"We saw you from across the bar and we really dig your vibe" #DoctorWho

The two recovered episodes of Doctor Who are absolutely glorious:) The Nightmare Begins, especially, really pulls out all the stops to try to sell an epic space adventure on a 1965 BBC budget. There's a heck of a lot of reacting to things off screen!

Have a break. Have 12 Tonnes of KitKat. Remember, kids, Nestle is literally the company who literally told African mothers that their breast milk wasn't good enough in order to sell more formula. Don't be a snitch, now.

That chess ban, too. All cis women and feminists should cheer on trans & enby & intersex folks, and it's crazy that they don't. Just by being themselves, they disrupt the system that says There Are Exactly Two Kinds Of Human Beings And One Of Them Should Get In The Kitchen And Make Me A Sandwich.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

Say, @ryannorth.ca, now that you're writing both Fantastic 4 and the Flash, and now that Marvel and DC are doing team-ups again, how many lawyers would you need to appease to do a full crossover between the two books?

Remember it’s okay to have a favourite Doctor that is different to other people. Don’t let someone’s childish views and them to gatekeep you from being a fan. Seen certain Doctor Who fan, from the classic who era bully people who have Jodie or Ncuti as their favourite.

Well, Project Hail Mary was a delight - absolutely recommended if you haven't seen it yet :)

I had an *incredibly* tedious few days post-Grenfell, trying to identify every domestic block in Cov over a certain number of storeys, get contact details for the freeholder, and survey them about their cladding. And I'd do it all again tomorrow if I had to, because this stuff is fucking important.

this recession has gone TOO FAR

The existence of April’s fools day suggests that once there were eleven other fools days, which were presumably lost, like Babylon 1-4.

3 HOURS REMAIN! Come to the ball, darling! We’re dressed to kill, and we’re slaying the house down—literally! Feel the fantasy--the SCIENCE-FANTASY! (genre) #BookSky #LGBTfantasy #fantasybooks #LGBTQ+

It's Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️❤️ Want to read a comic with trans characters and queer joy?? Avengers Academy: Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic is one of the best things Marvel has done in recent years!

It’s Trans Day of Visibility in a world where that’s been harder than ever. Salute to those who are bravely out, to those who wish they could be so, and to those who didn’t make it to this day. Believe trans people. Simple as that.

If you haven't supported yet, there are under 12 hours to go if you want some of those special tiers!!

A thought of "separating the art from the artist": It's a way to approach the work as an audience member, taking it entirely on its own terms. Just the art, regardless of what the artist might be like. It's not about money. If you buy it and the artist gets paid, you haven't separated shit.

The whole “I’m only here to see the Federation shooting at the Romulans!!” thing is so bizarre that I don’t even believe it’s true. I don’t believe that’s what moved and thrilled and delighted that boy sitting down to watch TNG or whatever every week…

When @zackpolanski.bsky.social destroyed old Looza Fox with just one word… and it was an absolute delight!

Interesting how right wingers in America are falling “Project Hail Mary” an “anti woke” hit. When, aside from Ryan Gosling, not one single other line of dialogue is spoken by a white male character. True.

Old Macdonald had a Farm They call the Rising Sun And on that Farm he had a cow And Lord I know, I’m one.

It’s happening! VALENZIAGA will fall. Category is: Science-Fantasy EXTRAVAGANZA! Think Drag Race + a gay Game of Thrones + Chronicles of Amber. High drama and high CAMP! Quick! Spread the word! RT, tell your friends! KICKSTARTER ENDING SOON!! #booksky www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

To be abundantly clear, my position is not, "You shouldn't like Harry Potter because of Rowling's views" but "You shouldn't give money to Rowling because of Rowling's actions." Watching the new Harry Potter series entails giving money to Rowling.

Who wants my dulcet tones in your ear? We're only £250 away from unlocking the audiobook stretch goal! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

69 hours to go!!! Spread the word! Get your queer science-fantasy here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

An amalgamation of Cable and Booster Gold: Copper Wiring

Every fucking time. "Oh, James hasn't bought our transphobic audio books yet, and immediately stops the player every time we foist a preview on him - the only explanation must be that we've not advertised it enough yet."

Is the child's name Jem?

No, because it's me :(

trying to trick people into the star trek fandom by saying things like "oh she's SUCH a tactical" or "you have science officer energy"

What makes Rowling different is that she doesn’t just promote the juice, she owns the orange groves. So that’s worse.

I don't really think your opinion on Harry Potter has any intrinsic moral valence, but c'mon, you should really not be giving Rowling money or attention if you care at all about trans rights, y'know? She's not an author with bad opinions, she's a full-time political activist who used to write books.

When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet. This is why any recorded thing is now called ‘footage.'

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF VALENZIAGA has broken £7k! Less than £500 to go to unlock no-frills audiobooks for BOTH books in the campaign! Tell your friends! Remember: a Kickstarter is like really good gossip—best when shared with someone who will appreciate it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

A head of state, renowned for his philandering and famous for his belief in his own divine right to rule, will be visited by a dead British king?

This is a stunningly good trilogy of books.

William Shatner, 95, is stating the obvious 🖖

Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

No one is trying to tell you that you are not allowed to feel nostalgic for what Harry Potter may have once meant to you as a kid; they are literally just asking you to not fund their destruction.

A Lesbidam?

Them: It always used to be just ‘lesbian and gay’. This whole ‘LGBTQ’ stuff is a modern thing. Armistead Maupin: Publishing in 1978 the first of a series of novels about a queer community with a trans matriarch and an interconnecting family of lesbians, gays and bisexuals.

"Content" is something to fill an empty vessel: it repositions your view of the world to align with corporations. Art becomes something disposable, fungible, serving a financial interest and nothing more. The word "artist" is right there; I beg you to claim it and leave "content creator" to molder

20 episodes into #StarTrek, the Klingons don't exist yet. 20 episodes into TNG, Tasha's alive. 20 episodes into DS9, the Dominion has never been mentioned. 20 episodes into VOY, there's FIFTY episodes to go before Seven of Nine arrives. We'll never know what we're missing with #StarfleetAcademy.

[Throws out bathwater] [Tallies up children] '...' 'Oh you have to be kidding me'

A recent books cartoon for @theguardian.com

For anyone living in rented accommodation, here's a summary of the changes coming in in May through the Renters Rights Act: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69bc04...

I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.

I had someone email me about the etymology of malign, benign, malignant, and indignant. It sent me on a ride through malign and benign as different parts of speech, plus malignant but the infrequent "benignant." And then indignant as an orphaned negative/unpaired word without "dignant." (1/?)