God, I adore this LP.

Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it

Time for GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S FRANKENSTEIN DISCOURSE! I keep seeing people worry about whether del Toro properly did justice to Mary Shelley. And I have to ask: why is that del Toro's job more than anyone else's? And also, didn't he? And also, how could he? He's not a mother. 1/

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Do any normal people like Wes Streeting, or is this entirely that he’s really, really good at schmoozing tame journos, who all seem to think he’s lovely?

Today marks the anniversary of the Sloane Square Underground station disaster when, on the night of 12 November 1940, 37 passengers & staff lost their lives during the London Blitz. Today, in remembrance, London Underground unveils a plaque to their memory. #london #history

Forgot what a massive banger CHV4 was; loving this fancy slipcase version.

Operation Protect Small Daschund

Concentrated joy from Sigrid. #vinyl

WFH day, and the deck has hit the Spooky remix of Lush’s Undertow. Which might be the most gloriously 90s thing in the world, and I adore it.

Tatsuya Nakadai (1932-2025), grand parmi les grands. RIP

The BBC isn't perfect, but it belongs to Britain not Trump. Political leaders across the UK must unite in defending its independence from the White House.

What a stitch-up www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

Great show as ever from the village firework team.

I *may* have slightly over-ordered on new vinyl. Maybe.

It's Kathleen Stock all over again, isn't it? Someone with immense privilege behaves hatefully, gets pushback from victims, embarks on an 'I've been cancelled' tour, supported by the whole British media establishment, and the victims get shat on all over again.

If you are excited by the traitors, do not buy the traitors board game, buy The Resistance, one of many games it's based on, which has the crucial detail of the missions actually giving you information to go on which helps discussions feel productive. magicmadhouse.co.uk/indie-boards...

There’s a song playing, on the radio…

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Guy Fawkes' signature before & after watching the final episode of Celebrity Traitors. #celebritytraitors #thetraitors #traitors

Ah, which reminds me of the best tweet of all time.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

lol

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

One from the actual Shire. A demonic elon musk about to be burned in effigy. #Lewes #Bonfire #Sussex 🔥

How much wood could a woodcock cock, if a woodcock could cock wood?

The John Lewis Advert, But The Club Is This One: youtu.be/ti75l-YDWAI?...

For context there was a trans contestant on Monday's episode of Only Connect. That's it. That's what's triggered Graham. Seeing a trans person. Instead of changing the channel or even a modicum of introspection as to why he feels that way, he instead chooses to pick a fight.

FAO: anyone thinking it’s too early for Christmas Records

Pa-pa-pa-pa-pardon?

John Lewis Christmas Advert: yeah, that’s nice and all, but JL isn’t actually a record shop.

I JUST MADE A TERRIBLE NOISE IN A MEETING

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

22 MEGATONS

In a move that critics are calling ‘ill-advised’ I’ve made a mini video documentary to accompany this post, featuring sexy drone footage and less sexy Martin footage. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qNPF...

As a biologist, It really is a great analogy. Also trees. It's like saying, "There are trees and grass, you have to be one or the other." Ok... where is the line that defines "is a tree?" what about bush-like grasses? Palm trees? NON-tree palms? What about horsetails and their tree-like ancestors?

Mindset, a puzzle so pure it would work in a newspaper, is now in a newspaper. The Observer started running it today. Cat for scale. (You can play the digital version in browser at mindset.game, or grab the app at mindset.game/app)

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.

We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.

The news story that reveals Wes Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban to be nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer being deeply transphobic bigots… www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

Can the football please piss off? We’ve got Pop Music to play. #BBC2

Well, that might not have been near the ringers for technical performance, but I’m not sure you’re allowed to have that much fun on the BBC’s expenses. #Strictly

He’ll of a night from Dave Arch this evening. Packed solid with bangers. #Strictly

I say this as a very easily offended Radiohead fan, and that was a bang on 10 from me. #Strictly