Shakespeare would have loved this*! *a staggeringly dreary rivalry between two really quite similar bureaucrats
Cslmn
@rapsacnomlas.bsky.social
Writer, beauty queen, haver of takes. "A tiny man" - John Cleese
I've seen Heaven's Gate so obviously I know the cast goes dummy, but even then, seeing it written down like that! Wow!
Man, what a day to come back to this place. Andy Burnham by-election day. You can't fucking move for people "taking the temperature in Westminster". Anyone seen some nice bums in the world cup
Hello everybody, this is still me but I'm having to change privacy settings on everything. Bluesky can't be private??! I may in time have to delete this if I can't make it work like this.
Outrage over Gaza is doused and ignored; outrage over immigration is stoked and naturalised. This is a political choice, and it is one that is being made by the people in the government who are paid money by the taxpayer to manage these sorts of things.
Nick Timothy has always been an unpleasant authoritarian racist but the direct endorsement of racist mob violence (and attacking the police for preventing it) is genuinely a new low.
Rick@flipchartrick.bsky.social · last yr.This man is a Conservative MP and former No.10 adviser.
The fact that ai art and writing programs are built on stolen work really seems to be fading from the discussion even amongst artists and writers, which is a bit shit.
Horrible set of quotes on this tweet... lots of American people punching the air in triumph at some stupid shit happening in the MCU... just horrible
Boner Vivant@dougtilley.bsky.social · last yr.Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema? During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.
Really makes me laugh, every time, to see that lad in his pants at every curtain call. Can anybody tell me if somebody involved in decision-making in this production of Evita is by any chance a colossal faggot
Anyone talking about the 90s like it was a feminist haven free of a manosphere has clearly forgotten about what the 90s was actually like or never bothered to study it
Made the mistake of asking my kids what my face looks like at rest, and was told "if you were an emoji you'd be meh"
The future's here! And it sucks absolutely mountains of shit!
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · last yr.'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) vs 'The Wizard of Oz at Sphere' (2025) Over 90% of the film has been 'touched up' with AI
Very happy for everyone who's excited to see Oasis live, but I'm quite baffled by anybody out there pretending or thinking that Oasis were *good*. What's happening there
Avril Lavigne: "He was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious?" My children (every single time): "Yes, I think in 2025 we're going to need a lot more information actually, nothing about that is obvious, it could mean anything at all, you might as well say..." [cont. ad infinitum]
If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · last yr.It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”
Here are some things I overheard this morning as I was having a terrible day, which cheered me up: [woman on phone] "I definitely told her to fuck off" [woman in shop (singing)] "You're gonna love me" [young man] "It's my first whip but I'm trying to stay humble"
Life must be absolutely amazing if you're the sort of person who is really, really into receiving six-digit security codes
Still slightly feeling from the moment on Monday when my 7yo went, "Caspar, would you like a free plane ticket?" (Me: "Y... yes, I suppose so!") 7yo: "Then you should join Nectar. Nectar has just got together with British Airways to give their customers free tickets"
We are a decade into the panic about trans athletes, and the best they've got is still a single woman coming 5th in a college swim meet.
A man and a woman each sitting with one of their young kids on this bus, across the middle aisle from one another, just SCREAMED at the kids not to talk over them. Guys... sit the kids together and let them talk to each other? I agree they're boring and annoying but the solution is right there
Really funny that you get people moaning about wokeness in various TV programmes when every week on Sewing Bee someone called Fy repurposes their mother's wedding dress as a sex-club inspired suffragette outfit for save-the-environment week
Interesting. I think what this demonstrates is that you can make great and popular art about, or as an expression of, grief/loss/existential bemusement, but it won’t necessarily help YOU with those things.
Absolutely fascinating, quite upsetting interview with a clearly extremely depressed Sufjan Stevens in which he basically trashes his masterpiece. I see what he's saying, but he's wrong: the record he made is beautiful and good and true. www.npr.org/2025/05/27/1...
The kids just tried to make me play a pretend game based on a videogame they play and fuck my life it was so boring, they had to buy made-up shit from me with made-up currency, stuff like super-powered strawberries or whatever, never been so bored in all my life
Just came across this comment from Hadley Freeman from October 2023, quoted by David Aaronovitch in the Times.
