8yo: I want to keep my bedroom door open all night but I also want the cat to not come in. Me: you are behaving like every UK political party of the last 15 years

Ah, the world of today, where everyone's last performance is Orson Welles in Transformers The Movie because pretty much everything is Transformers The Movie

I'm trying to improve my cinema literacy this year by watching the movies on the Sight And Sound 250 list. Random and extremely non-definitive thoughts on all of them here.

Bill Oddie wrote and performed so much stuff that I think is great. Very sad.

What a useful technology.

Great player, great shirt, great team, great man

This is so obviously New Order to me. Great band, so many fantastic tracks. But is even PC&L a "great" album? It's FINE.

Nick (derogatory) ✨@slothropsmap.bsky.social · last mo.

Best artist or band who never made a great album.

Its 100 copies of Gangsta Granny

Dylan Orosz🩵@finalboyo.bsky.social · last mo.

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Caterlink chasing 50p on the 8yo's balance. As the old saying goes, when you owe Caterlink 5p, you've got a problem. When you owe Caterlink 50p, Caterlink's got a problem

Which one's that, Hartnell?

Part One: The Goat Testicle Implanting Doctor Who Invented Talk Radio

Behind the Bastards · Episode

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Daughter has this from school - I assume it downplays the contribution of Paul McCartney

Fucking hell, Peter Gabriel 2's a great record. Haven't listened to it in years, stonker.

For some reason I can't quite adequately explain, it's Flesh and Blood by Roxy Music

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Name your fav album to hear start to finish, no skips.

Can’t believe Keir Starmer has had to resign for having a beer and a curry but at the same time shows that no one can outrun the wheels of justice in the end

Levies on all streaming/digital subscriptions to replace licence fee

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

They've finally run out of toffs to stand as PM, your name has been pulled from the hat, what's your one (1) manifesto pledge? Let's assume UBI, PR & tax/eat the rich are standard. I want your petty policies, your extremely personal grudges, your old man yells at cloud laws

My daughter is about to see her fifty-ninth Prime Minister and she is only 284 years old

One of the very biggest surprises in media biz over the last couple of years is that it turns out the BBC were getting Lineker for much less than his market value

I'm shocked that atrophying your brain will make you stupid

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'The findings, published last October in The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, suggest that even highly skilled professionals might get worse at tasks that their job requires as they become more dependent on AI tools'. 1/2

8yo: dad have you got six pounds Me: for what 8yo: (sighing with utter defeat) fine forget about it

If you find this sort of thing funny, do like, repost, subscribe, whatever. Spread the word. The frequently rude word.

James Kettle@jameskettle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our take on Starmer/Burnham, social media and Russian frigates - more more more in the latest podcast out today WHEREEVERYOUGETYOURPODCASTS

Our take on Starmer/Burnham, social media and Russian frigates - more more more in the latest podcast out today WHEREEVERYOUGETYOURPODCASTS

I quite fancy watching the England match but I’m four hours into Out 1 and really enjoying it. Bet it’s the same for Shearer

Godard on AI

Andy Burnham is like Owen Hargreaves used to be for the England football team. Everyone’s like “if Owen Hargreaves was fit and in the 11 we’d win stuff” and you’d be like yeah but in the days when he was, we were still shit

“We can finally do Saucy Jack. People should envy us. I envy us.”

For Star Wars day, give us your top 10 sci-fi films Starman Aliens The Prestige The Running Man The Thing Dead Ringers Twin Peaks The Return Flow Time Bandits Idiocracy

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For Star Wars day, give us your top 10 sci-fi films: Star Wars (1979) Empire Strikes Back Galaxy Quest 12 Monkeys La Jetée Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Gagarine Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Denis Villeneuve's Dune (yes it is one movie not two) Cloud Atlas

The apotheosis of this in my line of work was when Sarah Silverman played the Apollo, all the journos on freebies gave it 3-4 stars and the actual punters nearly rioted

Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This ⭐️⭐️⭐️review of Danny Boyle’s Wonka Experience, from the normally commendable Alexis, gives the whole experience a ludicrously easy ride but you can read between the lines… Also, I’m guessing the disappointment is less if you didn’t pay £45 for your ticket. www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...

Yes I have a question

Maybe they asked the AI if 0.02 was a small number.

James Kettle@jameskettle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I mean, I don’t work for Sainsbury’s or have access to their data, but when I hear 0.02% of everyone who crosses their threshold in a week, I don’t think “oh, that’s a trivially small number.”

I mean, I don’t work for Sainsbury’s or have access to their data, but when I hear 0.02% of everyone who crosses their threshold in a week, I don’t think “oh, that’s a trivially small number.”