My local shop is playing the Alien soundtrack which has added a certain frisson to picking up my semi-skimmed
04.01.2026 11:17 — 👍 32 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0My local shop is playing the Alien soundtrack which has added a certain frisson to picking up my semi-skimmed
04.01.2026 11:17 — 👍 32 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0Wintry Mix sounds like a three-piece girl-band from the early 2000s
04.01.2026 14:49 — 👍 29 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0A US-backed coup? In Latin America? Unprecedented!
04.01.2026 15:10 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Wintry Mix sounds like a three-piece girl-band from the early 2000s
04.01.2026 14:49 — 👍 29 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0NO-ONE CAN FIND THE CREAM
04.01.2026 12:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My local shop is playing the Alien soundtrack which has added a certain frisson to picking up my semi-skimmed
04.01.2026 11:17 — 👍 32 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0Well, the FIFA Peace Prize people really have egg on their faces
03.01.2026 18:14 — 👍 42 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0New Years, new me. Not like those other 42 times.
29.12.2025 22:33 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Ah shit, I nearly went the whole year without thinking about the Roman Empire
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READING 2025: Enjoyed the always compelling (if sometimes problematic) BALKAN TRILOGY by Olivia Manning, especially after briefly visiting Bucharest a couple of years ago and falling a little bit in love with it.
28.12.2025 18:36 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’m very tired from all this sitting and eating
28.12.2025 16:14 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
A screenshot from a question website. The question says "Anonymous asked in Pets › Dogs • 13 hours ago Is magic bad for dog? I'm working on slight of hand magic tricks and practice in my house a lot. Sometimes in front of dogs. Am I hurting their brains when I'm blowing their minds?"
I think about this a lot
28.12.2025 12:15 — 👍 2933 🔁 667 💬 3 📌 0
READING 2025: Went on a Kazuo Ishiguro run in March filling in some of my blanks from his back catalogue: PALE VIEW OF THE HILLS, WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS and re-read the wonderful, dream-like THE UNCONSOLED
28.12.2025 15:29 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
THEM: We’re looking for a film that feels more… authored.
ME: it was authored. By me.
A special day, on which we celebrate the noble box, that lets us carry the many as though they be but one
26.12.2025 16:00 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I made it 30-40% more authored and they still didn’t want it ;)
26.12.2025 15:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sounds like a good deal!
26.12.2025 15:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Never seen this so devastatingly and lucidly articulated.
26.12.2025 10:02 — 👍 79 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 1
THEM: We’re looking for a film that feels more… authored.
ME: it was authored. By me.
Putting turkey in sandwiches, curries, pies, using it as cavity wall insulation, stuffing mattresses with it, putting it beneath acrobats to break their fall
26.12.2025 12:35 — 👍 40 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
The prosthetics in this Colin Firth movie are incredible #KingsSpeech
25.12.2025 15:04 — 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0There were reportedly tensions on set between Caine and Rizzo the Rat, a notorious method actor, who refused to break character even when the cameras weren’t rolling
25.12.2025 13:20 — 👍 31 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0God bless us, every one.
25.12.2025 11:19 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bit sad (especially at this time of year) but we had an accident at ours last night. Everyone’s okay, but I’m santa now.
25.12.2025 10:48 — 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0Maybe the grinch just hated capitalism?
24.12.2025 17:04 — 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Maybe the grinch just hated capitalism?
24.12.2025 17:04 — 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
In accordance with the tradition
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In accordance with the tradition
24.12.2025 12:07 — 👍 31 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0THE FLY (1986)
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