Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

Amazing to think, if my mum hadn't had a headache over Christmas 1990, I wouldn't even know what a Dalek is.

UK medicine regulator confirms there is no evidence paracetamol causes autism in children www.gov.uk/government/n...

Now is your chance to tell @michaelmills.bsky.social how much he dislikes fun and explain all the reasons that War of the Sontarans is fabulous! ‘I wanted to ride a horse!’ Viewer evidence required!

Strike a blow for sanity. Forget these fashionable reappraisals and remember just how rubbish it all is.

A massive factor in UK politics is people’s unwillingness to admit they got any sort of break.

The annual festival of “stop hitting yourself!“ aka the BBC’s commentary on Lib Dem conference.

Which movie do you consider to be perfect?

Go fash, lose cash

No story is worse for including a secret submarine dock.

Lara Croft should have dual pistols and kill endangered animals, not a bow and arrow and cogitate.

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

[Withnail, close to tears] “I have become vulnerable in the night-time economy”.

Jarvis at his most Chris Morris. #totp

"I've got a house with windows and doors" isn't a particularly proud boast, but B*Witched sell it well #totp

Ah, Fiveive. #totp

Computer & Video Games ran an April Fools saying Lara Croft’s clothes would disappear if you jumped on her bed in Croft Manor to the rhythm of C’est La Vie. If you wanted to know what the 90s were like. #totp

You couldn’t use it to win a football but you could use it to sell sofas. #totp

Less a hit and more a witness protection programme. #totp

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

[sigh] it's nice on the internet before the americans wake up. Let's see what shitstorm they dump on us today.

The first Austin Powers film is the work of someone who’s not just seen James Bond, but The Avengers, Jason King, The Ipcress Files, Casino Royale, Our Man Flint, & Dr. Goldfoot & The Bikini Machine. The third Austin Powers film is the work of someone who’s seen the first two Austin Powers films.

can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about

Gosh I’m sure I remember JD Vance saying something about Europe not having freedom of speech.

Remember when there was all the trumpeting and ceremony about The Old Man and the Gun being Robert Redford’s last film, and how a Hollywood age was ending, and all the essays were written, and then he popped up for one scene in Avengers: Endgame and was like, “yeah, well”?

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

yeah - no apologies for the screenshot rather than RT but you needed to see the reply too

His name erased from the tablets; his life to perish in the memory of eternity.

Search called off for worst Doctor Who title imaginable. I mean… Christ.

Build a trilogy out of three unrelated films: Salo Silo Solo

Precisely the case in the US. Young men with economic anxiety on net actually voted Dem in 2024. Young men with bad views about women, feminism, and trans people voted for the right. www.ymrp.org/polling

Stephen is correct as usual but also i'm glad he's called out the utter bullshit about eCoNoMiC aNxIeTy

My Who/Trek crossover idea: The Enterprise flies into the last moments of the destruction of a great spacefleet. They hear a manic, gloating voice glorying in the destruction. They beam aboard the only survivor. The Dalek barks 'protect me from the warlord known as the Doctor'. Opening titles.

didn't you hear? the twilight zone burned down like five years ago. entire zone, burnt to the ground. i really don't know the details but i guess something weird was going on and it caused a huge fire? everybody was pretty shocked at the time you know, we'd all thought it was more abstract than that

This cover is better than most Doctor Who that has been on television.

Inspired by @roryisconfused.bsky.social, I can't help thinking of this headline as the premise for an MR James story: "The Professor lighted the candles, poured a measure of sherry and told Dr Standish about the day the bang bus came to Oxford. A most remarkable tale that haunts me to this day."

The actual group moving most strongly to Reform are male Gen X-ers. We need more articles on how to deal with them.

Reminder that one thing that made this site good initially was that we sorta agreed to not re-post a bunch of objectionable crap by assholes into our friends’ TLs, even if just to say “look at this asshole.” The vibe was better when we just blocked those chumps and moved on.

Not necessarily. Here we see a man successfully planning evening entertainment while simultaneously launching a full spread of photon torpedoes.

“He doesn’t want the others to hear him crying” might be the best line ever written about Doctor Who.

Sanjeev Bhaskar and Reece Shearsmith have both played members of UNIT. I wish my brain didn’t work this way. #Taskmaster

I will be using “this claim is not related to Doctor Who” more often in conversation.

Those of us who get nostalgic about old games should always remember: a lot of the time they were really crap.

Summer's here and the time is right For a lovely Dancing In The Street BBQ ©Paddy Merrit

"If you die in the game, you die in real life" is actually true for an awful lot of things, like snooker and backgammon

In the real world, the last PM, a Conservative, actually defended this stuff, to the point of saying that British multiculturalism works and taking real political damage to do so. Some Labour people are so convinced of their superior virtue they don't seem to realise it's about what you *do*.

Orson Welles was a Transformer.

Nothing will ever feel like the move from mega drive to ps1. Nothing ever again.