James is here too

Burning shit down and flanneurie are not mutually exclusive, but you need to have a profound cultural commitment to both. Chapeau 🫡

Mushroom and split pea madras. This curry will gives a serious buff to your Earth stat. Who wants some?

"Ye best start believin' in Teams Meetings, Miss Swann... Yer in one!"

Showing my age, but this is worth a share

What a lot of men don't ever seem to understand, right, is that enthusiastic consent is one of the hottest, sexiest things in the known universe

Is it me, or is Andy Burnham talking some sense? "Well it's certainly not you, James" Touché...

Happy Take Your Weltschmerz To Work Day for all who celebrate 😐

👉 Manicules for everyone! 👈

Okay, tell me if this is not the filthiest thing you've heard all day... I've spent most of the afternoon cooking chicken passanda and chana daal from scratch, and I'm about to dish it up... with OVEN CHIPS

Here, have a short story, a propos of this leches silliness: mrdylitcirclestories.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Just a heads-up: The Oresteia currently running at the Bridge Theatre in London is an absolute banger. Script, staging, performances, adaptation, relevance... It's all going on. Get tickets if you can 👍👍 Stupid Oresteia joke: you won't believe who turns up in act two...

Look, for the umpteenth time, Temu, that is not how a billionaire shops...

We've had our office refurbished over the summer. This is what it looks like this afternoon. We won't have power until sometime towards the end of next week, so the printer and copier is out. Everyone starts teaching on Monday. I love FE

A poem about my cat: Alan, Gets you with his talon, Drinks kitten milk by the gallon, Entertains polite society at his semi-regular literary salon, Claims not to have a favourite character on the Archers, but when pressed, confessed, it's Fallon

Check out my lunch, ye buggers, and despair

Just got back from the cinema watching this highly enjoyable slice of batshit crazy. Extraordinary performances, several laughs and lots to think about. 👍

Make your favourite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Reindeer herders find new line of business after losing most of their herd

Our Lady of Moderna 😢

Oh FFS... The formula bar is NOT A SEARCH BOX! Ahem, sorry, people are messing with my spreadsheets... It's a very personal thing...

Define Aura in cinema 😉

Online Discourse is one of the hardest-working euphemisms available to humanity

I have found the crappest headphones at work. Little foam earmuff jobs from the late 1900s, when all computer hardware was beigey-grey, yeah sure it was Grampa...

Happy GCSE results day for those who celebrate 🏫🧑‍🎓🏆🎉 Obviously today is the day that the College has an organisation-wide WiFi failure... This could be fun...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that whenever Christopher Ecclestone turns up you're in trouble now

This is the online training course I'm currently doing. I can see it's really good stuff, but this technobabble... (Not pictured: the wilful misuse of 'read' as a noun, and repeated reference to 'defensible tutor positions')

Fun fact about me: I've never met a bad-looking Hungarian

77 unread work emails when I got back from my holidays, only 3 that I need to do anything about. 3.9% is a new personal best 💪💪💪

My wife has just sent me this, and I think we're going to visit next summer... @ewacat.bsky.social are you seeing this? hammamet.carthageland.com/en/parcs-et-...

Gif your mental health

Aberystwyth, North Beach, drinking fancy Chinese tea, because that's a thing I do on holiday

Papa Was a Rodeo, by the Magnetic Fields

Have a meme

Unbelievably late to the party, but I've just finished Sexy Wackowski Nonsense (Sense8). What a lovely, sexy preposterous thing that is ❤️

It is also possible to pea on the table and pea on the floor. Hashtag just saying

My daughter has woken me up to watch the England game...

Okay, so, Savage House... It's a strange film. Everything about it is great, but the film is... not great... It's like they were setting out to win Oscars in all the technical categories, but deliberately not get even a nomination for any of the big ones...

It's standard A24 structure: two thirds of a good film then it sh¡ts the bed in the final act. I agree it goes way too far, but I liked it. My wife didn't 🤷

Right, look here, you clueless absolute jobends, you don't put the aircon on and then open the windows. You want to dehumidify the entire Earth's atmosphere? Do me a favour...

Luke: Something just brushed past my leg! Withnail: FORK IT!

If I ever write a post apocalyptic thing with rival gangs marauding a wasteland, I'm telling you now I'm going to name my characters by abbreviating names of different medicines. Sertch, Oxet, Eski, Stalo, Parox in the SSRI gang, Setter, Prin, Aibu, Ana and Dein in the painkillers gang...

My most sarcastic congratulations to the people who've been stoking race hate in the UK recently. You didn't remember that Northern Ireland has got game, did you...

How your email finds me

Having enjoyed the Backrooms, I'm now re-reading this, aka the Book That Goes Wrong

Everybody should see this film in a massive multiplex cinema because it's REALLY disorienting coming out into a weird carpet-on-the-walls world where you don't really know where you're going

Backrooms, let's goooo