Just added “nape” to my list, originally a #Top10, of Words Used Only With One Other Word

„Stop donating to Mozilla. Mozilla is the same Big Tech they pretend to rebel against. … As fun as it is to rib on Mozilla, the web needs Firefox. I feel for the Firefox developers who actually care.“ dbushell.com/2026/01/28/m...

Am I wrong for wanting to see Macaulay Culkin cast as Catherine O'Hara in a biopic?

Today from the #archives of the #TimeLibrary: the evolution of electronic watches. Yes, they used to have tuning forks in them! #Watches #Wristwatches #Horology #Libraries

ELECOPTER!

Not sure why the popular consensus is for it, but I really hate "Requiem for a Dream". Torture porn for people who find beauty in watching people suffer. The other Aronofsky films I've seen were the same - juicing human misery for popular entertainment.

There's a certain "je ne sais quoi" about old obituaries. Seeing this sort of thing makes you realise how far medical science has come in a very short space of time.

Just settling down to catch up with all your posts.

Greetings from a minor #grammar annoyance. Has anyone else noticed how often we use a verb in place of a noun? www.stjohnkarp.net/blog/verb-fo...

Probably people who were talking loudly in the reference section, as a warning to others. Oh, Iberians.

My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

Found this at the dollar store today.

More #writing advice: www.sfwa.org/2009/06/18/t...

It's New Year's Eve, which means it's time for the 1996 #DoctorWho movie. Utter rubbish as a Doctor Who story, but actually quite fun as a #scifi romp. Plus it's set in San Francisco, my old home!

Got this lil' fella in a bag of misc watches. It's a Shye digital watch, cheap but rather fetching, and I thought I'd use it as a sports watch when I'm at the gym. Gave it a go today, but actually using this thing is perverse. Let's break this down in the thread. #Watches #Wristwatches #WristCheck

At the antique store again and absolutely getting this. I have no idea what it's about, nor do I care.

All right kids it's time for my annual "books wot I read" blog post where I review my year in reading: www.stjohnkarp.net/blog/books-w... It's been a fun year in books and I read some really wild stuff. Here's to all the fun we're looking forward to in the new year! #Books #Reading

Joseph Weizenbaum kicked off a wave of AI buzz in the 60s with his ELIZA chatbot and wrote a book about how using AI as a therapist was a terrible idea. You get the impression no one who works at these companies has read it (or indeed anything else written about AI over the last 60 years).

#watched THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1973) My favorite of Harryhausen's 3 Sinbad films, not for the creatures (7th Voyage is tops there) but for the best cast in the series. John Phillips Law makes a charismatic hero, Tom Baker is a grand villain, and Caroline Munro is Caroline Munro.

World Book encyclopaedia 2026. World Book. WORLD Book.

I FOLLOWED THE RECIPE TO THE FUCKING LETTER #Christmas #Cooking

I've always said you wouldn't cast Arnold Schwarzenegger in "The Importance of Being Earnest" but if you want a hulking, emotionless robot you'd be hard-pressed to do better. But then I can't lie, I would pay good money to see him play Lady Bracknell. #Films #Movies

People always tell me I should write for myself & not worry about the fact I don't have a readership. It's true that writing is fun in itself, but writing is crafted to have an effect. It's meant to induce empathy, make people laugh, engage them in a story. Without a reader, writing is a bit lonely.

As great as the newer Bond films are, there's an undeniable joy in the old ones. No messing about with angst and back story, they just get on with some action and comedy. #JamesBond #Films #Movies

Only just caught up with this. It's amazing. "nourished by hungry machines"!

"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie."

Men: "If I scowl in my dating pics, it will let everyone know what a good sense of humour I have."

Neshuu finally has a real home! Yes, that is #Tintin "Les Cigares du Pharon" above him.

When your library receives a Dolce & Gabbana cake as a holiday gift.

Sex in the 1940s sounds complicated. "I should not wish to give way unreservedly to what is so unattractively called the libido, it suggests a state of affairs in which beach pyjamas are worn and jitterbugging is compulsory." From the short story "Raspberry Jam" by Angus Wilson.

It's been three years since I put my remaining #novels for sale as ebooks and took a break from writing. Enough friends convinced me they don't do ebooks so I finally did a print edition of my favourite, "Activate the Device!" It's a #queer #scifi space adventure. Enjoy! a.co/d/23bGEgr #Books

I've never understood the perversity of people who spell R2-D2 and C-3PO as "Artoo-Detoo" and "See-Threepio". My revenge will be to spell my name C9-J9. #StarWars

James McAvoy on the ‘class ceiling’ in acting and the arts. This is nearly ten years ago.

Undercover journalist Paige Thomas, 37, said: “Initially our reporters attempted an undercover operation to test our hypothesis that people with athleticism are big stupid fakers because WE can’t make our bodies do that, and therefore nobody can.”

I love this story. It cops flak because it has a lot of shouty mask men, but there's so much that's uncanny and otherworldly. If you're going to dock points for anything, it should be the fact that Crayford has spent years thinking he's half blind but has never once bothered to remove his eyepatch.

People wringing their hands over the #DoctorWho budget keep saying TV is more expensive to make today than it was in 2005. That's because they're trying to make Doctor Who like it's Star Wars.

Vladimir Putin in a red dress.

The last LGBTQ+ community space in Vermont shut down so my friend opened a queer library and hangout space! With his own money! Check out Little Queery, it's amazing and adorable. www.littlequeery.com #Libraries #LGBTQ #Queer

Every now and then the Internet finds out that SSDs lose data if they're not turned on (ooooh, matron!) I still meet people who have a huge collection of CDs and DVDs from the 90s and think it'll last forever 🤦 Talk to your archivist, we do this for a living. #Archives #Archivists #DigiPres

Exciting news for #archivists and #DoctorWho fans: the University of York has acquired Terrance Dicks' papers. www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...

Good morning Neshuu! Creeping round the corner. We call him Neshuu because, even though it's a reproduction of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus, the bogus hieroglyphs in the cartouche are three cups. Hence his name must be "nšw.w" (cups). #Egyptology

In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...

When I open the door of my sarcophagus cabinet, it looks like it's creeping on me from around the corner.

Americans became obsessed with Harry Potter when they should have embraced Carry On, in this lecture I will…

The 🇺🇸 American comedy film "A NIGHT AT THE OPERA" starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo and Chico) and featuring Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman and Walter Woolf King was released in the United States #OnThisDay in 1935 🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

I'm so old when I get out my tangly earphones, but I see people drop their wireless ear buds every day. The case pops open, ear buds scatter, and the owner scoops them up and sticks them in their ear right next to where they keep their brain. GIRL THAT'S BEEN ON THE SUBWAY FLOOR, IT HAS RAT AIDS.

I love a good bitchy book review. "excellent deck-chair reading" "The short-comings of the work may be summed up in the statement that Mr. Baikie is not an Egyptologist." "Is it too much to ask that he postpone the writing of his next Egyptological book?" #Books #Egyptology

From the #archives of the #TimeLibrary: a watchmaker from about 1887. You can't tell me John Krasinski is not a time traveller. #Libraries