Mistake not to include the Come Dine With Me cheesecake floating in a mug of Prosecco bsky.app/profile/scot...

omg the toe wrestling in this week's come dine with me. i would actually die

ok today's surprise drop U2 ep is fantastic - stronger than the first one.

been waiting for a few days free to play the new resident evil! 4 day weekend?!!

i am considering voting lib dem/ list green in scotland....

Fascinating thread (and paper). Raises a wider question - namely, did the Conservative Party's enthusiasm for austerity ultimately lead, every bit as much as its increasing obsession with Europe and immigration, to its being replaced by Reform UK as the pre-eminent party on the British right?

swear to god samwell tarly from Game of Thrones is standing for the lib dems in my consistency

what i wonder is how much value there is in pretending nato meaningfully exists. Because all it would shift is the pretense. anyone that thinks the US would feel compelled to meet its defensive obligations is delusional. he was actively considering invading denmark

do think the kanye wireless thing is mad. if nothing else am surprised they were able to get insurance.

something i really enjoy about doja cat is her lyrics. always makes me laugh

Please don’t make me redundant…..I will try twice as hard, I really will, I’m not being complacent and I will- I’ll say Brexit was a mistake, not sound so enthusiastic about Trump and wars, reverse the ILR reforms, if we just say that it’s not definite after the local elections

thoughts?

the telegraph's 'ed miliband will BAN hot tea to achieve net zero' april fool doesnt work because it is quite literally just the standard of their day to day reporting now

Ok this one is actually a funny bit

The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.

I’m watching a vhs rip of the bbc 4 broadcast of mark rylance’s measure for measure at the globe! his read of the Duke, as essentially an eccentric fop, is so good. And a surprisingly obvious choice that makes other productions (who tend to make him romantic or try to give him gravitas) seem strange

It's kind of funny to me how this is get interpreted entirely as a critique of left-wing fiction, when anybody who reads a lot of hard sci-fi knows that "books where the protagonist turns to the reader and complains about the protests against the Iraq War" are a sizable portion of the market.

vs doing something far left (on their own in the corner of the pub with the lrb, which is mostly left on the table while scrolling on their phone)

really enjoyed watching the eve best/clive wood anthony and cleopatra at the globe in 2014 - I've only seen this production live once, with kathryn hunter, so a real contrast.

Jaysus Effin' Christ. I hope this leads to a better policy of scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...

i knew this because i read his book

It bears repeating, but: the idea that the Green Party or the left in general is a kind of Islamic/Bolshevik conspiracy to undermine and destroy the Reich has a very specific historic pedigree, and it’s not one that anyone should be politely accepting as a suitable point for debate.

mattGPT is such a funny nickname. genuinely just makes me laugh when it comes to mind

16 years ago he autographed a very drunk teenager’s rental tux at my sixth form prom, causing moss bros to reject the return

Reposted with ALT cos its funny . How using an algorithim to select photos for your news article is going:

Y'all won't be ready when I whip out the Japanese exclusive Pingu PS1 controller from 1999

also nobody in the history of cinema has ever gone as hard as John Leguizamo did as Tybalt

off to see KREATOR supported by nails, carcass and exodus! especially excited for carcass - an absolute goat band imo

It may be my Northern Ireland brainrot at work but it continues to amaze me Khelif hasn't sued JK Rowling over this shit for so much money she could live in a palace

with regret i must inform you that the enid blyton series 'the five find-outers' concerns encounters with one "mr goon"

unfortunately “it's all corrupt girl” will be entering the lexicon

im reading a small collection of elizabethean domestic tragedies - essentially ye olde true crime, and they're absolutely fascinating. transportive in a way much better plays of the era often are not - and so direct in how they lay out their contemporary attitudes to gender, sex, religion and class

Again, the allegation here has to be left unsaid because the moment you spell it out it makes no sense – to affect the result here the claim needs to be that Gorton and Denton was full of Muslim women who wanted to vote Reform, but were coerced by their husbands into voting Green instead.

literally me hazel and dolly

im watching the globe's julius caesar from 2014 and luke thompson's mark anthony is truly fantastic, kind of runs away with the play. which i suppose is literally the plot of the play

Allegations of “family voting” was *the* top story on the BBC news summary the morning after the by-election. It was specifically alleged or implied by spokespeople from every major political party. It was directly reported by the political editor of Sky and the political editor is the Spectator.

watching the globe's doctor faustus with arthur darvill and comic relief scamp robin is played by pearce quigley from small prophets!

oh the new zayn song is a BANGER

thing with the LOTR movies theyve announced is, imo, Children of Hurin and Luthien and Beren could be excellent films. The former has an essentially perfect movie structure, the latter would require more creative choices but would absolutely be in the Jackson universe wheelhouse

One of the reasons is the Tory media's complicity in the whole mess. Who was egging on Boris Johnson's "freedom day"? Enthusiastically applauding Eat Out to Help Out? Platforming every anti-masking attention seeker?

Robyn's album a masterpiece

Do you see how this went from an insane conspiracy theory so deranged that anyone mentioning it had invalidated their right to be heard, to today’s agreed basic common sense, and yet nobody was even slightly wrong about any of it at any point between these diametrically opposed positions

frustrated i can't log the new megan thee stallion x nickelback cheetos advert on letterboxd. clearly a short film of sufficient artistic value

just got an ad telling me to vote SNP for lower energy bills post independence and, like, i am probably am going to vote for them anyway but that feels nuts to me. now im actively annoyed about voting for them

From female fruit being fart-shamed or even sexually assaulted, there’s a misogynistic undercurrent to the fruit slop microdramas, even as they appear to be cultivating genuine fans. www.wired.com/story/theres...

Go fash lose cash bb

the annoying downstairs band in abel ferrara's driller killer are genuinely terrific. id be a big fan of them if they were real