Laugh all you want but this will win the inaugural FIFA Best Picture Award!

Petition to beam the "This is fine" meme onto the moon.

Looking at you Kemi

Well, I think I kept it mostly within Scottish borders, though I went from Highlands to Islands across the poem www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/address...

Going to an early Burns Night celebration in a bit. I was volunteered to read some Rabbie Burns in a Scottish accent. I apologise in advance to Scotland, which will shortly be relocated to somewhere in the Irish Sea via Newcastle.

I feel like Sault's entire songbook arises from Portishead's Roads. That's a good thing, obvs.

Well, our 10 yr old has finally seen Poltergeist. She's been desperate to see it for years and I made her sit through lots of kiddie and teen horror to build up her horror chops first. "Not scary," apparently. (She did hide from the clown scene, though.)

For everybody who's cooking today in advance of the storm: Here's the truth about carmelizing onions, which is that cookbooks lie about carmelizing onions. "In truth, the best time to carmelize onions is yesterday." A classic by @tomscocca.bsky.social slate.com/human-intere...

Now that James is gone, I'm definitely Team Stephen #TheTraitors

Here we go... #TheTraitors

Nominations already coming in for the 2026 Darwin Awards BBC News - Bristol man died in ladder fall tying Union flags to lampposts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today was quite the week in news.

Iceland today

"Through Donald Trump's heart." "Is the question, 'Where is the best place to plant a false flag?'"

And just like that, NATO disappeared in a puff of green smoke.

Happy to listen to advice and experience from any retired followers!

I've reached an age where everyone is retirement planning, some friends who earn megabucks are looking at very early retirement (55) and everyone is discovering that your quality of life and capability for doing things declines between 70 and 80. Lots of decisions to make in the next few years.

An adult weekend in Brighton has left me very tired and in need of - let's say - a year off to recover. A year, yes, that sounds reasonable.

The Secretary of State for Defence has fallen out with the PM, apparently. Good timing. Nothing going on in the world that a change in SoS would affect.

Does the Conservative Party still exist?

2 Mimosas to Midnight

Love Harriet! #TheTraitors

Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark, didn't mess about in a letter to Farage explaining Parliamentary procedure...

If there is another Final Destination film, I'd love to see it set on the Titanic.

10 years

Looking at you, America.

every seat in a movie theater should have an "I have to pee" button and if enough people press it they should be able to pause the movie

#NowListening to Matthew Herbert being interviewed on the @whatgoespod.bsky.social podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/0nTO...

Proving that Offspring were only ever a pop band #totp

I remember thinking at the time that Gay Dad signalled the end of Indie Music and the start of pop eating itself. #TOTP

Ooh, is it Sebadoh? #Totp

Insanely good episode of The Traitors tonight. "If I'm wrong, I'm a tit."

Top tip for TRON:ARES. Brilliant soundtrack. Rubbish film. Go with the music. Crikey, they messed that up, didn't they?

The good thing about the first week of January is that we finally have room back in our recycling bin.

BBC News - Van Tulleken brothers: The three wellness issues we've stopped worrying about www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The United States of

I'm assuming it would be OK to kidnap Trump and try him in The Hague, based on recent events.

I feel like it's not too late to turn off 2026 and turn it on again.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Bunty Bailey, the girl in the A-Ha video "Take on me" had an illustrious career after pop video stardom.

Happy new year. I'm sure you're all AI bots but you seem well programmed. Well done on that. Keep your bots producing content! No, wait, that sounds

This is a lovely use of AI and it's why I don't subscribe to the knee jerk "all AI is bad m'OK" movement. There are bad uses of AI where we clearly need controls (legal or behavioural) and then there are very good use cases which improve society. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

We watched the first episode of Bill Bailey's Perfect Pub Walks. It's not very good, is it? But the fault seems to lie entirely in the format, with the weird voice over and pulling the host and guest off their walk to ask them about the chat they just had.

Dune 3: Terry and Dune.

We had our Christmas visit from my mother, which brought the following Boomer comments: There's an enormous national debate about pubs that refuse to sell a child's portion to an adult, it's disgusting pubs won't sell you a smaller portion They should bring back being hung, drawn and quartered.

More satsumas and fewer clementines please

Ah yes, the perineum of the year. A twixt period, where time sits in a quantum superposition, both still and passing, ultimately ending in the colon: new year's eve. Same shit, different year.