"A single mom with an exceptional mind for solving crimes." Okay. But if you call it High Potential and make the poster look like this, you can't blame me for spending months thinking it's a softedge Nurse Jackie.

I have never gotten a Boots meal deal. Is that unusual?

Stabbed my ankle while making a sandwich. Thursdays, amirite?

Sky’s Beth Rigby last night: “It’s a tough job but we just try to inform our viewers without sensationalism” Sky News this evening: “WHAT IF NEO-NAZIS ARE RIGHT, HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THAT?”

I say this as someone who has never really felt anything about the Predator series. Badlands is really good fun. And so was Prey. Which means as far as I'm concerned, the franchise belongs to Dan Trachtenberg & Patrick Aison for as long as they want.

This looks like it could have really been something if Mark Wahlberg wasn't the executive producer, and so there were two actors playing the leads.

This quote made the rounds a decade ago and it's equally true today.

Since people are talking about LAPD funding.

First day on the job and you want respect? Go right up to the most recognizable and respected guy in the newsroom and have him yell at you until you cry. Then it's time to send him a weepy email telling him how disappointed you were that he did all that. Shouldn't have any trouble after that.

I am so in.

Been watching Percy Jackson today since I like the showrunner and... it's unashamedly a kids show so it's left me a little wanting. But if you have miniyous running around, particularly neurodivergent ones, I daresay they'd like it fine (dyslexia may be a sign they're a demigod).

This works in the UK too. You can get Marathon for £10 if you want. And I still can't be bothered.

the reveal - the absolute and total fumbling awe of Grant and Sattler as they see dinosaurs for the first time, just as John Williams’ greatest score kicks into full gear - is one of the best scenes in all of cinema

This is the stupidest and funniest way to frame this story.

I don't like reading sentences anymore

This would happen on the BBC in the 80s & 90s: the subtitles were for whatever was showing in London, regardless of what was on in Scotland. I saw an episode of the Gaelic soap MACHAIR with Ceefax subtitles for Star Trek: TNG. Old Mrs MacIver, worrying about Romulan manoeuvres near the Neutral Zone

This is horrifying. It classes disabled people as not fully human, because it is saying that they cannot ‘feel’ the same way as an able bodied person would in the same circumstances. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

Reeeeeeally resonant shit from Vasily Grossman's STALINGRAD:

It's a very particular kind of joy to watch a new TV show because the creator made a niche thing you liked, and then see familiar faces from that thing pop up in the new.

Wilfred Frost is a great example of Dawn Foster's “if I’ve heard of yer da, I don’t need to hear from you” rule. A nepo baby of media aristocracy and literal bloodline aristocracy, Oxbridge PPE, did a *weekend course* in journalism to start his career

These guys have taken to unlinking their posts when I QT them, presumably because I won't stop making fun of the things written. So I'm not even going to say anything here as Scotland's Bestest Rugby Brain Rob Robertson throws his support behind David Nucifora.

This is the second time in a fortnight I've seen Wilfred Frost present his opinion as news on this show and I'd be obliged if someone at Sky would give him a slap.

happy pride, everyone

Captain, my Captain 🫡

Starting tomorrow 🙂‍↕️ 🏃🏿🏳️‍🌈

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

2049 is a perfect sequel. Every bit as beautiful and emotionally inert as the original. Loving both makes sense. Hating both makes sense. Liking the original and not the sequel is just being old.

Darkly funny how obsessed the far right are with destroying the largest source of legitimacy they've ever had.

Best ever? No. But I'd rather listen to More Today Than Yesterday than anything by The Beatles. A hundred times more fun at karaoke, too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=89eE...

Shoutout to the guy at #ClashinItaly who paid extra for a ringside seat so he could drape a PSG flag over the side.

RETVRN to when movies with this kind of banter came with a McDonald's promo for kids

when arsenal win it's because zohran mamdani supports them and when arsenal lose it's because kier starmer supports them, know the rules

Fortunately, Britain has a Bermuda-registered mass circulation newspaper owned by a French-domiciled billionaire, a television station owned by a Dubai hedge fund and a political party backed by a Thailand-based crypto tycoon to remind us of the importance of patriotism

Type James Lowe's try records as many times as you want; you can never make me like a man who did that to his own fringe.

War Machine's not good. But if you get a kick out of mucky men in fatigues being shot at, it's almost average. It's not bad because it doesn't really try to be good. There's some paint-by-numbers tragedy-as-motivation, dull training, a decent car chase, and not much else. So... almost average.

my emotional hedge for the day: an Arsenal victory would be the cap to a truly painful season but it would make Mamdani unreasonably powerful

Years ago I worked with a geneticist. Gattaca was his favourite movie. He said it was entirely realistic. A reminder before we go on that Gattaca portrays a dystopian future. So of course here, from people who took the torment nexus meme as a guide, it's explicitly referenced as the goal.

There are precious few photos of tenements under construction, but this one's a beauty. Looking down the avenue and beyond to Victoria Rd in the 1870s, with the tenements on Queen's Drive going up on the left. 📷 George Washington Wilson #Glasgow

It's obviously good that we changed stadia for safety. But there were sights to be seen once upon a time.

Usually guitar porn doesn't interest me at all. A scuffed Stratocaster? $70 grand? Okay, if you say so. But this one does it for me. Something actually going on here.

I've said it before but it really can't be overstated how much Kyle Steyn has improved as a player. He quite simply wasn't close to this level of quality a few years ago. Great to see.

Bold and exciting decision from the SRU to allow a rugby game to be played at Murrayfield. Could be the start of something.

Lancaster remains as good at hitting the target as the average American aiming at an orangutang. #GLAvCON

Delighted to learn it's not just me that thinks "British" is a poor descriptor for my Scottish atheist ass. But you know they'll qualify it with some Dominion bullshit. "Yes but as a white western man your VALUES stem from Christianity, don't they?" Fuckin' nope.

Magnificently petty thread including the lovely revelation that the average Gothamite is too toxic for vampires to feed on.

Me: emails estate agent for HVR. Bot texts me, offers viewing, asks when I want to sell, and pumps me for info. In what world is this supposed to be good?

If any American knew what passed for mustard in England, they could end that food argument forever in one move.

Something 007 First Light does well; a superb, genre literate choice that the devs made that elevates it in one move. They got David Arnold back for the music. The movies moved on without him through Skyfall, Spectre, and No Time To Die and he was *sorely* missed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFPy...