Seriously where does Paul Verhoeven go to get his apology

Finally caught up on Peacemaker today. Peacemaker telling Adebayo "Everything's just *better" in the other universe...

First we had Bluesky scammers sliding into your DMs trying to get you to tell them your ideas. Now email scammers are trying to get you to send them links to your work. What will come next in the "Scammers trying to trick me into doing things I will already do unprompted" crimewave?

I could make Father Ted today, sounds like a skill issue to me.

This is a good piece by @ryanlambie.bsky.social but what gets me is- Donald Trump has not been President for a full year yet. These are films that A: their creators thought were still relevant under a Biden presidency. And B: Were made by many people fully expecting President Harris.

Interzone #303 is out now at Scarlet Ferret! 🔴 Featuring short stories, essays, reviews, columns, and much more, with a stunning cover by Martin Hanford.

The Interzone collection at Scarlet Ferret is looking lovely. What a fantastic collection of cover art!

Interzone #303 is out today with all sorts of treasures, including my latest column on rereading the Library of America edition of Le Guin! shop.interzone.press/b/E76yw

I've got an old flatmate staying over this weekend and desperately need some good answers to this.

Discovered my Steam account is age-limited due to the OSA bs when a friend linked me a NSFW game. I appealed this with a ticket. They said because my payment method was the wrong type of card it didn't count because I could be under 18. I eagerly anticipate their response to this screenshot.

NEW EPISODE: AGAINST TIME AND DEATH (@ickbat.bsky.social) Feat. MICHAEL TURRENTINE (World Gone Wrong podcast) You'll dig this episode if you like: This Is How You Lose The Time War, Doctor Who, Forbidden Relationships, witnessing someone falling in love with TTRPGs for the first time

BREAKING: The governments of Canada, Australia and the UK have formally recognised the Palestinian state. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lcqb2s

If your novel is set in the recent, pre-cellphone past and your plot depends on a dilemma that would now be resolved with a simple phone call, make sure the reader understands that by having a character say, "Too bad cellphones don't exist yet."

Yes please buy my special edition books at Scarlet Ferret & I'll spend it all on coffee ❤️☕ Your choice of: * Frozen world apocalypse bad daddy horror (Flora & Jim) * Outback burning hidden mystery town horror (The Town); or * Paranoid lost in space horror (Outermen) scarletferret.com/genre/horror

The difference between Martin Luthor King and Charlie Kirk, aside from the obvious, is that decades later even King's opponents are trying to make King's own words serve their purposes, while a week later Kirk's allies are still struggling to find a quote of his they can stand by.

The only things you should be allowed to consider when making a renewal decision on a show should be: a) how busy are the AO3 tags b) how petty and technical are the fandom arguments c) how good are the weekly watch-along podcasts (instant renewal if @jowrotethis.bsky.social is covering it)

In order to find out if your TV show that you made was actually good you should have to wait until you meet someone in an airport bar twenty years after it stopped airing and they tell you it fundamentally changed the course of their life.

Sincerely believe that instant metrics are terrible for every human endeavour except medical monitoring, but cultural production especially so.

This is going to continue to piss me off as a Professional TV Take Haver who also has children, a partner, friends, housework, and non-TV watching work to do. You are ensuring your 10-12 hours of entertainment that you spend 10s of millions of dollars on is in the public conversation for a week.

Not just 20-24 episodes seasons, but shows whose vision and goals far outstrip their budget and what their production values are capable of.

I just don't see why I, a non-pornographic indie creator, should be concerned by what the leopards are doing to people on the other side of this legally arbitrary, inherently subjective and historically extremely mobile boundary.

Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" addressing Christopher Nolan.

happy Friday! buy a book! (trying a more direct marketing approach, let's see how it goes)

With Mamdani and Polanski we are starting to get a picture of what a Left wing campaign that connects with a wider electorate might look like. And Your Party is seeing that and then posting epic infighting screeds that use the word "transparency" so much its meaning has become opaque.

So anyway, this is why I'm going to be voting Green at the next election. (Fun fact: I personally typed out the @thisisyourparty.bsky.social statement because they used no alt text or link to the statement in text format. @zarahsultana.bsky.social did use alt text... but it was too long to fit.)

The updated “7,000 Words You Can Never Say On Television” monologue takes four hours w/ an intermission.

If you think this is bad, wait until 10 years from now when people on liberal news outlets are saying "We may not approve of the 12 foot tall golden Trump Bitcoin statue, but if we start trying to rewrite America's history it will lead us down a dark path..."

Anyone can get an awkward freezeframe of someone and say they look like a pervert. They don't look anywhere near as bad if you watch the presentation in motion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLPZ...

Comic book movie hot take: Every time Superman fights another Kryptonian it should look like this.

F*A*S*H

Thank God we don’t have the cancellation of satirical comedy in this country. I can’t wait to see how they deal with the Trump visit on The Mash Report, Mock The Week and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order!

Please do buy, review and recommend these to people so I can justify writing a whole new cycle of them.

While you're working, how many times a day do you stop and look out the window? Because thanks to your employer-mandated Meta smart glasses you don't get paid for that time now.

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

guys please stop fighting this is not what charlie wanted his legacy to be

Elon Musk shouldn't be expelled from the Royal Society for using the language of violence at an anti-immigration rally. He should be expelled from Royal Society because his continued membership is an embarrassment.

As always,

"Remember that gang you like? They've all been through so much together. In many ways, they're like family. You love seeing them laugh and joke, and pull together in the face of adversity. Anyway, want to watch each of them alone and sad for 3 hours?" - Season 2 of Every TV Show

I will never get tired of actors who played the Doctor turning up to protest social injustice in not-quite-costume all "What? These are just my clothes. My everyday normal clothes. Now, this ends tonight, Ace!"

Format busting episode where someone comes back from the future to tell them someone's going to be a monster in a future life, and they have to lure them in petty acts of selfishness now so they're reincarnated as a duck instead

I'd quite like to watch this one.

Jordan Peele’s SUCCESSION

Larry Hogan’s Heroes

Something mid-2007 called like "Cincinnati Justice"

How to Get Caught for Murder A renowned faculty in a prestigious Midwest university tricks his students into committing murder and being found guilty.

One like = one synopsis for the TV show this is a publicity shot for.

If Malicious Communications is a crime than we'd better all hand ourselves in.

My Labour MP is always nice about trans people. At election she said wanted trans people to be treated with "dignity and respect". She says the Government is "committed to improving the quality and access to support and care for trans people." She has supported everything Wes Streeting has done.

Precise same energy.

If you enjoyed last night's The Signalman on BBC 4, you might also enjoy my story The Signal Man, which is a sort of ghost story that has a pun title based on it in my novella/anthology/instalment of a serial novel, Graveyard Orbit: scarletferret.com/books/fermis... www.amazon.co.uk/Fermis-Wake-...