An important story from yours truly in @scotnational.bsky.social today. Children deserve a lot better than AI-generated books and teaching materials. www.thenational.scot/news/2594938...

Saw your boyfriend in Hobbycraft

Short doc needs to be delivered at the end of May and the sigh of relief my computer will breathe when I get to transfer all these random 'what if I need this?!' bits of old tut onto a hard drive is going to be seismic.

For anyone doing the Trans Rights Readathon - this one bangs!

It's the most wonderful time of the year (reading the opening scenes of a bunch of Oscar-nominated screenplays with my screenwriting class before I send them off to write the opening scenes of their scripts).

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Low level, in the scheme of things, but working in the arts is already highly pressurised, and I don't think anyone can fully grasp the pressure that the current unstable infastructure is putting on arts workers in Glasgow, especially in film exhibition.

Tired and emotional but this almost broke me this morning - girls rule

Devo’ed about Buffy not moving forward at Hulu. What a weird decision. What an easy win.

Lot of shitty things recently, but the discovery of two missing Doctor Who episodes feels like such a lovely small miracle

Took a ‘day off’ - don’t know if you’ve heard of them? - and I feel like a million quid. No work. No emails. Went to the book shop. Coffee with a friend. Have been watching Angel and reading Isaac Fellman’s mad most recent book all afternoon. Lovely.

No podcast this week but we have two tiny terrors baking right now that I think will go down a treat - in the mean time, catch up with the last few weeks of bangers!

I’m an abolitionist except for people who outbid you last minute on the eBay, they can rot.

FUCKING HELL GET IN www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We’re watching this book faithful Italia Pinocchio from 2019 and Callum pointed out that Pinocchio looks like Trixie Mattel out of drag

Sometimes think about how I used to go to the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party tour every year - I saw Billie, a1, Westlife before and after they were Westside, B*Witched, Girl Thing, Lolly, Steps, S Club 7 - and it was £12 a ticket. We have strayed so far from god.

Inventing what can only be described as a Very Dyspraxic approach to gathering the narration for my documentary and these titles are very, very funny to me (a puff is, indeed, a puff!)

Friend of mine periodically reminds me of this story of mine, that was too weird to ever find a home hrfmichael.medium.com/playdays-of-...

Good night, everyone

Watching all the bonus features on the new steel book version and… Wicked: For Good they could never make me hate you

I'm sorry but 'replaced by a badger' is one of the funniest sentences in the English language, truly hate it here but sometimes you have to laugh.

I'm not saying it's a good thing I accidentally poured cooking oil into my laptop whilst making Christmas cookies last year but if I hadn't I wouldn't have backed up my computer before I'd deleted all the bloody files for the interview I did with my pal that I need for my film.

If a soothsayer appeared and told me I could ask one question and one question only, I'd ask why Matt Lucas - a man I have never tweeted at or about in my life! - had me blocked on Twitter

Today in ludicrous things I appear to be allergic to: moisturiser specifically designed for sensitive skin.

Picked up Herculine based on the cover and it is a banger so far

I agree with everything Jolyon is fighting for but I don't think we can or should quantify some manner of passing potential for a given cohort. The primary reason that transition is time sensitive and always time sensitive is the distress experienced by those stuck in their assigned gender imo.

biblically accurate demon twink

Glasgow feels really fucking bleak at the minute, lads. On top of the cultural vandalism of the past few weeks, a massive fire at Central has taken out a dozen businesses tonight, and will no doubt shut down the station for god knows how long.

You dirty rat! On our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) episode with @trannawintour.bsky.social we celebrate the beautiful work of Jim Henson's Creature Shop including the wise mentor Splinter. Listen to our episode: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs

Always get annoyed at the 'well, I never liked Harry Potter' crowd - oh, cool, so you think you're better than everyone else? You're not engaged in the culture of the day? - but Roisin Murphy is my that, some lovely funny hats but not a single banger to be found in that entire solo career

Alarmed to discover that Michelangelo - a ‘party’ ‘dude’ - is my type

Not to be from Tumblr in 2012 but Instagram keeps wanting to show me videos of this white kid who does an impression of Princess Diana but she says stuff in Jamaican patois and… I am unsure.

Hanging out with my niece this week - she’s three - and she told me she had a boyfriend. I was like, oh at school? She was like, no, in heaven, he got very, very old. So I was like ‘oh lordt’ and I asked her what his name is/was. His name is Ari and he has hair like mine that’s ’sometimes grey’.

Thinking about her (the girl who told her troubles to an egg but didn’t want to waste food so cooked and ate the egg and became the subject of the witch internet for, like, a week, you simply could not escape the witch discourse).

I’m in!!

People ask me what it’s like to be iconic and I have to say I don’t know - I have nothing else to compare it to

Sister is supposed to be picking me up at 12.30 and she hasn’t responded to my reminder text but she has sent me 14 reels, 6 of them about Pedro Pascal.

I don’t know what I’ve watched on Instagram that almost my entire reels algorithm is Little House on the Prairie clips - specifically, clips of Nellie Olesen being a right little cow - but honestly I feel better for it.

Table of auld Doctor Who fans in this coffee shop talking about which cast members were the nicest to meet (Bonnie Langford and Anita Dobson) and who they want to meet next (Peter Davison but someone has heard he’s a tosser).

Yer da keeps his empty Gü pots for a dinner party that’s never happening.

New episode: Beetlejuice (1988) Listen: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs

Fellow Ozians! If a person needed to watch the 2025 documentary It's Dorothy for professional purposes, where would a person do that? Jeffrey McHale is gay, someone will know Jeffrey McHale, send me a DM!

One day there weren't any Black Sheep Coffees and the next, there's one on every corner. Like something from a Doctor Who.

Not fucking about with the slides for tonight's class

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

Has there ever been a cooler looking film than Night of the Comet?

Toxic love - Tim Curry's terrifying turn as Hexxus, the spirit of destruction in FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) Listen to our episode: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs

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Go Gorgonites! Listen to our episode about Small Soldiers (1998): linktr.ee/onceuponavhs