While walking around earlier I overheard a girl checking the time and saying “12:58…hit flow state! 12:59…drink…red wine!” What a legend. Shes operating on an entirely different level than the rest of us.

Just saw a Variety headline mentioning a former ‘Superman & Louis’ showrunner and that might be the best typo I’ve seen in a while. That’d be a very different show. 😆

This is extremely real (Also London Conundrum would be a great band name)

Apex predator has taken a mighty giant sloth

“What absolute bastard’s eaten crisps in the loo?” -things heard after hours at the pub

Just had a big queer dance at the pub to Harry Belafonte’s ‘Jump In The Line’ in honour of Catherine O’Hara. Farewell to an absolute legend!

‘Wonderman’ is a love letter to the art of acting and to the ups and downs of being a creative professional. It’s a true shame it’s probably going to get skipped by a lot of people who don’t care for Marvel shows/films as it’s not at all what they’d expect from that. It’s a real odd gem of a show.

Labour, wearing hot dog costumes, standing over the still-smoking ruin of a crashed hot dog car: “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this”

Bill fucking goddamn uggggh Kristol is taking a more radical stance than most of Dem leadership. I swear at this point “If only we’d negotiated harder” is going to be ironically chiseled onto a very bleak memorial one day.

I like the word "fuck" and I'm all for using it when the situation calls for it, but I also like the words "impeach" and "hold accountable." And I realize we don't have the majority necessary to impeach, but do we not say words anymore because we don't have the majority? SAY WORDS.

What could this possibly be trying to say? “I’ll be Mayor only when Hell & London both freeze over?” “A vote for Reform is a vote to guarantee climate apocalypse?” “I’ve abducted this penguin from the London Zoo & now will attempt to teach it to say racist slogans?” What’s the message here? 🐧⁉️

Yesterday, over 30,000 people protested against ICE in below-zero temperatures. Amazing work, everyone. Minnesota strong. Tomorrow, there will be more of us.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

In a stunning move of de-escalation after a long week of protests ICE has…oh wait no I’ve got that wrong they just shot *yet another person in Minneapolis* after wrestling him to the ground, in broad daylight, with witnesses.

Starmer says Trump’s remarks about NATO allies are “insulting and frankly appalling” but here let’s send more British planes and personnel to (presumably) prop up an upcoming Iran op! The US spends 60-fucktillion $/year on military. Time to say “Yeah I think you can sort this one on your own.”

1987: Let’s make a live-action ‘Masters Of The Universe’ movie, but set most of it on Earth because alien planet sets & effects are really expensive! 2026: Let’s make a live-action ‘Masters Of The Universe’ movie, but set most of it on Earth because alien planet sets & effects are really expensive!

Pray you once more, Is not your father grown incapable Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear? Know man from man? Dispute his own estate? Lies he not bed-rid? And again does nothing But what he did being childish?

“Democrats obscured Biden’s cognitive decline” is really being blown out of the water by “Republicans are embracing and profiting from Trump’s cognitive decline.”

I made a helpful chart to make sense of some niche nerd-discourse microdrama brought on by the (actually quite good) ‘Fallout’ tv series depiction of a certain faction managing to…how to put this…rustle some heavily-armoured jimmies?

Watching the Greenland thing unfold really does feel like a psychotic break except instead of me breaking away from reality it's reality breaking away from me

A depressing number of astounding, memorable, Pulitzer-worthy captures of the current moment in American decline into naked authoritarianism have been taken for it only being 18 days into the year; and here’s the latest one that should absolutely be the next cover of Time magazine at the very least.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Scott Adams is dead. There is no better way I can think of to look at him dying of a cancer which he tried treating with horse-dewormer than the sad, weird, possibly avoidable end of one of the longest, strangest, most pitiable & pathetic public meltdowns in the annals of pop culture and celebrity.

I’ve started and deleted 15 posts today. I’m so angry, so tired, & so appalled all the time. All I can say is let this poor woman’s broad-daylight murder & the lies being spun around it be what finally leads to the dismantling of an agency who’s entire history is just a litany of horrors and crimes.

