"Please give this seat to a disabled person" would you like me to butter their walking stick too??

Saw this in Oxfam earlier. If Cher can turn back time then why did she write a song which is ENTIRELY predicated on the idea that she can’t?

The last few days did not move the main story forward AT ALL. It's just a guy eating little treats and doing nothing. And so many plot holes. He says, "no more little treats," and then he's eating another little treat in literally the next scene.

Yesterday I won 800 'octopoints' on a "spin the wheel to win!" interaction that my energy provider app has for some reason. They grant me a discount off the bill. I will waffle a little here so that you can form expectations for the princely sum this represents. And now I'll tell you: one pound.

IMO if your answer to this isn’t The Carousel pitch from Mad Men 1x13, you probably need to go and watch Mad Men.

Yesterday @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social and I saw some techbro giving “30 pieces of advice for people under 30” over on Twitter and it was all grind culture bullshit. As adults of 38 and 43 respectively, we compiled 30 pieces of advice that people under 30 won’t have heard before:

Yesterday @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social and I saw some techbro giving “30 pieces of advice for people under 30” over on Twitter and it was all grind culture bullshit. As adults of 38 and 43 respectively, we compiled 30 pieces of advice that people under 30 won’t have heard before:

Put this on Patreon for the interested (it is free to read even if you’re not a Patreon member, but I’d rather put it here than start a substack for obvious reasons)

Over on the cinematic universe Patreon, I've posted a few thoughts about my top 10 tracks of 2025 (along with playlist links, obv): www.patreon.com/posts/146790...

I know blind bags are the current comics gimmick but tbh I would have called it something different if I was putting an issue of Daredevil in there 😬

WAKE UP DEAD MAN is, on balance, my least favourite of the three Benoit Blanc movies but it’s still pretty good. I like that Johnson is imbuing this series with actual substance even if the substance doesn’t necessarily speak to me.

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free on Epic Games Store for the next 24 hours. Another mystery freebie tomorrow buff.ly/aadJJDg

Happy Christmas. And thanks for all the support this year. As a present we're giving you the full stand up show Happy Now? On audio shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episo... and video www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHZ2...

Listen. A Christmas Carol was set in 1843, Tiny Tim is dead, long dead, as we all shall one day be.

Every Christmas gift since lives in its shadow

Anna and I went to Clash of the Comics (the comedians wrestling event) in September and watching the multi-injury fallout ripple through the UK comedy industry (eg Maisie having a back injury in the Taskmaster Special) has been incredible. Surely they can’t ever do that again.

I think we're going to have to switch the Enigma machine back on to break this impenetrable code.

Built this as a warm-up ahead of the full-size Enterprise. Ensign Ro! (RIP, thanks a lot Picard S3.)

i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead

Tbh it’s increasingly clear that there’s no need to actively boycott Amazon because it’s turned into such a flea market that I’d rather look anywhere else. Pre-orders don’t arrive, searches are full of GenAI crapware, results pages are covered in sponsored shit and sus all-caps brands like WSKEN

One of the few problems with PLURIBUS is that it is SO nuanced that it actually can’t be meaningfully discussed within the length of a Bluesky post.

Pluribus rules because it’s forcing people who wanna see a bunch of sci fi lore dumps to instead watch amazing actors have incredibly interesting conversations about what it means to be a person

I've done another instalment of JAMES ACTUALLY READS HIS COMICS in which I read Comics Interview #102, discuss John Byrne's brief return to X-Men in the early 1990s, and drop some quick thoughts about GIANT SIZE CRIMINAL (good) and TALES FROM EROTECH (not so good) www.patreon.com/posts/james-...

If I had a pound for every time I heard a YouTuber say the phrase "to this day" I'd be able to buy YouTube and ban them from saying it. If you watch video essays and haven't noticed it, then I apologise for conferring that knowledge upon you.

If the Francis be Bacon, that's a philosophy class you're takin'. If the Francis be Drake, taking a philosophy class from him would be a mistake.

Me (an hour before I want to eat): well, time to start dinner My recipe:

Had a blast talking to @rianjohnson.bsky.social about Ernst Lubitsch’s Trouble In Paradise (1932) on the @90minfilmfest.bsky.social podcast 🎙️ pod.fo/e/364a30

Is it true you’re a paranoid agoraphobe? That’s what everyone out here’s been saying

Enlightenment is acknowledging that they also managed to misspell the word “cows”

Whenever I see people saying GenAI will replace human art I just think, like, maybe you can make an AI that writes in the style of Alan Moore, but you can’t make it smoke so much weed that it begins worshipping a sock puppet and digs a magic cave under its house, so it’ll never be better than him.

Honestly if this notification comes up I will throw my phone out of the nearest window.

This isn’t a real comic but I still think about it a lot.

A new instalment of James Actually Reads His Comics up for free on the Cinematic Universe Patreon, in which I pick up the first arc of Rick Remender's UNCANNY X-FORCE fifteen years later and ask: is it as good as I remember? Spoilers: yes. www.patreon.com/posts/james-...

Can't wait for the day the CEO of Netflix emails Alan Moore and ask if he's up for more Watchmen, citing their experience of turning Mark Millar comics into tv shows and movies.

Pluribus episodes as Red Dwarf screen caps, a thread. Episode one:

So, Netflix now owns DC Comics

The Darkside Detective is currently free on Epic! Tell your friends and enemies! store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-...

Modern MS Teams crimes: * Starting a meeting before the organiser * Mandatory cameras on even if you're not expected to speak * Any meeting longer than 60 minutes * Sending out an AI transcript and asking people to review it * Any off topic conversation more than 90 seconds long

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

Got to the bit in WE THE PEOPLE where Lepore explains how Hawaii became a US state, and jeeeez, I’m surprised more people aren’t angrier about that one.

New @90minfilmfest.bsky.social pod! 🎧 We spoke to Rose Matafeo LIVE at @monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social during #EdFilmFest 🎤 pod.fo/e/35bc1e

I'm starting a series of free (i.e. no subscription needed) blog posts on the Cinematic Universe Patreon called "James Actually Reads His Comics". The first series covers FANTASTIC FORCE #1-18, the ill-advised F4 spin-off from the mid 90s. www.patreon.com/posts/james-...

I'm starting a series of free (i.e. no subscription needed) blog posts on the Cinematic Universe Patreon called "James Actually Reads His Comics". The first series covers FANTASTIC FORCE #1-18, the ill-advised F4 spin-off from the mid 90s. www.patreon.com/posts/james-...

They've gone too far this time

Don't drop any spoilers if you're not up to date with PLURIBUS but I'm enjoying the show's moral complexity a lot so I really hope the events of the current episode aren't the writers trying to cut that off. I see the show as a big Tuvix riff, and she's being very Janeway about it all.

I had the day off yesterday so I took some time to do the totally sane thing of entering every gig I had any proof or memory of going to into setlist.fm, an act I can recommend to the aging millennial.

Sometimes I feel deeply gaslit by the entire food industry because every lunch product you can buy is like “here’s a bunch of food you like, and then we’ve covered it all in mayo, a thing everybody enjoys without exception”

The other day Anna and I conceived of a ChatGPT-licensed Magic 8-ball where it's exactly the same as a normal Magic 8-ball but just one of the messages says "Definitely kill yourself". Weirdly, the regulators would probably step in on that.

Absolutely loved Radiohead last night. There’s something actively life-affirming about seeing Thom Yorke dancing his heart out on stage, the guy really goes for it. Felt more like a victory lap than the start of anything though. If that’s the last time they tour I’m okay with it.

Going to see Radiohead tonight! I hope they play "I'm A Creep"!