Cometh the hour, cometh the bin.

My local shop is playing the Alien soundtrack which has added a certain frisson to picking up my semi-skimmed

Wintry Mix sounds like a three-piece girl-band from the early 2000s

Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The weather app has abandoned the term “sleet”. The rain/snow combo is now referred to as “wintry mix”.

A US-backed coup? In Latin America? Unprecedented!

Wintry Mix sounds like a three-piece girl-band from the early 2000s

Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The weather app has abandoned the term “sleet”. The rain/snow combo is now referred to as “wintry mix”.

My local shop is playing the Alien soundtrack which has added a certain frisson to picking up my semi-skimmed

Well, the FIFA Peace Prize people really have egg on their faces

New Years, new me. Not like those other 42 times.

Ah shit, I nearly went the whole year without thinking about the Roman Empire

READING 2025: Enjoyed the always compelling (if sometimes problematic) BALKAN TRILOGY by Olivia Manning, especially after briefly visiting Bucharest a couple of years ago and falling a little bit in love with it.

I’m very tired from all this sitting and eating

I think about this a lot

READING 2025: Went on a Kazuo Ishiguro run in March filling in some of my blanks from his back catalogue: PALE VIEW OF THE HILLS, WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS and re-read the wonderful, dream-like THE UNCONSOLED

THEM: We’re looking for a film that feels more… authored. ME: it was authored. By me.

3ccentric@thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What's an insult you'll never forget?

A special day, on which we celebrate the noble box, that lets us carry the many as though they be but one

Never seen this so devastatingly and lucidly articulated.

Chris Gardiner@chrisgardiner.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

THEM: We’re looking for a film that feels more… authored. ME: it was authored. By me.

3ccentric@thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What's an insult you'll never forget?

Putting turkey in sandwiches, curries, pies, using it as cavity wall insulation, stuffing mattresses with it, putting it beneath acrobats to break their fall

The prosthetics in this Colin Firth movie are incredible #KingsSpeech

There were reportedly tensions on set between Caine and Rizzo the Rat, a notorious method actor, who refused to break character even when the cameras weren’t rolling

God bless us, every one.

Bit sad (especially at this time of year) but we had an accident at ours last night. Everyone’s okay, but I’m santa now.

Maybe the grinch just hated capitalism?

Maybe the grinch just hated capitalism?

In accordance with the tradition

In accordance with the tradition

THE FLY (1986)

Richy Craven@richycraven.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I usually walk Rio at 12. I took this picture at 12.04

He wants to murder you.

I'm Uni :3@unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 11mo ago

One look and you know he’s having fun :3

Shit. I just realised that I am the same age and LOOK EXACTLY LIKE Alan Rickman in Die Hard

Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The late great ALAN RICKMAN making his movie debut aged 42 in DIE HARD (1988)