1974: All The President’s Men praises the Washington Post investigating Nixon 2026: All The President’s Men are the remaining staff at the Washington Post

F* brilliant

Watching Morse from the beginning on a whim, and the directing and acting are wildly uneven. Hope it settles down

Don't want to read too much into a still but hmm

Agree with this, but I've got a bad feeling about Sinners.

As far as I can tell, no-one on Bluesky is watching Industry

what it feels like to post on bluesky

What an odd thing for The Times to interpolate in brackets. The 13-year-old what??

Come on now

One thing I don't agree with: companies are keeping the high-wage coders, i.e. the experienced, those with institutional knowledge, and soft/fungible skills. It's the entry level that's at risk: the routine and repetitive, the reps that build muscle, but that can easily be done by AI

Here's an antidote: Taffy Brodesser-Akner tries to get to the bottom of her obsession with Operation Mincemeat www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/m...

What’s particularly odd about this is that a few pages earlier, they have a story about how taxes will have to go up because immigration’s going down

Odyssey movie prediction: the song of the sirens will be heard as the voice of *Penelope*. It would make narrative sense: "Home! It's so close!" etc; otherwise you have to design a sound so otherworldly and beguiling you'll buy Mr O would willingly die/abandon his men to get closer to it.

2026 Reading 1: A Dream of Wessex, Christopher Priest. How is this small masterpiece not better known? Reminiscent of The Lathe Of Heaven, and… well, it seems certain that the Nolan read this as well as The Prestige.

We've made up a family song that goes "Can you hit the goal Fernandes?" if there are any Chelsea ultras on here looking for a new Shed banger

I'm sorry, we won *how many* games over the last two days?

Can't decide whether this is a sex scene or not.

Helluva time to catastrophically lose the TV remote

Finally I've seen Into The Woods at The Bridge. Fabulous staging. Also, lovely to hear it for once without AMERICAN! musical theatre accents.

The plot of Ishiguro’s Klara and The Sun rests on the assumption that humans would want this if they could have it

So close, NYT, so close:

Every time I experimentally play Geese in the home or car, the whole family think I'm playing an elaborate prank. "No, listen though, here's a good bit!" and to them it's just some screamy honking.

Most Reform-coded opinion: I resent taking a magical winter walk around the grounds of a stately home, and have it be soundtracked by Mariah and other American Christmas chintz.

Interesting to me that when my 11yo wants me to search something up on Google, he insists I use the AI tab. A generation coming that won't know Classic Search.

I don’t watch Who anymore, do sea devils really look like this now? The old Ackbar-esque iteration used to scare me; this… doesn’t

And how much of it morphed into the modern social justice movement slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/n...

Yeah, trouble is I remember a time when the radio was awful and I was broke. I read about The Smiths for years before I heard them.

Skewed by gym time

I am 17 (according to wrapped)

Had a very Lovecraftian dream. Went to the doctor's for dodgy mental health, they prescribe a pill that makes you sane. But I overdose and experience too much sanity - glimpses of the teeming intricate infinite machinery of the geometric pitiless universe etc etc

Although Nighy's footnotes are a balm in Gilead when compared to the Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell audiobook, the footnotes of which are read by Neil Gaiman

"The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask". RLS on not asking too many questions:

I learn from my youngest that all physical contact is banned at his school (e.g. high-fiving) because it's potentially intimidating and I feel myself radicalising in real time.

RIP

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Books read on one day in November in 2025, but not *that* day: On the Calculation of Volume, Solvej Balle. How can this slim novel in which nothing much keeps happening be so magical? First volume of *seven*! Can't wait to get back aboard the quotidian merry-go-round

Which is one reason I'm nervous to read his Drake book – I'm sure the *facts* stand up, but he doesn't seem to actually *enjoy* music all that much

I listen to Cranes again for the first time in 30-odd years, with increased admiration for their *sound*, and an utterly unshifted opinion about the outright unlistenability of the singing.

Better than I thought it'd be (I thought it would be tremendous) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIol...

The Rosalia album really does deserve every hosanna

Spotify has announced more in-depth song credits and a "SongDNA" feature powered by Whosampled, which they recently acquired

That thing where, if you can't find the book you *want* to read (in this case, Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald) anywhere in the house, then all the other books just feel *wrong*

SNOW! A lot of it! OK, stop now.

I hope people realise AI isn't going away if the AI bubble bursts, any more than the internet went away when the dotcom bubble burst.

Been looking forward all year to Chris Thile at the London Jazz Festival at the Barbican! Can't wait! Oh, it was last night.

Only now, some 40 years on, do I connect the writer of that short story with the author of Mythago Wood. Wow.

Reading a book that feels like it's set in the uncanny valley. It's meant to be contemporary, but a 20yo girl will keep lighting a silk cut and saying "Of course I'm not happy! I don't even exist! I made a bargain with God and I lost!"

Is the Prescott Report in the public domain yet? I.e. is there a way to read it without having to sign up to the Telegraph.

I realise audiobooks have made me a better reader: I now more clearly hear a voice when reading. And you can cast your own narrator in your minds ear: what would this sound like if Alex Jennings were reading it? Or Lydia Leonard. And so on

Bluesky search, JFC. Won't be searching for BBC again in a hurry.