rabbit watermelon with melon balls, menges lakeside, livingston manor, new york, 1978

I could’ve watched Sean Penn’s character in One Battle After Another walking around for hours. A pitch perfect bit of physical performance.

when we talk about groups of people being marginalised, that’s not an immutable intrinsic fact of the world. people are pushed to the margins by this kind of policy, either by design or as collateral.

anything like ID cards being brought in, especially *digital* ID (just like digital visas) will massively disadvantage and marginalise the most vulnerable. sideline them even more than the systems we live in already sideline them. many people are without digital access and/or digital literacy

Having one of those moments where I think about the people who went to Threads when Twitter died. I wonder how they are doing over there.

Kogonada and Seth Reiss getting funding for A Big Bold Beautiful Journey.

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WENDY AND LUCY Blu-rays have landed! From Kelly Reichardt - one of the most important and quietly devastating US indy features of the 2000s. Out 6 Oct. Pre-order at: www.secondrundvd.com/release_wend... Amazon UK: tinyurl.com/yswx7yzm @diabolikdvd.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdek3vez and more!

Jacques Tati, the thinking man's Mr Bean.

Posing for the DILFs of Sheffield calendar:

Oh look, it's me! I'm here on ILR. So are many friends. The legal process has cost me £14 000 so far over the last 3 years, including paying a £5000 NHS surcharge before I even set foot in the country. Migrants means all of us - asylum seekers, students, ex-pats, EU, and people on high level visas

I don't think I've posted this one

Me buying a non "Butternut squash" squash: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me prepping and cooking a non "Butternut squash" squash: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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I really want to see the emails sent back and forth (and also the cheque that got cut) to make Tron: Ares a Nine Inch Nails album instead of just a Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross soundtrack. Especially as really the only thing I know about this new Tron film is it has a soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails.

Hard to believe a bunch of left wingers setting up an ill defined project would fall into infighting and terminal decline before achieving anything at all.

Taking my 4 week old daughter to the record shop to pick up the new Stereolab single - theonion.com/cool-dad-rai...

👀👀👀👀👀 Our new game is gonna be wild.

Is this what people mean by “aura farming”?

Pleased to announced that exp. 2602, a new #zine in my exploration of the 1970s releases for the Atari 2600, is available for pre-order NOW at our new online store! Read more: expzine.com/2025/09/16/a...

As a guy who would bore you death telling you to watch After Yang & Columbus, the reviews for A Big Bold Beautiful Journey being pretty mid to bad is a real heartbreaker. Kogonada finally getting some actual marketing and it looks to be for a stinker, bad times.

Love when a zine is laser focused on my interests.

Couple bangers in the charity shop today:

Sucks to hear Hermeto Pascoal has died, loved discovering his amazing music after seeing this video last year - youtube.com/watch?v=lZbf...

I guess one humorous upside of the fascist rise to power in the UK is it will be deeply funny when all these Labour MPs end up in front of a firing squad thanks to all the “robust free speech and debate” they enabled. Silver linings and all that.

Updated brand guidelines for 2025:

Peter Pan, bit of a twat really.

The two faces my daughter most regularly pulls are either Kenneth Williams going “oooh” in some Carry On film or Michael Hordern in Whistle and I'll Come to You looking haunted.

The easiest way to tell if it's been a good or bad Nintendo Direct is easy. Did Square Enix announce some 7/10 JRPG with an incomprehensible name that no one will remember in a month's time? No - it was a bad Direct Yes - it was a good Direct

Keeping a muslin in my left back pocket to flag I’m a Dad.

We used to make video games.

Bought a Nigel Kneale drama about the process of making a videogame.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

My daughter, the cinephile.

We are just 4 days in, and the Games for Palestine charity has raised +$50k USD and is a 1/4 of the way to our goal. Incredibly thankful to everyone for all the support, generosity and kindness. Let’s continue demonstrating the power of games to making a difference for those in need.

Love to prove I’ve not read any contemporary litfic: bsky.app/profile/cstr...

Today I learnt that Nigel Kneale wrote the first 3 episodes of an adaptation of Brian Aldiss’ Non-Stop which got shelved for budgetary reasons and am livid about that.

Onwards.

Been rewatching Tommy over the past couple of nights in-between baby things and honestly I think “weird musical” might be a top 3 film genre for me.

Watching the Wuthering Heights trailer:

Morning

Heartbreaking to hear. One of my favourite bookshops in London. Will honour his memory by continuing to hate Amazon and also the landlords slowly eroding Crystal Palace Triangle. And by buying books from my local indie bookshops. bsky.app/profile/vict...

The charity shop gods really delivered today.

I do feel like if your job is a feeding support worker then maybe you shouldn’t say things like “oh that is bad” when someone explains how milk supply isn’t yet established after ten days or clock if the person on the phone is crying because of how little you are engaging with their problems.

Very funny to see people chatting about one of my Dad’s morris sides - bsky.app/profile/jack...

If you still think Labour are in any way a left wing party who hold anti-racism close to the centre of their values I have a bridge to sell you: bsky.app/profile/kier...

hey, want to see something weird?