La Vie: a mode d'emploi
Sara Gran's Claire DeWitt novels.
Or Lanark by Alasdair Gray.
Or Lanark by Alasdair Gray.
OK, less contentious post:
You've been placed in charge of a movie studio, and have an unlimited budget to adapt any work of your choosing that has never been made into a live-action TV series or film. What are you picking?
For me: PC Hodgell's Kencyrath Cycle and there's no close second
You've been placed in charge of a movie studio, and have an unlimited budget to adapt any work of your choosing that has never been made into a live-action TV series or film. What are you picking?
For me: PC Hodgell's Kencyrath Cycle and there's no close second
December 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
La Vie: a mode d'emploi
Somebody really needs to make these cos-playing weirdos get a proper job. Senior Policy Fellow indeed. Six weeks on the tills at Asda and all this shite is beaten right out of him.
Harrison Pitt accuses the King of treachery. Pitt is a Senior Policy Fellow for Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, who also regularly co-hosts podcasts with his ally Tomlinson (who advocates banning all ethnic and faith minorities from public office). Like Lowe, Pitt is keen to dissolve boundaries/norms
December 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Somebody really needs to make these cos-playing weirdos get a proper job. Senior Policy Fellow indeed. Six weeks on the tills at Asda and all this shite is beaten right out of him.
Was very good!
Merry Christmas bluesky! Please enjoy this festive episode of @backlisted.bsky.social which was a pure joy to record! All about Asterix - the good, the bad, the ugly and the very silly www.backlisted.fm/episodes/254 @robertshearman.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social
254. Asterix and the Roman Agent by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo — Backlisted
Merry Christmas friends! Join Andy and Una, plus authors Louie Stowell and Robert Shearman , for a post-solstice celebration of Asterix and the Roman Agent (1972) by René Goscinny (wo...
www.backlisted.fm
December 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Was very good!
Ministry
Groups and artists you wish had made Christmas albums:
Jonathan Richman
Cocteau Twins
Bobby Hutcherson
The Everly Brothers
Blossom Dearie
Jonathan Richman
Cocteau Twins
Bobby Hutcherson
The Everly Brothers
Blossom Dearie
December 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Ministry
I've wished the late night so and so's a Merry Christmas, so best to wish the bright'-eyed morning R?TL one, too, to be even-handed. Merry Christmas to you all!
(And if this time of year is difficult for whatever reason, I hope it passes as pleasurably as possible)
(And if this time of year is difficult for whatever reason, I hope it passes as pleasurably as possible)
December 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I've wished the late night so and so's a Merry Christmas, so best to wish the bright'-eyed morning R?TL one, too, to be even-handed. Merry Christmas to you all!
(And if this time of year is difficult for whatever reason, I hope it passes as pleasurably as possible)
(And if this time of year is difficult for whatever reason, I hope it passes as pleasurably as possible)
My TL has a remarkable amount of people confessing drunkenness. I've only just finished work, alas. Merry Christmas you absolute shower of reprobates.
December 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
My TL has a remarkable amount of people confessing drunkenness. I've only just finished work, alas. Merry Christmas you absolute shower of reprobates.
Wolf Alice are one of those bands, like Biffy Clyro, that I just find entirely unmemorable. I'm aware they exist, and are well regarded, but you could play me ten of their songs, that I've previously heard, tell me it was them and I'd still look at you blankly.
December 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Wolf Alice are one of those bands, like Biffy Clyro, that I just find entirely unmemorable. I'm aware they exist, and are well regarded, but you could play me ten of their songs, that I've previously heard, tell me it was them and I'd still look at you blankly.
Connections
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December 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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December 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Reposted by Matt Fallaize
Goodness me, it’s like someone rewrote The Twelve Days of Christmas with sex pests www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Russell Brand charged with new rape and sexual assault offences
Russell Brand will appear in court on 20 January 2026 over the new charges.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Goodness me, it’s like someone rewrote The Twelve Days of Christmas with sex pests www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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December 23, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Connections
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December 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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I'm actually in real life a professional chef, and I have zero fucking idea where people get this time from. Genuinely very envious.
Imagine having a list of favourite cookbooks of 2025. Imagine having had time to cook even a single recipe from a single cookbook in order to have *one* favourite cookbook of 2025.
December 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I'm actually in real life a professional chef, and I have zero fucking idea where people get this time from. Genuinely very envious.
I'm sorry, Driving Home for Christmas is still shit.
December 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I'm sorry, Driving Home for Christmas is still shit.
My favourite part is this is how some people find out. Mental.
December 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
My favourite part is this is how some people find out. Mental.
Blimey
Chris Rea, le chanteur de « Driving Home for Christmas » et « The Road to Hell », est mort à 74 ans
Chris Rea, le chanteur de « Driving Home for Christmas » et « The Road to Hell », est mort à 74 ans
Le chanteur britannique « s’est éteint paisiblement » lundi à l’hôpital « des suites d’une courte maladie », a annoncé sa famille à des médias britanniques.
www.lemonde.fr
December 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Blimey
Reposted by Matt Fallaize
I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
December 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”
In my regular writing days I had a few exercises which I'd use to get my brain moving. Outsourcing that to a machine completely misses the point.
I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!”
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
December 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
In my regular writing days I had a few exercises which I'd use to get my brain moving. Outsourcing that to a machine completely misses the point.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Just had to faff about in the middle of a v busy service making a non-vegan dish vegan, only for them to then put a load if mayonnaise on it, if anyone's wondering how my fucking mood currently is.
December 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Just had to faff about in the middle of a v busy service making a non-vegan dish vegan, only for them to then put a load if mayonnaise on it, if anyone's wondering how my fucking mood currently is.
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December 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Ormskirk short stories: The Bone Idle Detective agency
elderlyrollerbladingman.blogspot.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
ATTENTION #COYSSKY Bosh Nonce thinks Tim Davie resigned because of him
I’ve just realised that Skinner seems to be implying that Tim Davie resigned because of him and not, y’know, the widely-reported story involving the President of the United States
December 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
ATTENTION #COYSSKY Bosh Nonce thinks Tim Davie resigned because of him