www.nts.live/infinite-mixtape... This is superb. Christmas with flu.

The Die Hard/Christmas debate is obviously rather tedious, but it is without a doubt one of the last great Cigarette movies.

Shakespeare didn't even have a phone.

Bit cold this morning.

I know it's just fucking Trump being demented, but it seems notable that he is telling his own people to do a vote that forces him to do something he could just do anyway. I hope he has a safe word if he's into that kind of thing.

Darth Barnacles.

Today would be a good day for the BBC to leak the Epstein files.

EWOKS

Walk in the woods.

Current comic stack.

On the basis that the main reason for wild swimming is to tell everyone about it… 12 degrees this morning. Bloody lovely.

Nice to see that the British king celebrated the American "No Kings" day by shitcanning our own famous Epstein associate.

Joe Colquhoun.

Oi!…

Instead of reading anymore abject horseshit about perfectly harmless pain relief medication, try reading about a breathtakingly brilliant scientific breakthrough. www.theguardian.com/science/2...

youtu.be/sq2axgs2BSQ?si=OECTn... This is rather joyful too. Stylophone intro. Some bonkers triple instrument antics and he has a marvellous Bez character on tambourine and standing too close.

The new Chip Wickham record is Rather loverly.

This should be an absolute scandal. Wikipedia may now be forced to age gate some articles and require logins to read them. Wikipedia is a vital education resource. It is not a haven of “harmful” content. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reading Batman comics. Look up. Bats!

I mean the point of a military parade is to make them look like they are very thin on the ground and oddly low energy, right?

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

I used to announce that I’d bought a new packet of fags by venting white smoke out the front of my face.

So it seems like when you post a link to BlueSky, the web client fetches the thumbnail and uploads it. This seems dangerous — presumably I could link to a news story headlined "dangerous criminal on the loose" and upload a photo of anyone I like as the thumbnail?

*taps mic* THE FIRST EPISODE OF ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY @alexpodyssey.bsky.social IS OUT 15 MARCH! Subscribe now! Trailer here: 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g... 🎧 open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3H... RSS feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey *cries quietly, from exhaustion, for the next half hour*

Many thanks to #TheWildRobot team for inviting me to attend #TheOscars & to the Academy for asking me to be a part of the ceremony. I will be presenting the award for Original Score with no wardrobe malfunctions whatsoever.🤞

Géographie rock'n'rollienne 😎

They've been claiming "data" can "predict" crimes for years. You know what happens? Innocent people are harrassed and persecuted, biases are amplified, and communities are branded as "criminal". No. Machine. Can. Predict. The. Future.

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

There'll be lots of far-right euphoria today. But let's be clear: Trump's only real victory is managing to maintain a consistently loyal base. In terms of policy success, he is limited by his lack of intelligence, understanding, consistency and organisational skills. He failed to achieve in office.

Nothing more depressing than people at work bleating on about Blue Monday like it isn't miserable the rest of the time.

@merseyskeptics.org.uk @mikehall314.bsky.social Might be more up your alley than the Muppets version.

There is a digital, deluxe version, of V for Vendetta available on Kindle for like 2 quid. The whole thing. On the iPad, If you go to Accessibility in settings and activate colour filters and the select Greyscale, you can read it in Black and White. #comics

Also, probably should have considered how special the person you gave your heart to last year was before you started doling out your vital organs Willy-nilly.

The high ground.

This is not from Vizz.

overcast.fm/+ABItIF6PhgU Brilliant as ever.

Putting the Christmas decorations up. Got away with this for a good half hour before they insisted on Bublé

Also. I know I shouldn’t. But I just had a look at the replies on Formerly Knows As to Matt Hancocks tweet about todays vote and seriously, fuck me, I wouldn’t be Matt Hancock for all the Vaccines in China.

Madcap list this:

It's great, this new AI lark innit?

Absentmindedly liked a Facebook post with a waterfall in it. Facebook: MOBILISE THE WATERFALLS!

If Bruce Wayne was serious about cleaning up crime in Gotham City instead of dressing up as a Bat, he should spend his billions on buying DC comics and making them publish comics with less crime in them.

Diary entry from 7 years ago… “And so, I enter the fourth session of this here training in which the trainers insist on presenting their slide shows in edit mode, so they keep accidentally creating new slides and thinking that they have deleted the old ones.”

We have a properly warped perception of how much various sectors contribute to the UK economy. The fishing industry, which is constantly in the news and to whom politicians of all rosettes regularly play, adds less to GDP than Games Workshop

Trigan Empire. Took me a while to get into it but now it’s a joy every page. Something very charming about “looked in, evilly…”