Changing gears for a moment for sanity’s sake, a non spoiler thing re: Stranger Things s5: I do have to say “Pull up all video surveillance within 2 miles of this house” is the one of the funniest possible things anyone could say in a TV series set in a small Indiana town in FUCKING 1987.

Too many words for Bsky but this Venezuela situation and some peoples’ reactions have me fuckin climbing the damn walls over here

Daytime fox friend spotted sniffing around in Kemptown!

Maybe I'm a little too online. I just referred to clicking a link as "going to a second location."

Slowly emerging to consciousness after an absurdly late but absolutely lovely night seeing out 2025 and welcoming in 2026. Happy New Year, dear friends. May this be a year of love, abundance, and success (however you choose to define those) for you.

🎶And Yule don’t seem to understaaaand…🎶

A Seussian tribute to the oft-uncredited actual singing voice of ‘You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch’

I feel like the new ‘Donald J. Trump John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts’ name has big ‘Ruth’s Chris Steak House’ energy

Look, I’m sure everyone’s accent sounds silly to somebody somewhere, and I know my own ever-more-Anglicised weird Transatlantic hybrid accent is no exception, but I just heard a guy with a RP accent unironically say “Hyoochewb vidyo” and I’m fucking wheezing 🤣

I just saw someone say “my friend has been pounding me about watching this for years now” and honestly there’s no interpretation of that which isn’t incredibly funny

Sitting at a pub in Brighton where they’re doing karaoke and watching young British people singing songs from ‘Hamilton’ and singing back and forth at each other about Treasury and the State Department is the weirdest possible outcome of the American Revolution I’d honestly not considered before

On top of all the other reasons Spotify is bad, the thing that tells you what age you are is stupid because literally everyone listens to music that was made in the past because that’s all that exists.

Reading old court transcripts and, I mean, whomst

Doing a Battlestar Galactica rewatch lately and it inspired me to make this nonsense

There’s the classic “all they know is mcdonald's, charge they phone, twerk, be bisexual, eat hot chip & lie” tweet but today my lived experience is more in line with “McVities, charge phone, get doner kebab, be bisexual, drink hot tea & lie (under blankets because it’s cold and damp out, that is)”

“The White House has eliminated the Department Of Government Efficiency in an apparent cost-saving measure” is a sentence that really feels like it shoulda come from a Heller or Vonnegut novel rather than a news headline, but here we are.

Yknow it’s hard to convince the “both parties are the same” crowd that this is absolutely not true if Democrats *also* insist on promoting misinformation, manipulation of truth, and stirring up fear with scare-words. 86 House Democrats who should really fucking know better now need to be primaried.

Super weird sounds of something rustling about right outside your door at 2:45am: Stressful, disconcerting. Discovering it’s just a curious fox: Adorable, and probably one of the least distressing possible outcomes. 🦊

Beat me to it 😂

Aw damn Mani Mounfield died. Was just talking about Stone Roses the other night.

I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.

"Dasha got dropped by Gersh," I say to the elerly woman sitting next to me on the bus. "Can you believe that?" She empties an entire can of mace directly into my face instantly.

Lovely time seeing my cousin Lachlan Bryan with his other band The Pleasures playing London’s Hope & Anchor tonight, and seeing a bunch of family all together for the show.

Genuine shame ‘The Alters’ is being completely overlooked for The Game Awards nominations. It’s one of the most interesting & unique things to come out this year. At the bare minimum, Alex Jordan absolutely deserved to be in the running for best voice performance for playing the various Jan Dolskis.

Hey uhhhhh just real quick, what the goddamn fuck is this? This feels incredibly inappropriate. Setting aside how insignificant an amount of money most people on small boats possessions would likely be worth it is a horrible look to take away the last possessions of people in awful circumstances.

In case any US friends are worried, despite the very serious dire warning from the President, neither I nor anyone else I know who regularly spends time in / lives in London are getting (and I quote directly) “stabbed in the ass or worse” by immigrants 🤣