it’s céline!

guy who wants you to buy his product: ooooh my product is SO powerful and will make you SO much money i'm SCARED OF IT oooohhh

This is *such* a consistent feature of living in the UK - the actual day to day experience of people in this country is so much nicer than what the press or our leadership cadre would have you think - it is remarkable in a somewhat destabilising fashion just how stark the difference is.

Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Are Liminal Spaces Real Hahahaha Just Walk Away From Them Like Go Somewhere Else Haha

list of modern curses: - may the podcast you like become just another stop on the press junket - may your Tupperware always open in your bag - may you never have the courage to advocate for yourself at the salon - may you discover the second group chat - swarm of replyguys

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

they should invent a shavasana where you can go on your phone

You are creating that debate. There is no debate. There is a far right talking point and a media willing to traffic it into the mainstream.

Live fog Live fog It's alive fog Full of spooky microbes It's an airborne moving bog

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

reading for my next article begins 👀

bro doesn’t even realise that children may not obey but they WILL listen 💀💀😂😂💀

list of modern curses: - may the podcast you like become just another stop on the press junket - may your Tupperware always open in your bag - may you never have the courage to advocate for yourself at the salon - may you discover the second group chat - swarm of replyguys

but you ARE, Tilly, you ARE a computer

overcome with the urge for chips and caesar salad at 6:30am. can art explain this feeling

if anyone asks you whether they should watch Master and Commander, show them this

just heard Gecko (Overdrive) blaring from a passing car and genuinely got chills

the body keeps score. the heart gets the house, and the brain keeps the dog.

every YouTube video is now called “the rise and fall of bluppy mcfart” and it’s 2 hours of someone summarising a tv show you’ve never seen

Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Are Liminal Spaces Real Hahahaha Just Walk Away From Them Like Go Somewhere Else Haha

all the classic fairy tales have morals that ring as true today as they did when they were first told. for example, the little mermaid teaches us "bitches be foam."

Musical theatre is for people who take karaoke far too seriously in general, but Six is for people who will sever their Achilles tendon if they’re not the best sounding person in the room

Do I have an #AcademicSky pals in Games Studies who would be willing to give me some pointers? I’ve been fomenting an article idea for almost a year and I need to get it OUT of my brain before madness takes me

Bad Bunny has been cast as Pizza with Sunglasses in ‘TOY STORY 5’.

it's about paddington's dual role in culture as the emblem of both maudlin english nostalgia and the grim reaper. emma thompson will co-star as a beloved opera singer desperate to escape his ursine grasp

hello (ordering breakfast)

Heihachi Mishima shouldn’t have thrown his son off that cliff

The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in Britain

this morning’s ducky report: family swim has begun

"we showed claude and asked" wrap it up lmao

like reactionary feminism, which says that there's no point in trying to fight patriarchy and we should just give up, supporters of AI say it’s already won to try and shut down questions before they’re asked

this isn’t normal behaviour btw. waymos only do this when their queen is threatened

I see Simon Heffer, in Michael Gove's Spectator, is once again repeating his lie that Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech wasn't about race.. I debated Heffer recently (at the Oxford Litfest) - here's what I said. archive.ph/bqKZF

I need these artists to put out their summer songs asap, my seasonal playlist is in dire need of refinement

"Weinberg was awarded Germany’s order of merit...but handed it back last year when a parliamentary vote calling for many more migrants to be turned back at Germany’s borders passed with the help of a far-right party. The motion was put forward by Friedrich Merz, who is now the country’s chancellor."

Coming off a term teaching climate communications, this was something I talked to my students about frequently. Climate change disproportionately impacts those who are already marginalised, and every social justice issue is a climate issue, too

Call For Papers 🚨 “(Un)Just Joking? On the Global Dimensions of Right-Wing Humor" Special issue of the Journal of Right-Wing Studies Call for Proposals Submission deadline: October 1, 2026 jrws.berkeley.edu/unjust-jokin...

Evergreen headline.

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

The Mandalorian, the Grogu, His Hutt & His Sy Snootles

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

15 best movies; don’t think abt it too hard! Paris is Burning Pan’s Labyrinth Bringing Up Baby Hoop Dreams The Handmaiden The Holdovers Zodiac Perfect Blue Jurassic Park Alien Petite Maman Orlando Stop Making Sense Drop Dead Gorgeous Singin in the Rain

oh thank god

fully mixed, almost 2 hours long, and it’s still not done. my summer playlist for your perusal:

films are a series of still images put after each other and played at very high speeds

why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy.....

There is a direct throughline from this and the rise in global authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is actively hostile toward the arts and intellectualism, and thus imagination. When people say that AI is a “fascist project,” this is explicitly what they’re referring to.

Out now on substack: The point of The Devil Wears Prada is that it ends. So how can a sequel make sense?