I am also the kind of friend who when my friends' kids turn ten or so ask their parents when they're going to start talking with their kids about porn. Everyone is usually horrified with me but someone has to point out the "my baby has never watched porn" window is closed by the time they're 12

Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL

I don't think there's a difference in a partner doing this level of location monitoring or a parent: it's abusive, demeaning and should not be normalised in the slightest

Come on man, you can’t blast out the Christmas playlist all day in early November.

On Netflix today, everybody enjoy!

DIE MY LOVE 📽️, out in the UK/Ireland on Friday, wastes Jennifer Lawrence with its refusal to accurately assess why modern motherhood (not parenthood) is so completely maddening movieswetextedabout.com/die-my-love-...

ANEMONE 📽️ is also out in the UK/Ireland on Friday and it's a frame for Daniel Day-Lewis to express his contempt for his talent, but alas his talent is such we will follow him anywhere. Plus Samantha Morton is always a wonder movieswetextedabout.com/anemone-film...

In my almost 20 years as a lawyer, as a leader, as a department head, as an executive...the people I have worked with who are the biggest gossips, who are the most emotional, and who are the most conflict-averse are men. And the women are the ones who end up cleaning up that mess as a result.

I am seeing AFTERSUN discourse again, and I'm still one of the people who didn't like the movie. Paul Mescal's extraordinary performance was nearly ruined by a director out of her depth www.criticsnotebook.com/2022/12/afte...

Cat Person is out tomorrow in the US and I am not sure it's worth seeing; it spoils its own viral potential with a very, very bad ending. But any excuse to slag off Katie Roiphe in print www.criticsnotebook.com/2023/02/cat-...

CAT PERSON 📽️ currently on BBC Three meaning it will be on iPlayer for a while. It gets a lot of things right while rather magnificently missing its own point, and I was thrilled by the chance it gave me to attack Katie Roiphe for the damage her work has done www.criticsnotebook.com/cat-person-m...

Unhappily I have had to get off the bus before the two chatty seven year olds were able to decide the answer to the question of, instead of "rest in peace," what do you put on the gravestone if you didn't like them

My sister does a tight five minutes acting this out, and I've seen her do it so many times I can do it too. And when something in an interview is going badly the phrase "actually I have previous elf experience" does tend to run through my head

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When a job ad contains a big grammatical error in a sentence talking about the need for expert written communication: trap, or opportunity?

Any company that tells me I must explain in a "motivation letter" why I'm applying for a job with them is already too exhausting

Just had to agree to a credit check as part of a job application and this is not normally a thing in the UK? Afaik my credit is sparkling but even when I've worked in finance this shouldn't be a thing?

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

There always have to be specific cases—Aziz Ansari, Depp v. Heard—where the women who came forward are just repeatedly slandered in service of the narrative that they lied and they are examples of MeToo excess, even when they've only been harmed for coming forward and egregiously so!

Ah, which reminds me of the best tweet of all time.

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

Saw an advert for this today. While obviously the topic is important, this is NOT the tactic to take www.mensmindsmatter.org/ways-to-help...

My brother just sent a picture from DC, where World Central Kitchen — yes, the people who've been feeding Gaza — have a tent set up offering free meals for federal employees and families who are affected by the shutdown. God I hate this shithole country.

"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"

I have removed the halloweeny emojis in my name and added a patriotic one for the season

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

lol

And on a completely separate note, if you hear of a flat going in Dublin/Wicklow please let me know, I'm prepared to do a lot for a lead

Just ran some errands on a high street near me and noticed three not connected but definitely related things 1) this street used to have 6 banks, now it has 1. This means it used to have easily a dozen cashpoints, now it has two. Today neither cashpoint had cash though and a lot of people were

I see the London restaurant service charge story has been picked up by other outlets, do share the original by @londoncentric.media instead www.londoncentric.media/p/admin-char...

So loss making OpenAI is now begging for US government money to finance its research based on unproven promises of riches to follow at some unspecified date. Is anyone else recalling renaissance alchemists persuading rich patrons to support them because they'd be turning lead into gold any day now?

I like it when anyone criticises London, and Sadiq posts something saying, “we are all multilingual and bisexual”

This seems very bad

@cdrose.bsky.social congratulations!! What exciting and gratifying news!!

Congratulations to @cdrose.bsky.social, winer of this year's Goldsmith Prize for 'We Live Here Now' publsighed by Melville House Press. Good work Chris!

As she wandered off, leaving him to carry the heavy shopping bags: "If you wanna be treated as a man you gotta act as a man." He picked up the bags

"I got Ezra a Polish kinder egg, it's got a dinosaur in it!"

"He's the love of my life." "He's very gay and has got a boyfriend."

"Have you ever been to Turin, the Paris of Italy?"

Just watched a woman throw a temper tantrum before demanding to speak to a manager while an entire post office queue tutted at her, so it really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas

PETER HUJAR'S DAY 🏳️‍🌈📽️ is a great movie about the art of paying attention, Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall are both exceptional, and I really hope Linda Rosenkrantz is enjoying the renewed attention for her work intheirownleague.com/2025/11/05/l...

Hats off to the BBC for restoring Peter Watkins' The War Game to the iPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

And the reason NYC and London are so successful is twofold: they are very open to immigrants preserving their own cultures while integrating as much as they please, and they are safe places for us homosexuals to be fully ourselves. You can't have one without the other

Once I (American/Irish immigrant) was in a Turkish cafe with a colleague (New Zealand immigrant) here in London as two very hench young men walked past us holding hands and I really do remember thinking here and New York City are the only two places in the world this could all happen in peace

Why do the racists hate New York and London? Because both cities are an incredible mix of different people and both cities are incredibly successful.

ANEMONE 📽️ is also out in the UK/Ireland on Friday and it's a frame for Daniel Day-Lewis to express his contempt for his talent, but alas his talent is such we will follow him anywhere. Plus Samantha Morton is always a wonder movieswetextedabout.com/anemone-film...

DIE MY LOVE 📽️, out in the UK/Ireland on Friday, wastes Jennifer Lawrence with its refusal to accurately assess why modern motherhood (not parenthood) is so completely maddening movieswetextedabout.com/die-my-love-...

Movies don't often include a Hot for Teacher subplot anymore, do they (though I've seen two this year, which is why I've been thinking about it)

Got wordle in two 🤓

If I joined letterboxd would anyone be interested