Not now four black eggs surfacing from the dark heart of the ocean

BBC iPlayer is protecting me from this match by repeatedly crashing

4 years ago in the Telltale Games Alumni FB group, Michael Parsons was asking if anyone had advice for helping his 15 year old son Kane achieve his dreams of being a filmmaker. Turned out alright.

So are we getting an antipope or what?

Actually a bit chilly today, lads

Wow you’re telling me capitalists colluded to raise prices on necessities? Fuck. I thought this system was inherently efficient

Disappointed that Japan got kicked out of the World Cup last night, because it means I can’t do Junya Itō/Junji Ito bits to increasingly diminishing returns

Awww yeah, got a water leak in the zone where plumbers won’t touch it because it’s Thames Water’s problem, and Thames Water deny all responsibility. Wonder how long this saga will go on for

It’s slightly infuriating but I guess not surprising that now that climate change is happening, faster than anticipated and in ways that have very real impacts globally, the response from climate change deniers is either silence or doubling down

On my way to Pro Wrestling Ceasefire in Woolwich, and admiring the range of industrial architecture you get to see from the DLR on the way over

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

Gloriously strange.

Me despite Harry Kane being England’s joint lead goal scorer and one of the most successful strikers in the world: Kane’s a donkey

Fun fact: katsup is short for cat soup

Note to self: do not cycle with a shoulder bag while it’s still like 40% humidity. My back is pure sweat

Get in here we're cormorantposting!!!

Going to see a band called Moth Slut, mainly because they’re called Moth Slut

Honestly think they need to have announcements on London buses as a matter of urgency saying to keep the windows closed so the AC can work - they’re absolute saunas atm, and the first thing people do when they go upstairs is open them

Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).

there's something really special about a place in this world where people have been gathering for literal millennia to complain about the seating's lack of upper back support

I feel like the World Cup has distracted Arsenal fans from the important work of being completely insufferable

Out flat’s temperature after we’ve put foil in all the windows and kept the curtains closed for days

There must be some way to combine UK/US food, washing machine and air conditioning discourse

Cooking tip: Add a few spoonfuls of pond water to your soup to make it taste bad and give you illnesses

What's that? Employers all agree that we definitely don't need workplace safety legislation and that everything will probably be fine if we just leave it to each local boss to come up with ad hoc solutions? I'm shocked.

Watched this last night, can confirm it’s certainly a time

something about Kairo (Pulse) and the way it captures a specifically *online* variety of cascading despair. the great nothing of the internet just...eating you. and there's no afterlife. you're online forever.

Me: Is there anything more beautiful than a sunset? Or a flower, is a flower better? Would people retweet that? The sewer creature that I found in my basement and have been feeding marshmallows: Can... I... Have... Marsh... Mallow? Me: No.

little demon, france, 15th century

But Captain, it'snbkbjyujesusitshotfucjk

Something I’ve glimpsed during the NBA finals and the World Cup are how much we need—and how much cities thrive on—experiences of shared joy. The understanding of how important this is (which might simply be the state of not being a sociopath) should be a big priority in 2028.

Brave and important move from Greenpeace. If the UK government won't even secure protected areas of seabed from being scraped clean by industrial trawlers then activists need to step in and do it themselves. www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/breakin...

Proud of my home town for handily resisting the fash like this

I feel like we need to set up some kind of Declan Rice cloning facility as a national priority

As investors scramble to dump toxic AI stocks, I encourage them to invest instead in ants. Safe, hard-working, reliable ants. You can't go wrong.

The BBC world cup commentators should take a cue from wrestling and say some absolutely ridiculous shit while most of the audience are on an ad break

Have decided to work from the shower

Your average car spends 95% of its life parked. All cars should be publicly owned and used commonly, so cars approach 100% usage and we only need 1 in 20 of them to exist. It would free up all the roads stuffed with parked cars. Yes perfect numbers couldn't be achieved, but we could get a lot closer

Today I learned that burpees are called that because they were invented by US physiologist Royal Huddleston Burpee Sr as part of his PhD thesis

As we see the end of the Starmer years, I am reflecting on my favourite things about him. Personally, it was when he told a newspaper that he didn’t dream or have any internal thoughts

Wondering when the last time was that a PM resigned just for being unpopular and out of ideas, rather than any specific scandal or disaster

Once again the London to Brighton bike ride is accompanied by a stream of cyclists getting to the station to discover that bikes aren’t allowed on the train, and there’s no alternative way to get them back without booking a coach in advance

On weeks like this in London my brain insists that I’m on holiday in a Greek city and I should go and sit in a cafe and drink frappés all day

“In the Hills, The Cities,” Clive Barker (1984)

Saw your man splashing his feet merrily down by the river as he sang a jaunty tune

Haven’t been hugely into the World Cup so far, but hearing various cheers and songs from flats and pubs around town is definitely chipping away at that

Eve on MyAEW when. Also MyAEW as an app that can stream to ChromeCast so I can watch it on my telly when

i'm getting a bit annoyed with this "starmer didn't do anything" narrative ❌️ sweeping changes to the immigration system ❌️ biggest asylum reforms in 70 years functionally ending refugee status ❌️ moved from a reasonably tolerant regime to the most trans-hostile developed democracy

Very jealous of this deep sea pen being in cold dark water for the next few days