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Huh. Some actual good news!

“Okay brain, I’m shutting down for the night. Time for you to process the day into some form of—" “HERE’S THE LIAM CUNNINGHAM/JOHN SIMM EPISODE OF CRACKER FROM 1995 BUT EVERYONE’S IRISH"

Going to create a new type of newspaper where the headlines are nuanced and reasonable but the articles themselves are deranged frothing nonsense

haven’t been the same since jason left

No two answers the same yet. THIS IS FASCINATING.

Post a poster you used to have on your wall.

haven’t been the same since jason left

meanwhile on instagram

John Cale, Marc Jacobs, and Martin Scorsese on the cover of Charli XCX’s new album, Music, Fashion, Film.

In the very early days of mobile phones, I was at the theatre with my mum when her phone went off. Her ingenious solution was to surreptitiously kick it under the seat in front and then start tutting like it had nothing whatsoever to do with her.

Sitting here utterly furious that my new glasses don’t appear to be any better than my old ones, in fact they might even be worse, oh and also they don’t arrive for another two weeks #massiveidiot #imbecile #duuuuuh

This is the first time I've heard this, googled it and oh no I feel very old

Okay without thinking too much about it, what numerical range does “dozens” cover?

whoever this is, they are amazing

Okay without thinking too much about it, what numerical range does “dozens” cover?

Oh god the agony of buying new glasses. I just want glasses-shaped glasses. I don’t want a little notch that guarantees nose slippage, I don’t want them in brown/purple tortoiseshell, I don’t want a built in pervert camera. Just … just make glasses that look like glasses.

That would be the Master Bait, perfectly adequate in its own right so no need to emotionally engage with another human

Hollywood logic dictates that a dozen films also based on photographs of empty furniture shops will be greenlit by the end of the week.

Pretty much only reason I’m sticking with FAM is for the weekly @thecinemile.bsky.social review.

Off to the opticians for the traditional “please justify the reglazing fee, I dare you” conversation.

already pre-hating myself for watching all of For All Mankind S6

My dream is that they continue to make sequels with the same cast, but each movie the actors play a completely different character/class with zero plot continuation

Some good news:

Radiohead’s OK Computer reimagined as Nintendo 64 songs, featuring reworked sounds from Mario Kart, Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye 007, and more. [youtube.com]

new David Morrissey show happening so rethinging this

not entirely sure what this poster from 1930 is promoting, but WAND SCHMUCK is my new favourite wizard

This is a US thing, isn’t it? (The Jill Dawson, which is the only UK cover, doesn’t have it.) : A Novel : Stories : A Memoir : A Reckoning : A Pleasure, I’m Sure : A Bit too Warm for Me : A Wopbopaloobopawopbamboom

A great selection but my god when did “a novel” become mandatory for all works of fiction?

This week I am mostly obsessed with Tom Phillips www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/...

Unused design for Raymond Antrobus’ The Perseverance. www.instagram.com/p/DY6riaSKSYI/

On Question Time tonight

Some excellent film corridors here, by @annebillson.bsky.social and is reminding me I really need to watch Paprika again, an amazing fillum. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

How did dictionary makers keep track of rhyming words or similarly suffixed words, like those ending in -ism, -graphy, -ness, or -ology, before the computer age? With a Backward Index, a collection of 315,000 dictionary words typed out backwards. [kottke.org]

Playstation, famously not a thing in 2002

Just remembered Sci Fi Corridor Archive scificorridorarchive.com

Just curious, does anyone like red bull adverts?

Just learnt that York has an apartment complex called Olympian Court and all the buildings are named after Roman gods and I am FURIOUS

Stumbled upon the work of Dorothy Carleton Smyth and seriously just look at these en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...

If the lights are flickering or dimming in your neighbourhood, it’s because I’ve got Photoshop open performing no tasks whatsoever.

All I want it to do is open the pod bay doors JFC HOW HARD CAN IT BE

oh it’s a play on toy store

@samclements.bsky.social Absolutely spot on Barney Gumble impression on the ‘mile.

just grabbed my external drive and hoo boy

Truly one of the greatest things to ever happen to television.

Pick a Bond villain from the pictures you already have on your phone

what a headline

CINEMA YOU HAVE FAILED ME

Web is now one of the search categories on Google, right after Images and Videos and Shopping and News and Forums and Short Videos

I must be super evolved then because I understand very well that Google is trying to build an agentic wall around the entire internet with the ultimate goal of users paying to access it and data owners paying to contribute to it.