explain the criminal court to my six year old last night because I have jury duty, but it turned out she already knew it all because she just read an issue of Beano where Dennis and Gnasher were on trial