My timeline. Thank you Bluesky

This is the first I’ve heard of this and it’s astonishing - a group of white, PR-backed business owners suing a Pakistani-Iranian woman for calling her book a common word from her own language. Delighted that it’s over for her, but astonishing that someone had the brass neck.

Do you enjoy things like: The mystery of Stu Francis' middle names? Overlong investigations into the Presidency of the Budgerigar Society? Chucklevision Music Cues? Potentially repurposed pictures of Cilla Black? Well you'll love episode 2 of PantoSplaining. linktr.ee/pantosplaining

I don't think any of my mutuals would be interested in big, juicy Weiners *examines fingernails theatrically*

Any cardigan is a sex cardigan if you want it to be

Also, having “looked at the numbers”, most of the diagnoses are in private schools and universities, neither of which scream to me “and so begins a life of unemployment”.

This is the last letter I sent in. Good to go out on a high. By then I was writing more and found the outlet I'd been craving. I would quit my job within a year to write full time, and I've done so ever since. If nothing else doing something this stupid kept me sane for a few years. I recommend it!

The greatest achievement of my entire epistolary career was the day I got two letters printed on the same page. A good deed and a crush, telling a single, increasingly horrifying, story from two unconnected people.

Good Deed Feeds were good to write and submit because you could force people to conjure incredibly specific images in their heads. Always aimed for ideas that didn't seem too mad on first sleepy viewing, but if you applied even a tiny bit of thought to them were INSANE.

This remains one of my all-time favourite jokes

"Sceptical Rasta"

You can find more info on the twenty or so very stupid letters I got published in the Metro over the next year or two, here: bsky.app/profile/seam...

It is twelve years today since I got my first ever Rush Hour Crush published in the UK Metro.

“Living in Thailand”

All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI. I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

Who is it who is coming? Well, I didn’t see that coming.

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

God, I hate the 21st Century.

Absolutely superb episode on Yellow Submarine with Joel Morris. But how did they make this film so quickly and so well? And why was the script by Erich Segal who then went on to write the film Love Story?

We sometimes hear that Watson, Crick, Franklin or Wilkins “discovered DNA” in 1953. Here’s the story of the man who really did.

The snail farm don: is this the most brazen tax avoidance scheme of all time?

Kei cars are great but whether or not they'll cope with American road surfaces...

Insert a movie into another movie: SEVEN BRIDES FOR SE7EN BROTHERS

"eponymous cybernetic star" @secondmentions.bsky.social

Insert a movie into another movie: NO COUNTRY FOR GRUMPY OLD MEN

Night.

Never has this gif been more appropriate

A first edition of Absolute Beginners may interest followers of @backlisted.bsky.social I am more a reader of books than a collector of 1st editions but this is the Hospice Charity bookshop where I volunteer.

Great pop fact in case you didn't know: Rebecca Front's graphic designer dad Charles designed the #RubberSoul logo.

wHy ArE iNvEsToRs So WoRrIeD aBoUt My CrImE mAcHiNe??!?

This show is magnificent. If you have Disney+ watch it. It is hi-octane procedural trash of the finest kind.

TV shows that seem fake but are somehow real.

Films that seem fake but are somehow real.

Now *that* is a kaboom

For those of you without an aeronautics degree, this outcome is considered bad

we're all thinking it

A friend of mine has been through a very nasty domestic abuse/coercive control situation. I'm trying to help her find support/counselling that isn't horribly backed up with waiting lists. Would welcome ideas - we're coming up empty and the situation is getting increasingly urgent.

Whenever I see a discussion about access to the Cerne Abbas Giant I remember the shaman I once met whose best friend had recently climbed over the fence and slept on the giant's hard-on. "She said it was the most erotic night of her life," the shaman told me. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Roses are red Charlie Parker played be-bop

Bananaman (1983-1986) BBC1

Happy seventh birthday to Sir David Attenborough not being in the nudd.

Q Magazine's list of the 50 Worst Albums is a list of albums that are broadly speaking far more interesting than *any* magazine's list of the 50 Best Albums.

Watching Father Ted’s a Christmassy Ted and remembered this nugget of pop trivia, the priest with the most boring voice Father Fitzgerald (Sean Barrett) in Ireland's largest lingeree section was the cover star of The Smith's single "How Soon is Now" a still from the 1958 film "Dunkirk".

I think I've just watched a rather glamorous woman on the next table get stood up. Turned up, snaffled a table, kept checking her phone, eventually gave up, ordered a burger and a drink then buggered off.

What I’m wearing to the Bluesky Christmas Party

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

Also, @mysteriosox.bsky.social points out that "The Battle of Austerlitz was one of Le Petomane's best known acts of bumtriloquism", which means I'm contractually obliged to post this...