James Kay

Patsy Ferran deserves to be nine billion times more famous than she currently is.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

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Basically Anora should win everything #baftas

Anora was excellent aside from the fact they forgot that films need endings

My only New Year's Resolution of not solely limiting my Port drinking to December still going strong

These people are so pathetic

Sure it was shit.

Yeah it cost billions and achieved sweet FA.

But at least they owned the "wokes".

(AM I DOING THIS RIGHT?)

Eating chocolate that hasn't first been chilled in the fridge should be a crime against humanity

All our needs catered for here

A MS word comment from James Farrell: "this sentence is fucked".

Going through @mrjameskay.bsky.social's edits on my latest book.

Our two-year-old daughter is completely obsessed with Popular from Wicked so we must be doing something right.

Moana 2 is similar to the original Moana except for the fact that it's one of the worst films ever produced

A copy of DEXTER PROCTER THE 10-YEAR-OLD DOCTOR on an absurdly Xmassy wooden table, with candy canes, presents and a Christmas tree.

Know a 7-12 year old? Do they need a Christmas present? Can they read? I can sort you out, don't panic. My latest book, DEXTER PROCTER THE 10-YEAR-OLD DOCTOR is available and (I think) very funny. Lots of links here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/458753... or head to your lovely local bookshop.

This is one of the best TV shows in years

Ha!

Even tsunamis get all their meetings cancelled in LA

New report out today in science

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

You know, the weather is extremely grim

I think Pret's posh cheese and pickle baguette has to be one of the world's greatest sandwiches

I like it better here Bluesky but if you think it's okay to shoot the CEO of an insurance company in the back in the street then please unfollow me.

Do you know what's not in any way fun? Two year olds with croup.

Suspect Keir Starmer's decision not to prioritise reforms to political donations, either in his first King's Speech, or even now following the threat of Elon Musk bankrolling Farage, will be remembered as one of his worst

In what can only be described as a sick burn, the lady in the Co-op asked me for ID when I was buying wine earlier and when I went to get it out of my wallet she said "Only joking"

If Musk is seriously going to start funnelling money into British politics then it's incumbent on the Labour Party while they have an enormous majority to change the way British politics is funded despite the inevitable media backlash. We should copy the French model before we end up like America...

Saw Wicked for a second time and worked out the big twist at the end of the next film. Genius! Then realised it's also twist at the end of the musical I've seen twice.

Anyone else addicted to the Codenames app?

Saw The Order last night. Very polished but predictable, tropey and thin.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say NO FFS

Wicked is an exceptional movie but would likely be an extraordinary one if we didn't live in an age where every film has to be split into two and last 3 hours each.