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Personal Dog growth: Ellie, at the age of 13-and-a-bit, & 7 years after she got it, has figured out how to pick up her octopus & put it in her bed on purpose. Couldn't be prouder of her.

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Reflecting on my youth, & God bless the adult who, presumably seeing that I excelled at nothing on my cub scout trip to Guernsey, made me a certificate for 'having the loudest voice at the dinner table'.

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I read this at age 14, expecting some quippy film-bond hijinks, and was baffled and disturbed. Just your standard 'garden of death' book in our school library.

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Two weeks off work unexpectedly rekindled my childhood love of old historical epics (El Cid, for example). The absolute revelation was Christopher Plummer in The Fall of the Roman Empire. He's electric in it, blows everyone else away. #Filmsky

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Great gig from HH at the Irish Centre last night. 'I swear I saw him winking like he was thinking of me'.

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The hill I will die on is that generative AI is evil and wrong and a massive waste of resources and that academics — of all people — should know better than to use it in their writing.

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Never not thinking of this Edward Steed cartoon

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Shakespeare lines I regularly say to the Dog (pt.5): "How now? Moody? What is ’t thou canst demand?"

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#OnThisBoroDay - 1988: horizontal hero Tony Mowbray launches into an iconic image as Brucie's #Boro hit from behind to beat title rivals Aston Villa 2-1. The Sunday showdown is Boro's first ever live TV game. Also noted for a Super Cooper stint in goal as blood-soaked Pearsy gets stitched up.

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Remarkably, M.R. James managed to review every book and tv programme by Jordan Peterson back in 1911. I could not believe it when I found it.

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I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

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This reminds me of some similar images at Mont Orgueil Castle, which also has this spectacular statue based on the medieval Wounded Man, which I once heard an excited child charmingly refer to as 'the hurty man'.

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Although, my personal highlight from that visit was this Ecce Homo by an anonymous 15th Century artist. It was magnetic, & has an awfulness that an online copy fails to capture. It sat alone at the top of the central stairs, and was unbelievably imposing. #Art #ArtHistory

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This reminded me of a wonderful painting of this scene by, I think, Frei Carlos, that I saw last year at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon. One of the works I kept revisiting that day, although I'm not sure I could articulate why. #art #ArtHistory

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Very happy to see some attention paid to one of my top horror guilty pleasures: the 2010 Wolfman. A genuinely good bad movie that I've loved ever since OH randomly bought it for me.

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Shakespeare lines I regularly say to the Dog (pt.4): "Then must you speak of one that licked not wisely but too well"

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David has no line manager. David needs no line manager.

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Appalled to discover that I am now older than Boromir in Lord of the Rings. But, to my credit, I have never lost my mind and tried to steal my work colleagues' jewellery.

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MASTER AND COMMANDER SEQUEL

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Incredibly excited to have finally started AC Valhalla. It got me thinking of past #AssassinsCreed moments that have stuck with me: 1. The duel with Bellec at Sainte Chapelle. 2. The run through Lisbon. 3. Killing Uberto: 'The Auditore are not dead. I'm still here. Me Ezio. Ezio Auditore.' 1/3

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I am concerned that my interests haven't changed since I was 10.

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As we finally tear off 2024's arm, sending it to die in its marshy lair, & then await the arrival of its terrible mother 2025, happy new year!

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Thought I'd post my favourite, & criminally underrated, tweet from the old place. I laugh about it regularly. By @crulph.bsky.social

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I've just found out that Spurs genuinely have a go-kart track under their stadium. It's the most hilarious Spursy thing I've ever heard, & a weird metaphor for modern football.

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never violate the Pythagorean maxim

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Without unlimited free access to the world's snakes, how can we extract their precious, life-giving oil? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Things Ellie has in common with Judah Ben-Hur: - Made her name on the race tracks. - Suspicious of going near the sea. - Adopted by a family with a passing interest in Roman history. [Yes, I'm putting off work]

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I'm fond of AC Syndicate, but the most delightful thing about it is how Abide With Me is worked into its music as a motif. You'll be running across some rooftops & a variation of Abide With Me will just kick in. Utterly charming. #AssassinsCreed

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It's become a bit of a ritual of mine to, every time I finish a Stephen King book, immediately read Grady Hendrix's entry of it in his Great ReRead. It's like an insightful sorbet after a terrifying meal. #StephenKing www.gradyhendrix.com/the-great-st...

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TC22 🤩 #MIDHUL #UTB

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As I wait for another indefinitely delayed mystery train, I'm reminded of this classic tweet from Alan Sugwr, beamed in from an alternate universe where our trains actually work.

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Nyarlathotep?!?

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I've grumbled about some of Gatiss's adaptation choices, but we're so lucky to have him making these. This is a wonderful pick, & Christmas would be poorer, & less Christmassy, without them.

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Most recent life surprise: liquorice tea appears to give me crippling migraines. OR I've become a weird self-diagnosis person & have invented an inability to drink liquorice tea. Neither are good.

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Happy Birthday to legendary English Weird Fiction, Horror, and SciFi pioneer William Hope Hodgson! The author of the novels "The Night Land" and "The House on the Borderland" along with numerous shorter tales. Born November 15, 1877.

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