In Skyler White, the writers of Breaking Bad really created the ultimate media litmus test, didn't they? Responses about her are such a scathing reveal of unchecked misogyny from so many people, and proof of how bad media literacy has become. People falsely presume 'protagonist' = 'the good guy'.

It's so nice when something comes back and feels deliberate and eventful, rather than corporate-funded nostalgia slop. Honestly, seeing these characters again after twenty years was lovely, and the whole short thing knew not to outstay it's welcome. boxd.it/dVgLmx

If anyone is looking for a quietly brilliant and endearing film to check out this weekend (or any weekend), this is well worth your time and is currently on Netflix. The story, characters, and Thai scenery stuck with me long after the credits. boxd.it/dQJWuP

Hope, Peak District 🍃

Went to the cinema by myself to see this late last night, and had the place to myself too 😇 Honestly never expected it to be so feel-good or as brilliantly made as it was 🌍 boxd.it/dPX5YL

Ngl, if I had a comfortable amount of wealth I would very likely just move overseas and tell hardly anyone I was going, or where I'd gone. In the old argument about existing vs living, there is so little here to ever feel the latter.

self-care smarch 🗓️

Note to self: stop assuming other people will be as reliable or basically decent as you try to be yourself. You'll save yourself a hell of a lot of disappointment and wasted energy by *not* presuming the best of others.

No shit. When you cut disability welfare more than Tories, vilify immigrants, and erode the rights of queer people, all of whom can be 'white working class', you're going to rightly haemorrhage votes. The betrayal from this Labour government needs to be their undoing.

Imagine being the one child in your friends group being forced to leave something you love because a bunch of adults are obsessed with what genitals you were born with. This is disgusting, bigoted hatred that's not even trying to hide any more. www.bbc.com/news/article...

2026 Day 1 vs 2026 Day 81

This is how queer cinema should be evolving in the 2020s. Less about sexuality than sensuality, it stuck with me because it's not about coming out or bigotry, but the difficulty boys face in expressing themselves to each other because society makes them too scared to do so. boxd.it/dBhFPl

Other people wondering if the state pension will still be a thing by 2050, I'm out there wondering if euthansia will be a valid option 🙏🥲😴

The most astonishing thing? The disconnect between organisers of Eurovision and the real world, who think not muffling the audience reaction only now after years of doing it, is some generous exercise in apolitical planning. www.chathamhouse.org/publications...

Say what you will about the area, and the cultural issues of radical gentrification too, but some of the existing Elephant & Castle redevelopment is the nicest London has seen. It's so green and attractive - actually better than the project renders. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Heel / Good Boy If you like films about chavvy twinks chained in basements and/or clever and thought-provoking artsy films about rehabilitation, responsibility and Stockholm Syndrome, you'll probably like this movie a lot. boxd.it/dxylTl

Oh no, looks like he's getting excited for a new paleomedia project again 🙃

A couple with two children each need to earn £49,500 to live "with dignity" in inner London. I've skipped the kids, but the combined income for two of us working full-time here in inner London barely reaches that figure. Cost of living is going to be a killer. bbc.com/news/article...

Sitting around watching Labour get a deserved third place whilst sitting with a group of Americans on a tour bus *in* Gorton and Denton was definitely a moment 😅

Work drinks on a country singer tour hit different. Or, I'm just old.

Her policy is genius... if you're a Tory. Scrap compound interest, but keep graduates paying off the triple fees and maintenance loans the Tories also imposed. Poorer graduates keep paying for 30 years, rich ones pay off debts, get richer, and pay in less. A de facto tax cut for rich people.

the worker / the work

in Glasgow, going for that tired live-out-of-bag look again 🥲

Damn right tbh. We paid the same as anyone else ever did just to sit at home, struggling to pay heightened bills that we got no help with whilst work was also unavailable, to study with reduced resources, and for what? To sit on Zoom with a bunch of unresponsive strangers. bbc.com/news/article...

yob / boy ✌️

So the UK has wasted £110m on a trade border scheme, and now spends £5bn a year sustaining all post-Brexit border controls, all because 4% more voters backed a thing a decade ago and this was broadly interpreted to mean the UK can't use the existing systems. 🤡 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I can see my house from here

Not a bad view to start the day with 🇫🇷

I don't like kids. But I was on a flight last night that was delayed by 3 hours, we had to switch planes and traipse in the cold and wet prior takeoff, there was no food on board, and the turbulence was bad. Not one of the many kids on board complained about any of it, unlike some of the adults.

