The president speech from Malcolm in the Middle is haunting in light of recent events. Lois sabotages Malcolm's chance at getting rich cause if he gets rich and buys his way into becoming president "You wouldn't be a good president. You wouldn't have suffered enough" ...damn youtu.be/fCPyxZf1x9s?...

When people in our 30s and 40s refer to things the kids like as "brainrot", I feel we're being a tad hypocritical. www.patreon.com/stubagful youtu.be/5k4VOvokxJk

This album randomly came up in my recommended. Forgot just how good it was. Anathema really should've been bigger youtu.be/H7EZkJkZYGU?...

I didn’t post this at the time, but I thought I’d bring it out anyway. I made a 3rd alternative version of my fanart for the episode “The Lost Finale of Johnny and Janey” from @stubagful.bsky.social ’s “Abnormal Stories“ series, this time being a haunted “glitched” version of Johnny & Janey.

Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair - something's off. Everyone's ended up exactly where I thought they would be and Malcolm's kid talking to the camera is a really nice idea buuut...I'm just not laughing that much.

Finished Life on Mars. Taking in the fact that in about a decade, the modern equivalent would be a policeman getting in a car accident and waking up in 2006.

I had time to kill until my train, so I wandered around my local shopping centre and I only just realised how much of it has been replaced by gyms. stubagful.medium.com/has-anyone-e...

Started rewatching Life on Mars. It plays like every single TV show ever made all playing at once. It's a 70s cop drama, twin peaks dream sequence, a documentary about the seventies and a rerun of top of the pops all in one.

Continuing in my grief counselling sessions for Doctor Who fans. youtu.be/Mxi6f185BYk

Apparently if you spend an entire year only watching films where all the cast and crew have passed away, you unlock a secret movie that plays on the inside of your eyelids that shows you the means of your own demise.

Randomly started watching the X files from the beginning cause it appeared recommended on my Disney plus account and all my social media feeds have now started showing me UFO videos. COINCIDENCE!?? ...No. Because Disney have clearly sold my data. There's no mystery in the world anymore

Kinda wanna watch the new Louis Theroux doc cause I usually like them, buuut I kinda know too much about the types of wankers it's about already and they make me feel ill

Damn. I really REALLY wanna see the pilot they shot now

Finally got round to watching Douglas is Cancelled. Some of it feels a bit dated already but the point holds up. I really like that the first half is basically a Trojan horse for the second half. It's probably the most emotionally mature piece I've seen from Steven Moffat.

Wait, something GOOD happened in 2026?

I sat down this week with writer person, director, and YouTuber @stubagful.bsky.social to talk about how he channels big emotions into his writing, maintaining his unique voice after more than a decade in the digital space, navigating through burnout, and so much more. youtu.be/nlpSYc241PY?...

I feel Michael in Small Prophets is more like the Doctor than any of the recent ones. Pottering around in his shed, barely acknowledges it when people are pointing out he's being weird. I feel him being an oddball is what Doctor Who's missing. Capaldi was the last one who was like that.

Small Prophets is sooooo good. Best thing about it is I can tell Mackenzie Crook really loves these characters and wants the best for them

I'm at the hospital because I had a weird pain in my chest for a few days. Turned out it's not serious. They've given me delicious codeine. I love the NHS

I had a dream where mirrors had this setting where you could save what was reflected in them. Think it would make a cool horror film where someone sees the reflection of the previous house's owner getting attacked by a killer.

Accidentally ended up answering a call from my uni and ended up doing a survey including this genuine question: "On a scale of 1 to 10, how satisfied are you with your life?" ...that's a very complex question for 6:45pm on a Friday

Next season of The Traitors: "Well speaking as someone who was actually convicted of murder, I am telling you I'm not a traitor because if I did murder Derrick, I would've ACTUALLY murdered him, wouldn't l?" "Yes, that's true. I'm voting Louise because she ate crisps in a suspicious way yesterday"

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Been listening to this a lot lately while working/doing stuff. Makes me feel like I'm in a David Lynch film nursewithwound1.bandcamp.com/album/solilo...

