I bought the single Transformers Blokees blind box from a stall at a free comicon in MK last week, just out of curiosity. Was hoping for Ultra Magnus but it turned out to be the chase Metallic Shockwave. 1/36 rarity. Fun build!

Happy Meldrew Point Day, Brian Molko! Today you are 19,537 days old and have reached your Meldrew Point - the age of Richard Wilson on the day One Foot In The Grave was first aired on Jan 4, 1990. I don’t believe it!

Regrettably, Jared Leto’s Skeletor is the best thing about MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE which is itself about as good as DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES. No particular love for the source material but it’s a lot of fun and accessible, if a little irony-poisoned.

Looking forward to explaining this to my daughter who has been practically counting the days to her 13th birthday since age 10 so that she can get a discord/Instagram account.

Maaan. There are so many bits in Buffy that rely on Anthony Head being an incredible actor and he nailed it every time. He was either the dad you wanted or the dad you wanted to be. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

See, we started by pushing these fuckers over with brooms and knocking crates out of their hands, now they’re coming for our kids.

Wolverine using computers doesn’t come up often but when it does I always love it. He's 140 years old, OF COURSE he types with two fingers.

The thing about BACKROOMS is that they could make basically infinite sequels out of the concept but the more they do, the more chance one of those sequels will be "we sent ten marines in to clear out the backrooms and now they're getting picked off one by one"

BACKROOMS was genuinely terrifying in a way most horror isn’t for me, but I also think it ran out of road and made some bad decisions in the final act. You can sort of feel it failing to escape its influences and realising it hasn’t got a point to make and grasping for meaning at the end.

Nothing reminds me of being 20 years old like listening to The Staunton Lick. Real specific time and place energy. Seems so far away, and yet so close I could reach out and grab it. open.spotify.com/track/2sjmit...

My friend’s job is literally archiving messages from services like WhatsApp and telegram for banks, because the regulators/auditors require that stuff to be accessible to detect fraud. Extremely suspicious that the government is not held to the same standard.

I always remember when someone involved with the first live-action Transformers, possibly even Michael Bay himself, said something like “why would you want Peter Cullen to voice Optimus Prime instead of a big celebrity like Tom Cruise?”

I saw HOMO SAPIENS at the @princecharlescinema.com when Mike/Misc Films programmed it. Genuinely beautiful, haunting, moving cinema. Came together like a piece of environmentalist sci-fi, for me.

You would think after this long I would know to simply not buy Jeph Loeb comics, but apparently it turns out I'm a complete idiot who loves pain. This thought is inspired by H2SH and X-Men of Apocalypse both being on my pull list and both being, in complete fairness, borderline unreadable.

Just saw a job advert for a UX role at Ticketmaster which is, I imagine, a bit like being in charge of animal wellbeing at the slaughterhouse

the collective noun for homophones is a heard

Anna and I are watching Revolutionary Girl Utena on Blu Ray and as good as it is, I can’t help thinking 4 eps per disc is ludicrous for a show that was broadcast in 1997 and looks like it.

Sorry to be a solar panel bore but sitting in the bedroom with the aircon on ice blast and knowing that the sun is powering its own cooling is a level of bliss previously unreachable during uk heatwaves.

Just reposting this since we’re back in heatwave times. We bought a second because they’re so good. Whisper quiet and smart-connected.

Made sure our kitchen Alexa (aka The Egg Timer) knows exactly what we think of it with one of @elliearty.bsky.social’s Red Dwarf stickers, picked up at MCM Comicon today.

Today my therapist was like "My [autistic] child complains if I don't use the right potatoes for mash" and I was like ha ha, yeah, imagine. Caring about that. But like. Obviously don't use generic white potatoes though. Like that would be nuts. You can use any of two or three different varieties.

@emily4mk.bsky.social when I voted Labour at the last general election I told you personally that it was with the strong caveat that the party needs to improve its support for trans rights. As of yesterday, I will not be voting Labour again.

"If someone offers you a seat on Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B you do not ask which seat, you just get on"

Anna and I have been playing the Myst remake having both played the original approx. 30 years ago and fuck me, game design has changed since the 1990s. It’s. If modern games hold your hand, Myst throws you naked into a bear pit with an improvised knife.

