Requiem for a Dream hugely impactful movie that I absolutely do not need to see ever again thank you

because if it breaks it might actually be possible to fix it themselves?

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

even the weather is dishing out commentary on the movie industry and vertical integration now

It may not feel like it, but we get to choose the kind of world we want to live in. But you do have to choose.

oooh this looks fun if you can get to it!

I believe strongly that I can create work that sings and is meaningful without feeling contempt for those who might come to it stressed, tired, and already overworked. I don't want to create an obstacle course to weed out the unworthy. I want to make their day more satisfying, not less.

My 33 1/3 book on George Michael’s Faith came out in the UK three years ago today. Dominated the headlines for – ooh – a good 12 hours until the Queen went and died. Anyway, still available. #GeorgeMichael #Faith‬⁩ www.bloomsbury.com/uk/george-mi...

there’s an adage that’s stuck with me over the years (iirc Tim Rice-Oxley from Keane is how I heard this, but can’t remember if he was also quoting someone else or not): “the hardest thing in the world to write is a 3-minute pop song” and George Michael just made *hundreds*?! genius mode tbh

PSA: be the joy you want to see in the world, listen to Last Christmas immediately

starting the Christmas 2025 season as we mean to go on 🫡

Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.

earnest thought alert: the internet, and especially social media - in all its forms, and in all ‘bubbles’ - feels increasingly incompatible with my personal values and the ways I want to live my life and yet, it’s where my friends and communities are circle, how do you become a square?

I was today years old when I learned this, extremely off-brand for me I’m going to do some research* as punishment (*watch Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade again)

ah shit, Sir Tom Stoppard 😔 we will not see his like again, I fear fare thee well, sir 🫡 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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I mean to be fair, the way these things are run they might actually *be* talking to a real person, just not in the way they mean

Here’s my CHRISTMAS GIFT TIP. You can buy all Michael Palin’s books and DVDs and suchlike off his website, and he signs and dedicates the item for no extra charge. Don’t say I don’t give you nowt. (I did this for my dad, and he didn’t notice the autograph on his Ripping Yarns.) themichaelpalin.com

telling emerging writers that the only way to improve is ‘buy Final Draft/learn AI’ instead of ‘watch and read everything you can’ is… certainly a choice like it’s the (paid-for) tools that’ll teach you what you want to say about the world and how to say it, not living in and experiencing it

I didn’t want to be obligated to don businesswear, basically ever

Forgive me, feline I do not believe Your pleas That you are starving For just 10 minutes ago I gave you some Dreamies And you have eaten Them all You cannot have your Dreamies And Eat Them

Hell yeah @rianjohnson.bsky.social (reposting with alt text)

IMPORTANT: I have ordered the Jade album on cd related: also learned about and spent the afternoon brushing up on the Fontaines D.C. music video multiverse

This is tremendously short-sighted - if you don't hire junior people, where are your experienced, senior people going to come from in 10 years' time?

top 5 movie genres: - I, the only woman allowed to do science in a world full of idiot men, - I am become chaos and also your ideal partner - workplaces: the screwball purgatory of capitalist life - the mortifying ordeal of being known (comedy edition) - the lesson of time travel is to not do it

oh honestly just make it an alias if you don’t want it to be a conscious alias, make it so potential Bonds are recruited + named in childhood or something, because Skyfall is *right there* for that and if you think that’s ethically icky well, yes but *gestures vaguely at the entire 007 franchise*

the ‘standardised questions’ on the equal opps forms can’t even accurately define class without misrepresenting half the population’s actual lived experience, so uhhhhhh good luck with that one

bloody annoyed, I guessed *weeks* ago they’d have George doing a dance to Somewhere Only We Know on #strictly at some point I could have put a bet on and bought a house (or maybe a shed) 😭

This might be of interest to a few people The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc Apply by 30 November www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund

look, I couldn’t vote for Zohran because I ‘don’t live in New York’ or whatever, but here’s what I can vote for: his typography game being absolutely on-point

I simply refuse to allow imposter syndrome to make me think I’m not smart ever again after this #TheTraitors

‘Girlbands Forever’ is a v good watch, but it is safe to say there was a point during my personal watch that errrrrrrr got quite surreal let’s just leave it at that (iykyk)

and thus dawns a new age of globalised bisexual awakening variety.com/2025/film/ne...

so… are we ever gonna talk about the fact Totoro creates ASMR in this scene, or

Yes, yes, but how does that relate to the one thing I'm obsessed with

best thread of the day, 10/10 no notes

consistently mad, bewildered, and still trying to write and make fun shit for people to enjoy 🫡

all-time controversial day for British royalty really #TheTraitors

in a writers' group chat where someone keeps trying to hawk an AI 'for writers' app while acting like it's not a massive data scrape I'm about 5 seconds away from dropping this link while flipping birds link.springer.com/article/10.1...

enshittification

theatre set makers rejoice as they realise the key to home ownership was in their props cupboard the whole time

important clue in today’s new york magazine crossword @jameshamiltonwriter.com

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

obsessed with Cat using actual facts about her AuDHD (masking sucks, sleep patterns suck) to deflect attention away from her being a traitor 🫡 #TheTraitors

I know the photos aren’t really from today (they’re old), but I have literally written a tv pilot about a tech company wanting to force employees to live at work and somehow this is not some ill-advised promo for that???

and by ‘review’ we don’t mean ‘set up a sham inquiry to try and claim all neurodivergence is overdiagnosed to as to kick this down the road another 30 years’, fyi

1. yes this is correct 2. EJAE CO-WROTE DRAMA?! I cannot emphasise enough just how much of an absolute banger that song is variety.com/2025/music/n...

why yes, I did choose to make an extremely tedious task infinitely more bearable today by soundtracking it with the K-Pop Demon Hunters OST, because I am a grown-up and I can do that

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!