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If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.
So we all really enjoyed The Odyssey, especially the part where Telemachus hung upside-down and rescued Athena from the clutches of an evil mechanical scorpion who was about to … wait, were we meant to be in Screen Two?
After Review@fourstar.bsky.social · last wk.On the back of this strong recommendation from Mollie, we are all as a family off to the local Picturehouse this evening, to see this new “Dude, Where’s My Horse?” movie🍿
So we all really enjoyed The Odyssey, especially the part where Telemachus hung upside-down and rescued Athena from the clutches of an evil mechanical scorpion who was about to … wait, were we meant to be in Screen Two?
After Review@fourstar.bsky.social · last wk.On the back of this strong recommendation from Mollie, we are all as a family off to the local Picturehouse this evening, to see this new “Dude, Where’s My Horse?” movie🍿
Allister Heath in 1940: “We’ve lost the war against Germany. Time to scrap the RAF.”
These online banking security questions are getting ridiculous now.
moved spots and now I'm sitting next to a man watching a video on his phone without headphones, for his next move I think Andy Burnham should give me a gun
On the back of this strong recommendation from Mollie, we are all as a family off to the local Picturehouse this evening, to see this new “Dude, Where’s My Horse?” movie🍿
Mollie Goodfellow@hansmollman.bsky.social · last wk.So glad I will get to experience watching The Odyssey as someone who doesn’t care that it’s a poem or whatever, you won’t catch me caring about its faithfulness, I will simply be whispering to the person next to me “that’s the horse” when the Big Wooden Horse appears
Bloody hell. Just got out of a matinee of the new National Theatre musical version of the film Pride, and it might be the best musical theatre thing I’ve seen since Book of Mormon. Just monstrously impressive. Assume it’ll transfer and smash it. As good as the film, perhaps better.
This chart shows there are a small number of Restore first preference, Green second preference voters in the sample. There is no political position so weird that no one in the UK holds it.
Luke Tryl@luketryl.bsky.social · last wk.Once second choices are taken into account, Bev Craig leads Sian Astley by 65 per cent to 35 per cent. Labour picks up most Green second choices, Restore Britain voters opt for Sian Astley. Tory voters split more for Reform but a sizeable chunk of their second prefs go Labour
Fuck off, Adobe. I need to know this shit, not pretend to know it.
So glad I will get to experience watching The Odyssey as someone who doesn’t care that it’s a poem or whatever, you won’t catch me caring about its faithfulness, I will simply be whispering to the person next to me “that’s the horse” when the Big Wooden Horse appears
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Shout out to the guy sat next to me in the cinema who got to the bit where the Cyclops turns up in The Odyssey and just said to himself "Well that's ridiculous" and got up and left and didn't come back.
A large chunk of Widdecombe Conspiracism seems to be "why is it taking longer than an episode of Midsomer Murders".
Reposting this eulogy I wrote for my magical, mysterious ex-stray cat George, who died in 2024, in case anybody would like a read. I've taken the paywall off it. It was very, very hard to write but I think it might be my favourite thing I’ve ever written about cats. www.tom-cox.com/lots-of-peop...
Rather hoping the Spanish players were going to hold up a banner saying ‘Argentina belongs to Spain’ after the final whistle.
Someone needs to lock Matt Damon in his fucking house. You know how much money we've spent bringing his ass back home???
"The newly appointed Minister for AI is expected to meet with the Minister for NFTs, Lord Blockchain and the Secretary of State for Pogs this afternoon."
Just because my convicted fraudster chum set up an account with an obscure Australian payment company just before his mother transferred £500,000 to Reform from sources the NCA were unable to trace, that doesn't mean there's anything dodgy going on.
Still one of my favourite pieces of writing ever. A journey.
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3w agoHello new followers! I've removed the paywall from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you probably won't... www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...