Back to the Future!

For the second night of Hitchcock double feature we have started with this. Despite its claim to be all talkie the opening scenes are clearly a silent movie with sound.

I just remembered the OTHER strange film from that era that featured an actor with his arms in his jacket to pretend he had no arms.

The bits of my nails that got fucked up by the gels my friend did for me in September are nearly grown out. I nearly have functional nails again.

Good news for all my similarly aged friends: we look incredible compared to this jerk.

David Tennant and David Lanndlord putting their differences aside to team up against their common enemy, David Estate Agennt

Saw this. Sort of like if Merchant Ivory had existed contemporaneously with the era they set their films.

Me: this is wrong, can you please give me the correct information? Guy: pls fix

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

If I, like Noah, were to draw a grand conclusion from this, it would be that massive income inequality in America has trained that country’s rich to assume that the right solution to any problem is to look for a service worker who is paid to solve their problems, rather than just read signs

Ah it's 5:15 so suddenly everyone has vanished from the office.

Office win: I found the secret extra mugs. They're in the cupboard you can only access if you're over like 5'9 that you probably can't even see if you're short.

My favourite thing about Tableau is how when I move a window between monitors with different resolutions it will become either enormous or miniscule and I will have to switch it between the screens an arbitrary number of times until it stops looking like shit.

Did they deliberately fuck the reception in my office to stop us slacking off on our personal phones or am I going conspiratorially insane because I'm bored because I can't slack off on my personal phone?

Didn't notice the small black umbrella in my black bag so now I'm carrying an umbrella around for no reason because it's not going to rain for days.

Time to read this!

Was lazy about doing the washing so now I have to suffer the weird bad sheets because all the others are in the wash. Talk about the consequences of my own actions!

Although it happens every week I am once again not emotionally or mentally prepared for Work Tomorrow.

Wearing a jacket that has press studs on the lapels and I assume they are to hold the lapels down but they also work to hold a shoulder bag in place so you don't have to deal with the strap.

Disappointed but also relieved this didn't happen the time I took this train last month.

The incredible slowness of the Canberra train is upsetting.

They are playing Oasis at Central because of the Oasis concert.

I see my old boss works at Yale now.

Just had a meeting where the main suggestion was "what if we made things more complicated and increased operational risk". What if we did the opposite of that!!

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

I'll take a break from doomscrolling online and read my book I say, picking up The Balkans 1804-2012 and turning to the chapter covering 1941-45. Oh.

sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively

from 2003

I get the point but this is actually really obvious because of the tone/style (and in some cases content) of the headlines and they only put two in each category. Also why is it formatted like the Mean Girls Burn Book?

Dick Shotman United States, Census, 1950

This morning I misread the company platitudes printed on John's work lanyard as saying "Be Employed" which would be an incredibly grim thing to have to wear around your neck all day.

Having the new Lily Allen album in your head while having sex with someone you actually like is quite weird, I would not recommend having the new Lily Allen album in your head while having sex with someone you actually like. Or even if you didn't like them, really.

For anyone wondering about where the fuck I work: honestly it should be abolished but somehow it isn't and we're just sloshing about in interminable mediocrity and every day I work there I get more stupid and more jaded.

I guess I have to respect the grift of my boss for turning up at 10, going to lunch for over an hour, leaving at 4, and then finally logging back on at 5:30 to ask me questions already answered by the emails he hadn't read that were sent in the hour and a half he was offline. I will kill him.

Nearly bought tickets to see four different early Hitchcock double features in one week but then decided I couldn't face spending 200 minutes in the cinema that many times in one week so I'm only going to two. Sorry to any filmheads who are disappointed in me, I just don't have your endurance.

When I looked up Lily Allen's husband I thought he was the brother-in-law from Fleabag but he is a different guy who looks like that. Though apparently they were both in Stranger Things, which I have not seen.

My philosophy really is simple, and it is: Nobody should have to get up in the morning

I just had to use ticketmaster and now I want to kill myself.

A handy way to remember how to spell the word "mnemonic" is to memorise the phase: many neurotic eunuchs mangle ordinary non-euclidian isometric coordinates

I was c 13 and I was setting fire to little scraps of paper so they burnt out by the time they floated into the plastic waste paper basket full of other, larger paper until one wasn't little and scrappy enough and it was still on fire when it hit the other paper.

I have questions.

Not great, quite terrible

hey just checking in. are you in the right headspace to receive a dose of 15,000 roentgen right now?

Doing the thing where I listen to one song like twenty times in a day. I look forward to finding out exactly which song I did this to this year wins my end of year Spotify.

What level of decline and fall is Russia on if this is true? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Of the many best parts of this, "(In DeBlasio’s view, “low-class Italians use a little d.“)" may be the best part. www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

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I opened the Facebook app and it tried to show me AI videos for some reason and the main video was of an aspic salad growing octopus tentacles in a truly horrific fashion. Who wants this???? Who fucking wants this????