This makes me so happy. But no surprise that @annleckie.com should be so thoroughly correct.
Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · 6d agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · 6d agoI don’t know anything about the thing you’re all wittily referring to [pinned]
The extent to which one of my cats is Toothless from how to train your dragon is crazy to me.
“The bass player is like a king in chess. He doesn’t move much but when he does he changes everything.” - Holger Czukay #quote
I just really hope there’s 5 pages on Count Binface in the next LRB
Shitty news about friends coincidentally as I finish (re)reading The Player of Games. Their bravery & Gurgeh’s (spoiler!) defeat of Azad via play gives me hope that the cruelty mind virus can be fought. hard to believe the former trillionaire has read the books he names his robot barges after.
Your Telegraph columnist name is your first name backwards, your birthstone, and then whatever you had for breakfast. Sugna Topaz-Marmalade
I haven’t seen it, and wasn’t planning to - but now thanks to @tomcoates.bsky.social I’m inordinately excited that Disclosure Day is *actually* “DR & Quinch Have Fun On Earth” told from pov of puny humans. Please let it be so.
Probably bad taste but I would love to read Steven Toast’s tribute to fellow Colonial Club member David Hockney
The world’s first trillionaire is a mass murderer who spends his days trying to foment a race war. He has no friends and people won’t laugh at his jokes. Also nobody is ever going to live on Mars.
Just checking on how we’re doing today: lose Hockney, and a chunk of ice the size of france but gain a drug-addled fascist trillionaire? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Antarctica’s west coast missing an area of sea ice the size of France as temperatures peak 20C above average
A vast area of the Bellingshausen Sea should be covered by sea ice by now, with one expert calling the loss of ice ‘depressing’
theguardian.com
I remember watching this in 1987 and suddenly my little world made sense. Thanks David youtu.be/ZI8RbdPe4ro?...
BBC Painting With Light (Laserdisc Remaster - David Hockney - Larry Rivers - Jennifer Bartlett)
YouTube video by DextersTechLab
youtu.be
That new trailer has just reminded me how much I loved the reznor/ross social network soundtrack
“For the first time, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas worldwide in April 2026.” [ember-energy.org]
For the first time, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas worldwide in April 2026 | Ember
London, 21 May – Wind and solar generated more electricity than gas globally for the first month ever in April 2026, according to data analysed by global energy think tank Ember. Together, wind and solar generated 22% of global electricity in April 2026, compared with 20% from gas.
ember-energy.org
Got this stuck in my head and had to get it out. Just in case someone needs it.
The design profession is sort of in the position that newspapers were around the end of the aughts. Reeling from the end of a good run. Not in the right mindset to confront the structural changes, even though the work remains as necessary as ever.
Feels very on national brand that our Prime Minister is defending himself against an intervention nobody wanted from a former PM nobody asked, as part of a campaign nobody has actually clearly stated is happening, for a role he already has, and will probably not be asked to reapply for.
