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#ComedyPodcastOfTheDay @eleanormorton.bsky.social @misterabk.bsky.social tackle #TheRailwayChildren live from the #EdFringe E. Nesbit's classic is packed with unforgettable characters, a forgotten Russian dissident, & the lesson that trespassing is OK if you're middle-class shorturl.at/LvBGg

you need cold, salt and a meal at the same time

At last, a sketch we can ALL relate to.

The Railway Children (1970) looks like a folk horror. So I added some sound effects to the trailer and terrified @eleanormorton.bsky.social. Check out the latest episode of Eleanor & Alasdair Read That for more. linktr.ee/readthat

A surprising number of people seem to regard Nazism as an understandable and natural reaction to heavy eye makeup.

As a society, the one thing we were totally unprepared for was annoying leftists being right.

Trans rights are human rights, but the bad news is people also hate human rights.

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.

These are great! (I must also point out that the artist's name is a quick way to get into trouble in Skyrim.)

If being poor makes people racist, please explain to me why the richest man in the world is very, very racist?

No, I'm sorry, this is Midtown Funk. You'll need to take a cab.

update: male loneliness epidemic solved

folk horror be like "here's some twigs arranged in a different than usual way"

anyone need their horse rotated?

Yeeees! The plot of 12 Monkeys is not Bruce Willis trying to stop the virus. You can't change the past, it already happened! That's what makes 12 Monkeys/La Jetee way more interesting than every other time travel film.

It's crazy that the main function of cotton buds is the one thing you are explicitly told not to use them for.

Today is the ten year anniversary of my proudest ever achievement in publishing, RUSHOMON: the time I got both a Rush Hour Crush and a Good Deed printed on the same page of the UK Metro, both of which told a single, horrifying, story from two different angles. It's been all downhill ever since.

If you love and/or hate the fringe, Ian has written an interesting deep-dive into a playing field so un-level it's almost a wall.

This dynamic keeps repeating. Respectable commentators want to have a philosophical debate about (e.g.) Britishness or the definition of "woman", because they don't want to spell out the unpleasant things they think should be done to certain people.

Den of Geek have finally paid me to write an article about my "Every Doctor Who Parody Is Secretly An Audition" theory. With a bit of help from @misterabk.bsky.social. www.denofgeek.com/tv/doctor-wh...

I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for this.

this is a really fun point and click puzzle adventure!

It's a locked room mystery, lads.

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

There's a certain kind of indie game where you uncover artefacts of a fantastical civilization and all the dead people left notes written in the voice of a 27-year-old American. "Mom says I gotta go to Songo Market to pick up Banjee berries for the harvest ritual." Get an idiom, kid.

Oh good, the Everything's Fine alarm.

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

Fair play to Angela Rayner for resigning after we recorded tonight's episode of the News Quiz. Listen to Radio 4 at 6.30, to catch me looking like an absolute plum.

I made an unboxing video and the lighting and sound is terrible but unfortunately once you open a box you can't open it again. You have to make do with the footage you have youtube.com/shorts/826k_...

@misterabk.bsky.social and I recording the next episode of the pod a few weeks ago - out on the 19th! Which book do you think it is this time?

I have a book out in ONE WEEK! A preorder is a good deed: it lets retailers know there's a lot of demand, so they'll keep loads instock, so they'll sell more. If you'd like to aid my pre pub nerves, a preorder is GOLDEN. And you can do it here or at your local indie! www.walker.co.uk/978152951581...

When I was announced as the lead in a Doctor Who spinoff in 2023 Graham Linehan tweeted about me for TWO DAYS, tagging the BBC and others to say that I am pro-child abuse and they shouldn't work with me.

I'm sharing again, because so far this video has garnered me -3 (minus three) subscribers on YouTube. Whom amongst ye will take their place?

Podcasts are like: "Anyone can be drawn into a cult. Before he joined the cult, Leonard sold yogurt on the beach."

To borrow from Graham Linehan's apparently protected tweeting format: If Wes Streeting in a trans friendly space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.

I actually enjoy the 100 tweets about sending illegal immigrants home that our Prime Minister writes every single day in order to supplicate to the far right. I think it’s helping to soothe tensions, is morally defensible, and I can’t wait to vote for him again!

Today's sketch, now available to own on Home Video. I mean you can watch it on YouTube, and you should because then I get money. It's the 80s, baby. youtu.be/23SKNZEUQuk

Since there are no thumbnails allowed on Bluesky:

The start of every 80s movie:

You know what, fair play to Scooby Doo villains. They walk into a room dressed as a ghost, see a talking dog on its hind legs making the world’s biggest sandwich and somehow manage to stay in character.

Watching Blackbird, a Michael Flatley joint, with @therealbafta.bsky.social and the ai subtitles are really improving the dialogue.

Cool to see people embracing Obviously Evil Design Choices. What's the point of adverts like this if they aren't covered in cryptic messages in the dead crew's blood?

@pollyrowena.bsky.social on nature writing, chronic illness, and the controversy surrounding Raynor Winn’s memoir, The Salt Path.

realistic Star Trek

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When ransacking an apartment, you're going to want to rotate all the picture frames to a crooked angle. And folks, I beg you, tilt those lampshades.

OK, but can generative Ai do a cartoon character staring blankly while standing in 3/4 view? And YES, I actually do want it to have unsettling realistic skin.

How can the government possibly deal with the threat from Reform? I dunno, have you heard of A DRACONIAN CRACKDOWN? Imagine Farage was a vegetarian Marxist and just do whatever you would do to that guy.