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Went to Trattoria Fiammetta in Rome tonight and had the full @nigella.bsky.social : Pizza Margarita con salsiccia, Scarola alla Gaetana washed down with Ichnusa beer. The couple on the table behind us ordered the same. www.instagram.com/p/DEm6-HcIn3...

Radio 3 vs Classic FM.

Rupert Murdoch's son, James, drops the absolutely fucking hammer down on the old man. By @mckaycoppins.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

I only recently discovered the site Acclaimed Music and its list of the 3000 greatest albums of all time. Part of me wants to try to listen to all of them.

A #BestWorstViz for your delectation @visualisingdata.com

16 Years Ago.... #Lost

This is fascinating from my colleagues Zoe Wood and Nicola Davis, who’ve asked Guardian readers about the impact of taking weight-loss jabs on other cravings: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

❤️Sharing in case anyone else wants to add a little humor to their hypothesis testing introduction...Also, I wonder if my dissertation chairs working with graduate students feel like this some days.

Right, gone for the day so. I mean this with the greatest of respect but if I follow you and you're going to spend all your time for the next four years complaining about yer man, I'm going to mute you. Life's too short to see his face any more than you have to. See you tomorrow x

Been in the office for 12 minutes and I'm already explaining that, actually, if we'd got Germany's draw we'd have got to the 2002 World Cup final, actually

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2024 A video countdown vimeo.com/1046284152

NEW!!🇮🇹⚽️ I spoke to legendary Football Italia frontman James Richardson about his time in football, Serie A nostalgia, puns, papers, podcasts and more. @acjimbo.bsky.social is funny, insightful and self-deprecating. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did!! markgordon.media/james-richar...

The Maritime Approximation "Euler's identity describes an intimate and mathematical relationship between different fundamental constants. And now, thanks to the maritime approximation, we also have a loose and coincidental one." kevlinhenney.medium.com/the-maritime...

You could take out the entire North Korean high command with a strong magnet

January 5, 1983.

Grimsby Town’s Blundell Park is my favourite football experience in England. I went there to tell you, in ten parts, the reasons why places like this matter. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Half-price January sale on GWR train tickets www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/hal...

"A perfect example of just how much the stars of a film can elevate mediocre material by the strength of their performances" - we take a look at We Live In Time www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/we-li... #FilmSky🎬

No shit. You may find this hard to believe, but I hadn't actually finished typing it yet.

Hey everyone I wrote about what a lovely charming place this is and how it’s not at all populated by people who make the sect in Everyone Else Burns seem like teddy bears open.substack.com/pub/socialwa...

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My big project: The Death Generator. It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything. deathgenerator.com

In the middle of tonight's Simpsons parody of Fahrenheit 451, set in a dystopian future where people are forced to watch overly complicated prestige TV dramas, this happened. I am still processing it.

Oops, Darren Anderton is out injured again

It has taken me about six years, but by tomorrow morning, I'll have every single film released in the 1980s on my Plex server. It took a small army of friends and contacts and a few angels in particular. Some of this stuff barely exists.

.#uksnow in WR3, melting now but was a good 6/10

Got an invite code for twitter if anyone wants it

Just going to post #TomorrowsPapersToday here tonight as well as at the other place as a little test…

Anyhoooo on my Substack today I wrote about this place… open.substack.com/pub/socialwa...

Reckon I could run that easily

Here’s a centre right starter pack, for those who want to ensure this isn’t entirely an echo chamber go.bsky.app/DNLEPTu

Going to have to make sure to follow Clifton Suspension Bridge when it arrives here. The tension is unbearable.

My one year old at 3:43am:

In this week’s free What’s Alan Watching? newsletter: The Diplomat, Only Murders in the Building, Agatha All Along, Teri Garr, and more. Read! Subscribe! Share! Fix your zipper! alansepinwall.substack.com/p/keri-is-so...

Whether you’re a fan of Hallowe’en or not, you have to give it credit for being the last line of defence against Christmas advancing even earlier into the year, a ragtag gang of goths holding the line against a battalion of baubled barbarians

Yle, the Finnish equivalent of the BBC, is currently running a live puppycam so that the nation can enjoy watching a new litter of very small dogs. I sometimes wish I lived in a country with this sort of news cycle: areena.yle.fi/1-72251830

Almost correct. Obviously number 2 should be number 1 as any fule know www.theguardian.com/music/2024/o...

If you want optimal beer coldness: 330ml bottles in the freezer for 30-40 minutes. 440ml cans for 50 minutes. It's a fine line though, so err on the side of caution or ruin your beer.

Never mind Talk Like a Pirate Day. We should have Talk Like The Sweeney Day. Straight up! No word of a lie, guv! Don't like the idea? Shut it!

It's not a real Lego set if it can't be built out of bricks and standard parts. I'm having none of this Technic bullshit or one off pieces that are just moulded to the specific shape

View from the audience as Chappell Roan sings Hot To Go.

I really hope he said 'Take my hand, we'll make I swear' and 'We've gotta hold on to what we've got'... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...