This man whose heart nearly exploded after years of steroid use is absolutely who should be giving advice about healthy living. Fuck HHH, fuck the Fed, fuck RFK Jr, and obviously fuck Donald Trump… 🤼‍♂️

anyway, my sister was telling me that 6-7 was a devils chant so her and her friend have banned their kids from it and god i do not want to have to learn anything about this thing. i'm 43 i should not have to learn anything about it. let it remain incomprehensible.

Lanterns at Chester Zoo with my sister and nephew

And that is me closed up for Christmas.

Christmas Manics on radio 6

For canal, this has happened. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sometimes the scroll is startlingly on point.

The most annoying thing about genAI is that eventually the genAI proponents are going to get to the end of the novelty of it, realize its limitations, and then claim to be the innovators of doing things the long way without genAI. Call it "slow productivity" or something.

Just remembered that Evan Wright died by suicide last year too. It's all just so grim.

I'd been plowing through old Gen Kill fic last month, so seeing the news about James Ransome there is a shock. He was such a talent.

anyway bought a notebook as a treat (ignore the box of notebooks in the corner) with the swing by fragonard on the cover and i have just the job for it.

i know it's because all the light and heat makes me Unwell, but it never feels like i get as many short days as everyone else gets long days.

christ. my mum's been going on and on and on and on about this bag she wants for christmas but wouldn't let me buy is because of The Price, and I went in to get her a £50 voucher to put to it... and the bag was £45.

Trying to remember the last time i listened to greatest hits radio and the songs weren't skipping all over the place.

(From memory) There's that thing in a Graham Greene story where a headmaster has to tell a boy that his father was killed by a pig falling from a balcony and he (the headmaster) is struggling to stop himself laughing.

If i enjoyed mjf id be so happy right now

I now know thee, thou clear spirit, and I now know that thy right worship is defiance.

Found her.

This is my fault for whingeing about the first half being dull

What is in the water at tottdnham?

shout out the guardian photo editor one time

Why is there a bodybag???

“Just when you thought you heard it all, AI systems designed to spot cancer have startled researchers with a baked-in penchant for racism.”

We need to stop talking about a “crisis of trust” as if the public are behaving irrationally. We have a crisis of *trustworthiness* in politics, and we seem deeply in denial about it. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...

You know a thing that is very bad about this? This is the anti-trans playbook being played against women. Start with 'has the x movement failed the people it's supposed to help', then infantilize them, then make the case they can't be responsible for their own choices, then take their rights away

Why are so many adverts going the dementia route rn? Why do they think making me associate their sweets with a parents living death is going to get my money?

I've thought about this since learning of it in one of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee novels, of all places, in the seventies. Considering India's population, could be the biggest human-made disaster in history. Plutonium-powered snooper device rusting in glacial ice. Great graphics btw.

today in powerful omens I saw my first-ever Beauceron in real life. This is a terrifying breed of French sheepdog featured in The Red Sacrament. Her owner let me meet her and she was very nice. When she licked my hand I swear to god her teeth were an inch long

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

I keep coming back to this thread on the Nero Decree over and over again. Twitter. CBS. Columbia. The Fed. The Kennedy Center. They're not transforming them, they're burning them and salting the earth behind them so they can't be rebuilt. And the biggest target of all is the internet.

Escalloping 😭

Now, I care not who maintains the contrary, but all this is both foolish and unnecessary.

back from a trip into town and god i want to support the highstreet but the highstreet is fucking grim.

"Transgender* for everyone!" (*testicles not included.)

I think my version of this is to ask people to read Brooks' essay "No Silver Bullet" and then reflect on how LLMs are the latest tooling against accidental complexity but terrible at coming up with novel solutions for the essential complexity of software

Just helping my dad put his new oven in, and I'm not saying I'm nervous about electricity, but just as he touched the back of it, he also stepped on the piece of polystyrene he'd been lying it down on and i had about three heart attacks at the crack.

Well…. www.itv.com/news/2025-12...

The prime suspect for the attack was thought to be John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, who the satirist “despise[d] for’s mere want of wit / Tho’ thought to have a tail and cloven feet”

So, unhappy 346th anniversary of the night the first poet laureate John Dryden got the shit kicked out of him up a dark Covent Garden alley because he’d written a satirical poem. Mind you, when you see some of the poem...

Can’t say I like the sound of this bit.

Wellington opened TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube accounts, launched a podcast and wrote a memoir—self-published on the weekend of her daughter’s wedding Yeah she sounds really well-hinged.

Ngl the ai shit just means that every time i see a begging, sorry, *fundraising* request from them i just roll my eyes.

Going to bed, AEW Dark on, just like the old days of err... 2023

A podcast asked me to record a voice note about my prediction for 2026 and here it is.