Nick Wallace
@lifewithnoirony.bsky.social
Dad, husband, structurally challenged.
Am now remembering when some friends, one of whom was a proper Yorkshire lass, took me to the Generations convention at the Royal Albert Hall. Patrick mentioned Huddersfield Town in his Q&A and was immediately greeted with a massive “HUDDERSFIELD!” from my mate.
Eddie Robson@eddierobson.bsky.social · 2d agoThe photo is obviously amazing in itself, but the fact it reveals Stewart had a Huddersfield Town themed set jacket with CHARLES XAVIER embroidered across the hem makes it doubly valuable
FFS, my west country upbring manifesting itself in a regular inability to fully articulate the word 'probably' seems to have now spread to my capacity to spell it as well.
Nick Wallace@lifewithnoirony.bsky.social · 2w agoAnyway, was just watching the new version of “Treasure Island” for work, and looking up character names I was suddenly deeply, deeply certain that in “Closing The Casebook” - probaly still available from @obversebooks.co.uk - a throwaway bit of world-building that I was really pleased with...
Was listening to some incidental music which had echoes of the tune to 'Love Changes Everything', and from there I'm now streaming an album of Michael Ball singing live at the Royal Albert Hall, and oh god, how far I've fallen, and is it really only Wednesday...?
Got to do stupid day job stuff this afternoon when all I want to do is carry on panel-beating this novella.
Nope, still don't see the point of a Harry Potter series.
This is St Mary, Newington, which is about 5 minutes walk from where they filmed the Powell estate scenes in Doctor Who. Because of that proximity, every morning when I walk past it on the way to work, I end up thinking of Father’s Day and @paulcornell.bsky.social
Was planning on holding out till my birthday, but this is like every ****ing train journey at the moment.
Nick Wallace@lifewithnoirony.bsky.social · 8mo agoI’m assuming an expensive pair of Bose earbuds are the thing for blocking out irritating noises on a commuter train? And by irritating noises, I mean people burbling on the phone.
Looking at the girlguiding news and wondering just when, as a society, we started prioritising cruelty and cowardice over compassion and courage. So desperately sad for everyone.
Remarkably hypnotic, and - when you remember they're dealing with the only copy in existence - quietly stressful. Absolute balls of steel required to do that job, here.
Pip@pipmadeley.bsky.social · 7mo agoChristopher John Ball has put together a behind-the-scenes video illustrating how the recently discovered #DoctorWho episodes were examined, repaired, scanned and restored to their former glory. I'd carry on but you've probably already clicked the vid-- www.youtube.com/watch?v=x22T...
I may forget exactly which early-2000s movie it was - either X2 or Pirates Of The Caribbean - but will always remember the dude in front of us who ate a jumbo sized tub of popcorn… …and then proceeded to *eat the tub itself*.
Matt Singer@mattsinger.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe surprisingly large reaction to the dude smuggling a mustard bottle into Project Hail Mary is making me wonder ... what is the weirdest thing you’ve witnessed someone eat in a movie theater?
My watch tells me I had a sleep score of 100. A perfect night of over eight hours uninterrupted sleep. So, obviously, my shoulder blade is tight, which is then pulling up into my neck to give me neck ache, and i feel so tired it’s amazing I can perform basic functions. Yay! Go sleep! Good job!
Realise that’s my second train moan this week, but honestly this fella is extraordinarily unaware that the world around him exists.
Remember George the boor from the first wedding in Four Weddings And A Funeral? His real life equivalent is on this packed train, probably pissed and entertaining his children with stories of booze, cigarettes, and how much money he spends on things.
I’m assuming an expensive pair of Bose earbuds are the thing for blocking out irritating noises on a commuter train? And by irritating noises, I mean people burbling on the phone.
A track from the Scorsese “Cape Fear” just popped up on the mix I was listening to. I’ve only seen that movie once, when it came out, and have never listened to the soundtrack. But I instantly knew what the cue was from. Instantly. Elmer Bernstein strikes again, folks.
Copilot has turned up in all my apps on the work laptop this morning. For some reason, its handy drop-down menu only gives me the option to "chat" rather than tell it to "fuck off to hell and burn for all eternity".
That feeling when you're being slowly buried in corporate bullshit and desperately looking for an exit strategy only to discover a never ending sea of corporate bullshit behind every fucking door. Yeah, that one.
Stephen Thorne's reading of The Myth Makers really is a thing of beauty.
Surely just a matter of time before we get a 21st century luddite movement, with people planting bombs at data centres and the like? And if not, bloody hell people, that's a whole movie right there.
Story time, y'all, about the time I witnessed nearly this exact scenario play out in real time. It's 2003 or 2004. Serena, Venus, Anna Kournikova, and Brenda Shultz-McCarthy played an indoor exhibition event at Rupp Arena. Both Williams sisters had won majors at this point. 🧵/x
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 8mo agoyes and thank you for the excuse to share one of my all-time favorite tweets (from @longwall26.bsky.social)
Promising to vote for any political Party that makes idle chat on a commuter train punishable by death.
Aptly timed repost, as I was just about to rant about how the way google is deciding to search for the thing it thinks I’m typing rather than *the thing I’m actually typing* is really starting to piss me off.
Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 8mo agoIt’s on Google, even though it is making search worse. It’s on WhatsApp, even though I absolutely do not want “homework help” or “relationship advice” from my messaging app. In the year of our lord 2026, it is everywhere. And it *doesn’t work*.
Anyone checked yet if Andrew was wearing his seatbelt in the back of that car?
The history of the last generation has been right wing parties scraping a technical victory by the thinnest possible margin, then ruling like tyrants, then centre-left parties winning decisively and deciding the nation can only heal if they enact right wing policies.
For goodness sakes, people, stop outsourcing your entire human existence. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
No swiping involved: the AI dating apps promising to find your soulmate
Agentic AI apps first interview you and then give you limited matches selected for ‘similarity and reciprocity of personality’
theguardian.com
In other (more positive) news, Liverpool are starting to play better, I enjoyed "Predator: Badlands", had a nice country walk yesterday in the dry, and started watching "Bridgerton" with the missus. Feels like that last one - along with the MCU - is the key text to unlocking the RTD2 era.
"Trump will be gone in three years" ... Guys, at this point it's just naive to still think democracy is going to save you. That all of this is just a 'blip' in the system, rather than it's natural end result. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Democrats seek to reassure Europe about post-Trump America
Opposition politicians flocked to a summit in Munich to offer an alternative to America First - and stake a claim as future party leaders.
bbc.co.uk
If you look at politics on both sides of the Atlantic, we seem to be obsessed with treating the symptom and not the disease.
