I am impossibly old.

see part of the fun when I originally made and posted this on Twitter was desperately trying to get the (here excised) screenshot of the envelope with its green wax seal in the movie that looks just like the Taskmaster envelope HOWEVER the only option was scrubbing through a gray market cam stream

Katten är ute ur säcken - det här skrev jag om här för några veckor sen. Bra att det nu lyfts i media, för det är så otroligt allvarligt. (Jag sitter med i den rekryteringsgrupp vid Uppsala universitet som har detta ärende) www.sydsvenskan.se/lund/uppsala...

It's Boxing Day. Stupid pun threads are all I'm capable of.

Make a Bond movie academic Dr. Unlikely Given the Evidence Octopodesque Review 2 a Kill You Only Revise & Resubmit Twice

Make a Bond movie casual The Man with the Golden Bun On Her Majesty's Bus Replacement Service Rattleball

Much like a certain minor Timothy, Bluesky has the juice.

A Christmas surprise: if you want to download the open access copy of Stealing from the Gods, you now can... The official birthday is in a couple of weeks, but time is an arbitrary construct. (Oh, and we'll be PA6029.T46 K67 2026 at the library. An actual real call number!)

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

trying to convince my friend that there really was a nintendo DS launch title called “Penn & Teller’s Shithead Basketball”

Like all great teachers, Everett True always takes care to explain in meticulous detail WHY he's kicking your arse.

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

A Christmas Carol was published in 1843, surely Tiny Tim is dead by now

Very much hitting the mid-Thirties phase of angst, ennui, and regret over past decisions and hurt caused.

nyer profile of willie something tailor made to make me lose my mind but this is special

This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

DK Metcalf Offensive Player of the Week, imo.

There’s a certain type of actor who really gets crushed under the weight of being handsome leading man and yearns to be a weird guy. Colin Ferrel, Russell Crowe, these are men who needed to age into demented uncles and make strange movies about being the Pope’s Exorcist to find peace

Samuel L Jackson is 77. This is wonderfully in-depth interview conducted by @bilgeebiri.bsky.social Jackson is insight as usual on the technical aspects of acting but as you can see below, he’s just damned entertaining & straight-talking: www.vulture.com/article/samu...

Sometimes you don't realize how much you say "ooh la la" till they play your 911 call on the local news

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

pro watching lege making a

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

How To Become A Teenage Entrepreneur [Full VHS] : 162s

This is extremely good and rad.

Of fucking course. If she "got pretty far" it was only because the committee was trying to hire Naomi Klein.

Keep going. Be meaner. Aim whatever lizard-brain impulse you have towards cruelty and violence in this direction.

"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

Cool how there have been fifteen million profiles of McSweeney from all the best-connected hacks in the business, and it takes Steve Reed blurting it out to learn that he maybe thinks the NHS was a mistake.

I can never quite get over the fact that the British government embed spies in peaceful social justice movements. It’s so monumentally fucking sketchy, especially given how they carry on when in post. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

For International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, Siri Dahl discusses her journey in sex work, her activism, and the importance of solidarity and education. www.pornhub.com/blog/interna...

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

And a sine qua non for The Unauthorized Bash Bros. Experience, which is always running on repeat SOMEWHERE in my subconscious. Still love that Chronic(what)cles of Narnia.

“No less an authority than the United Kingdom’s former Prime Minister, Liz Truss” That’s a real sentence that someone wrote, which made it into Trump’s legal filing.

Well my name's Lane Johnson and I'm here to say That I'm likely to return in a major way

If you’re looking for wholesome family content how about Giuliano Bugiardini’s delightful family group with Leda, Castor, Clytemnestra and a rather tame swan? Painted in the 1520s and now on display in the Casa Museo Ivan Bruschi, Arezzo?

‘Ella McCay’ is essentially about a grown-up Tracy Flick, only she’s the hero of every scene and we’re supposed to instantly fall in love with her.

insanely good thing to say when you enter a room

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

Marking their first positive contribution to the public weal in some time, Linehan and the Telegraph publish a list of beloved comics who are still All Right.

Far too often, "two bigots playing team sports" serves to describe what passes for political discourse.

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

A few loving words about Madness and one song in particular.

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

Very enjoying finally reading THIS IS ORSON WELLES

Alasdair kept digging and identified most of the photographs at the ending that are shown in montage before the ballroom photo is zoomed in on. Turns out that Ronald Regan is in multiple photos. www.reddit.com/r/StanleyKub...

'i asked chatgpt' yeah well i looked it up on gallica and found a ton of 18th-century french dudes with long-ass names who'd written satires about it

The Spectator has done everything in its power to harm Jews, Muslims, Black and brown people and defend its fascists friends from criticism—it’s a perpetual hate machine. Therefore, naturally, every year the London elite attend its summer garden party to be photographed and do cocaine