Let’s be clear: we have annihilated crazy ideas like “let’s plant some nice trees, make a free-to-use broadband network and have a government factory making generic drugs”, apparently so we could have racist rioting, chat about civil war, genital checks at toilets and protection for genocidaires.

It’d be helpful to get acknowledgement that the everyday total malicious lunacy reigns unopposed thanks to a decade of treating the left as if we are treasonous perverts who must be crushed, hand in hand with right wing politicians and commentators who plainly radicalised themselves to pure insanity

My memoir, A Mind Of My Own is now available in paperback which means it’s cheaper. Hurrah! If you’d like a dedicated copy repost this and I’ll do a random pick of five winners in the next couple of days. If you’ve already bought/read or listened to the audible version thank you! ♥️📚

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56

Not a comics review, not even a review of a specific bit of music. But a dissection of Oasis that can't be beat by one of the best critics' to ever critic. RIP Neil Kulkarni neilk.substack.com/p/on-oasis-t...

Went to watch Mike D from Beastie Boys at King Street Social Club in North Shields tonight. Absolutely batshit sentence to type out.

Ah man, John Blanche has died. One of the most important artists in British SFF, not just because he was so core to defining the look of Warhammer but also as illustrator of things like the Sorcery! gamebooks. What a sad piece of news.

eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

I read a fascinating thread the other day, somebody attempting a gotcha with “People who say billionaires shouldn’t exist: what would you do if you suddenly inherited two billion dollars?” With a quick consensus being “give away 1.9 billion and enjoy lifelong luxury with the remaining $100 million.”

The people who wanted you to hate immigrants, Muslims and trans people will never be ‘happy’. There’ll never be a point where they say ‘great! The country is a perfect amount of racist and transphobic!’ They always require a scapegoat. It’s disabled ppl and Sikhs today. Tomorrow it could be you.

John Carpenter has the correct attitude towards sequels and remakes of his movies.

Wife: No, I don't want to go to a Star Wars themed sex party. Ew Me: First off it's Star TREK and secondly it's called a Borgy

I love this publicity photo for Big Train. A former screensaver of mine.

Yewtree brought down Bamber Boozler. They hushed it up.

OOOOOOO LAAAAAAA

🚨BREAKING🚨 Byker Groove have pulled out of the Freedom 250 concert.

Oh Bobby

DAVRO tapestry!

I'm not. Every time I see one of those little 'everything we do is funded by you' platitudes on the BBC now, I'm going to yell I DO NOT PAY MY LICENCE FEE FOR AI WINSTON FUCKING CHURCHILL

BBC, with a cheeky smile, normalises the practice of avoiding paying four actors and a wardrobe and costume department. Fuck off. Fuck off. Fuck off.

Things That Make You Go HHNNNGH!

I do sometimes worry that all the worried headscratching about youth unemployment might be missing the point. Everyone is always talking about how it relates to the education or welfare systems, no one wants to say "well the economy just produces far fewer entry level jobs than it once did"

Counterpoint: Yes Pope Leo Fuckin Is (I don't know what the original headline means, so if this stance is accidentally awful, I apologise profusely)

Stardew Valley inventory: the musical

Well… it’s the 56th anniversary of some people writing a letter to a newspaper. Which might not sound remarkable, but the writers were a group of academics, perturbed that a colleague had set fire to his career by publishing a book that said Jesus was a mushroom hallucination 🧵

In celebration of both World Dracula Day and Peter Cushing's birthday. 🧛

Just saw an egregious offender

Pick a Bond villain from the pictures you already have on your phone.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

Lynch had to work for this unnatural effect.

This. Normies urgently need to understand that this country is becoming an extreme outlier on trans rights and they can't rely on the domestic mood music in the media and online to judge where "normal" is any more

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

A wonderful watch. Reminded of an episode where a furious Geordie shouted at Grantham, saying "Ya'll never get rid of me, Fort!" like it was the name of the guy.

Star Fox 64 has some truly memorable dialogue, but nothing beats the Lylat Wars UK localisation if you ask me.

Preacher #16. Written by Garth Ennis, drawn by Steve Dillon (RIP), and colored by me. Vertigo. 1996ish. This is a color guide, and is how most comics were colored then. Dyes & gouache. It's buggerin' time! #comics #colors #vertigocomics #preacher #colorguide

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

I am never not going to watch this when it appears in my feed. Queen.

'Nan' Over on @tftimemachine.bsky.social we've began exploring the concept of 'nansitioning' where late-middle-aged men begin to resemble a nan. Notable recent examples are Mike Read and Tony Cascarino

That Wes Streeting leadership bid in full:

Sending strength, fortitude, and caffeine to the SNL UK writers room. 🫡

Stop! It is necessary for you to see graphic designer extraordinaire Margaret Calvert’s 90th birthday cake. Perfection.