Gareth

Stupid hipster sharks, fucking around on their unicycles.

Spoiler: you should buy my latest novel.

It gave me such a warm glow to see how effortlessly it folded into your comic stylings. Really wonderful.

@theguyliner.bsky.social Just finished Leading Man and wanted to tell you how much I loved it. Quite a long time since I was unable to put a book down.
Oh, and maybe it was just a coincidence, but seeing a reference to The Happy Rickshaw made it feel like we were in the Kitty Extended Universe.

My main reason for using IMDb is to check whether I’m watching Patrick Fischler or David Dastmalchian in something.

M and Q are just IP.

I listen almost exclusively to Swedish nonsense now, so the algorithm has an uncanny knack of serving up just what I need.

This is why I feel I can never leave Spotify, because it knows me better than most of my friends. And it doesn’t judge me.

As a currant-, sultana- and raisin-dodger I’ve long been denied the joys of a hot cross bun, until the last few years, when supermarkets started offering alternatively flavoured options. I was so excited to buy these this morning, only to discover the small print on the rhubarb ones. Fuck sultanas.

This is what Twitter looks like right now

@teewatterss on threads posted: watching the final season it felt so ridiculous that Daenerys could go mad within a two episode arc but 40 days into 2025 and like I get it now

what we need around here are more dragons

USAid was also investigating Musk, that’s one of main reasons he went after them

FAA also was after Musk for exploding rocket debris where there were flights. That’s why he fired FAA head.

Every dept or person regulating Musk has been removed by Musk.

I guess it was kind of a big deal.

I’m wondering how long it took the duck to put those little shoes on.

Astonishing that BBC News spent 15 minutes covering the Potomac #planecrash and managed to completely avoid mentioning the fact that 8 days ago Trump fired 400 FAA senior officials, the TSA head & 3,000 air traffic controllers.

If you’re a tech bro billionaire, you can delete the receding hairline your ancestry has saddled you with and replace it with a tight-knit block of follicular robo-growth, you can change your face, change public opinion en masse with the power of the misinformation you spread via your digital platform and the more moderate and considered voices you are able to algorithmically drown out, send rockets into space, buy yourself a position at the forefront of political life despite being singularly unqualified for such a position. You can, because of all this, probably convince yourself there is in fact nothing you cannot do. But here you will be incorrect. What you can’t do is ever be a reflective, compassionate human being who can grasp, with any feeling, the harm of your actions. The bubble of unreality you have constructed around yourself - the one which no longer contains anyone who tells you the truth - will be too well-insulated for that to be possible. You would probably believe you are enhancing your legacy with each additional chunk of power you purchase if you hadn’t already dismissed the concept of “legacy” due to your conviction that, for yourself (although not for for the minions) you can invent everlasting life. But, despite what you have convinced yourself, one day you will, just like every one else, die. In the final moments, you will be reduced to something frail and helpless. Your billions will not grant you an exemption from that. Maybe right then, in that reduced state, the last thing you will see is the true horror of what you were: the rippling evil of all the choices you could have made with your money and didn’t, and the repercussions for the planet...

tomcox.substack.com

We’ve done a dry-ish January, and the worst nights’ sleep I’ve had were the two times we had drinks. But will I learn?

Here
Burn
Breathing Space

Every year it's the same - excitement at compiling a watch-list with all the nominated films, followed by despair when I see some of the run-times.

Fancy seeing you here!

@mikeybits.bsky.social Well look who it is!

The generation which thought media studies was some snowflaky fad is persistently conned by the media it consumes, weird

Yes! Everyone should learn about the classical guitarist and founding member of prog-rock instrumental group Sky 😉

People are fucking mental. The need to shoulder-barge into any exchange and position themselves front and centre is such a 21st century phenomenon.

And the moment one of these fucking apps gets hacked, you've got three hundred separate accounts that need you to change your password.

Police say they have nothing to go on.

Here come the hot stepper

I went out on my bike this morning (bracing), and witnessed a head-on collision between two cars, at speed, on a mostly residential street, that left both as write-offs. Amazing scenes.

Is it any wonder his feet are hurting mighty bad?

Today marks the ninth anniversary of my self-employment. There have been ups and downs, unsurprisingly, but starting the year in sweatpants and slippers, with a commute of just ten steps, reminds me that I made the right decision. Here’s to year ten.