As it turns out.

Oh.. oh my god

It's 3.45am Australia time on Christmas Eve. I have to bake, shop, wrap and clean all day upon waking. I'm still just dissecting Heated Rivalry in the group chat. And then. They decide this is the moment to tell us. Via video footage. That Steve Rogers is back in the MCU. I can't do this.

Honestly, as soon as I watched it, I said "not only is it the best episode of the show so far, I think it's the best episode of TV I've seen all year," but then I assumed that was an inside thought from my relatively biased, tumblr-pilled brain that more credible people would laugh at. This is..

This was actually very helpful, in case you’re like me and were curious about all the schadenfreude you kept scrolling past.

The way I howled at this in the cinema. Extrene specificity in jokes always hits hard for me, but this movie really is fantastic and I feel like it's still very under the radar.

About time!

People gotta stop saying “we all had an anti phase.” No we didn’t lol. The vast, vast majority of the general population disagrees with you. It’s a fringe ideology and should be treated as such

The problem with classic movies is that too few of them frame the actors as tiny figures dwarfed by a Mac OS screensaver.

Every time I see a clip from The Princess Diaries I ask myself how can such a simple, charming premise stray so far from God (the source material.) Why are we in California. Why is her dad dead. Why is Julie Andrews here being angelically sweet and profoundly English. What the fuck is going on.

The thing about The Buccaneers is that they give the characters all completely new personalities every single episode so it is impossible to keep pace with any choices or emotional through lines. It is the very definition of melodrama and every moment is absurd.

Oh this seems... interesting...

this week’s column is on arsenal and thomas partey. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

In other news, The Gilded Age is... not good, is it, LOL. It's in its 3rd season and I keep waiting for it to grip me with some sort of genuine investment in any of these people and I still can't remember most of the staff's names. Not a good sign when I was ride or die for Downton by the end of s1.

Well, I did it and enjoyed every second. And I know they never would have done Tom/Mary, so in the long run, the answer was SO OBVIOUSLY Charles Blake. I'm enraged at everything to do with the Henry Talbot pairing, it was fucked up and then actor availability for the movies made it genuinely toxic.

imagine telling a chronically online non-australian you used to participate in goon of fortune with your friends. they would interpret that completely differently

MIT just pubbed a study on ChatGPT users. “Brain scans revealed neural connection collapse... a 47% reduction in brain connectivity. When researchers forced ChatGPT users to write w/o AI, they performed worse than people who never used AI at all. It's not just dependency. It's cognitive atrophy.”

Hahahahaha this is amazing coz she FUCKING LOVED being friends with Stephen Fry. He's EXACTLY the sort of twee faux-intellectual celeb that people like Joanne have on their dream lists of dinner party guests.

Taking the job at the trans genocide factory and shaking my head the whole time so the people at the Mary Sue know I disagree with it

None of this shit would be happening if they hadn't canceled NBC's "Kings"

Anyone who uses Chat GPT is insane

Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex moves

This is NOT a joke

I keep getting served microdoses of Downton Abbey on Reels etc and it's really making me consider rewatching the whole series before the final movie, but I fear I may throw something at the screen in rage at how badly they fumbled the potential of Tom and Mary as an endgame couple. SUCH A WASTE.

I'm currently kicking around the theory that the movie "Fountain of Youth," written by James Vanderbilt, exists solely as front for the Vanderbilt family to raise and loot the Lusitania in real life and pretend it was just part of the film, because I can't work out any other reason for it to exist.

She.

with thunderbolts* coming out today i’m gonna take every opportunity to remind people that yelena belova is canonically asexual and heavily implied to be aromantic!!! so it’d be really cool if y’all could let aspecs have this one thing!!! 🧡💛🤍🩵💙

OH IS THAT A FACT, GOOGLE AI? IS THAT QUITE CORRECT? ARE YOU SURE?

My dad, who has never been a reader, is doing audiobooks now as he's so bored being sick, and has mainly listened to stuff like Jack Reacher, excitedly told me today that he's read 2 HP books. I was like oh. Okay. And he was like what? He wanted me to be excited he was reading something I liked..

"Jon Pointing, though. There should be terrace chants to Jon Pointing." www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

God this is so good

bring back doctor odyssey there's nothing else to live for

Every last TikTok user got fuckin' played by the PRC into helping fascists take power in the US, and now that you all are no longer needed, you and your pet causes are being put out to pasture by the right-wing dictator Xi. bsky.app/profile/veer...

Tell me your favorite movie not many people know. I've never met or spoken to anyone who has even heard of this film unless I was the one who showed it to them.

These days I'm of the mind that TV shows are like relationships. It's really hard to sustain one when you only get to see each other for eight hours every three years. I formed my closest bonds with TV shows that I got to spend extended time with. We went on dates every week for most of the year.

It would never, in a million years, occur to me that this would even be a possibility, especially for someone who is, apparently, wanting to read the book for enjoyment. Like.. what

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

Oooh I hope he leaves so I can truly enjoy him

What the actual fuck

Every messaging app is inferior to ICQ.

bring back forums when the internet was a proper country, if you wanted to talk to strangers online you had to find the set of strangers that read the same stupid webcomic you do and then create an account on their forum people do not belong all in the same pile like unsorted laundry

I think it might’ve been slightly better for people when “going on the computer” was a distinct, time-limited activity.

Rolling the mouse ball to clear it when stuck, maybe. Or catching the paper train ticket after it was passed through the the gate system and popped up the other side like toast from a toaster.

what’s your favorite instance of haptic nostalgia—the poignant memory of the physicality of an obsolete thing—like dialing a rotary phone, shifting gears in a manual transmission, opening a soda can with a pull ring?

This sounds fun as hell!