Giles Sparrow

British Museum discourse has moved from “how dare you, this thing a soldier put in his knapsack and then sold half for the precious metals is wholly legit” to “everything in it was stolen from an incredibly racist imagined version of Africa”.

J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.

MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Caerphilly apparently. I honestly, honestly despise this stuff. They have nothing to offer, nothing to say, nothing to hope for, nothing to aspire to, no solutions, nothing. Just hate and lies.

Wotsits?

The logical endpoint of all current publishing trends will be my "The Bookshop Cats of Auschwitz (a hot billionaire cowboy vampire whodunnit)", publishing Sproctober 20never...

In an interview with Bloomberg, Farage has said that Nathan Gill was "one bad apple" - unintentionally being accurate because he forgot the rest of the proverb.

Abolish the Home Office

Welcome to UK student life, where the regulator admits that, if your uni collapses, you will be completely stuffed; and its solution is to build a service to help people cope with their uni collapsing...

A waffle iron that forms keyboard waffles.

Seasonal greetings for both the #bookhistory and #digitalhistory folks: a keyboard waffle iron. 🗃️

a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing Alt: Leonard DiCaprio recognising something.

Not to mention, Actual Lisa Nandy sighted in the wild!

Equalities watchdog urges UK ministers to ‘act with speed’ on trans guidance EHRC writes to Bridget Phillipson over implementation of code on single-sex public spaces after supreme court ruling

Tuesday - European Commissioner on Human Rights warns EHRC guidance could lead to exclusion of trans and non-binary individuals from public spaces,

Wednesday - EHRC pushes for it to be implemented faster.

The transphobia seems pretty deliberate at this point.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Bloody hell - Big Finish have got Jessica Dromgoole directing an original Baczkiewicz series? Count me in!

We'd better build more AI data centers, AI will fix this problem for us --

*waits five years*

The oceans have boiled and the drinking water is gone but at least all the intellectual property has been stolen and now I can use AI to create a really accurate representation of Batman fucking Pikachu

@mitildide.bsky.social

Procrastination takes may forms. Tonight as a service to the astronomical community I offer help with your JWST proposal titles.
#JWST 🧪🔭✨

Once again, the argument against road safety + pollution improvements consists of what people 'feel', their 'views' and 'feedback'.

No actual evidence, because that would show that LTNs work.

Television International Enterprises Archives Ltd.

Pretty freaking wild to hear "actually AI is useful for climate change" constantly and from people who should know better when the people deciding how the massive resources it consumes are used are saying stuff like this

Lovely to see the wonderful @missingepisodespod.bsky.social arriving on here - one of the wittiest and most erudite and well-researched #DoctorWho podcasters out there. Give them a follow and if you've never listened before, you're in for a treat!

linktr.ee/missingeps_pod

Just a year late - if they had any sense (hah!) they could have done this last autumn (if not earlier) and been on the front foot instead of enduring a year of "what this means for the fiscal rules" headlines.

The #palaeoart we didn't know we needed....

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

Possibly the funniest thing in here is Jones’ lawyers describing The Onion as his “ideological nemesis.”

in plinky-plonky cover versions...

All a big chuckle to this grotesque fuckwit and these media clowns just lap it up and clap like the shit handed chimps they are.

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

Logopolis (Christopher H. Bidmead, dir. Peter Grimwade, 1981).

Oh. My. God. PTA nailed it.