Sam Smith. Not That One.

A two-part cushion designed so you can sit on the lower half while leaning back on the upper bit. The top half is designed to look like Muffin Heeler dressed as a granny, looking typically unimpressed with her nanny glasses on.

I popped into Aldi to get muffins as well as milk, but I wasn't expecting them to be so judgmental.

They'll ask politely. Multiple times.

Until you give in.

(late 30s, it turns out. Younger than Alexander is now, at any rate)

He's only young too, like in his 30s IIRC. Submarinering is a tough life.

Complete with overblown costumes and song and dance numbers. All those songs in the books were meant to be big Busby Berkeley type affairs, you know.

I love all the photos of Nana Visitor complete with Kira nose.

Panel from She-Hulk volume 3 (2005) by Dan Slott and Rick Burchett. She-Hulk is in black undies in a snowy landscape, and tucked up on her right hand is a balled-up Wolverine with his claws out, ready to be thrown like a baseball at some unsuspecting Schmuck. She-Hulk is saying "Got a firm little butt there. You must work out." Wolverine replies, "First rule about the 'fastball special'... You don't talk about the 'fastball special'."

Would pay money to see Tatiana Maslany doing this to Hugh Jackman.

Shall I bag up some of our FREEZING, and you some of your BOILING, and we can meet to swap them?

So many authors are withdrawing so fast and I'm running out of characters to list them.

That's now NINE out of the original twenty four long listed books, alongside two judges.

HALF of the first book longlist have now withdrawn from the prize.

Hugging a mug of tea for warmth because once again the office air con has been switched up ahead of next week's expected temperatures.

A very different kind of Night Garden.

My favourite pre-podcast ads were what sounded like some very chirpy Danish chaps talking about I have no idea what, before and after some nice dark Observable Radio eps.

I know he lost his right middle finger in action in WW2, hence the special transporter controls action he did, to hide it.

Was not a spy novelist, but am eternally entertained by Christopher Lee having apparently been in Intelligence.

Picturehouse Central always used to be challenging for my "get there early just in case" brain, because the bar area was always so busy you'd be hard pushed to find somewhere to perch with a drink and a book before the screen was free.
Which was a great problem!

Escape Pod 731: For Whatever We Lose | Escape Pod I lied to meet an astronaut. Or my dad did, which is the same thing. I was supposed to be at least eight years old to attend, and I was only six but the tallest in my class. So I got to meet the…

Had to go and check the moonwalker I've met (Charlie Duke) is still alive. I don't have quite the story @authorizedmusings.bsky.social has about meeting one, but I did get to see him look confused by foil-wrapped tea bags.

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And thank you for donating your Apollo gear to the Adler in Chicago; they were some of the highlights of my visit.

Oh man. Ad Astra.

You want to protect women and girls? Mebbe start yelling about this instead of imposing impossible and inconsistent standards on people.

(Earth's water content is less than 1%, for context)

three penguins are playing ice hockey on a gif.com website Alt: three plasticine stop-motion penguins playing ice hockey

If the measurements are right, it's possible it's between 4 and 20% water, mostly in the form of solid ice.

YouTube video by nedsatomicVEVO Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television (Video)

Also atom wiggling is fun, unless they insist on playing bad music at you to drown out the Neds bassline.

Okay, here's your starter: it's about 5.5 times the mass of the Earth, and 3.4 times its diameter.

Popping on here and v quickly being glad I've got writing about a planet to distract me from the godsawfulness, then feeling guilty because at least I can switch off.
I've got biscuits and tea and !interesting facts! about a planet 50 light years away if anyone needs a breather from the bin fire.

This is an attempt to remove trans people from public life and no other spin on it should be accepted.

*sigh* once again I am imploring people to STOP USING THE OCEAN BOILING PLAGIARISM MACHINE TO DUNK ON THE OCEAN BOILING PLAGIARISM MACHINE. “LOL I tried to get it to spell blueberry and it was wrong!” Congratulations! You are part of the fucking problem

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A bunny wears an oversized coat in the style of David Byrne of the Talking Heads, and does a funny dance on stage while singing for an audience. The shoulders of his coat ruffle awkwardly, but he's having a good time and so are the viewers

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Excellent thread.

See also: my shoulders.