Fuckin' Orwell quoter, dude.

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More Dalek Snowglobes would make the World a better place.

Perfect. No notes.

Harry Hill and Nish Kumar doing the Andy Burnham dance youtube.com/shorts/ri4Fs...

And a new Pokey LaFarge song to boot. Friday shines on us all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCiz...

Oh, and THE RIP is perfectly acceptable night-from-hell cops-and-robbers base-under-siege flick stuff #hyphens

Finally got to see SPINAL TAP II and it's better than it has any right to be. Gentle, melancholic, and with an absurd attention to detail. Plus, throwaway lines like "In the daytime, ghosts are rumours," some lovely t-shirts, and musical cameos from the likes of Tuba Skinny and Little Freddie King.

“You can say yes and we will be very appreciative, or you can say no and we will remember.”

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Quote post with a clue of where you're from.

What a headline, an amazing summary

'Oh, did you get some tartare sauce like I asked?' 'No, all they had was this.'

The greatest story you’ll read today 😂😂🫡 Forward it on for the betterment of mankind & also to get me into heaven

This was posted by @mambarlife.bsky.social in the Other Place and it’s too good not to share it.

Just wait till he hears about Poundland and Land of Leather.

You know, he'd walk willingly into a huge wicker Trump. He'd love the parade there, he'd appreciate the sing-song in his honour, and he'd greet the setting sun like a old shiny friend while he burned bigly bright.

NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence For young writers, 'I'm not good at plot' generally means 'I don't really care about plot,' and so it was for me, but now I care about plot.

This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow. Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

US sec of state Marco Rubio, May 2025: “Today, the US welcomed the historic agreement [on Chagos]. Following a comprehensive interagency review, the Trump Administration determined that this agreement secures the long-term, stable, and effective operation” of the base at Diego Garcia.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace."

This is the content I’m here for

A wandering tiger in Minnesota (a tiny ink drawing)

Postie turns up with the good stuff. The Elizabeth McCracken book on writing, plus a graphic biography of Martin Scorsese.

Unfollowing / muting / blocking like a mofo.

This, by Toutatis! If you can't tell your story in under 100 minutes (90 for horror / romance / comedy), then you're making episodic telly. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

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Includes comments from Nominative Determinism Daily's Person Of The Week This Week And Every Week, Warhammer historian Jordan Sorcery. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Lib Dem source: “Just 45 more Tory defections until Ed becomes Leader of the Opposition.”

“Good and evil. There is never one without the other.” Happy 93rd birthday to John Boorman.

This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

White supremacists staring sadly at their Odin rune tattoos and trying to motivate themselves to cheer on war with actual vikings-

Got myself right round a lamb bhuna, lads.

Argh. My old nemesis - the notion of opening a small press as a way to make money, get very specific books into the world, and meet fascinating people - rears its persistent, stupid head. Get behind me, publishing Satan!

@scarredforlife.bsky.social can you help? A one-off film shown on the BBC, late 80s/early 90s, kind of a satirical near future deal, picaresque urban journey, included at least one song ("The religion man"?) and finished with a gun battle between police and the residents of a tower block...

Looking up old cinema stuff for a thing: reading about Edwardian roller rinks being converted into picture palaces in Cardiff. Struck by the former ABC/Olympia cinema having (hidden behind the proscenium arch) a huge painted mural of a female skater, captioned "To skate is to be beautiful."

“I get up in the morning, 7 days a week, I write for about 3 hours, and I’m done” – @joerlansdale.bsky.social Lansdale's advice on being “everybody in the story” is the best tip I’ve heard in a while. @atmanrising.bsky.social and I are writing more this year. This is inspirational stuff!

So true, my senatorial bestie. No one can even afford to be shot dead by their own government after taking their kid to school.

In light of recent events, this should surely get some more traction

Bollock de-emphasis news update. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

"That's how it happens. That's how fast it takes for a guy to get whacked."

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only!

Touch frosty this morning.

1am on a school night and skewed by Aldi discounted coffee Christmas liqueur. Working through the Thomas Harris / Silence of the Lambs sequel TV series Clarice (which stands up, and Rebecca Breeds as Starling is terrific). Anyway, ep 2 end title music takes me here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=toJ3...