Always a little surprised when I read about new Facebook features – Facebook still exists?! Are people still on there? I kind of filed it along with other noughties relics like MySpace and Friends Reunited.

essential infographic

but why

Hate how very plausible this is. This whole nonsense started with demands for a birth certificate, it’s going to end with a nonexistent death certificate.

God I love this. A real race against time. What’s left of the budget counting down in the corner till it gets to $1 just before the big finale.

BRUTAL DELUXE

Prince of Persia was an experiment in rotoscoping. It put lifelike animation on '80s home computers. Designer Jordan Mechner converted VHS tapes and movie footage into pixels -- and went way beyond the tech of his time. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-the-li...

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

so excited to amass a collection of unintelligible drafts written right before going to sleep

THIS STANDS

Attempting to introduce the child to Buster Keaton only to find that the only version of The General on MUBI or Amazon is a horrible colourised version with added sound effects. BLEUGH.

Fincher a massively superior filmmaker to Tarantino, so curious to see how this turns out.

sorry hi yeah just one question about the starters

sorry hi yeah just one question about the starters

think it’s safe to assume Sugababes will be announcing their album next weekend #maskedsinger

I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007) is such a random pile of actors. Pfeiffer, Rudd, Saoirse Ronan, Jon Lovitz, Graham Norton, David Mitchell … Olivia Colman is basically an extra. Did I dream this movie?

aww that’s sweet

Kickstarter to replace royal family with Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds

USA: And that's how you do crispy bacon. UK: Like this? USA: No. UK: This? USA: No. UK: This? USA: No. UK: USA: UK: This?

Another one for The Fall’s rock family tree

Ah, I see what they did there..!

V interesting piece, esp for readers in the UK where we don’t have the same “mass market”/“trade paperback” distinction. Though I suppose the gradual move here for all genres to now appear in larger B-format paperbacks, initially the preserve of “literary fiction”, is similar.

Streaming isn’t the enemy of physical media. Shelving movies by label is.

I❤️ #reflection / NYC Photo: © 2026 Henry Sene Yee

ROBYN TOUR ROBYN TOUR ROBYN TOUR

THE DREAM

Streaming isn’t the enemy of physical media. Shelving movies by label is.

This is very true. It's wonderful how much archive BBC material has been made available lately, but why go to the expense and effort of restoring it and clearing it for broadcast but then not bother to promote it or even explain what it is?

Vogue covers by Horst P. Horst

LEGO Project Hail Mary!

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Waterstones York absolutely CRUSHING the game of Pagans Windows (which I just invented).

Let's briefly distract ourselves from it all by revisiting the late 1970s when Marvel published an original Spider-Man/Hulk team-up story on a... roll of toilet paper. As far as I am aware this has never been reprinted. My brother got a roll of this as a birthday present(!) and I was so jealous.

@jamesbluecat.bsky.social check you out Billy Big Window

Kickstarter to replace royal family with Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds

Another comic I never bothered posting This one from 2023. Topical galileo humour apropos of precisely nothing at all

Art by J. Carlos for Brazilian magazine Para Todos, 1920s.

Glenn Miller to receive album of the year

Know your Hog Line from your Last Stone Advantage – the most important page on the internet this month. worldcurling.org/about/curling/

Curling would be even more amazing if it instead of stones, they had to throw an array of random crap.

YUP

SO excited for this

Some Lego chat on the TL this morning reminds me of an unrelated bugbear: people claiming Lego isn't for kids any more. There is LOADS of Lego aimed at kids. You just don't see it if your main experience of Lego is middle-aged nerds posting links to the latest £450 Star Wars set on social media.

A toss up between I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need to Be Nicer by The Cardigans and You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve by Johnny Boy

A morning dip into the funny pages with a cup of coffee. Heaven.

The BGs are almost certainly in this scene, outside on the street, being very confused amongst a crowd of people screaming adoringly at the top of the back of Meryl’s head.

My first @its-nice-that.bsky.social column of the year is about faking imperfection (fauxbi-sabi) and what it means to have a resurgence of analog aesthetics without analog tools 📷 www.itsnicethat.com/articles/eli...