My life is linked to Steven Spielberg, in a way. My first movie was E.T. My childhood was Indy and then JP. Schindler when I was 13 and I was opening to the world. Ryan at 18. Munich 26. I saw Bridge of Spies this year and it was like he was talking about the world today. I owe so much to Spielberg.

“Spider-Man pointing 3 times. Ralph in danger. This is fine dog. Sicko at the window.”

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it’s crazy to think that TRON is still named after Bruce Boxleitner’s character in the first movie, who has not appeared since, rather than Jeff Bridges’ character, who has been in all three. The franchise ought to be called KEVIN

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

Thinking of Leto sending used condoms and dead animals to co-stars whilst in character as Joker, vs Christian Bale telling Tim Booth of James “Laid Saved my life” whilst in full Batman costume and doing the voice

Here’s the thing, 99% of method actors aren’t cunts whilst in character, I’ve had a blast with method actors in character.

As Daniel Day Lewis said “if it interferes with other people’s work you’ve gone wrong”

"You were the first one / You were the last one"

The parade of these clippings from Prof Roberts is borderline hysterical. This is exactly the devil’s bargain with meaningless hierarchical celebrity that television routinely demands. Clunky slips aside, I like Rylan as a presenter, but I wish we’d notice how fucking weird it is.

any cop who walks because mamdani gets elected is almost certainly a cop who fears accountability and should never have been hired in the first place

Getting the impression that a lot of people think 1. Freedom of Speech is something you have a right to on privately owned social media platforms and 2. Conveniently stops after you’ve announced your opinion, but before anyone else is allowed to say it’s stupid.

when my fast fashion arrives but i'm at the office

[tentatively moving to unhook her bra] hey chatGPT what’s the slickest way to unhook a bra

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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Diversity is our strength, no matter what racist, bigoted Republicans say.

Real Americans embrace diversity, equity and inclusion.

Real Americans reject Trump and his white nationalist cronies.

Trump is bad, project 2025 is bad and the people who love America, the real patriots reject both.

Catch the last two performances of my play Philip Larkin: Masterspy at the Seven Oaks, Manchester this week on Thursday & Friday. Tickets:
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“How far, Doctor? How long have you lived? Something for the weekend?” #doctorwho

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

if you hear a creative or a creative-adjacent person say something along the lines of “whatever you think about AI, it’s here to stay” they probably just got pAId

The plush Monkey on your dashboard has made me wonder what the PG Tips mascot is up to these day - apparently he's married to Emily Atack from The Inbetweeners now?

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Considering that 90s PCs were horrible beige boxes - an accidental self-own by the capitalist pig-dogs of the West here.