ADHD runs through my family like a stick of rock, and diagnoses have been completely transformative for my son, my sister and my niece. C4's dirty habit of commissioning clickbait docs like this continues to cheapen their reputation further. To everyone involved in this programme - go fuck yourself.

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

May I brighten up your Friday musically? Wolf Alice have just dropped an absolute peach of a cover of one of the finest songs of all time, The Roches' Hammond Song. Feast your ears on this beauty: youtu.be/hJiX-vcxqwg?...

Wolf Alice - Hammond Song (Official Visualiser)

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We're joining @creatorsrights.bsky.social in calling on Government to protect creators from the existential threat of GenAI Help get the petition to 10,000 signatures - sign the petition 🔽 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

je suis almost nobody

The Economist@economist.com · 2w ago

Sir Christopher Nolan stands out from his peers for having the widest-ranging, most original and brainiest oeuvre. Register for free to learn why the film-maker is so divisive

Delighted to finally be able to share the news that I have been appointed Minister For Justice in Andy Burnham's new cabinet, according to the extremely vivid dream I had last night. I'm happy to report that not being an MP and my total lack of experience is not going to hinder me in any way.

Anyone else do that thing of not creating a new project folder on their laptop too early for fear of jinxing it, even though that is patently ridiculous? Anyway, just created a new folder is what I'm saying 😎 #scriptsky #scriptskyuk

What Burnham has done cleverly in his first two days is announce two good things, rather than declaring in a rose garden that everything is going to be awful and then pledging to mug pensioners

Burnham: “I’d like you to remain as Culture Secretary.” Nandy: “I’m Culture Secretary?”

Oh wait no, wow, this is actually even worse than Nandy keeping her job. Ye gods.

Zoë Crowther@zoecrowther.bsky.social · 2w ago

Kanishka Narayan is the first UK AI minister to attend Cabinet My interview with Narayan last autumn provides insight into his approach to the brief 🧵👇 (1/6)

Microsoft is planning to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!

Microsoft wants to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.

you.38degrees.org.uk

THE ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD BREATHES A SIGH OF RELIEF

Me at kick-off / Me at full-time

fuck off then, you racist transphobe #thefootball

PETER'S FRIENDS. I foolishly took some American friends to see it in Washington DC and I've never felt so ashamed to British in my life. Every single character in it needed to be murdered in cold blood.

Defector@defector.com · 3w ago

What's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...

I enjoyed The Odyssey (2026) but I have one historical nitpick. The phrase “Jiminy Christmas” is a minced oath for “Jesus Christ”. As the story is set around 1200 B.C. it is unlikely that Odysseus would have said the phrase even once, let alone the dozens of times he says it in the film

Setting up a rape crisis line to make fun out of rape survivors seeking help for having deep voices, to millions of people. Trying to dismantle Amnesty International. She’s eclipsed the villains even of her own rudimentary imagination

The Newromancer@tehsamantha.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is the context of JK Rowling putting a survivor of rape or sexual assault on blast for having the gall to seek help

Hard being stuck in a football time loop.

That is banter era gifting, even worse than buying him nothing. Chapeau!

Ian Boucher@desolationrow5.bsky.social · 3w ago

‘The cabinet presented Keir Starmer with a carriage clock this morning’ is simultaneously the most British thing imaginable and also one of the saddest. Yes it was time for him to go but he’s lead their party for 6 years and country for 2 and he gets a carriage clock?

The advent of sound poses challenges to the 1920s Hollywood studio system.

Peter Lucier@peterlucier.bsky.social · 3w ago

The itinerary for the boys’ trip to Holland may have been overly ambitious. Starring Sean Connery

And there it is. JK Rowling personally and publicly offering to bankroll litigation against Amnesty International using her massive wealth.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w ago

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

Oh come on, you’ve got to be kidding. One of the absolute best men.

Film Stories@filmstories.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thoroughly miserable news to start the week. The actor Sam Neill has suddenly passed away, at the age of 78. buff.ly/CScAnTn

Sweet Jesus, I have only just discovered this thread, which is going to liven up your Friday afternoon slump no end. Fabulously insane on every glorious level!

Steven Sheil@scsheil.bsky.social · last yr.

A few years ago I become slightly obsessed with Romanian/Spanish TV producer Valerio Lazarov who was responsible for loads of music TV specials on Spanish TV in the 70s. Hallmarks of his work are: energetic/manic choreography, bizarre staging & every video effect known to man. Just found a new clip:

- Open Instagram - Go to your profile - Tap the three lines in the top-right corner - Scroll down to the Sharing and reuse section - Toggle off "Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta" for Posts and Reels

WIRED@wired.com · 4w ago

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

Ever heard of a song "Lost in France" - it's my signature tune after the coach (complete with my luggage) left me behind in Boulogne.

Hang it in the Musée Magritte.

Bluesky this morning:

That’s what happens when you get rid of the department of defense

Well there goes NATO, totally worth it 🥰

James Nalton@jdnalton.bsky.social · 4w ago

Belgium players mocking the US and Trump's meddling in the World Cup by doing the Trump dance after scoring the 4th goal against the USMNT