happy to announce I've found a new ephemera collecting niche for 2026

What a face to wake up to

Obvious solution to the But Bond Died problem: what if Bond is now also Tron from the computer and now he's played by beloved beloved character actor Jared Leto

Ludicrous security pat-down at the RFH, is something happening on the southbank or is this your standard Everyone Has A Two Day Flap After An Incident a Hundred Miles Away

Ephemera update

Alternatively for the more committed/self employed there's Midnight Sumo's full 8 hour-a-day Livestream on twitch & YouTube

Aside from everything else in this I enjoy how the endlessly looping ringtone makes it sound exactly like the evil corporate video from Michael Clayton

Maybe we need to sit all the tech journalists down in front of The Arrival Of A Train At La Ciotat Station and see if they start screaming

On a train. Train manager did an announcement on the pa system. Then, when he walked through afterwards, a man near me politely informed him the announcement was unintelligible in this carriage. The manager apologized, explained the train is very old. All smiles. Pleasant interaction. EXCEPT:

Remembering that Peter Serafinowicz story about Terence Stamp agreeing to do star wars because he was told George Lucas gave amazing gifts to the cast and it turning out to be a phantom menace rub down transfer set, RIP Terence

PSA: the very good Vengeance is on Film4 (so also 4player I guess) right now. PSA part 2: for once people are not lying and Weapons is good, shouldn't work but does

I've phoned three washing machine repair guys and all three are on holiday and now I want to know if washing machine repair guys all go on holiday together to an exclusive washing machine repair guy resort

Oh god Nero's seems to have added something from the Palm Springs soundtrack to their playlist, this is not going to help my general uneasy feeling of being stuck in a time loop

I'm worried the waxy billionaire man won't be allowed to use bluesky anymore because he's so youthful

PSA: if you're into either Tom McCarthy's book Remainder or the Nathan Fielder Rehearsal show I really recommend the Do Ho Su exhibition at the Tate Modern, exactly the same vibe

Failing to notice that I'm cool, not some nerd who reads books, especially not telefantasy tie-in books, my girlfriend got me a ticket to go a Dr Who Target Books Day this weekend, and i don't know how these things work, am I obliged to dress up as a big rubber snake or a WH Allen logo or what

Grudgingly impressed by the new seat cooling tech on the Vicky line until I got up a few stops later and realised that no, that was just a sopping wet seat and now I am very much hoping someone spilt a bottle of water fucking hell

My timeline is one half people waving a pitchfork and saying "WeTransfer is bad, burn it!" and one half people doing the Stewart Lee face and saying "aaaaah, actually it's very normal T&C's" and seeing as I have no idea which camp is right I'm just going to eat a load of crisps

I get that the mech-hitler stuff is the headline, but I feel like not enough attention is being paid to the incredibly embarrassing mecha-poochie "hey daddio just dropping some truth bombs" writing style Grok has developed

Local Waterstones blithely carrying on regardless. If you finish that jigsaw it's not even the picture on the box it's just a photo of a grinning Arthur Daley

20 years ago today I was walking through central London on my way to my publisher to go through pictures of bean weevil penises and then the bombs went off but we still spent the day looking through pictures of bean weevil penises because it was hard to know what the appropriate response should be

wE're aLL GoiNg tO diE

Just turned on "Sweeney!", the film version of The Sweeney, and this is happening

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated" - alright Gandhi in that case explain how come this guy lives like Miss Piggy and the UK remains a moral trainwreck

Bit of croissant just fell off my face a full four hours and three social interactions after I ate a croissant :/

Every guy with a tragic backstory (in a movie):

Mentioned that fountain of youth waxy billionaire man to a friend last night and he had never heard of the waxy billionaire man and I am both amazed that it is possible to have avoided the million+ articles about the waxy billionaire man and also incredibly jealous of his having done so

@disappointment.bsky.social hello, here is the plate in the flesh and also with a babybel on it for scale. Please note: a babybel, not a mini babybel.

Impressive that if you search "Adam Curtis" on iPlayer it totally fails to bring up the new Adam Curtis thing, how do I get myself a fancy online seo job

Just had my fave Carrying My Dog About In A Sling perk: when a builder (or in this case a stall holder geezer) blurts out "I wish it was me in that sling" (meaning "I'm knackered, that looks like an easy time"), instantly realises how it sounds and has to frown in a gruff and very heterosexual way

Having not rated anything Star Wars adjacent for 40 years I am only just now watching Andor (because people I know kept banging on about it plus I liked Michael Clayton) and yeah it's good but it would be better if Stellan Skarsgard's antique shop had a rival next door run by Donald Sinden

Think Mike Reid saying "the only reason the fine young cannibals want Johnny to come home is so they can eat him" might be the one recorded example of Mike Reid doing a funny link #totp

A 'walk'

"Sam Altman thinks AI will have 'novel insights' next year, Rodney"

1984 Chesterfield. A proper bye election. Tony Benn. Lord Sutch. The actor Bill Maynard. A video games namesake as runner up. 17 candidates including the Acne party. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Ch...

This whole thing with the "how to dress" man you're all weirdly into has at least made me realise that for about a year I've been wrongly conflating him with whoever this "manners" guy is that keeps cropping up on stuff

A quick high agency male before you all mute the phrase high agency male

is that the sound of people rebranding their "How I single-handedly disrupted the publishing industry!" ted talks as "five publishing pitfalls I learnt to avoid at a failed venture where for avoidance of doubt it was very much those other guys fault"

Guys' cancer centre (here with my ma) is a small, bizarro-world glimpse of a UK where some thought and money went into hospital buildings, feel like I'm on holiday in Sweden

Further brave and crucial documentary making from @benpartridge.bsky.social

As a kind gift my partner made me a beautiful pottery shoe pig like Glenn tries to sell in an episode of Superstore :/

The french foreign legion did (probably still does) a lot of terrible shit, but it would be nice if just sometimes, after doing an unforgivably shameful thing, people still said fair cop, got a daft hat and slunk off to join them, rather than just blithely setting up another dodgy publishing house

Going to crowdfund an unauthorized book compiling all the threads about Unbound and then run off with all the money as a tribute.

Only time in my life I discovered I had an actual hard moral line I wouldn't cross was when they put Chumbawumba on the temp soundtrack for pirates and I just walked straight out of Aardman

I mean it's one banana Michael what could it cost

The four admin humans I've had to deal with today have badly shaken my assumption that ai has the ability to make everything dumber and more inept

My cousin used to fancy Ad Rock but now she's really into Lord Palmerston so for her birthday we had a nice day out at Newhaven Fort

you bitter wastrels should not enjoy the misfortune of the extremely affluent take a long hard look at yourselves