i have a slly question: why do soft shop-bought baked goods go stale when you open the packet when there's air inside the packet also

since it was just reposted heres the greatest thread in BSKY history

wacko jacko-bot speedrun 🤖😔💀

he means you

if le carré knows what the word “mawkishly” means I don’t know how it works in this or the earlier sentence

watching the end of smiley's people i got a huge & absurd wave of melancholy re berlin before the wall fell -- i was there 3 times 1987-1988, none more than a few days, nostalgia for the vanished shape of the world while i wasn't yet 30 i guess, not that i loved it, just that i'm not getting it back

important pop item: the on-stage music when smiley visits the hamburg strip club (rowr)

rereading tinker tailor soldier spy & it's the early 70s & smiley is walking towards his house in bywater street in the rain: the narrative mentions the boutiques of the kings road & i have the brief wild notion he's passing & seeing* the shopfront of mclaren-westwood's SEX…

oh poot i fvcked up my email ("mail" isnt letting me reimport it, it gets like 99% then says nope, i assume a file is corrupted somewhere) (leaving it till 2moro morning, its 12th night, maybe the 3 kings of orientar will be able to help)

oldblud

lol when you move a pal's complete alerts collection from the folder for their beloved blog to the junk folder in error! (shut up brian i will honour nothing)

SMILEY’S PEOPLE (1982) I do like the way lacon is simultaneously ultra-slimy but also actually very good at his job

i have close venezuelan friends, they live in cornwall but had a plan to visit family back home over xmas, so this lawless act of war has made me angry for all the big political reasons but also super-anxious in a very personal way (i am checking where they are & how they are)

just rewatched the open-the-ark climax of raiders 1 on youtube & got annoyed all over again they made all the sequels: you cant top that! why did you try!!??

time to watch TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (1979) all over again

ok like Shane and Ilya eventually talking about their feelings: we are doing this! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heated-riv...

mushroom time 🍄🍄🍄

one advantage of using superhot chilli powder (🌶️🔥🌶️) instead of the curry powder mix i meant to reach for (🌶️), is that i ate way less rice & peas than i otherwise probably would have, so there's that

lol i got abt 13 seconds into the actually functional element of the ganz-barkan summit (eg after barkan worked out how to log on) before turning it off bcz RB's affect is so annoying this is unfair of me! but it's the evening of the second day of the new year! i shd be relaxing not working!

This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about

rentoul posts something brainless is the clock-strikes-the-hour of political soc-med but it does remind me that long long LONG ago he authored a book abt ken livingstone called "red ken" -- except it seems to have been fully scrubbed from the record? was it him or am i muddled & misremembering?

time to watch the mushroom murders netflix doc 🍄🍄🍄

home again home again jiggity jig

wtf

YOUR fundamental group is trivial

cat on the train 😍

my most evil-coded opinion SITO is that fireworks are grebt and I love them

its a real mind fuck if you put yourself in this guys shoes. a hollow, frightened, bitter boy who has thirsted his whole life for acceptance, retribution, and power, with achievement beyond his wildest dream an angstrom from his grasp ... and his own children are likely standing directly in his way

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 youtube.com/shorts/T95YZ...

I just found out abt (& gazed at a picture of) HORSE FOETUS TENTACLES 😔😔😔 once again nature is terrible 😑

As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:

is it true that 30+ years of belligerently "grown up" politics brought us to this bad bad place? yet another datapoint: james carville has been a paid consultant for palantir since the early 20teens

might leave it till im back home in my safe place (= the coastal south west) but i just discovered the ganz-barkan summit is them insulting one another for like an hour, this is podcasting in 2026 lol

tbh it's kind of sweet watching the centrists banging their bobbleheads together fretting why starmer is SO hated: as if the making & breaking of the 10 pledges wasn't entirely public! … /1

watched THE LADY VANISHES (1938) and realised I had fused it in memory with some other (possibly non-existent) film where the villains who abducted the old lady are chased on skis across snowbound mountains

cecilia giménez did nothing wrong RIP

the dawn of british folk horror

Hey I see Matt Yglesias wrote a "billionaires are good and you should be nice to them" piece

im the KING IN YELLOW baby

memories of woke brighton pt 2

memories of woke brighton pt 1

gom with the jabbar

ok ppl often mistakenly say such-and-such is a pynchie name but perfidia really is a pynchie name

page 9 of max horkheimer’s ECLIPSE OF REASON (1947) post-yule humour!

tfw u encounter the ghastly word-string "wondrous smorgasbord" & google it to prove to yrself that such a phrase can surely only have been deployed one terrible time -- but no, there's at least half a dozen coinings, in seemingly unrelated contexts (i am not prepared to consider plagiarism)

very happy to discover my sister & her BF refer to pynchon as "pynchie"