Callie Petch
@calliepetch.bsky.social
Occasional critic, human disaster, naïve progressive. Words: Soundsphere Magazine, Little White Lies, Stereogum, and my own place. (They/them.)
The Bus has set off!
Ladies, Gents and all between and beyond.
Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope!
Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause!
desertbus.org
Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope!
Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause!
desertbus.org
Desert Bus 2025
A charity fundraising marathon in support of Child's Play Charity.
desertbus.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The Bus has set off!
#NowWatching Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
#NowWatching Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
#NowPlaying: "Getting Killed" by Geese. #MusicSky
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#NowPlaying: "Getting Killed" by Geese. #MusicSky
I have finished Andor and what the fuck am I supposed to do now? When am I ever going to get a hit like this from Star Wars again? It's not fair.
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I have finished Andor and what the fuck am I supposed to do now? When am I ever going to get a hit like this from Star Wars again? It's not fair.
So that's him gone by the weekend, then.
November 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
So that's him gone by the weekend, then.
November 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Oh, for god's sake, I'LL fucking do it. Thinking Bond needs any kind of real overarching continuity/myth arc is what got us in this dismal spiral in the first place! STOP OVERTHINKING JAMES BOND!
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Oh, for god's sake, I'LL fucking do it. Thinking Bond needs any kind of real overarching continuity/myth arc is what got us in this dismal spiral in the first place! STOP OVERTHINKING JAMES BOND!
Stereogum is probably the website I visit most often on a daily basis. Brilliant writers with strong voices advocating for music that could be your next favourite act in entertaining ways, and they pay freelancers great rates absurdly quick. Your subscription money is absolutely not wasted here.
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Stereogum is probably the website I visit most often on a daily basis. Brilliant writers with strong voices advocating for music that could be your next favourite act in entertaining ways, and they pay freelancers great rates absurdly quick. Your subscription money is absolutely not wasted here.
Those first two episodes of Pluribus were absolutely worth the hype and build-up. What a hell of a year for television.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Those first two episodes of Pluribus were absolutely worth the hype and build-up. What a hell of a year for television.
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Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
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every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
"Ok, got a little bit of time before I need to go to bed. Let's spend 10 minutes on this VOID/BREAKER demo and see what the fuss is about..."
*almost two hours pass*
"Ah, I see it's happened again."
*almost two hours pass*
"Ah, I see it's happened again."
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
"Ok, got a little bit of time before I need to go to bed. Let's spend 10 minutes on this VOID/BREAKER demo and see what the fuss is about..."
*almost two hours pass*
"Ah, I see it's happened again."
*almost two hours pass*
"Ah, I see it's happened again."
I think the bigger story here is that there seems to be a growing schism between Ted Sarandos' hardline ideological desire to kill off movie theatres, and other senior Netflix execs realising it's better for all parties if Netflix has a consistent theatrical presence. www.thewrap.com/zach-cregger...
Zach Cregger Sci-Fi Movie 'The Flood' Stalled at Netflix Over Lack of Theatrical Commitment | Exclusive
Zach Cregger's sci-fi movie “The Flood” has stalled at Netflix over the streamer's refusal to give the film a major theatrical component.
www.thewrap.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I think the bigger story here is that there seems to be a growing schism between Ted Sarandos' hardline ideological desire to kill off movie theatres, and other senior Netflix execs realising it's better for all parties if Netflix has a consistent theatrical presence. www.thewrap.com/zach-cregger...
Confirmed that Greg reads the fan fics. #Taskmaster
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Confirmed that Greg reads the fan fics. #Taskmaster
I have loved every Gorillaz release since their mid-2010s hiatus in their own way, but, man, The Mountain is shaping up to be something truly special. I need it to be March already. music.apple.com/gb/album/the...
The God of Lying (feat. IDLES) by Gorillaz on Apple Music
music.apple.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I have loved every Gorillaz release since their mid-2010s hiatus in their own way, but, man, The Mountain is shaping up to be something truly special. I need it to be March already. music.apple.com/gb/album/the...
#NowPlaying: "NEVER ENOUGH" by Turnstile. #MusicSky
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
#NowPlaying: "NEVER ENOUGH" by Turnstile. #MusicSky
#NowPlaying: "Guided Tour" by High Vis. #MusicSky
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
#NowPlaying: "Guided Tour" by High Vis. #MusicSky
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it might be asking too much but i'd really like the UK voting population who are still of sound mind to look at new york tonight and realise that we fucking CAN keep farage out of no. 10 and that labour and the tories are not a foregone conclusion. better options exist and they can become a reality!
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
it might be asking too much but i'd really like the UK voting population who are still of sound mind to look at new york tonight and realise that we fucking CAN keep farage out of no. 10 and that labour and the tories are not a foregone conclusion. better options exist and they can become a reality!