Spigon

NYT Connections is truly awful today

hbo: we want you for the harry potter reboot prod: wow, a chance to reinvent the series, I have so many ideas! hbo: no no, make it look sound and feel exactly like a 20yr old movie. just copy them, pad it out and uh what is your view on basic rights for trans ppl? prod: why? hbo: dont worry about it

At the rate we change PMs I think a 10-year plan is optimistic. I think Andy Burnham should aim for ten months and see how we get on eh?

Wordle 1,852 6/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟨⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Oof

Statistically if you want to win the world cup you should try to be a predominantly catholic nation and to have done at least one historical genocide.

My new mental health strategy.

Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.

Sometimes I think maybe my asd doesn’t affect me that much and then I attend an industry event and I wonder briefly how I am even still alive.

Just read the official statement from the Westerosi govt that when they appointed the mysterious spymaster, Master of Whisperers, Varys “the Spider” to an official post, they had no idea he was in any way dodgy or duplicitous and this has come as a complete shock to everyone.

Can we stop mocking Trump for incontinence. I know he’s a monster, but I’m not saying this for him. There are lots of people with incontinence issues that don’t want to hear everyone laughing and mocking someone for it. Mock him for something else, like being a generally repulsive immoral fascist.

Miss me with your story of an enchanting fantasy world that turns out to be a trauma-induced defence mechanism. That will make me sad. I don’t read fantasy to feel sad. I can manage that very well without assistance.

It is utterly insane that Trump rode to power on a wacky conspiracy theory about a cabal of wealthy and powerful child abusers, all the time in the full knowledge that he was part of the actual real thing.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

It's the Ship of Theseus but all the original parts are being used to build a second, crappier ship.

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

Maybe this will finally be the moment that makes them all see what has happened to America, he says hopefully, while applying the clown makeup again.

As flagged by @fullfact.org, there's an ENTIRELY AI-GENERATED video of a fake UK politician in the House of Commons doing the rounds on TikTok It has more than 5 million views While the original video is flagged as AI, it has been reposted by many other accounts (where it is not labelled as AI)

Masked government agents are killing people in the streets, abducting people from their homes in the middle of the night, and arresting those who speak out. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

Got a new pair of really comfy slippers for Christmas and I see now how this is actually an amazing present. All those years I thought dads were just hamming it up but this actually fucking rocks.

The DVD collection in this rented house has made some *insane*. choices It includes the extended cut of Green Lantern and *three* different blu-ray copies of Anchorman 2.

It’s shocking how fast the Israel flag has been adopted by the far right in the UK. These are people who in normal circumstances would have pretty foul views on Jewish ppl, but now using it as a symbol because of palestine flags. They are so anti-islam they’ve become pro-judaism. Really odd times.

I dunno, seems like a very temporary solution with some permanent consequences. Has anyone tried this?

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Holy shit. The opening episode of Welcome to Derry is not messing around. 👶🏼 🎈

“Over representation” of minorities is a nonsensical idea. If you demand statistical demographic accuracy from an ad or a tv show that features anything less than 1000 characters, you don’t understand basic statistics.

Finding it vaguely amusing as a headline format, apologising to Jeremy Corbyn before making whatever point you want to make

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

10/10 punchline, no notes *chef's kiss*

Ah yes, the dangerous, edgy, left-wing firebrand and political agitator… *checks notes* …Jimmy Kimmel?

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

Wordle hit a real low point today

Placing political context aside, the shooter being a socially awkward young white man, from a conservative gun-owning home, who spends too much time online, is all very unsurprising for a school shooter, which is essentially what he became.

Reading the groyper shit and… Jesus things have gotten bad. I’m trying to process the possibility that a man was just publicly assassinated as an indirect long term result of Zoe Quinn having a really shitty ex boyfriend in 2014.

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

Not gonna mourn for a guy who thought gays should be stoned to death. Sorry not sorry.

It’s important to remember that he would not have wanted anyone to dwell on this, take any meaningful action in response, or spend time thinking about the victim. Thoughts and prayers, nothing to be done, move on.

Want to make sure Americans are aware that Lord Peter Mandelson, the UK’s ambassador to the US, is um, in the news. A thread worth pulling if, for example, you were unhappy w/ the US’s current political leadership. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Whoever put the pride flags up on the M62, you made me smile this morning. I wish there were no need to hang flags up there at all but at least it means the nationalists are not the only voice.

It is 2025. Why are people still advertising jobs with no listed salary? All you’re telling applicants is that you’re embarrassed about your salary offer.

Ray looking contemplative