IT guy here, echoing this guy.

🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Dammit, tech companies. The only think I need to know about your awesome AI feature is how to turn it off.

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

Liam, just say it was bollocks and it was always bollocks. This is taking forever.

Two compelling (and arguably sordid) 70s films that I somehow keep coming back to because they're each unforgettable in their own way. Probably shouldn't be grouping them together like this at all. But then I've watched them back to back and so they seem like they belong.

It’s been 20+ years since I last saw this beautiful slab of 70s cinema. Lumet at his best, Pacino charmingly out of control, and Cazale as somone we in the world should never have lost so soon. Why did I wait that long? Damn.

It’s 10 years since Bowie died. Always appreciated his playful sense of humour. Here he is as Tilda Swinton, & Tilda as Bowie.

do not mistake my silence for forgiveness. some things i simply stopped explaining. [sometimes closure is quiet] #poetry #micropoetry

Labour Party: prove me wrong for once, and actually do this. Doing the political equivalent of kicking and screaming doesn't have to be a prerequisite for everything.

Wish there was a way to filter out all the fucking reposted Truth Social screenshots. I don't read his shit, I don't listen to the prick. I never will. Life is too short. Just summarise, guys.

Idly tempted to unblock all my blocks so I can get the rush of blocking them again.

I’m going to have to mute “Epstein files”, aren’t I. Not that I’m unsympathetic. But it’s getting repetitive to someone who’s not USian.

Third viewing (over a period of years) and I think that maybe -- just maybe -- I'm starting to get a handle on this one. This thing is deliberately both obtuse and unforgettable. You're not meant to get it's cold madness on the first go, so let it wash over you.

It’s late Saturday night. Sometimes only JFK and the King can help in this situation.

Dear Discover algorithm REALLY not interested in how many books people have read in a year being constantly displayed to me. It's not a contest. Glad people are reading -- of course I am, I am too -- but how many times do I have to select the "show less like this" option before it fucking takes?

Gloriously daft way to end the year…

Q: There’s a sequel??? A: There’s a sequel!

"How would you rate the support you received? Good, I'm satisfied Bad, I'm unsatisfied " FFS. I just asked a question. Which you answered with a question. Which I couldn't be arsed emailing a reply to so dropped it. Not everything needs a 0-5 star review. Stop fucking emailing me.

Don't be biased against imported American chicken just because it's chlorinated. Be biased against it because it's bred in cruel factory farms, force-fed animal waste products, pumped full of chemicals, slaughtered inhumanely, and tastes like shit.

You know who was great? Claudia Cardinale. Terrific actress, fine human being, never became a fascist. Also extraordinarily beautiful. She was a feminist and a UNESCO goodwill ambassador. She died earlier this year. Just remembering her today for no particular reason.

"I'll tell you who *should* have their citizenship removed - people who (minor social faux pas or slightly annoying behaviour goes here), that's who."

RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

So AVG has been throttling nearly every popular website I inhabit for months now, including FB and news sites, each day getting worse, to the point of making them unusable... ...except, weirdly, BlueSky. And, weirdly, sites like Pirate Bay. Which I think means something. I'm not sure what.

Someone alert me when it's over

OUT OF OFFICE CHRISTMAS MESSAGE: I am away from my desk until the whole ghastly business is over. If your call is urgent, please be consoled by knowing that it will soon be irrelevant.

It's spooky how he looks exactly how I'd imagine a posh right-wing strangler to look like.

ah, the incomplete relief of fixing a code problem but not really understanding why it works now

Don't worry if you still haven't sent your Christmas cards yet. Nobody gives a shit.

Some films you need to revisit because you forget how they get you.

As someone who once cleaned the mens toilets in a (not-named) nightclub I can confirm. In short: some men seriously -- SERIOUSLY -- need to go back to their parents for more potty training. Because, well, Jesus Fucking Christ. (And all hail to the inventors of Swarfega.)

To think, I finally saw Princess Bride for the first time, last Friday night. And Spinal Tap 2 the week before.

I'm totally sympathetic and alarmed and worried, etc, etc, but I just zone out from US politics now. Sick of his fucking face. Can't do anything about it.

however many trillions spent on developing Algorithms and hoovering up as much data as possible and amazon's recommendation algorithm still goes "oh you bought one window air conditioner? okay, do you want 15 more?"

I've stuck with Firefox for what feels like forever. But if it gets any slower my loyalty is going to be revealed for what it is: laziness. An epic laziness going back decades. And all because I can't be arsed working out how to shift everything over to Chrome or Opera or Edge of whatever.

🚨Some personal news. I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker. A profile of Jonathan Gullis. "You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis." open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

It’s unbelievable that Starmer, Reeves and Streeting are doing this…🚨

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

RIP Jimmy Cliff and Udo Kier, two icons of my youth for two different reasons, and this is not a good day for my heroes.

My self-image is constantly oscillating between I’m the dumbest human being ever or I ought to be a thought leader

I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.

why can they not just fix it

The main question I have for Labour is, what will you do when the polls don’t improve for you after this?

"governing by flinch" The Bear, on point as usual.

Congratulations to Labour who have won the coveted Tommy Robinson endorsement. Excited for sensibles to explain to me why I have to vote for the people enacting actual fascist policy.

me when the AI bubble bursts

Maybe Labour can distract from all this BBC kerfuffle by announcing another “kick the immigrants” policy. Not as if anything more important going on.

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."