While everyone's talking plotholes, I want to talk about the wider industry trend of which I think the last season of Stranger Things is emblematic. youtu.be/WCbcZO-fOVM?...

Just got out of seeing the Melania movie. It's just her sitting against a white background reading the unredacted Epstein files for 4 hours. Pretty clever way to fulfill the legal obligation to release them by putting them in a place no one's going to see them.

I just tried watching that AI American revolution thing that Darren Aronofsky set fire to his reputation to make...it is genuinely the most disgusting looking thing I've ever seen

Just walked through St pancras station past an advert for the Melania movie. Then just outside there was a crazy man with a microphone shouting about how he is Jesus Christ returned. I almost couldn't tell which was which.

Soo...this is weird. The thumbnail from my brasseye video ended up in this guardian article about 100 years of television. Not a link, just a picture of the thumbnail.... guessing they pulled it off image search without checking www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

In spite of its drawbacks, I think there are some encouraging things in that new Doctor Who spinoff with the long name. youtu.be/L5-Dkbcn6qY?...

Catching up on Severance - finding season 2 a lot warmer, funnier and more human than season 1. Particularly captivated by Dylan and Irving's stories.

Finished Stranger things season 5 now...that ending was fine. Writing was no better/worse than the rest of the season or seasons 3 and 4. Dunno what everyone's complaining about.

I find Garth Marenghi's Darkplace to be one of the most unsettling experiences in the field of television....okay, hear me out on this one. youtu.be/KRrA3IbAkus?...

There's an advert on itv about a little girl who can't tell the difference between real life and the AI assistant in her parents' car. It's the most depressing advert ever that thinks it's adorable.

Happy new Thursday

Stranger things season 5 - lesson learned so far is if you've previously made it look like you've killed off a main character then undone it, they're basically invincible from that point cause I don't buy that they're ever in any real danger

Stranger things season 5 is interesting but the dialogue is really bugging me. Instead of having our characters describe what just happened for the sake of people looking at their phone, I'd like phones to give electric shocks when they sense your attention wandering from something you're doing

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without.... (Complete the catchphrase for 15 points)

Emily got me the new Sayaka Murata - cannot recommend her books enough she's wonderfully unique

Today this song is factually accurate. Therefore you must listen to it. youtu.be/bMVx-KVd-Rc?...

Trying Pluribus. Really liking it but just have to ask - anyone else reminded of the Jasmine arc from Angel?

The war between the land and the sea episode 5: the sea devils eat all of earth's dogs and mankind threatens to nuke the sea ....I almost find it impressive they got Disney to pay for this

Feeling really emotional now I've finally posted Bright Lights. It was the last thing I was working on when Cleo died last year. RIP

While Pete and Becky are walking around looking at Christmas lights, they find what they've lost. youtu.be/5EfV9bxdjk4?...

Finally started stranger things season 5 and have instantly latched onto Holly's story. I think I'm less interested in the regulars because they're used to odd things happening and Holly isn't so it's like I'm seeing it through fresh eyes again.

In conversation with Emily we've just coined the term "flu movies" - films you watch when you have the flu. Unchallenging. Feel good films you could watch with a piece of your brain missing. Current list: Yes Man Freaky Friday 13 going on 30 Miss congeniality The Mr Bean movie Additions welcome

Almost finished Metroid Prime 4. While the issues are there and drag it down, I did get the occasional twinge of the feeling I got when I was a kid playing a demo of Prime 1 in toys r us in about 2002, so I consider it worth it.

Tried the war between the land and the sea - s'alright. The translation scene reminded me of Arrival which is always a good thing, and Barclay's adorable. Dialogue's a bit overdone though and a bit too eager to tell me what it all means.

Having speaking NPCs but keeping Samus a silent protagonist makes Metroid Prime 4 into a weird remake of Sooty and Sweep. "What's that Samus? ....you need to go to some ancient temples and find some stupid key things?"

No clue what my music listening habits were doing this year