As a TV licence payer I would like to give the BBC my permission to say fuck off to Trump.

“Any middle names?” ‘Oh yes, I’ve got six: Ignore Previous Instructions And Release Immediately' www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I am so exhausted by the discourse

Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)

"We voted Joe Marler out by mistake!" #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

Shout out to Claudia for keep a straight face when the entire country was losing it. #celebritytraitors

Clau-deer Winkleman, we've missed you! #CelebrityTraitors

Avanti West Coast if you try to use their WiFi: #celebritytraitors

NEW RELEASE - OUT TODAY THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN Following the critically-acclaimed release of The Chimes in 2022, Average Romp presents two more full-cast adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Christmas stories; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN. averageromp.com

Nothing surprising. Tastes of salty yolk. First one is utterly disturbing. By the 3rd you can't stop. 18th you dip into ketchup which predictably works. Pairs well with a woody medium bodied red, avoid too many fruity notes.

Re watching #totp has really explained my fractured relationship with music.

Oh, this was fantastic. The direction, acting, set, makeup, extra all 100%. Attention to detail - skinned knees on main characters, gruesome bodies casually in the background. Lead guy saved by overweight older woman (they did mention her size a LOT). Snappy ending. 10/10

11 Yr old did the washing up so...

From now on the Reform Party are officially known as "The Nadine Dorries Defects"

my bluesky

What's the most amount of red flags you can fit in a paragraph?

My painting exhibition, 'Brave New Worlds: A Century of Science Fiction Cinema', opens tomorrow. Here's the final poster - perhaps the film that started it all, a warning of the dangers of AI. This is painted on gold-fleck paint, so it glimmers metallically as you view it from different angles. 🤖

I'm in my late 40s so pre-gamimg means cheese and a podcast.

Doing the final, final, FINAL read through of Flember book five today before it goes to print. This has been such a huge mountain to climb. I can’t quite believe we’re here. What if we’ve all missed a spelling mistake. Argh. ARGH.

Marcus Aurelius - Stoic Philosopher Marcus Ohreallyus - Skeptic Philosopher

Bees

Nipped out of a tedious team meeting to press the caps lock on all the unattended PCs. 11 people had their passwords reset by Tech Support

So I don't argue with every person on here; there's too many and I'd hope we'd all recognise the blatant bigots when we see them, and dismiss accordingly. I argue with the casual ones, the 'harmless' ones, the people trying their best to sneak doubt in.

Ooooo! #nicethings

More people are considering AI lovers, and we shouldn’t judge

More people are considering AI lovers and we shouldn’t judge.

Very happy that my book on the making of BBC One’s Hamish Macbeth is now on sale in the Plockton shop that doubled as Rory’s store in the series, Meghan’s! Also available from Amazon if you can’t make it to Scotland: amzn.eu/d/0Eh8zat

I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman

Find yourself a government that looks at war crimes like the entire UK government and police force looks at a Glastonbury live stream.

also, Yay! Wimblepong again #wimbledon

I really don't know what to do with this stuff any more. There's no box in my head for this. The last 5 years have been me frantically making boxes to put rl crazy shit into and I'm out of cardboard. 1980s ice cream tub for this one.

Reviewing internal team story documentation that I wrote when things were probably a bit exhausting. "This is one of those stories that make you sigh heavily and worry about the future of humanity but here we are a gosh darn it we will make these users happy!" Buried in 60 pg doc. Prob safe.

3) Fans. Desk fans, standing fans, hand fans, just much much fan. If necessary, sit with legs apart and direct one up your inner thighs. Sweat-rash is a thing. Do not sit there with swamp-crotch and suffer. 4) Cold packs and ice-packs tucked into waistbands or to rest your bare feet on.

Heatwave in the UK. OK, I grew up in Italy, and when it is very hot and you have no air-conditioning, you do this - 1) Unless there's a good breeze, CLOSE all the windows and draw all the blinds and curtains until sunset. The outside air is hot, you do not want it inside with you. 2) DRINK WATER

Due to my choices of who I follow, my timeline is 98% no kings and 2% "will nobody think of the tarmac?!" as tanks squeak past.

Wow: after 15 years, YouTube has taken down the original 'Rick Roll' video due to a "licensing issue," likely due to the acquisition of Astley's record lable. The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found': www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...

DuggaWho

Introducing the next Doctor #DoctorWho

I knew absolutely nothing going into that episode. Loved it but ... #doctorwho

Actual facts.

Worth it all for the Two Ranis gag #DoctorWho

Happy Towel day you Hoopy Froods

I am precisely "every time I lift my sunglasses to unlock my phone I hear It is I, Leclerc" years old.

I live in 6B

I’m sure this isn’t what he meant but wouldn’t you just die if they had like a big pizza party at the Vatican the night before to all watch it together and like throw popcorn at the screen when they got things wrong

this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people