Victoria Redfern

Here's just three of the incredible science speakers who will be taking the stage at Nine Lessons for the Dec 18th edition alongside @robinince.bsky.social and co. Dr Julia Shaw, @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social & @flygirlnhm.bsky.social. Last remaining tickets at www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/nin...

I've tested negative for COVID, but I just woke up at 05.30 because I needed to empty my lungs of snot. Be careful out there. There's something horrible gong around (I know 4 other people I saw on Friday night who've got it) that's very contagious and comes on very quickly.

Stewart Lee: AI has worked out how to blackmail its human enemies. So why is it still so useless at shopping? If a leading scientist is right, we have five years until we’re being sextorted by smart kettles and facing the ‘ultimate risk’ to our existence – and yet AI can't recognise an album format. It almost...

Stewart Lee asks: "Do we really have to fear being enslaved by something (AI) that can’t even sell me a copy of the Wild Poppies album?" and I have to confess to harbouring similar thoughts myself.
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Wasn't this that weird backwards condom that never caught on?

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

And how people in today's climate can afford these ones with designer skincream and, I dunno, caviar and stuff behind the doors is INSANE.

I hate advent calendars with stuff in, sorry. I love the traditional ones with just pictures. Actual tradition, not a tradition someone made up so you have to buy a new one every year.

If you do Elf on the Shelf you want your children to develop paranoia and you're a terrible parent. There you go. I absolve you. Also, while we're on this, chocolate advent calendars are rank.

This is insane. Either you do Christmas presents the night before or Christmas morning. You don't do BOTH.

I always say that anyone who calls themselves a 'content creator' has no soul, but never expected to see it demonstrated so dramatically.

WTF is a Christmas Eve Box?

Thank you

Illness update: Just went to the bathroom and didn't put the light on because the switch was too stiff and heavy.

I do hope the sexy wrestling man with the eyeliner and the feathers that she showed me photos of is on this. Medicinal reasons.

I'll have another go later. Thanks. It's a good idea.

I have a hot water bottle and Clash of the Comics on the telly. (Thanks to Isabelle for telling me about this on Friday.)

Ah. Let me look into that. Thank you.

How weird. Maybe you have to up your weirdness quotient so thet it starts asking you, "What?" "How?" "With a parsnip?"

Is it something to do with the automated AI moron they have on there now, which posts spectacularly stupid questions underneath everything like it only just landed on earth and doesn't understand why is fingers and how words work? Is this AI trying to learn? So weird.

Over on Facebook, 'reply' or 'comment' (what was it?) has become 'how?' and I have no idea why. Or, indeed, how. It seems like a mistranslation from another language. Or do I have to keep explaining everything, like I have a tiny child with me? "Why is the sky blue?"

LONDON

MITCH BENN brings his electrifying one man version of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol to the Baron’s Court Theatre TONIGHT (9th) until Saturday 13th (plus matinee on Saturday)…
#AChristmasCarol #ChristmasReels #Dickens #LondonTheatre #TheatreReels #ViralReels #Storytelling #ChristmasInLondon

When the waiter arrives to take our plates away, I always move mine a few centimetres closer to him to show that I'm a great guy and very helpful.

“I bring you fun”
“I bring you sunshine”
“I bring you love”

The Three Morecambe and Wise Men.

The Ladykillers was released on Dec 8th 1955, so turns 70 this week.

Here’s John Finnemore celebrating Alec Guinness’ gang of Ealing ne’erdowells…

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I feel horribly ill, and it came on really quickly. Just suddenly started with a cough out of nowhere, then rapidly more and more ill. But I've done a COVID test that was negative. (Though it is one of those ones that just does the nostrils, which aren't as good.)

This is what comes of kissing boys.

Thanks. I am mostly cheesed off. I have so much to do.

Don't try and top trumps me with cancer. Wrong person.

Because it's perfectly normal to cough up blood if you cough a lot for a long time, and even more normal for me after 3 bouts of COVID. It only means imminent death in Victorian novels.

I was FINE this morning. Got back from lunch at work and I suddenly had a cough. Now feel like I can't breathe properly, the insides of my lungs itch and have coughed up some blood. So that's great.