Manchester - London - Paris On cameras for a MIKA mini-tour

And Instagram has a bug again, rendering it completely unusable... must be Thursday 😑 The American social media monopoly is bad as it is, but that bubble needs to burst above all else because it's totally mediocre.

Lost access to my primary email address last September. On Bluesky you can't change your primary email address *or* your password without accessing the old primary email. This is a staggering security oversight, and I think the thing above all else that's going to make me ditch here before long.

All I can think is how Robin Williams was so hesitant to voice Aladdin's Genie because he saw it being a step towards stunt-casting known actors rather than hiring more exciting but lesser known voice actors. Chris Pratt as Mario is that prediction realised to its fullest.

Nearly 59% of my £89,000 pre-interest (£106k post, and rising) debt stems from maintenance, which used to be a grant. There is no discussion about making students or graduates better off (which is needed to make them fiscally active) without a drastic reassessment of how maintenance is provisioned.

'If young people bothered to vote' is just such a pathetic and lazy excuse from anyone who uses it. Doesn't matter how big or small that voting demographic is, you should base your response and your policies solely on those who did vote, rather than empowering those who didn't bother.

I try to avoid wishing death on anyone, but you know it's a real rough week when there's a tidal wave of public figures attached to awful news, and you think it's an injustice that Catherine O'Hara is the one that passed away rather than a single one of any of the others.

"Never let the bastards get you down" 💜

There's only a relatively small number of public figures for whom I genuinely feel saddened at their passing, and Catherine O'Hara is one of them. What an unexpected and premature loss.

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Working in this gig economy and in an industry that basically hibernates for winter, when winter is also when the heating is needed, the tax bill arrives, the accountant needs paying, the rent goes up, and you've just got through Christmas... is collectively not it.

It's staggering how an article about the Millennial inheritance of wealth being the greatest in history, doesn't once mention that the transfer will be to the smallest proportion of people in history too, and that we're about to see insane rich/poor divides. www.independent.co.uk/us/money/gen...

Trump just posted this. Coup the twat already.

🇺🇸 "You will meet our demands and give us Greenland, or we will impose taxes on American citizens for things that they buy" 🤪 www.ft.com/content/6055...

There's a lot of hype around this, some of it I get and some of it I just don't. It's got none of the emotional depth or complexity of the one before it, and is shot and directed in a far more conventional way. It's not bad, it just follows something far better. boxd.it/cEX055

I'd heard that quite like the second game, the second season of The Last of Us had divided people a lot more. Much like the second game, I loved the second season tbh. A brilliant (but not perfect) adaptation of (half) a game that I can't imagine was at all easy to work with.

The funny (not) bit is how the government has gotten both of these things wrong in the absolute worst way. The OSA was an ill-conceived Boris Johnson project that risks more harm than safety to kids. Starmer's complacency now harms kids too. Get tech-illiterate boomers out of government.

Top-end Hollywood really is just stuck in a regurgitative cycle, where its rich executives pray and hope that we settle on watching things that exist to remind us of existing things we already enjoy, rather than investing in anything new for us to enjoy. boxd.it/cyga3j

2016 vs 2026

There's a lot of people calling for the government to go about prosecuting anyone who went about generating illicit images on X. If only that same government hadn't ignored smart people when it went for a crazy censorship overreach on all legitimate adult content, leading to *everyone* using VPNs

Starmer's government went and delivered a bunch of ridiculous online censorship that made zero sense in 2025, forgive me if I fail to think he'll do the right thing and actually ban Musk's child porn and misogyny machine, even with the freak now monetising it. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...