Mitten and Cinnamon, looking like a film noir showgirl and the tough guy gangster whose clockwork careful criminal career will unravel as he tries to please her.

a whole year is too much but my January resolution is to make more stocks and broths

why is it called a snood and not a scood

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

it feels like we've been living in the negative inverse of this all our lives

A warning to the curious. (Photographed where found, though I did straighten it out a little)

Sometimes, I find the subtle levels of joy and optimism in postwar British design quite overwhelming.

I feel psychically malnourished from it all. It's like living off packets of barbecue sauce for a month. Like I genuinely feel a bit like it's hollowing out my brain, encountering the same, wretchedly empty simulacrum lecturing me about mental health & cameras & Albert Schweitzer & cooking lentils.

I know it is the least controversial or enlightening take to say that AI sucks but yeesh, *so much* written content I encounter online now is obviously AI generated, with identical rhythms, the same urgent, bland, TED Talk tone. It makes me hunger for humans saying good smart helpful true things.

she also said "If it wasn’t 'fun' it wouldn’t be a common affliction" I have some questions about her thoughts on the entertainment value of cancer covid or indeed the common cold

chinny rec 🤔

'agenda free journalism'

Gareth's just found an extra bottle of baileys AND a bottle of advocaat in the back of the cupboard. happy betwixtmas to us!

there's nothing more offensive to a comfortable person than the idea someone might experience consequences, social or otherwise, for doing awful things to maintain their comfort

And yeah, in my experience there's nothing that authors waxing eloquent about hard men making hard decisions hate more than for you to point out that they're hard over them.

disney solitaire does what

rentaghost was a great business idea but hopelessly mismanaged, real amateur stuff

really fucks me off that the rhetorical pattern of three is being cited as an AI tell. humans have been using that device FOR EVER, globally, across languages and cultures. its not even language or writing specific. its cognitively satisfying and efficient. why should we stop, he's the one who sucks

still

I had such a nice time last night doing minor research to furnish an image I'd had kicking around in the back of my head for a short story I thought I'd finished only to get the guts out all over the dining room table so to speak, and it was such a good feeling I wish I could take it like a medicine

ought to be my name on account of how much I MISS CIGARETTES

A journalist friend who went round to her house in the late 80s confirmed she was a lifelong spiritualist, and indeed expected Johnny to dine with her every evening, even though he was long dead. He saw the table laid for two.

reality is gonna have some extremely bad news indeed for this chump about what is and isn't "realistic"

listening to an audiobook of The Spoils Of Poynton while unpicking seemingly infinite stitches of a tote bag I'm trying to make from a jazzy bridal veil someone left in the alley outside my house seems a strangely apposite combo

how above instead of fucking about with the plagiarism robot someone invented a sewing machine that can figure out what tension and stitch length is needed on its own because

I deeply do not understand video podcasts, who they are for, why they exist, why anyone would want that, and why they all look terrible when it's apparently so essential we see your faces and haphazardly arranged sound recording equipment.

this is what the american tech freak overclass have replaced all their blood with and there's a reason it comes with a portal to hell self derangement insignia emblazoned on the label

there is, and it's me

26/12/25 - nocturn

the United States has the opportunity to do the funniest slash best three birds one stone situation 🙏🏻

you might think that by 61 years old you'd done your time down the you must strive to have the ~perfect body~ mines and could be left to be geriatric in peace, but capitalism is here to say absolutely the fuck not brackets horrifying

A little longer now and you'll get to go to the rave celebrating his death. Just a little bit longer

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I finished this quilt yesterday, a year after I started. It's a way of displaying my mom's bird drawings. #ArtAdvent

Tobias Menzies with a tache, happy Christmas to me

that lowering winter feeling of having an errand to do that you want to put off as long as possible but also that would be even more unpleasant to do without daylight which ends basically just after lunchtime

Shamelessly self interest and spewing bigotry will get you very far in this society but it does have some drawbacks. And because they're shameless and so well rewarded they believe those drawbacks are a grave injustice. Everyone else is a fragile snowflake, they're always right.

I suddenly understand now why bucks fizz is a thing; it's the Christmas period so I feel like I should be drinking the whole time but I also don't want to be shitfaced from about 10 in the morning. it's a homeopathic application of booze

the Jimmy Kimmel Kings Speech thing makes me feel like I'm experiencing some sort of what if AI but for actual reality. absolutely no two elements of it make the slightest bit of sense together much less all at once

if having a little splotch of boozy cream on your cereal because it's boxing day is wrong I don't want to be right

and to all a good night!

Reached the traditional family folk horror/public information film portion of Christmas

Well here’s something: the BBC has included LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK in a round-up of the must-reads of 2026. I’m sandwiched between Liza Minnelli and Cher - a big camp old Merry Christmas to me! ✨

The clatter at the edge of the wood was indeed the moon in its snare.

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

Yeah this is bad for artists but it's also terrible for literally everyone who posts selfies doesn't want to be AI'd into Nazi porn or whatever

Techbros are convinced that workers are a drain on productivity rather than the source of it. They believe the weight of their own legs is what keeps them from flying, so the legs should be cut off.