Nicole Kidman She destroyed her husband Yes YES Nicole Kidman is out

Oh dear, this is a freebie being given out at the Tory conference.

Epping hotel protesters jailed for violent disorder

Anyway, this is good from Cory Doctorow on enshittification: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Dunno about you, but if I'd asked for a tutorial at 4pm on a Saturday, I'd have turned the fuck up.

CRAE’s @melromualdez.bsky.social and the @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social team wrote the rapid evidence report on ‘Identifying and supporting the needs of children and young people with SEND’ for the DfE Our summary of the autistic children & yp section here crae.ioe.ac.uk/rapid... 1/2

About god damn time.

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September. An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

PLAY DIRTY isn't classic Shane Black but it's entertaining enough in its retro way, even if the character and overall approach ain't proper Richard Stark/Westlake Parker. Strength in depth in the credits, and LaKeith Stanfield is always great. Way better than Marky Mark's attempt at Spenser tho.

Ah, the frisson when Evri notifies you that they've delivered to an impossible place.

2 tales for 99p! Inspired by horror classics The Thing & The Shining, Station 17 takes you aboard the titular rig and the horrors that lurk there. Alcoholic ex-cop Terry King and arrogant CEO Kent Hawks are forced to face their demons in all their mutated, gory glory. #booksky amzn.eu/d/6Hx46a8

morning

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Another Book Quote Wednesday! Today's #BookQW word is HARD. In this extract from The Waterborne Blade, days on the road have brought Weaver and Alwenna to a row of standing stones. First two ebooks available here: angryrobotbooks.com/books/the-wa... angryrobotbooks.com/books/waterb...

September 30th / October 1st

UK government wins £122m pandemic case against Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPE

PM Starmer in his conference speech: "When was the last time that you heard Farage say anything positive about Britain's future?" "He can't. He doesn't like Britain, doesn't believe in Britain. He wants you to doubt it just as much as he does" Positivity is "bad for business" for populists he says

Who's your favourite Jedi? (wrong answers only)

I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Tilly Norwood with the Devil!

Brits being contrarian (again). Norway has had this for years and I can tell you 1) it simplifies everything from online banking to gov services enormously & 2) it is less of a threat to privacy because data are kept properly in one place instead of in tens of different places with varying security

Any other attempt at "vanlife" is bullshit.

New Mr Beast video drops

Age yourself with a movie you saw at the cinema as a kid.

Fast-moving layers bring novelty and experimentation, while slower layers provide stability and memory. Together, the layers support, reinforce, and challenge each other—creating robust, adaptable societies. "Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power." — Stewart Brand

Good For What Ails You: Secrets of the Bayou Healers - a 1998 documentary on "traiteurs" (treaters): folk doctors, medicine men, hex removers and the like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyky...

The 1933 Kinematograph Year Book - if nothing else, useful for seeing how many kinemas there were in your UK home town in the early 30s. ia801604.us.archive.org/24/items/kin...

Prime Video has uploaded the fascinating made-for-TV oddity Terror At London Bridge, featuring David Hasselhoff and, er, Jack the Ripper. filmstories.co.uk/features/ter...

Shush. I'm watching a Jackie Chan panda movie www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksls...

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I got paid today. I've lent £15 to Viviana in Ecuadore growing beans from my balance of repayments via @lendwithcare.bsky.social & topped up to help Juana with their chickens. You could do this too - first loan FOR FREE with this link! lendwithcare.org/referral/Z2J...

With just under 3 weeks to go I thought it's time to reveal the schedule for all three days. 55.5 hours of entertainment for just £25 get your tickets here www.phff-wrexham.com dates are 3rd til 5th of October George Edwards Hall Cefn Mawr. Don't miss out on a great weekend get your ticket now

Michael Crick, journalist: “It depresses me how much fellow political journalists are down-playing this - a dranatic story not just about Russia corrupting a British politician - as they've done in Germany & France - but also about the character judgement+relationships of Reform leaders Farage+Tice”

As Reform's Nathan Gill admits taking bribes from Russian 'secret service pawn' Oleg Voloshyn, here’s a nice photo of Nigel Farage with Voloshyn’s wife.

My attempts at jokes don't get much & the attempts at biting political satire don't work at all. It's only the gig plugs that get shared on here for me, so I'm sticking to what works. 🎶Me & Antonio down in the Brighton🎶 19/10/25 Grab your tickets now👇 brightondome.org/whats-on/LeD...

Free apples. Plas Newydd, Llangollen.

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is in select theaters October 2.

A reminder that TODAY at 6 pm BST we'll be interviewing writer @LuluAllison.bsky.social. Lulu will talk to @drhelenmtaylor.bsky.social about her novel, "Beast". This is the third in our series of #AuthorInterviews. Come and join us! Discover a great #newbook and pose your questions to the author!

Henry Jaglom, the maverick auteur who crafted deeply intimate and unconventional films that explored the intricacies of relationships and the quirkiness of human behavior, has died. He was 87.

Our pleasure!

Big thanks as ever to @alcs.co.uk for the free money. There'll be cheese AND beans on the jacket potato tonight.

Anybody in the Stevenage area have available an accessible room or studio flat to rent? My daughter is starting a PhD next week and the flat that we hoped she be in by now looks like it is going to fall through. Thanks

Crapture, more like.

Blimey. Thanks, @olijbooks.bsky.social!

This is how much the price of food has risen in 5 years... 🤯 🥛Milk, eggs and cheese: +47% 🍖 Meat: +35% 🧈 Oil and butter: +60% 🍞 Cereal and bread: +34% 🍓 Fruit: +26% 🥦 Vegetables: +35%

Emu gives John Stapleton and Nick Owen a right pasting on TVAM.

Finally getting around to the Sky (very loose) adaptation of The Day of the Jackal. Glacial pacing, and glossy; the inverse of screenwriter Ronan Bennett's lurid and furious (and no less implausible) recent MobLand. Like that, not unenjoyable if you go with it.

10 favourite TV comedies: Taxi Frasier (pre Niles/Daphne romance) Steptoe and Son Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads Nightingales I Woke Up One Morning Rising Damp One Foot In The Grave Ripping Yarns Black Books