i'm sorry but it is 2026 i think if you're watching/buying/engaging with anything to do with harry potter at this point you are in fact a bad person and you have to contend with that, i don't give a shit if you're nostalgic grow the fuck up

jacket potatoes having “a resurgence” is a real recession indicator btw.

two days late but here are my main takeaways from this year’s academy awards:

insane that the “pay per banana” scam has finally hit my local m&s.

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON

someone has stolen our FULL kerbside compost caddy!?

if i had a nickel for every time i’d heard ‘moving to new york’ by the wombats today while in york, i’d have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it’s happened twice.

deeply in my feelings about my mum turning 70 today, and the restaurant i’m in is playing “i dreamed a dream” from les mis & yes by the way i am crying.

true haters are lovers at heart, speaking as one

wrote about leeds, and TAGABOW (they are gutting a body of water): open.substack.com/pub/aprylhm/...

has that jeremy bolm clip made it to bluesky yet or is that exclusively a twitter jumpscare

the disney, IP and footballification of world book day is very, very bad.

great news! i am rewatching ‘entourage’ for the <redacted)th time.

you have to laugh don’t you.

am i allowed to state that i think ‘industry’ has jumped the shark.

i can’t explain it but harry styles dancing at an awards ceremony feels like a recession indicator.

mad that we’ve reached the ‘being at war’ stage of romanticising the 2000s.

Hard not to feel a constant churning dread these days isn’t it

insane that i am destined to never see gorilla biscuits live (the boom show in leeds sold out in under two mins??)

Bite Anglia Square Norwich

i don’t know who needs to hear this but i just turned off automatic updates on my iphone and it immediately free’d up 11.4GB of space lmao

The SEND stuff is spinning me out. 270,000 children at a minimum have been doomed. Another day, another example of this government proving themselves to be cowardly and craven.

these people are so cooked in the head aren’t they.

catherine earnshaw IS brat.

back to work after a week off:

There’s about 12 people on Bluesky so very long shot here but if anyone knows of a spare going for TAGABOW at the ICA tonight give me a shout

deleted instagram & tiktok off my phone, and finally started reading again- so here's my 2026 book thread:

sometimes you just have to take a week off work to facilitate a 36 hour trip to leeds to watch a band you’ve been overplaying for months. tagabow forever, man ❤️‍🩹

(whispers) i am enjoying season four of industry but i do think the constant riffing on the reznor/ross score for ‘the social network’ is a *bit* much.

i do think if i saw someone fall over on their run, i would stop to see if they were okay rather than breeze past like many people did to me this morning lol

absolutely cannot hack the kermit voice, it’s morally reprehensible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rewatched ‘jackass number two’ for the millionth time last night and i just think johnny knoxville has never looked better than when he wears a little sailor hat.

Joanna Newsom in the party shuffle to prove to my guests I'm not using Spotify

has anyone written about all the kubrick in season 4 episode 2 of ‘industry’ because…i have thoughts!!

some 2025 favourites (only 5 weeks late): aprylhm.substack.com/p/33-time-do...

why is SNL UK a thing that is happening

great question to ask as a grown adult but: what are your favourite apps for diverting attention away from habitual clicking? i’m talking games, puzzles, literally anything to distract myself from (checks notes) opening letterboxd 40 times a day now i’ve removed twitter, IG & tiktok.

lol did letterboxd turn off all the reviews for “wuthering heights”?

can't believe that a band that i once saw do a support slot in a venue formerly used to film the chat show 'tricia', has won two grammys.

fucking hell

men who grunt loudly in the gym…why

you could never make me hate him.

if ticketmaster has no enemies then i am dead.

huge week for men with microphones.

have you ever tried to do anything in person at a bank recently? it sure is a laugh.

FIVE TIME OSCAR NOMINEE ETHAN HAWKE

we have got to talk about the individual financial expense of the paywallification of all content.

wrote about switching music streamers, and my ten favourite records of 2025: aprylhm.substack.com/p/32-maybe-i...