Oh thank Christ, I thought that was Capaldi. I hope the Paddington as Grim Reaper thing endures. Centuries from now, he'll be a being of folklore, they'll think the kids' stories came after. Bonus points if he outlives Christianity, so people think he's guardian of the afterlife. The Peru-y Gates.

The release date of this movie was June 19th.

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The photos of Trump with women were taken down because the women were abuse victims ... er ...wait.

Violence is never the solution, but counterpoint here's Andrew Tate being punched in the face.

'Time is broken, Steel. Atomic time!'.

I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.

oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003

Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

'OK, so the best optics would be him sagging, semi-conscious in a chair, surrounded by people in white coats.'

OK. Calling it: the murderer was one of the sheep.

i signed up for this site that helps connect you with volunteer opportunities, and holy shit look what they just sent me

On the plus side, if you can endure more than twenty seconds of this, the Bene Gesserit will declare you Space Messiah.

On one hand, this is a shocking upheaval of broadcast norms. On the other hand, I was watching YouTube less than an hour ago, but I can't tell you the last time I watched anything on our local ABC affiliate. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

[email protected] : Do you think you could beat JD Vance in a head-to-head race for president, as polling suggests? AOC: I would stomp him.

Random but—if you want to hear about death via my dulcet notes, this is one of mine. www.amazon.com/These-Six-Th...

I thought of writing an SF story set so far in the future that it had lost the knowledge of this - by common acclaim the greatest live performance there has been or will ever be. And then I realised that's literally just the plot of the musical We Will Rock You. youtu.be/7gpVj_fzv4o?...

Don't sign this contract, don't sign anything like this contract, if you still want to sign after word nine of clause 2a, then perhaps stop signing anything, even Christmas cards.

Dolan, for those who don't know, is more than anyone else the single person responsible for the US Catholic Church becoming the home of choice for neoreactionaries and people like Vance. This is great news.

Call them 'Nuzzi Pox' More Americans got measles this year than Olivia Nuzzi’s book. Guess which got more press coverage. Let's change that.

I think a good analogy here is movie budgets. As budgets go up movies can become less interesting or distinct. A pincer movement, I think, of creators terrified they're on the hook to lose a lot of someone else's money, and the ease of just being able to make your first idea.

To my #academic and #history and #genderstudies friends: THE INTERMEDIARIES is exactly the kind of book the current admin don’t want you to teach— #trans history, #LGBTQ fight against nazis, real 🧪 science. Knowing y’all, you may be teaching it anyhow. If so, please say! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

For years I’ve been trying to get someone at DC or Marvel to create an art book titled “Lichtenstein in Context” reprinting the stories he plagiarized as RL would have seen them (no modern recoloring) and giving the proceeds to the artists or their families. Sell it in museum gift shops.

One thing I find fun when listening to old records is looking at the other records advertised on the sleeve and trying to imagine the presumed crossover audience in the market for all of them.

this book is amazing. it has so much forgotten/misplaced history that ACTUALLY HAPPENED. studying modernism left me with a bunch of facts that stack-up like loose bricks; this book--and the history it tells--is the mortar, transforming everything else into a coherent whole. and its so well written!

Fun fact, Face Off took place during the Clinton administration. If Castor Troy's plan to assassinate the Supreme Court had succeeded, Clinton would have been able to appoint nine new young judges. No Gore v Bush, no Citizens United, no Trump.

It’s unbelievable that for all the wondrous inventions of modern science we still haven’t found a way to kill Dick Van Dyke

If you've got a hankering for Russell Tovey, he read the audiobook of my tenth Doctor novel The Eyeless. www.audible.com/pd/Doctor-Wh...

But Fox News said...

Trying to cheer up a friend who got a rejection by pointing out more people have read her submission than Nuzzi's book

Lara Croft in India is it?

Pro tip: a vegan option for deadcatting any meeting without cat murder is to deploy the Whitney Houston joke 'What was Whitney Houston's favourite type of co-ordination?' / 'Haaaaaandddd Eyeeeeee-ee-eye'.

here is said PubLunch story sorry I was so mad I forgot how to find the link

Odd how the one-vaccination-causes-autism crowd are also the no-need-to-worry-about-what-pollution-our-donors-are-filling-the-air-and-water-with crowd. Almost like they're appalling, credulous, biddable gits.

Y'see, this headline sounds like it's from the 21st century promised by all that SF I grew up reading. www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurren...

The fuck is happening in this framed photo three feet away from Steve Bannon?

I’ve coverd more of the book sales waterfront than most, bestsellers & tiny sellers, popular works & deliberately fringe works. But i feel confident of 2 truths: her advance was more than that of my 8 books together, & yet every one of them outsold this. www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

Also, this is fucking *McDonald's*, one of the two or three most visible brands in the world. What this does to their brand is associate it more with the word "slop", arguably not an association they want reinforcing for their food.

“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.

the first result on google search for your work brings up a bigot blog from someone who hasn't read the book and seems extremistly bothered by tweets from people who are not you. This link isn't that. This link is the one to your book so people can buy it. brandyschillace.com/book/the-int...

Me at McDonald's: I would like a Big Mac. McDonald's: That'll be $5.75 Me: *sigh* paywalled

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Start writing the wikipedia entry on the Venezuelan Conquest of Florida now.

Same headline. Seven years apart. 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.

Trump's dementia has grown so extreme that a select group of advisors are now running the country without his input. To find who those advisors are and what their plans are, buy my new book, which will appear in March 2029.

A study published by The British Medical Journal has shown that if there is a new Doctor Who episode broadcast during the period from Christmas to New Year’s Day, the UK sees a lower mortality rate the following year.