Like all people my age I saw the live action Mario movie and went “that was weird…” but BATMAN & ROBIN was the first time I remember sitting in a cinema and going “wait, this is fucking stupid and didn’t have to be.”

IMO it’s difficult to under-write The Punisher but I can’t help feeling that Disney+ special could have had a BIT more story to it.

When IN RAINBOWS came out, Radiohead did a live stream to launch it. Almost 20 years ago, it was probably the first live stream I ever watched. Excited to see that the BFI has archived it as part of the incredible Reply collection: replay.bfi.org.uk/video/458/e0... #radiohead #bfi

Proust Baking Company Recalls Thousands of Madeleines

On the one hand it’s exciting to read a work of Victorian social history, but on the other, the book does start with an analysis of how different head shapes explains why some people are poor and stupid and others rich and civilised.

The flagship announcement for this new line seems to be "Vampire X-Men" which isn't even a new idea and has been bad every previous time they've done it. Not sure "What if the minority group WERE bloodsucking murderers?" really speaks to the core themes of the book.

For maybe 30 years I've collected (as opposed to simply read) comics and now I basically own or have owned every comic I ever wanted to, with the sole exception of Giant Size X-Men #1. Unsure whether to buy it or leave the collection incomplete so I still, in theory, have somewhere to go.

I fall somewhere in the gap between “it’s good that Marvel is actually trying something” and “unfortunately they have chosen to make that thing seem immediately lame”

Went and voted for the candidates that have least offended every value I have. If I’m being honest it’s a fairly slim list.

Was all ready to bust out my driving license to tell Apple I was a grown-up and then it was like "this Apple account is SO ancient that you must definitely be an adult, take it easy on those knees Granddad"

Just read Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum. Absolutely great stuff. A density of ideas and originality comparable to All-Star Superman imo. Would have loved to have heard Seb’s thoughts on it. Worth reading, especially if (like me) you find that DCU ongoing Superman comics are impenetrable.

Usually it’s “Hello, we are your bank”, today it was “Hello, we are no longer your bank”

As someone who owns a house but remembers how much it fucking sucked to get served a Section 21 notice in the past, I am deeply happy to see the law change today.

Hilarious. Some guy claiming because his family history extends back to the Crusades, he should be involved in governing the rest of us. And claims that we’ll forget history if we oust him. ALL our family histories go back that far… www.channel4.com/news/the-end...

And here in the first episode of Willy Fogg 2 uh... well.... I.. it's all very very. I mean, did they even...

As a Londoner, I enjoy pedantically pointing out the errors in depictions of London. Here in the intro to Victorian Romance Emma, we can see Portcullis House to the right of Westminster Bridge. This building was constructed between 1998 and 2001, so would have not existed in Victorian times.

With the caveat that I am still enjoying it, I do feel like Daredevil Reborn S2 has gone in the wrong direction, not least because a huge chunk of the latest ep was a dinner between two supporting characters, neither of whom have much to do with Matt Murdock.

Having some very difficult parenting times atm and I have to say, every time I open a website/app I feel borderline accosted with misery/fury/engagement bait that my brain just instantly nopes out of. It all feels so dystopian on a systemic level. Anyone know how to cope with that?

I haven’t thought about this in YEARS but my dissertation was designing & coding a keypad text input system that was better than T9. One key improvement was a dictionary personalised to your actual word usage, mainly because I spent 5 years scrolling past “Lands” every time I typed my own name.

You'll only drive it underground.

the real university experience is having your horizons broadened by meeting people with different upbringings to yourself. your lecturers could never, imo

Last week was good for solar panel bores (e.g. me) because not only did we generate enough electricity to cover our own usage, but the excess export payments covered our entire bill including standing charges. Finally the electricity company is paying ME.

This is why I haven't watched terrestrial TV in like 20 years.

TR-49 was a really excellent game but the Switch 2 port was so broken. Thought it was just ours but others are reporting problems too. Freezes, stuttering, and most egregiously it locks when you try to complete the game. We had to watch the endings on YouTube 😬

On the one hand, lol, on the other, when I decided to pick my top 10 albums of all time a few months ago, these two were my very first picks and it wasn't even close.

I watched a video of Charlie Cox explaining his favourite Daredevil comics and I was just like, tick, tick, tick, okay all of those opinions are good. Well done on not being a clown.