Cobbled together presentation outfit

"People weren't autistic in my day," says Dad over his trainset, circling a scale model of 1 district of Naples that he has been to every year since 1973

I made it, the luggage didn't

Flight fit

Every leading man opposite Miss Piggy, frantically googling:

Life finds a way

This was always inevitable based on the figures Reform were quoting. There just aren't hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers to fulfil their mass deportations pledge.

Finding this a much harder read than I anticipated, there is a huge amount of me that I see in Peter and I'm having to take breaks to process how I'm feeling about that. This is a fantastic meditation on how grief can shape our needs and wants, and as someone filled with grief, it is a little close

One of my more controversial, but harmless, opinions is that Leonard Cohen's version of Hallelujah is still the best of the lot. Buckley is a smoother listen, a better arrangement, but the harsh funereal dirge of the original captures the melancholy underpinning both the holiness and horniness.

Bottom is the British Frasier

Staying with family for a while, and whilst it is nice and cosy, I do wish they'd stop "tidying" my things mid-use. Making a V60 turn around for the coffee filters and they're gone, being carried off to be hidden with the napkins somewhere.

What exactly does she imagine serious is if not "earnest discussions in stifling rooms?"

Crossover of the year with @stradiwhovius.bsky.social

God I'd missed St. John

🎶 When your eel gets all wack On a Thames full of gak That’s a moray 🎶

It turns out that ignoring the increased radicalisation of loyalist communities does not, in fact, lead to peaceful community cohesion.

Sabrina Carpenter's Man's Best Friend is kind of a mess? But a fun mess. At least that's what I thought at first, but the more I listen to it the more I find it oddly clever in its messiness? There's only one real pop banger, Manchild, and that's sort of the point, she's not just there to banger.

It's weird to me that Ghosts is the only recent sitcom to make it on this list (a perfectly fine show!) And Derry Girls, arguably my number one and an absolute critical darling, and Brassic, a perfect distillation of 2010s scally culture, didn't.

Quite excited for Mandip Gill to play her in the 3 episode miniseries on this.

He's joined the war on crime, on the side of crime.

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

Its simple, to create your new mass left-wing movement you just have to take your favourite determiner and add the word party.

Going to disagree with Marie here, Hypnoboobs has the cadence of the Hypnotoad joke from Futurama, which is why it works.

That verdict in full:

"I heard death comes in threes, But misheard it being from Dublin. I thought death's in the trees. Which makes sense, because they're the most pathetic cunts of Plants." Is already my lyric of the year, absolutely no competition.

you know I wouldn't say I had high hopes for "the Spectator interviews the Tate brothers" anyway but somehow the piece is worse than I thought it would be

Excited to find out my local candidate for Party McPartyface

There's a guy on the tube playing 2048 really badly, and it's making me oddly nostalgic for 2018

Congratulations to @chatterton.bsky.social on his new gig as a Presidential tweetwriter

Autumn colours are back, we get to dress like fields again!

I swear, I do eat things other than potatoes, Niamh just really fancied potatoes again, so Poutine:

Again, much like Starmer doomerism, I don't think it will happen, but if I was trying to kill the world's oldest political party, this is probably not a bad start.

Decided to apply for the Chase, again, and am now getting rinsed in every single group chat when I asked for thoughts

Look down. Look down. Don't look them in the eye. Look down. Look down. You're here until you die.

I asked my sister what she wanted for dinner and got the reply "you know those roast potatoes you do at Christmas?" Anyway, here they are.

is this the only government comment so far? nobody should ever put any faith in any of these people again 👍

The government is pursuing a marginal voter strategy in which they believe the marginal voter is somewhere to the right of where Nigel Farage was in 2018.

Look, I think it's very easy to get sucked into "Keir's doomed" but if you were to find a way to blow up your premiership, it would be doing a messy reshuffle then going straight into making your allies defend the ambassador you will inevitably have to sack for a scandal you very clearly knew about.

A government that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I do think it's weird that the Sunday shows are still talking about the people on the Tommy Robinson march yesterday as if they're regular, concerned people who might have been infiltrated by a few extremists and not, as we can all see tanked up racists following Tommy Robinson!

If you want an insight into how well she's done a year into the job, my Nan has provided the epitaph whilst watching Laura Trott: "You know, when she's saying Kemi, does she mean Keir?"

"Hey, you, yeah, you in the Daria T-shirt and semi-ironic birkenstocks. We need to talk. A lot of men your age are getting curious about "voting for Reform" and we're here to remind you Just Say No."

"People have legitimate concerns, and we hear them. That's why, as of 5am this morning, Wes Streeting has caught and compromised, to a permanent end, the Prime Minister."

Polyphemus after Odysseus doxxed himself

My most embarrassing moment? Realising Wet Leg's Mangetout is a "Man, get out" joke and not about beans.

And this has happened *without* a massive sea change of actual popular opinion in favour of these thugs; the elite flip has not been responding to the public, but to social media

Keir Starmer has just been told what Charli XCX is actually singing about and has tried to revoke her visa before finding out she's from Cambridge

I do think, as a left of centre but broadly pragmatic voter, it should be a red light for the government that I am morally disgusted by them.

I think people underappreciate the degree to which the British conception of themselves as "polite" and "nice" will intercept a lot of the truly worst impulses. It is, oddly bemusing, but we are genuinely better than this.