My favourite holiday song: I’ll Be Home For Quiz Mice by Grand Foyer

you might be wondering "who goes to see the avatars?" it's me, i go to see the avatars. i love that shit.

“I think you’re in my seat”

God bless the true Mayor of Norwich. A Fine City indeed 🫡

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

@weirdmedieval.bsky.social I had to make you guys these meme after listening to this particular episode.

SWEYN FORKBEARD CNUT THE GREAT HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN MADS MIKKELSEN YOUR BOYS TOOK A HELL OF A BEATING

SCOOOOOT LAAAAAAAND

i actually really really hate the "there are too few positive male role models for boys" thing for one banal reason and it is that it literally just isn't true

Every Scotland fan checking the football scores youtu.be/frhQMuyH0lg?...

Finally finished @aptshadow.bsky.social ‘s wonderful Children of Time last night. 18 hours later I’m still walking around muttering “they turned that woman into ants!” to myself. Absolutely masterful stuff to the very last page.

I know the discourse has moved on but every single person involved in this show should be knighted for Services to Proper Fucking Telly

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

BBC really burying the lede there

the assumptions made about the target audience by making the first two items "OnlyFans' and 'child support' are kind of incredible

Easily my favourite thing about the podcast being back from hiatus is the number of people going “Wait, Joe Mason is a REAL person???” Buddy I’ve been asking myself the same thing for a decade

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

The Celebrity Traitors isn’t just the best thing on tv right now, it’s the best thing that’s *been* on tv in at least three years. Multiple moments in the last episode had me exactly like this

Glad to see Celebrity Traitors is no different than regular Traitors when it comes to reading intelligent analysis of what's going on as a cause for suspicion. David Olusoga: "Think logically. Don't get swept along by groupthink." The rest: "He's being too clever. Burn him!"

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

I desperately want to pick the brains the 5% of East Midlanders who, when asked to name the single most distinctive thing about their region, spontaneously and confidently replied “we have an airport”

King and Conqueror is bad in pretty baffling ways. I’m going to make a thread of just random ??? moments from the first episode alone

Hey meta just fyi prompting me to use AI to write a message to my family group chat is offensive and borderline demonic

Really enjoyed Superman, but I’m starting to worry that James Gunn has a cheat code to my emotions because he seems to have my EXACT music taste. ‘This is the Day’ and ‘Dog Days are Over’ in GotG Vol.3 was some absolutely *diabolical* work

I’m no expert but I would’ve got a person to do it.

I’ll say it: I want the guy who made Better Man to make the Beatles movies. Don’t let Danny Boyle near them. The story of the Beatles is a technicolour tragicomedy about the four most charismatic twentysomethings to ever live. The last thing they need is a dark, reverent reboot

Sidebar from my thread: the *only* part of Uprising that completely works for me is the reveal that he’s “dating” a piece of kaiju brain. It’s so viscerally upsetting that it has to be a Del Toro idea

It’s been some kinda weekend so throwing on Pacific Rim. Let’s see if the movie that fundamentally rewired my brain in 2013 and I’ve seen a dozen times holds up!

For about 500 people alive, this is HUGE news

I didn’t want to believe it but yes the Robbie Williams movie is as good as they say. Multiple scenes had me exactly like this

#InternationalZebraDay 🦓: #Zebras in a Byzantine Greek illuminated manuscript of the Book of Job, c. 1362. BnF Grec 135, f. 100r and 224r. gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

I feel like if Chaucer was writing the Canterbury Tales now, he'd include a whole section about "fart selfies" www.bbc.com/news/article...

A thing I keep thinking about is @petefrasermusic.bsky.social’s observation that people now view social media as something that is done to them rather than something they might actually actively curate. It’s very sad and embodies all the things I was optimistic and wrong about as a teen.

A Complete Unknown was so good I don’t know if i can stop doing the Bob Dylan voice

right! I've done it! I've written about the woman who shagged a hundred guys in a day for OnlyFans, and why it made me think about class war: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/dont-cross... (free to read!)

There is a fascinating assumption here - that I don’t think the Discourse has picked up on - that the point of home cooking is to *replicate specific* fast food items. No shit you won’t be able to replicate a chipotle burrito! You can definitely make something BETTER

I think what some people don't seem to get is that I affirmatively believe that hiring someone to make you food and deliver it /should/ be more expensive than making it yourself

The DLR easily has the best station names on the whole TfL network. Mudchute. Pudding Mill Lane. Gallions Reach. Cutty Sark. Cyprus. All straight bangers

To my sheer joy, one of the politics podcasts I listen to is sponsored by a local Cardiff-area shipping container company. Listening to them do the ad reads is a highlight of my week

My contribution to Discourse is that this meme is a) correct and b) not particularly helpful

Fascinated by all the responses to this which start with “first, I would release Orhan Çelebi to create a succession crisis in the Ottoman Empire.” Like… do they know???

anyway, whenever you think you screwed up, take a moment to reflect there was a sailor who once started a fight with the final boss of earth and everyone except that whale lost

Theres accounts of how they cut back on trading and then he'd retreat for weeks so ppl thought it was safe again and he'd gone and start loading up the ships quickly but no, he was waiting just outside the harbour for them.

mine will always be the sperm whale who reacted to a Roman soldier throwing a bottle at him off the Byzantine coast by sinking every ship he could off that coast for the next 60 years and had the emperor declare him an enemy of the state and name him after the Titan who attacked mount olympus

Question: what is this? Who is this for??

Hyper-niche complaint: was watching the BBC Scotland Hogmanay show and THEY REPLACED JACKIE BIRD?????? This cannot stand

Laughter and merry chatter rose to the rafters of the big room beneath the Abbey. On the tables, crystallized strawberries and sugared hazelnuts vied for place with late summer salad and vegetable pasties.