I don’t see why we as a culture feel the need to continue to make a Christmas Carol after the Muppets completely aced it.

OH HEY I HAVE A COLD. Selfish fuckos.

thinking of this classic tweet on thanksgiving day

Really glad the headline regarding the Liverpool parade attacker and article image are saying what a "nice guy" he was. He drove his car into people. That's not nice, lads.

Safety inspector: I found two major issues with your Death Star. For one thing, there are no railings. Grand Moff Tarkin: We believe railings would detract from the austerity of our bottomless chasms. Safety inspector: That brings us to my second issue.

Waiting for the budget announcement to start so I can go and have a nap instead.

The arms of an octopus were used to mark specific parts of this page that were of importance or interest - 14th century, Bancroft Library, BANC MS UCB 085

One day, I might talk more about how constantly being yelled at for having opinions about popular culture wore me down to the point of no longer feeling able to write about things I love.

Oh. Star Wars discourse.

Right I've decided that as I'm at NEARLY 4K followers I'm going to do a thread of all my books, but instead of covers you can have gifs with the same vibe THE COPPER PROMISE, or, Who Put the Rogue In Charge Anyway? uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

These are all good books!

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

They’re starting to restrict the use of plug-in heaters in the office. Can’t wait for the performative always cold people to react!

Ya know, if you're hacking your guts up and snotting everywhere... maybe work from home? It's like the pandemic never happened, sometimes.

Have reached the age where, when I drive past young women with bare midriffs, I immediately think "they're going to get a kidney infection!"

These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art

“The time travel system is extremely complex” YA THINK, HARRY?!

She sees your fandom as affirmation, your money as funding for the harm she causes to trans people. It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.

There is no way you can guess how the thread that ends in this instant classic begins.

I finished reading Daniel de Visé's book about The Blues Brothers last night (worth it if you're a classic SNL/Belushi/Aykroyd/70s-80s comedy nut) so today shall be soundtracked by a lot of Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Cab Calloway et al.

Just passed a small kid having a meltdown on the pavement and shouting, "I want to stay in my house" repeatedly, and I think we can all relate to that on a cold November morning.

His and hers.

My favorite piece of content today.

I didn’t realise we were going for some kind of speedrun for Level 1 of the Ashes.

I don’t know what my husband has just done on Arc Raiders but there’s a lot of maniacal laughter happening.

We were trying to remember Ruth Jones' surname in a car conversation, but it led to naming other famous Ruths, which in turn led to my husband shouting "Ruth GADER BINSBURG!"

Truly the best part of today is a shit innings from a man who had to arrange his own comedic clapback that still didn't land.

steve smith, you scored 17 on your specialist subject, "getting hit by jofra archer"

If there was any doubt, test match cricket is the greatest game that humans have invented, and possibly the high point of evolution.

C R I C K E T.

My blood pressure vs the Ashes. It's on.

Super glad I decided to stick TMS on…

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Builds a dungeon that is an equal mix combat and puzzles, rooms determined by a dice roll. My players, roll all the numbers for the combat rooms.

He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rrrrrrimmer. More reliable than a garden strimmer....

Steve Smith once again proving he's got all the timing and wit of a sack of potatoes who just happens to also be good with a bat.

Fish have committed credit card fraud

As much as I loathe Harry-centric episodes, they do make me feel better. If Harry Kim can survive being incompetent in the delta quadrant, I can do anything.

Painful sinuses without snot is a special form of hell.

Oh boy, Cloudflare is suffering a hiccup and now a huge chunk of the internet is fucked. Who's idea was to shove it all into like, 3 or 4 big-ass companies?

lick it.

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

Changing to my married name at work has led to my training record resetting. GDPR legislation training anyone?

Folks, I really need some help. For the last 10-15 days, I've been pretty much out of action, which has put me two weeks behind on promoting my Film Stories 500 show in London next week. I'd be grateful for any help/support in getting the word out. Thank you. www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...

My personal “Don’t give to the Salvation Army” story:

They are all SO SHIT at naming things.

It used to be so much easier on the internet. You’d have a video of a dramatic chipmunk and everyone would agree it was perfect but then you could add a little lightsaber to him and everyone would go huzzah now the text is even richer

People are probably calling Labour racist because Labour keep being racist. If they want to stop being called racist they should stop doing racist things.

I'm horrified and impressed with the way this Labour government has decided to dispense with any illusion and just go full on fash. Bravo, you cunts.