Saw maybe the best film of 2025 yesterday - The Golden Spurtle. Just absolutely great, I love humans and how we just organise the most random stuff and then imbue it with such meaning. 1000/10 would watch again.

Cannot be in town today but I sincerely hope all the fash end up in a luggage locker again getting egged.

Don't be a dick - words I've always tried to live by www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A friend has just confirmed that my opinion on a topic (based om my lived experience & learning) was similar to what ChatGPT said. Why are we doing this? I used to work with someone who would google things as I was speaking to see what google said - that was understood to be rude, so why isn't this?

I wrote about how much, how fiercely and why, I hate A.I. On eternal cons, a dying earth and talking dogs. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/

I’m sad to have only just found out that Ann Harper passed - her unwavering commitment to unity and resistance has been a huge source of inspiration to me my whole life. I’m grateful for all the times we got pissed and set the rest of the room to right. Rest in power Ann.

1/ BREAKING: So - it turns out deeply-religious Lord Hodge, the Judge in yesterday’s UK Supreme Court Case that destroyed trans rights, headed a ‘Commission On Same-Sex Relationships’ for the Church of Scotland published in 2011.

Tapping this sign everyday - www.the-pca.org.uk/blog/a-perso... #TherapistsConnect

Hate this bigoted little toilet island more so with every day. Also hate my profession for kicking trans rights around like a philosophical argument and falling prey to the binaries and dogmas we are meant to be good at challenging/dismantling/healing. Solidarity with the trans community always.

The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin". www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Just rewatched 12 Angry Men - the 1957 version obvs - absolute 5/5 banger, no notes. “It’s very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.”

Really helpful guidance in this sea of hot takes

Seeing how quickly Trump's administration has wiped the CDC's website I'm really glad I hoard physical media and I encourage everyone to do the same. I've been lugging a copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves around since I was 18, not to mention multiple copies of DIY abortion and reproductive health zines.

Solid start to the year - Meaty had me howling, went into Terra Nullius thinking it was one thing and then it had the most delicious twist - I recommend going in with as little knowledge as possible.

I wonder if Charli XCX anticipated people (past it millennials) listening to Brat while taking down their Christmas tree

My cat won’t eat chicken or fish but will devour lametta at any opportunity.

If you’re a creator or work in the creative industries or otherwise have a heart, then please add your voice to this UK Gov consultation on AI and Copyright. I said ‘freelance’ for company and ‘unsure’ for super-granular legal stuff but made my voice heard. You can too. www.gov.uk/government/c...

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

Started off this morning listening to Shirley Collins which led me to find this class version of Hares on the Mountain by Radie Peat and Daragh Lynch www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHF4...

Absolutely brilliant piece, challenging, sad, thought-provoking.

Sometimes I see a video of someone in one of those infrared light masks and think it’s Blindboy upgrading the bag.

The chat function for online events really dials up everyone’s sense of entitlement and helplessness. 600 people logging in and then immediately asking the same basic question as though it won’t be addressed in the intro/in the handouts/throughout the day.

Next five years are going to be Labour trying to appease Reform UK, moving everything further right. Sleepwalking doesn’t cut it - we’re running towards fascism with our arms open.

If the exit poll is right about the SNP there needs to be a real reckoning within the party about wtf they’re doing. Will be interesting to see who they lost to.

Infuriated that the internet has no answer to why Kim Wilde sings “From New York to East California” when referring to the kids in the America. Why do those coastal teens not get a look in.

I’m sad that January is over, I quite like how long it feels and I hate how quickly the year will zoom by from tomorrow. Life feels short and I want more of it.

I just hosted my first Burns Night and it felt like a lovely way to draw a line under the first rough weeks of the year where there’s so much grief to get through. Next year I’m going full folk I think, couple of wassails and a trip to see Up Helly Aa. Anything that is about fire, food and friends.

Just listened to all of Ghost Story - really interesting how unquestioning the family are about the initial story that they were told - utter faith in the patriarch of the family. Makes me think about how willing we are to believe a good story, and how that becomes part of our sense of self.

Ooof just watched The Change on Channel 4 - didn’t realise I needed a comedy drama about the menopause and folklore but I really really did. Hope they commission another series.

Reading this I kept thinking about Termush by Sven Holm and how no amount of money and preparation can insulate you from the effects of societal breakdown.

Following this closely and also urging everyone to use their library! Mine is great, they will get any text I ask for, I can access tons of local archives and digital books, and it’s all for free 💖

A huge chunk of clients I see as a therapist wouldn’t need me if they had UBI. It’s soul-destroying work to be a counsellor when someone’s mental health is impacted by their material situation because no amount of talking can lift someone out of poverty.

Going through old Shane videos and this one always gets me, you can feel the encouragement and camaraderie coming off them in waves youtu.be/aqlLJXYtRWg?...

This book has been on my mind all month - a near-future Berlin filled with climate apathy and late capitalism nonsense. The cynical art-academic-corporate babble is spot on. The ending is brilliant (although I wish there was more). Need to talk about it with someone asap

I’ve deleted the kiss app off my phone and now I need people to follow on here. Who is good, what is happening, please help.