The capacity of several of these faithful to be so confidently, outspokenly wrong in their traitor declarations is impressive. #TheTraitors

The capacity of several of these faithful to be so confidently, outspokenly wrong in their traitor declarations is impressive. #TheTraitors

A lot of these political editors see Starmer/Trump and Mamdani/Trump as unexpected bromances, rather than what the rest of us see, which is someone trying to gamely manage a lunatic.

Didn’t believe this was true but have checked and am told it was sent to the Norwegian government yesterday.

As a colleague often likes to quip: “It’s only depressing if you think about it.”

Always can trust UK polling and election numbers to show why ‘first past the post’ is a truly appalling electoral system.

Growing sense of embarrassment at Fifa over Donald Trump peace prize

I think the faithful might finally be onto one of the traitors. *seconds later* Oh no they’ve completely gone off on an irrational witch hunt again. #TheTraitors

David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Finn McRedmond always finding takes to out Finn McRedmond herself

🚨 Breaking Gardaí say investigations are underway following Grok scandal. "We have received reports and referrals of content on that platform that is under investigation... the process takes some time... it has to be assessed to make sure it's criminal... the people responsible have to be ID'd"

There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

The Trump administration: always finding new quiet parts to say out loud

Delighted to see the continued rise and success of Jessie Buckley. A remarkable performer who has truly put in the work with interesting, challenging roles.

"It's not necessarily the app that's making the images... it's people using the app that's making the images. Making images of that sort is reprehensible..." No, people are asking the app to make the images. IT'S A FEATURE. Not a bug.

The announcement of a new Jackass film is a rare positive note in an otherwise brutal news week. Jackass Forever was such a delight.

And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.

This morning Rape Crisis Ireland has called for a ban on AI 'nudification' functions which can (and have) produced sexual images of children and adults. RCI: 'There seems to be no reason for the existence of "nudification" functionality on AI apps beyond exploitation...'

Aw man, not Bela Tarr. One of the greats. Sitting immersed in Satantango is unlike any experience in cinema - strange, hypnotic, challenging, often transcendent.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

I know writers who use subtext, and they’re all cowards.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the last ten years or so, it’s that in the name of ‘balance’ many media outlets will always tone down language or defer to officially sanctioned terminology, no matter how dishonest or inaccurate that is.

NEW: Trump administration launches direct military strikes on Venezuela. Explosions reported in Caracas. Aircraft reported flying over the city.

Full body cringe reading this ‘value’. Mortifying for all involved.

just one of the great character actors of our time. As many others have, I will lament Isiah Whitlock Jr. with an emphatic sheeeeeeiiiit deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

A lot of things surprise as you grow up and mature, but nothing has caught me off guard more than becoming a fan of the AVATAR films

In Queenstown New Zealand and, friends, it’s as beautiful as it was when I visited 15+ years ago. Truly breathtaking place.

Brewmaster Yun in Culinary Class Wars is the hero we all need heading into 2026.

Real talk: if the Ghost of Christmas Past from the Muppets Christmas Carol showed up in an actual horror movie I’d be genuinely unsettled. Incredibly creepy design.

Yep, Pluribus was the best first season of television I’ve seen in a minute. What a final line.

I never want any filmmaker other than James Cameron to make a HFR film. The extent to which his vibrant, highly digital Pandora and general filmmaking sensibilities suit the tech is such a precarious balance that I don’t think anyone *can* ever pull it off the way the two AVATAR sequels pull it off.

Oh my god this is horrific news. Rest in peace Vince. I always looked forward to catching up with him. My thoughts with his friends and family. Utterly shocked. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/v...

Back in Wellington for the first time in around 15 years. Quite the city.

If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke, so everyone has all the context. (Full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...)

Watched Spinal Tap 2 on a flight, woke up from a nap afterwards to see the horrifying news about Rob Reiner and his wife. Awful. Reiner’s early run is knockout after knockout. No film or TV show has ever made me laugh harder than my first viewing of This Is Spinal Tap.

And the film of the year is Werner Herzog showing off his Bavarian musical toys.

Ah so this very much helps clarify why Sharon Keogan was so interested in this lad.

lmfao

Israeli surveillance targets US and allies at joint base planning Gaza aid and security, say sources

The Fortnite ‘lost chapter’ of Kill Bill is almost certainly the worst, most cynical thing any major American filmmaker has made in the past two decades.

Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

LOL at Fox using The Simpsons to try to get audiences in to see Ella McCay

Corporate consolidation - bad, always!

Metroid Prime 4 has a really nice logo reveal and title screen, somewhat undermined when the big NINTENDO SWITCH 2 EDITION text pops up in a completely different style

Nikita Hand, who won her civil case against former MMA fighter, Conor McGregor has welcomed a decision by the Supreme Court not to allow a further appeal by Mr McGregor against a High Court jury's finding that he raped her