Happy new year to you too, Suzanne. My favourite part about this time of year is the feeling of togetherness

look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

Thank you to @fishlegs.bsky.social for sending along this pic of me reading at the most recent Transplants release! The response to my piece was invigorating, it made me want to write again

2am shepherd’s pie, the shepherd’s pie you make at 2am

it’s the most wonderful time of the year defector.com/what-did-we-...

Me pretending I've never heard of Neutral Milk Hotel to sleep with a 36 year old: oh wow these lyrics are so heartfelt, is this album about anyone in specific?

I’m touching an earpiece and talking into a microphone in my sleeve way less than I expected to as an adult

music to get your collars clipped together to

This is a game you cannot possibly win because the sizing is totally made up even before converting to British and international shipping is murderous and returns are impossible so you have to get it right or perish

My condolences on how hilarious your suicidality is

I have such mixed feelings about @postoctobrist.bsky.social being screenshotted and shared by the general public. You should have to listen to roughly 600 hours of podcasts to develop the necessary parasocial relationship to repost her

helo

come to the next live show, I have some diabolical fits to get off

no idea when it’s going to come out but the funniest thing on the episode of @wtyppod.bsky.social we recorded today was me mentioning in passing that I’d been watching a lot of menswear content and @victoriascott.bsky.social instantly clocking that this meant I was suicidally depressed

you and your partner should get regularly tested for ADHD even if you're monogamous

okay this is the first thing I’m ever going to accept as evidence that voice training is working

I have the attached early 1980s Wolf Racing Citizen, a fairly ordinary chronograph I bought for a couple of hundred bucks. Very difficult to find, not expensive. Literally have had several members of the Japanese Lamborghini Owner's Club grab my arm when they saw it and lose their absolute minds.

It’s called a ‘California dial’ and the idea is that it’s faster to read in total darkness where you don’t have a visual reference for what direction the watch is facing

I have a boomer coworker who wears a 1980s datejust as his daily driver. It's just beat to shit. Absolute power move I respect it so much.

My most vain belief is that if I begged and whined and bitched and moaned on enough podcasts there would be someone out there with a submariner they cared little enough about to just give it to me. I have yet to try because it would be annoying to listen to

around this time of year I like to play a game with myself I call Rich Dickhead Christmas, where I have married a rich dickhead and I have to content myself by manipulating a really expensive Christmas present out of him. it has to be for me and completely materially useless

I have a friend who wears a GMT Master that his dad handed down to him. He bought it in 1975 for $500. I hate him so much

Empirically, something about being a livestreamer seems to permanently impair your ability to keep those hands up

common watch phenomenon if you live long enough. there’s guys walking around wearing Rolexes they bought when they were just regular-expensive

[to tune of ‘Tell it to my Heart’] tap it on my tongue

‘not getting enough engagement on this one, I want attention’

thinking covetously about the Laco Napa special edition

oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003

we have always been here (from Italo Calvino’s ‘The Baron in the Trees’)

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

I beg your pardon

"...the only reflections in the lake were a slash of causeway, a dot of pavilion, a mustard seed of a boat and the two or three specks of ourselves aboard it."

It's really impressive that Buñuel died at age 83, considering that "trickster-coded communist filmmaker" was, from about 1930 to 1990, the most executable kind of guy in the world

new EPISODE about SIDEWALKS catching FIRE

can’t believe I have to keep doing this shit

Well that’s the first stack of Christmas cards done. If we are on texting terms and you want a Christmas card, text me your address, I have so many left

had kind of a miserable day today so bluesky gets the before and after of the rave I went to on the weekend

here’s my favourite photo I’ve taken recently

just learned that General Frederick ‘Boy’ Browning - Dirk Bogarde’s character in A Bridge Too Far - was married to Daphne du Maurier, and therefore might be forgiven for a distracted planning of Operation Market Garden due to some problems at home

regret to say I took what I consider to be quite a good selfie entirely by accident in this changing room

I’m enjoying Pluribus a lot but if I wanted to be cruel about it I would describe it as The Good Place for people who made a point of staying on Twitter and not going to Bluesky

Anecdotal, but in June a pal returned from Glastonbury and Wimbledon, comically sunburned from both. "Ha!" I said, "remember when we were kids, every year it was mudbaths at the main stage and rain-stopped play on centrecourt? That was the *whole* deal with both those things- oh right jesus fuck".

I don’t think everyone who overheard me liked it but I saw this and went ‘incredibly unfair for me to encounter this at a time in my life when I’m not dating a trans man’

"Heel, hound"

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