Shakespeare would have loved this*! *a staggeringly dreary rivalry between two really quite similar bureaucrats

I've seen Heaven's Gate so obviously I know the cast goes dummy, but even then, seeing it written down like that! Wow!

It's only wafer thin

Man, what a day to come back to this place. Andy Burnham by-election day. You can't fucking move for people "taking the temperature in Westminster". Anyone seen some nice bums in the world cup

Hello again losers, what's new?

Hello everybody, this is still me but I'm having to change privacy settings on everything. Bluesky can't be private??! I may in time have to delete this if I can't make it work like this.

Outrage over Gaza is doused and ignored; outrage over immigration is stoked and naturalised. This is a political choice, and it is one that is being made by the people in the government who are paid money by the taxpayer to manage these sorts of things.

Nick Timothy has always been an unpleasant authoritarian racist but the direct endorsement of racist mob violence (and attacking the police for preventing it) is genuinely a new low.

The fact that ai art and writing programs are built on stolen work really seems to be fading from the discussion even amongst artists and writers, which is a bit shit.

Horrible set of quotes on this tweet... lots of American people punching the air in triumph at some stupid shit happening in the MCU... just horrible

Really makes me laugh, every time, to see that lad in his pants at every curtain call. Can anybody tell me if somebody involved in decision-making in this production of Evita is by any chance a colossal faggot

Anyone talking about the 90s like it was a feminist haven free of a manosphere has clearly forgotten about what the 90s was actually like or never bothered to study it

Made the mistake of asking my kids what my face looks like at rest, and was told "if you were an emoji you'd be meh"

The future's here! And it sucks absolutely mountains of shit!

Very happy for everyone who's excited to see Oasis live, but I'm quite baffled by anybody out there pretending or thinking that Oasis were *good*. What's happening there

Avril Lavigne: "He was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious?" My children (every single time): "Yes, I think in 2025 we're going to need a lot more information actually, nothing about that is obvious, it could mean anything at all, you might as well say..." [cont. ad infinitum]

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Here are some things I overheard this morning as I was having a terrible day, which cheered me up: [woman on phone] "I definitely told her to fuck off" [woman in shop (singing)] "You're gonna love me" [young man] "It's my first whip but I'm trying to stay humble"

Life must be absolutely amazing if you're the sort of person who is really, really into receiving six-digit security codes

Still slightly feeling from the moment on Monday when my 7yo went, "Caspar, would you like a free plane ticket?" (Me: "Y... yes, I suppose so!") 7yo: "Then you should join Nectar. Nectar has just got together with British Airways to give their customers free tickets"

Had to clip this bit

We are a decade into the panic about trans athletes, and the best they've got is still a single woman coming 5th in a college swim meet.

A man and a woman each sitting with one of their young kids on this bus, across the middle aisle from one another, just SCREAMED at the kids not to talk over them. Guys... sit the kids together and let them talk to each other? I agree they're boring and annoying but the solution is right there

Really funny that you get people moaning about wokeness in various TV programmes when every week on Sewing Bee someone called Fy repurposes their mother's wedding dress as a sex-club inspired suffragette outfit for save-the-environment week

Everybody join in, you know the lyrics! "Scratch a terf..."?

Interesting. I think what this demonstrates is that you can make great and popular art about, or as an expression of, grief/loss/existential bemusement, but it won’t necessarily help YOU with those things.

Absolutely fascinating, quite upsetting interview with a clearly extremely depressed Sufjan Stevens in which he basically trashes his masterpiece. I see what he's saying, but he's wrong: the record he made is beautiful and good and true. www.npr.org/2025/05/27/1...

The kids just tried to make me play a pretend game based on a videogame they play and fuck my life it was so boring, they had to buy made-up shit from me with made-up currency, stuff like super-powered strawberries or whatever, never been so bored in all my life

Just came across this comment from Hadley Freeman from October 2023, quoted by David Aaronovitch in the Times.

Probably his best song? The rhymes and wordplay are heavenly.

RIP to Tom Lehrer, one of the absolute greats. A legend. A wonderful, wonderful man. I just love him. youtu.be/iaHDBL7dVgs?...

Not to boast but I've really given you a very high quality thread of opinions here. Something for everyone.

help I’ve been absolutely murdered here

Disabled man arrested for supporting Palestine

I got to ask Al Pacino a question once at a screening of Sea of Love and he said the same thing

Former senior UN relief official Jan Eliasson has dismissed these air drops as an "ineffective sideshow". But of course, they're not aimed at stopping the genocide. Nothing Starmer does is aimed at stopping the genocide. Its aimed at managing the domestic politics of his complicity in the genocide.

For clarity, twee-swearing or compound swearing is a sin against God, and I will literally unfollow you for doing it.

Men who are 6 foot and above will never let go of this one imperial demarcation, sorry — it has a cachet of exclusivity that “184cm” will never match

One like, one opinion

I'm just over half-way through a 48-hour hunger strike in solidarity with Gaza. Instead of coming into my replies to tell me that I'm centring myself, please donate lots of money to the Sameer Project at this link, write to your MP, and join the action if interested. chuffed.org/project/1132...

This was a daunting task, but I had a great time unpicking how Kubrick borrowed from 18th-century art to make one of the most beautiful films ever made.

A fucking corduroy-wearing moron who hasn't noticed anything that has happened in this country for the last three years at least, calls himself a feminist because his mum's a woman, and says "thank god it's Friday" religiously every Friday: "Jeremy Corbyn has just opened the door to Reform"

Really enjoyed this enthusiastic and sharp-eyed review of Eddington from my pal @guylodge.bsky.social, which functions in part as a defence of the film against the charges of both-sidesism that have plagued it since its Cannes premiere: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

Bi??

No no, I'm really absolutely fine living in the dumbest era in history, it's all good

"Without intervention, the remaining journalists in Gaza will die... Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us remembers seeing a colleague die of hunger."

I'm fucking screaming, this is a real, genuine conversation that just happened. 7yo: Have you ever dreamed something and then done it? Me: Hmm. Let me think. I guess I may have dreamt, something like, I missed a train? 7yo: And then did you become Mister Train?

I can’t actually put in words how far out on the limb you have to be for your actions to have the Daily Express expressing sympathy for someone with the name Muhammad.

I'm fucking screaming, this is a real, genuine conversation that just happened. 7yo: Have you ever dreamed something and then done it? Me: Hmm. Let me think. I guess I may have dreamt, something like, I missed a train? 7yo: And then did you become Mister Train?