RIP to an incredibly complex star. Brigitte Bardot (1934-2025).

Sometimes I need a bit of public service paternslism. Channel4 app: you're using mobile data, are you sure you want to stream this show without WiFi? TikTok: *also notices there's no WiFi* Your data allowance is none of my business. Let me hoof more nonsense into your eyeballs.

I hate this game.

I went to see The Cure's Wild Mood Swings tour and somehow outran the crowd to the barriers right in front of where Perry Bamonte was playing. He smiled in my general direction and made an incredible night even more memorable. RIP to a lefthanded legend.

What a cracking gift @whenisbirths.bsky.social

So I was coauthoring a paper about lad mags. The National Library of Wales wheeled out a trolley-load of FHM and Loaded for me to peruse in main reading room (filled mostly with revising 6th formers). If I recall correctly, @clairejhines.bsky.social had use a special bit of the British Library.

And this mainly focuses on older, unpublished material. I work on 20thC Irish media history and while the newspapers are mainly digitised, a full 99% of magazines aren’t. And that’s successful, long-running publications from within living-memory!

Glad to see Karen and Carlos's gender trouble in the final #Strictly

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. I think we all knew I'd put my resourcefulness to something ike this in the end.

I learned the word 'vibocracy'. doi.org/10.3390/ency...

I'll be spending the rest of the weekend cruising into Christmas #totp

1998 feels simultaneously a very long time ago and just like yesterday #totp

Lovely afternoon watching Scandal in Bohemia (1921) scored by Joseph Havlat, The Golden Pince-Nez (1922) scored by Neil Brand and The Final Problem (1923), scored by Joanna MacGregor.

“An extraordinary piece of work.” Those aren't my words (or those of Top Gear magazine) but Elis James from BBC 5Live. The perfect Christmas gift for the Goth or Curehead in your life, CUREPEDIA is now fully updated in a paperback second edition. geni.us/Curepedia A GUARDIAN MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR

First time I saw Halloween, during the scene where Jamie Lee Curtis is asking her neighbours for help and they respond by turning off their lights, someone in the audience loudly said "Bastards!"

Noob question about the #REF2029. Strategy, People Research Environment. How will the statements be assessed? Like, from the point of view of fact checking.

I love how when you search for the REF on here you mostly get furry artwork.

Are we at peak bare midriff? #totp

Knew it! #Spotify #listeningage #JamesBond #SpotifyWrapped

I love it. When does Mr Blobby fall over in some gunge? #Strictly

This level of anarchy is what Saturday Night telly should be about #Strictly

I am here for the chaos #Strictly

In spite of my better judgement, I remember 1998 really fondly #totp

Fairy certain you'd need antibiotics after sitting on that seat #totp

This ASMR's a bit aggressive #totp

Why the long face? #totp

Reform had the temerity to mailshot me today. ...With a freepost envelope included.

I haven't watched #C4news in ages. Get him, Krish!

Women politicians and what they wear: An occasional series #GenderandtheMedia #FM38320 www.rte.ie/video/id/290...

Popped my ballot paper in the post box today ...Then I bought myself some Wotsits. If you've voted, have a snack of your choice. You've earned it @ucuaber.bsky.social #WeAreTheUniversity

Me, at an Open Day: Sky offering to buy ITV is one of the biggest things we'll see happen to broadcasting. The next day: BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit.

Thinking about it, Mel B might be my fave Spice Girl #totp

A sudden uptick in quality #totp

Flabbergasted *bombastic side eye* #TheCelebrityTraitors

Sometimes, when I'm frustrated that I keep making mistakes with soft mutations in Welsh, I look at this list of instructions to remind myself that explaining all the triggers takes FIVE PAGES. www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnw...

I was eating a cookie when I saw this.

Was not expecting that sentence to end with 'the theme from Jaws' 🤣 #totp

I have a deep, spiritual dislike of this song's message. GO TO SLEEP AEROSMITH #totp

I've got a bass under the bed I might try to improve my overall attractiveness by walking about with it #totp

Hot take: Duolingo's new battery thing is as bad an idea as the 'AI forward' thing was.

It is a little known fact that tonight's clock re-adjustment was pioneered by German-British artist Frank Auerbach, to the great dismay of the proponent of the original change, politician Konrad Adenauer

Girls with a bass 💛 #totp

Boyzone are already standing up. What will they do for the key change? #totp

This is rubbish. When's Top of the Pops 2 on? #totp

Got caught in a rain storm buying the new Philip Pullman book. Might have been more poetic if that had happened happened when I picked up a copy of La Belle Sauvage.

The Simpsons predicts our political reality, again.

It still irks me that got PhD funding to study masculinity in Janes Bond films and never once got the piss taken out of me in the newspapers.

"And that was taxpayer funds by the Lesbian Canal Boaters"

I'd forgotten that Sumo wrestling came to the UK in 1991. I'd assumed all my friends shoving eachother around the playground was a Street Fighter II thing.

Unconscious bias training needed #CelebrityTraitors