Placating myself about the state of this year’s album releases by reminding myself that only 3 of my 2025 top 10 and only one of my top 5 had been released by this stage of the year but looking at the slate of what’s to come and not really seeing a lot of potential

Next Bond film should be a courtroom drama where Bond is hauled before a tribunal where British Intelligence try to pin all their war crimes on him. “Your claim is that you couldn’t have tortured republican prisoners because you were ‘stopping a giant laser’, is that correct?”

The Independent@the-independent.com · 10h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

Signs of the narrowing candidate pool in British politics that the Tories have to recruit a supposedly ex-Neo-Nazi as Reform and Restore have undercut them in the active Neo-Nazi market

Sometimes, on a breezy day like this, it is a real fucking bummer when I exit my gym to be reminded it’s next to an onion farm

I am watching a movie with a gangster called “Kevin” and all due respect but you have lost me already

“We Bought a Human Zoo” A family of sharks move to Amity Island only to discover they’ve inherited a zoo. The kids keep trying to eat the humans, their ocean friends don’t think they’re up to the task, Matt Damon cameos as his character from the original to give zoo advice but they eat him after

weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo ago

let's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?

England has proudly been Europe’s most ridiculous country since 1534, this man has no respect for his country’s traditions and values

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2d ago

I think we're generally much too chill about how mainstream and normal this weird, obsessive anti-Irish stuff is in the UK. #speirgorm

Wife and I are attempting to change GP cause our current one is mainly phone consultations since COVID and boy is it a great feature of Late Stage Capitalism Ireland that I feel like I’m at a broadway audition for my maladies and also I have to pay 70 quid to get healthcare I’m entitled to

Over the last week and a bit I’ve seen The Odyssey, The Invite, and Brand New Day in cinema. And let me tell you folks… the movies are back. Each one a blast in its own right. Go to your local picturehouse!!!

Tom Holland becoming the undisputed king of “one of the most beautiful women alive plays my onscreen mother (figure)”

Coming back after being on holidays for a week

I don’t think-in fact-it's a bit of banter for a man to ask a woman he's working with unprompted to fuck a colleague and I don't really think this context changes if they're all musicians and I don't think it's down to Americans being 0 craic while I'm here what the fuck are we doing here

A lot of my other picks have been said so: Let It Be, Tim and Pleased to Meet Me

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

The best(?) coach in the WNBA wearing a “Trans Kids Belong” shirt in the game against the Fever (Sophie Cunningjam’s team) and also approaching her and very clearly telling her that what she said was fucked up

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 3d ago

Ryan Ruocco noting Cheryl Reeve's shirt and then video of Cheryl talking to Sophie Cunningham earlier

any turtle can be a snapping turtle if the jazz is smooth enough

Reminder that yesterday the GAA said it’s continuing its partnership with Allianz despite Francesca Albanese’s UN Report listing them as a company complicit in Israeli oppression of Palestinians

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 3d ago

Overnight Israeli strikes on Gaza hit multiple residential buildings and killed at least eight people, authorities have said, despite Hamas saying it agreed to the latest stage of a deal to end the war

Aga-meme-non

How about you motherfuckers shut the goddamn hell up and let this lady stick a Suicune to her face

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 5d ago

K-pop star Momo is under fire after breaking open a vintage graded Pokémon card to stick it on her face and keep it in her phone case

What good is a chamber if it does not echo, I ask you. Then it’s nothing but a damn French bedroom

*Irish folk musician who sings exclusively about robot lawn mowers* “OHHHHHHH HUSQVARNA!”

Some people on here daily gleefully telling on themselves about their attitudes towards teenage girls/women

Every field around my parents is either a house or farmland, but there are these odd little hilly pockets that are too small for either and i always love seeing the chaotic undergrowth of what this island was before.

This is going to absolutely fucking rule and staking now: Corey Hawkins as Carney and LaKeith Stanfield as Freddie

Colson Whitehead@colsonwhitehead.com · 5d ago

And the official announcement — variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Everyone uses “factoid” to mean “a tiny lil cutesy fact.” A factoid is an untrue statement presented as a fact. So unless what you mean to say is “here’s some absolute fake bullshit”, FUCKING STOP

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d ago

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

My dog knows about it and she thinks it’s dumb as fuck

Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 6d ago

sometimes I am jealous my dog doesn't know anything about AI at all

'but AI is the only way i can afford to make an event flyer' notebook paper. sharpie. here is my event. photograph with phone. post. be less stupid in the future

Also feel like 2026 Casablancas might reasonably come out with a Lucy Dacus “war criminal” response

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 6d ago

Here are some of the songs I've been listening to this summer. It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family.

As someone who quite enjoys one Ringer podcast and has medium affection for one other, i really do marvel at the moral ambivalence and emptiness of their journalism. This is their WNBA podcaster writing a whole article of apologia for an openly transphobic player and the W’s refusal to condemn

Boy, ya think you’ve read every permutation of headline

Guardian Sport@sport.theguardian.com · 7d ago

Idi Amin’s grandson disqualified from Commonwealth Games boxing for head-butt