I joined my local library (all part of my ongoing mission to extricate myself from Amazon) but they didn't have any adult library cards left 😂

“I wouldn’t provoke him, Paul. He doesn’t get a chance to shoot a Cabinet Minister every day!” They don't make them like this anymore...

Huge news in the world of London restaurants, niche i admit. But perhaps the most influential restaurateurs of their generation are done and they talk to Tim Hayward about their decision on.ft.com/48b0GLb

"I am not an animal! I am a human being."

And this is The Steal... read them all... thesteal.substack.com

This is such a mess of a film, but also weirdly enjoyable and fascinating...

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The Steal is mine and @sizemore.bsky.social's newsletter about the beauty and brilliance of heist films, a genre we're a little too obsessed by...

Penge representing... ✊

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

A separate music streaming service that only has AI-generated stuff on it? And we can call it Sloppify... No? Okay, fine.

The new issue of mine and @sizemore.bsky.social's heist film newsletter is out. This time it's Mike on 1968's THE SPLIT . open.substack.com/pub/thesteal...

Does anyone want to join me in a whip round for an animatronic dinosaur? gizmodo.com/new-jersey-t...

Patrick 'Empire of Pain' Radden Keefe has written a book about the death of Zac Brettler... And that's all you should need to know really. bookshop.org/p/books/lond...

subsequent to the orange man shooting his mouth off about London, I did the second part of my 100 things I love in London. because I mean, really: open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

US: "So taking Tylenol is, uhhh, not good." UK: "So, yeah, we can treat Huntington's now."

The second episode of The Steal is up. It's me writing about one of my favourite movies from the 80s, and I think one of my favourite ever feel-good comedies: the brilliant, Malcolm... thesteal.substack.com/p/the-steal-...

Had polio as a child, "drifted aimlessly" in high school, was arrested for “borrowing an automobile that had stolen jewellery in its trunk,” ... and then became Robert Fucking Redford.

Coming out of social media retirement because me and @sizemore.bsky.social just launched this. If you like heist moves then you'll like this... thesteal.substack.com/p/the-steal-...

"These songs obliterate notions of time and place, focussing, instead, on the threads of joy and sorrow that make us human." Yeah they do. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Someone just subscribed to @londoninbits who also reads "597 other Substacks". I'm not really sure what that says about the way we consume media today, but it definitely says something.

I joined twitter almost exactly 16 years ago (November 22, 2006). I'm user number 15,573 (think it was @tomcoates that invited me - thanks Tom). My only claim to fame is inviting @sizemore in like some beardy vampire.

Pretty sure @substack are just trolling Elon with these new 'bestseller badges'. But I am here for it. https://t.co/ydf2Xkyytq

My copy of @ian_livingstone's Dice Men arrived so if I accidentally spend a couple of hundred quid buying Blood Bowl on eBay later, it's not my fault. https://t.co/a2LLIVYZ7n

God love Bradley Whitford. https://t.co/1SIIhnZWDJ

Really sad. I remember reading Julie Powell and being amazed at this new 'blog' format. Such a great writer. https://t.co/lk9Y24wzMm

#BBCQuestionTime got out of hand tonight. https://t.co/0OsBFqzKm0

And if you haven't seen the original https://t.co/Vh0glJlUfM https://t.co/rbBIBi6f2t

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck https://t.co/z0utHlQb3n

Does the lettuce become PM now? Is that how it works?

I suspect the sign language guy on BBC News knows what's going to happen. https://t.co/neQYX3wbQq

This is a terrific classic British horror film that was retitled Burn, Witch, Burn! for the US release (and also had an intro by Orson Welles impersonator Paul Frees, which cast 'a protective spell over the audience'). https://t.co/F11BpjqocS

The cabinet earlier today https://t.co/dDc6bc6M9j

Mike Schank and Robbie Coltrane in 24 hours? Fuck this week.

You did an amazing job here @jester. I can't imagine how hard it is to write something like this, but you nailed it. https://t.co/1szInRrvVg

I was going to rant about Zuckerberg's hijacking of the term 'metaverse', but Anil did a good job of it already: https://t.co/y4ipB51ndJ

This man knows a thing or two about online journalism. You should definitely listen to what he says. https://t.co/HynDaJtyO4

😢 https://t.co/bKv9dT6vIY

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An amazing opportunity at @hellobrink for a community builder/engagement hacker who wants to work on some truly incredible projects. https://t.co/0S1Y5WPnxV

Of course Dominic Cummings says 'blog' when he means 'blog post'.

If you read/subscribe then let me know what you think on [email protected] or at @londoninbits - there's still a lot to do, but I would love to know what you think of it. Thanks!

Not really mentioned this on here yet because I wanted to get a few issues under my belt first... But I'm back to writing about London: https://t.co/94OvA87Qs2

They've used The Four Horsemen by Aphrodite's Child in a car advert? Are there just people in ad agencies who want to ruin music for other people?

The Staircase klaxon (@usherette) https://t.co/zdMjZY2kYO

I only discovered the Lonesome Dove series last year, but fell in love immediately. RIP Larry https://t.co/CAnxbHUxVf

And there it is... The Guardian: Priti Patel wanted police to stop people gathering at Sarah Everard vigil. https://t.co/QaqQkbM6ON

It is one of the immutable laws of nature that, if you dig around in a garden long enough, you will eventually find a marble. https://t.co/YYLBflCXhG

Something is deeply, tragically rotten here. Whatever made this happen needs cutting out. We have to be better than this. #ReclaimTheseStreets #SarahEverard https://t.co/dK9dKtHHGa

The shop at the end of my road burns incense. When I drink Diet Coke from there I smell incense with every sip. For the past year I've only bought Diet Coke from that shop. So if I drink Diet Coke now and it DOESN'T smell of incense if feels 'wrong'. Thanks lockdown.