Tom Baker (pouring out the last dregs of a milk bottle): It's the end! Tom Baker (a moment later, fetching a spare milk bottle from the fridge): But the moment has been prepared for!

Two things about cancel culture: first, it has never really happened, but the threat of it is so terrifying to shitty people that even the slightest possibility is treated like a violent threat; second, this means it is actually a great idea.

Warning on my street chat today.

It is Independent Bookshop Week in the UK, so we are highlighting some of the places where you can buy our books (or order them via bookshop.org). In lovely, seaside Aberystwyth there is Gayberystwyth Books: gayberystwyth-books....

Thinking about this image of Burnham talking to Ed after the 2015 election

Get on my level! You newbies weren't there in the Milli-Trenches!

Honestly, this is where the current transphobia leads. Suddenly everyone gets comfortable treating gayness as tragic like it’s 1982. These are connected. You’re next.

i will not stand for "larp" becoming the new "poser". there is nothing in this world that requires more genuine unbridled passion in the face of people calling you a total nerd than live-action roleplay

Hard to argue with this

It’s 10 Years since Nigel Farage (in my opinion) incited the murder of Jo Cox.

Random comment seen on Mastodon: "AI artwork looks the way Christian Rock sounds."

The annual "tug off war" in the village of Henstead, Suffolk, remains one of rural Britain's most controversial festivals.

The BBC should keep the identity of the new Doctor Who showrunner a closely guarded secret. Only have them talk in interviews via one of those voice-modified figure in the shadows like on a documentary with someone in witness protection.

Back home after a good day at Pride Cymru helping my friends at the Nofela bookstore. Sold lots of books including some by @chazbrenchley.bsky.social @joelcornah.bsky.social & @jjlambert.bsky.social

I think any money for defence spending should come from a massive tax on the super wealthy. For no other reason than it would be funny to watch them try and wriggle out of it without looking like traitors to the right wing chuds they have spent so long cozying up to.

one trillion dollars is so much capital as to be effectively infinite for a single individual, which is why when we talk about this kind of wealth it needs to be expressed in terms of what it could do for the rest of us

I am absolutely charmed by the existence of "darkle" as a word.

part of the divide with AI is people with a lot of money have always conflated "I asked someone to do something" with "I did the thing" "I wrote a book" = had it ghostwritten "I built that [whatever]" = had it built if they didn't mix those up they'd have to reckon with they've never done anything

Gordon Brown didn't go far enough

It’s becoming increasingly obvious that abolition of all immigration laws is the only morally justifiable position. Anything short of that merely enables shit like this

On Saturday I will be in Cardiff for Pride Cymru. I will be helping out on the stall for Nofela, Swansea’s queer bookshop. My official stint is 1:45-3:30 but I’m likely to be around a bit longer. Come and say hello if you are there.

BREAKING: Indigenous white people commit riot and arson. Incompetent indigenous white police fire water cannon. Indigenous white politicians who fucked up our economy discuss "legitimate concerns" in lying newspapers owned by indigenous white tax evaders. Immigrants somehow remain the problem.

Reboot Doctor Who with Scream of the Shalka 2, you cowards.

This mask always makes me laugh. i don't like to look at the other one..

There’s only one person who can stop the chaos…

Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.

fuck it, bring me back, i made the fandom SO angry and the second time around that would be funny

In the wilderness for years, brought back under a charismatic leader before floundering back into obscurity. A brief glimmer of life with a controversial return, but now looking for a new leader to win back the old guard and the new. Doctor Who or the Labour Party? www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

BREAKING: "After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

You can't "legitimate concerns" a pogrom.

I have signed the fatal motion on the code of practice. The answers to the questions I raised below - and to those from other committee members - fell far short of anything workable, just or fair.

My contempt for Starmer and his milquetoast responses to everything knows no depth

The UK has never been a utopia for any racialised or foreign person, but it’s pretty clear at the moment that it’s not remotely safe for any person of colour, nor any immigrant. And this was a cross-political party effort, further facilitated by the media and their centrist lapdogs.

Pogroms in the U.K. in 2026.

This one is a street date instant onion classic. I have been laughing at “I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children” since I got the print edition last week

Still holds.

jobcentre LLM creating slop for recruitment agency LLMs to misinterpret, sending hallucinated LLM slop to employers for jobs that have been listed online by LLMs, ensuring no humans are involved in any part of the process: the perfect summary of today's economy

Thank you to @nojusticemtg.bsky.social for this helpful screengrab. You can save it too for future occasions where someone asks this same thing and refuses to listen to the answer.

K1: what do you call the pirate flag of a marine biologist? Me: ... K1: a jelly roger!

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

Thought you guys might enjoy this enormous cat who manages a butcher shop

Actual scene from The Sky Slayer

Everyone needs one

this week marks 10 years since "milkshake duck" was coined

DOCTOR: "So what seems to be the problem?" PATIENT: "Mmhbbhhggr hhruuh engghhuu." DOCTOR: "I'm sorry I can't understand, but don't worry. Great singer Bob Dylan is in town. Go see his show and no matter what ails you, you'll feel better!" PATIENT (sadly): "Ehg ddnghh m'm Bddnnn."

what's your sign

I hope there’s a universe out there where Dungeons & Dragons is called Oubliettes & Orcs