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Bought a card with the greatest pun of all time, little realising at the time (though I should have) that it’s the work of the mighty @mooseallain.bsky.social

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

Made something about my love of Scooby Doo. Now features a sensational bonus guest Scooby fact from @carrieq.bsky.social and now you need to hear it…

Love and solidarity, trans friends.

“I stole SO much, the one thing of yours I stole means nothing!” I suspect/hope this is going to backfire on them spectacularly. And yes, they stole my stuff too, and the work of everyone I know.

When I was very small, I was so frightened of a certain TV show that @matthewquinlan.bsky.social only needed to say the words, “Sapphire and Steel,” and I would cry. 1/2

Love and solidarity with our trans friends and readers today and always.

Just a little update for the busy, from the world of science: 1) There's no life on K2-18b 2) Vaccines cause adults 3) They are not Dire Wolves Carry on.

Lads- the Cricket episode of Bluey has just gone on iPlayer. If you have 7 minutes there isn’t a better distillation of the love of the game. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Kurt Vonnegut man

Everyone loves sausage dogs, but are you familiar with the other sausage animals? Here's a handy guide. If you like this cartoon, I can draw one for you. www.worldofmoose.com/products/sau...

He’s not playing four dimensional chess. He’s playing Hungry Hungry Hippos. Badly.

Happy 97th birthday Tom Lehrer 🎂 Today, I'll be celebrating the birthday of the greatest musical satirist of the last hundred years. Born in Manhattan in 1928, Lehrer was a mathematician who wrote comedy and satirical songs, and became an international celebrity in the late 50s and early 60s. /1

9 April 1934 | Hungarian Jewish girl Hajnal Fried was born in Vilmany. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

i once heard a queer kid explain that one of the things that brings them the most relief and comfort is seeing a tattered pride flag with faded colors - because that's a sign of a place where a pride flag can soak in the sun and breeze for years and years.

Why would you move your manufacturing to America when next week the tariffs might half, or disappear, or double, or grow wings and fly, or be turned into a goblin, or become an emotion, or

invisible hand of the market just tearily jerking off at this stage

The British automotive industry contributes £22bn to the UK economy. The creative industries contribute £124bn. Fucksake. Stop AI copyright theft.

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

Best drinking it straight from the can, if you put it in glasses it's unrecognisable.

Best thing about Burke's drumming on "Dreaming" -- that was take 1. The warm-up. He was just trying mad stuff to see what worked before going for a proper one, but Mike Chapman just said "that's it, we've got the track now"

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Almost everyone I know in the arts bar the luckiest of the lucky few - the most talented people I know, the funniest and most industrious people I know - almost universally people are saying they don’t think they can afford to do this job anymore.

Why am I only learning that Radio 3 has the best breakfast show NOW?!

The irony, that Meta wouldn’t open its doors to take a 500 word letter of complaint from writers, when they’d already taken millions of words from us. Apparently they’ve got enough now. Thanks.

RIP King

Was talking about this in a writing room only a week or two ago, when we were trying to think of the funniest fight sequences in film. There was a slight hush of respect, as everyone agreed this one was pretty unbeatable. And Kilmer sells it all, so beautifully.

The existence of jet streams implies the existence of fiercely opposed shark streams.

the first six series of john finnemore's souvenir programme, and the first two episodes of series seven

The Paul Mescal film people should be talking about is the adaptation of Merrily We Roll Along which he’s making with Richard Linklater in REAL TIME over 20 years en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrily...

"unextraordinary"??

Everything is fine. Ha! April Fools. It’s actually all awful.

Breaking news!

“There has never been a time when you, or I, made art in a society that truly supports or values it, within a state that recognizes our needs and our full humanity … We are still here. We’re still showing up for each other … we have to be curious, and keep nurturing and expanding our imaginations”

I stared at this image for a little bit too long, thinking they'd circled something for our attention.

Cat: “I cannot convey to you just how much I genuinely despise this food.” Me: “Here, have this instead.” Cat: “OMG I LOVE IT.” Me: “It’s exactly the same bowl of food. I just took it away for six seconds then put it back in the same place.” Cat: “I am fire and the wind. Do not attempt to know me.”