Wisdom for the ages.

Donavan drinketh from the false grail, at once becoming most aged, turning to bones and dust and the knight said, he hath chosen poorly. The good man Indiana saw the unadorned cup of the carpenter and knew it to be true. He drank from it and the knight said, you hath chosen wisely. (Book of Marcus)

You know, I rewatched The Day After Tomorrow the other day and it hits harder these days.

I get the feeling Bluesky likes to be too cool for Star Wars but the new Mandalorian and Grogu trailer is giving me lots to nerd out about. I really wish they hadn't spaffed the superbowl spot though. The last two trailers have been great. The first two were... choices.

Check your tax write offs. #CoyoteVsAcme youtu.be/G11SytnNYqI

Just a reminder of this, in case one's needed. Still got two and a half months to go.

So once again a man started a wildly successful harassment campaign against a female celebrity who didn’t actually do anything and the internet swallowed it full throated, and the whole thing is revealed to be concocted horseshit he can’t muster anything more than “sorry that happened I guess”

Said it before but the UK could do a lot worse than to market itself as "The World's University", throw ourselves open to international students and use some of the money to drive regeneration in towns by setting up English-language immersion summer schools there using eg disused mills.

Now wondering if Trump is accidentally going to start a fight between American Catholics and Protestants/Evangelicals because we know how well that goes...

Eddie is right about this and here it is m.youtube.com/watch?v=RaFe...

Lower Decks: The Movie. Prodigy Season 3. Starfleet Academy season 3 (or at least resolve the season 2 cliffhanger we're going to have to live with). Make sure every season got a proper soundtrack release. Wesley Crusher time travel series (basically Star Trek Doctor Who).

Al Powell uses a gun in Die Hard. A much better use of Powell would be to stop SWAT from making his mistake and killing McClane.

Convinced there's a game of 4D chess going on while Starmer is visibly playing Ker-plunk in his oven gloves.

There was a judge that could have put Trump in prison and chose not too. Been thinking a lot about that recently.

The astronauts will be out of contact for 48 minutes as they go around the moon. We should all hide for when they come back. #MoonJapes

Scrolled by this poster and for a sec thought there was a Judas bowling movie.

Late to the party but happy to see they stuck the landing. What an amazing run. This series belongs on every shelf and is an inspirational must-read for creators, constantly delivering great scripting and stand out high concept single issues. A celebration of comics.

The most I've acknowledged this bank holiday is the large consumption of chocolate and allowing myself a lie in this morning (during which I mostly lay there and thought about all the shit I need to do today).

Reminder that allegedly the "military operation" in Iran is being backed by America because crazy people think war in the middle east will bring the apocalypse and the return of Jesus Christ so don't be surprised if Trump gets even more unhinged this weekend than usual.

Jesus fuck, even if you leave the planet there is no escape from work emails.

“For God’s sake, it seems like I was just on 8 Out Of 10 Cats, and now they’re making me come back in to do Never Mind The Buzzcocks,” said Arthur Batts

I still have to stop myself saying “real fuckin sexy just like you asked” whenever anything involves taking a photo

America is going to the moon. youtu.be/SRRw1ERj2Gc

Ireland's data centres nationally are already using energy at 4 times the PROJECTED European average for 2030. If we're serious about energy conservation the very first thing we have to do is reintroduce the moratorium on building any more of them. #spéirgorm

I tried watching online but the build up is just fucking America first propaganda. I know that nationalism has always - and I mean always - driven space exploration but man America has never felt less deserving of the stars. Humanity is going back to the moon and I couldn't be more depressed.

If you are up at the Fringe then add this to your schedule.

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

Really glad I got rid of my Hard Boiled DVD in time for Arrows new Blu Ray release only for it to sell out instantly. And now I have no copy of Hard Boiled. This is exactly the sort of set back that will have absolutely zero impact on my current mental health.

a quick Dana from the pitt after work #thepitt

Trailers have gone out of there way to not reveal Zendeya's character's secret in A24's The Drama but every single review and think piece seems determined to spoil it. So that is fun. (I've managed to stop reading before seeing it so no, don't post it here).

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1675: It really helps to love what you do. If you don't, then there are lots of far easier ways of dying poor.

These genuinely are lovely to look at but if you think I'm gonna let "fanny farmer", "swiss wood", "dick offset" and "finger fitter" pass without comment you have sorely overestimated me.

Cunts gone electric again.

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

I'm looking at the line up of movies we've had and have coming up this year and this really feels like the mid 90s - some big blockbuster IP movies but a whole lot of original work too. A genuinely exciting year for films at the cinema.

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

Solid, confident cold open. Delightfully off kilter opening monologue. British Themed Pub was a lot of fun. Yep. Already a step up from what was a good first episode. #SNLUK

This may be the funniest thing Schneider has said in years.

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

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Okay, I'm only half way through the first episode of The Pitt but it just exudes confidence and quality. Take the non-stop drama of the ER pilot, extend it to 15 episodes and play it out in 24 style "real time". Superb.

'wait when did chuck tingle get political?'

You know, once a jury has made its decision you are extremely justified in dropping the "allegedly"

Supporting the new Harry Potter series means putting money in JK Rowling’s pockets which she then uses to harm trans people. There is no ethical consumption of her shitty writing.

It's gonna start happening more and more, but whenever they shut down another AI thing because it sucks or makes no money or whatever, you're allowed to take credit for its failure by not having used it and just mocking it.

Positively tumescent watching this collapse.

All Labour know how to do is run disingenous attack campaigns and never say what they actually stand for. They thoroughly deserved to lose Gorton and Denton.

Laughter on TV/radio (unless it’s a 1960s Top Cat cartoon) is not made by a can, or a machine. It’s made by other human beings enjoying themselves. Just because you can’t imagine that sound, and have trouble understanding people other than you have different tastes, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

Well I hope they get a chance to reshoot the ending they've already announced is a massive cliffhanger.