We went to see Stewart Lee tonight. So funny I almost asphyxiated from laughing. His take down of Netflix right wing comedians is stunning.

Some wild trivia from the making of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

Roy Kinnear was 37 years old when. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory came out.

The return of the Thursday quiz! 10/15 this week. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

So, yeah, a mind-vaporizingly huge explosion in space *may have been from a white dwarf ripped to shreds by a black hole*. yeGADS badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-white-dw... 🔭🧪

I'm listening to Christmas songs and you can't stop me.

Excellent gig at Cadogan Hall last night. Enji was first with her soft Mongolian jazz, followed by Les Égarés with their jazz - north African - gipsy - folk melange.

Good day. Saw my rheumatology consultant and he confirmed I have the 'nicest' kind of rheumatoid arthritis, which occasionally goes into remission. And I'm off to see Les Égarés: Sissoko, Segal, Parisien & Peirani at Cadogan Hall tonight.

RIP JILLY COOPER! A queen who wrote THE most readable books in existence. People saw my thread of epic Jilly quotes and decided I was saying the books are shite. You COULDN'T be more wrong. Go and watch Rivals today.

When did the Tory Party become infected with the disease that has now killed it? I think Boris is too easy to point to, I view him more as a symptom than the infection.

Just been for an MRI scan. Two things: 1. I asked for a copy of the images and they offered me a CD copy. I don't even have a CD player, nevermind a CD-ROM. I asked about a memory stick option and was given a firm 'no'. 2. Strong magnetic field. Expecting super powers to emerge soon.

"Alright, I think you've made your point, now hop off" isn't exactly the approach to a right to protest that we want, is it? BBC News - Police to get broader powers to restrict repeated protests www.bbc.com/news/article...

We saw 'Mary Page Marlowe' tonight at the Old Vic. Highly recommended. www.oldvictheatre.com/stage/mary-p...

Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.

4 years ago today I stumbled across the greatest tv listing ever written

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

This Gaza peace plan reminds me of the W B Yeats poem, The Second Coming. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/...

"Until the world is perfect according to my specific criteria, I will fight all change or new things." Hmm.

Wtf is this fascist singing at the Reform UK conference? #HIGNFY

I once met an actor who'd worked with Dame Sheila Hancock. Apparently she's a terrible bully. #HIGNFY

THE SHAMEN! #TOTP

Status Tap being the inspiration for Spinal Quo there #TOTP

I'm actually watching #TOTP on a Friday night, which obviously means everyone else is out.

october 3rd is a pretty huge deal... happy mean girls day! 🩷

What's that? You were wondering how and where Swing Out Sister's top 5 jazz-inflected synth pop hit from 1986 fits in the scheme of UK electronic music? Well, when explanations make no sense...

The new Alfa Mist album is a corker, if you're into that jazz/hip-hop blend that Gilles Peterson plays.

Beta Band at Camden Roundhouse. Bonkers psychedelia. What I loved most was how they kept putting their instruments down so they could all wig out on percussion.

Where does the week go? It's going to see Beta Band tonight, that's where.

Game prices will go up, wages will go down and in 10 years EA will be sold in a fire sale BBC News - Gaming giant Electronic Arts bought in unprecedented $55bn deal www.bbc.com/news/article...

I am here for the King of the Rocket Men feel to this! youtu.be/M2Ei4KF8VHA?...

Stopped watching. Completely boring. Nothing happens.

My WIP is a 3-generation saga, stretching over 50 years of a single family. I'm probably 4 months off finishing the first draft and already over 120,000 words. Starting to wonder if the final version might need to be 3 separate novellas.

Identifying as a man again

Very sleepy rivers... music.youtube.com/watch?v=3pk4...

We're making our 10 year old watch Groundhog Day.

We're making our 10 year old watch Groundhog Day.

"Just as a good man forgets his deed the moment he has done it, a genuine writer forgets a work as soon as he has completed it and starts to think about the next one; if he thinks about his past work at all, he is more likely to remember its faults than its virtues." — W. H. Auden

Laying on the sofa and watching films today after horrible dental surgery. Seventh Son - average. Why are Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore in it?! Blackberry - excellent. What's next?

Bloody solar panels, cluttering up the countryside and preventing desertification while providing clean energy and growing food.

Why has this terrible fantasy film got such a good cast? Was the last good fantasy film Duncan Jones's Warcraft? www.imdb.com/title/tt1121...

I love lemurs

Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) is a medium-sized primate in one of the lemur families, the Indriidae.

Posting for no other reason than it's a fantastic album and more people should listen to it. #Droolian #JulianCope music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

We're watching White Lotus S3. It's got a weird vibe. Very slow, not much happening. Does it pick up?

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Remembering the time I did a huge double take in Aldi.

Do your ears a favour music.youtube.com/watch?v=Fngs...

While Russia probes Baltic countries' air defences, Trump goes off on one about aspirin. Fuck this version of reality.