Ian Pattinson

We need a wealth tax on billionaires. But let's sweeten it with free compulsory drug tests, therapy, mental health interventions, and whatever else is needed to work out just what the hell is wrong with them to make them that way.

I'm considering finally asking to be tested for ADHD. Guess I should get on the waiting list quickly, in case Streeting conjures up a reason to cut funding.

A House of Dynamite This feels like a film from a different age, a tale from the West Wing era. Replaying the same twenty or so minutes so we can see events from as many perspectives as possible, it builds a tense tale

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This feels like a film from a different age, a tale from the West Wing era. Replaying the same twenty or so minutes so we can see events from as many perspectives as possible, it builds a tense tale of crisis management as a mysteri…

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Troll 2 Every few months, I renew my Netflix subscription, watch stuff for a month or two, then cancel it again. My most recent renewal is not to catch up on Stranger Things*, but so I could see this Norskai

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Every few months, I renew my Netflix subscription, watch stuff for a month or two, then cancel it again. My most recent renewal is not to catch up on Stranger Things*, but so I could see this Norskaiju sequel as soon as possible.

Troll was a f…

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Premium Rush has some great bike centric action scenes. It does portray (courier) cycling as dangerous, but makes it clear that's mostly the fault of drivers and/or bad road design.

Time, please I've long suspected I have some low level ADHD, with focus issues and the like. But it's hard to impossible to get a diagnosis on the NHS. I've asked, and been rebuffed, in the past, but I shou

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I’ve long suspected I have some low level ADHD, with focus issues and the like. But it’s hard to impossible to get a diagnosis on the NHS. I’ve asked, and been rebuffed, in the past, but I should try again, even if the waiting list for ass…

I refuse to do the age verification stuff on here, on principle.

But I have given Steam my credit card details because I might want to buy some adult visual novels....

I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) With the success of the Scream reboot, it was only a matter of time before producers dug up this '90s slasher series and tried to revive it. They didn't do as good a job.I haven't watched the ori

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With the success of the Scream reboot, it was only a matter of time before producers dug up this ’90s slasher series and tried to revive it. They didn’t do as good a job.

I haven’t watched the original IKWYDLS si…

People who support the Green Party aren't attacking Labour from within. They're joining the Green Party. Who are focused on making the country better.
Labour would do well to pay attention. The Green party has the policies the country needs, and that more people are voting for.
(YP are a shambles.)

I've started declaring that my books are available from all good ebook retailers, and Amazon.
Still make most of my sales on Amazon, but their percentage share is slowly dropping.

No, autocorrect, I'm looking for an *Arran* sweater. What do you think this is, X?

And after all the violence and double talk
There's just a song in all the trouble and the strife

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I enjoyed them at the time, but rereading them recently, I was annoyed by all the clumsy retconning in the replacement pages and bonus stories.

When I try to start a job application.

Two crashed cars either side of the road, presumably after running into each other.

This was yesterday. The cars were still there this afternoon. Wonder how long until they're removed.

This might be the perfect day for solar panels and a heat pumps. Very cold, but with a clear sky.
But I rent, so I can only dream about that sort of thing.

Temperature has dropped, and my brain has frozen. Concentration and motivation even worse than normal.
Bleh.

Most of this is remembered from stuff I read decades ago, and I almost completely stopped reading the X books in the early noughties. So there's a lot I could have missed, or haven't even read yet.
I believe she and Colossus are finally married. I just hope she's significantly older now.

100 or so issues, and another team, later, Kitty, now 15, is mooning over a supporting character who has to be in his late twenties or early thirties.
Later on in Excalibur, Warren Ellis introduced another older man, who got to have a relationship with Shadowcat that Megyn Kelly would approve of.

There's hints of a relationship with a boy her own age around this time, but I forget how it plays out, so will learn as I reread issues.
Anyway (spoilers) Doug ends up getting killed, so....

I've reached the 190s of Uncanny X-Men, and Kitty, 14, has just been dumped by her 20-something boyfriend, who she's been having 'special cuddles' with since she was 13.
Canonically (I hope), their relationship wasn't consummated, but he had wished she was older so they could do it.

I'm using Marvel Unlimited to read the X books from the introduction of the 'New' team onwards. With all the Epstein news, I've begun to wonder if any comics scholar has done a study on the inappropriate boyfriends of Kitty Pryde, and if/how they reflect attitudes to teen girls 'dating' adults.

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

As a reader, I often have only a vague idea what I'm going to buy, only deciding when I see what's on the shelf.

What would probably help me would be some proper therapy around the problem. But I'm not going to be offered that, and I can't afford it, because I don't have a job.