Gavin Whenman

lol Idris's collaborator is certainly a *Choice*

Hello and welcome to my unboxing video

If the Boat Race had not been televised for the last 88 years, no-one would think it particularly important to put it on TV now.

Quintin Hogg's the other one, right?

They’re called tweets

As Nick Clegg’s in the spotlight again, here’s a short thread of the time I took his bizarre 2020 Politico photo shoot and turned them into Edinburgh posters. 1/4

jumpscare that it’s Craig T Dillon from early 2010s youtube, fash really ages you by decades

BBC report headed "What is the UK's strategic oil reserve and where is it kept?"

Unfortunately, it was kept in the back of a vape shop next to Glasgow Central Station

I read the piece again and became even more disappointed.

2026: "Docter said Pixar found some parents didn’t want entertainment to force them to have a conversation they weren’t ready for with their children. “We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy,” he said."

2009:

Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.

"yet"

I see that his imaginary horse suddenly stopped

shaggy: picture this we were both butt naked bangin on the bathroom floor

chotiner: sure. go on

this is, all else being equal, easily the funniest thing the director of inside out could have said

I think this is right a lot more broadly as well. We spend a lot of time ascribing corrupt motives to politicans out of a failure of imagination - because we can't imagine they actually think X is a good idea, when they do

Same applies to Mahmood on immigration or Putin and Ukraine. They believe it

Oor Wullie, sitting on his bucket. Buckets are old fashioned things that people used to carry water from one place to another.

Crivens! Jings! Happy 90th birthday, Oor Wullie.

didn't not do a double take at that illustration, let me tell you

Some personal news...

BBC going with bitter sarcasm for their main headline this morning.

"Huge fire engulfs Kuwait City tower as Trump accuses Starmer of seeking to 'join wars after we've already won'"

Fact. The screwdriver that tightens the arms of spectacles is only available inside Christmas crackers. Opticians have to pull dozens of crackers to get the tools of their trade, and if you look out the back at Specsavers, you’ll find bins full of wire puzzles, hair bobbles and fortune telling fish.

I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

Now this, this is entirely correct: bsky.app/profile/jonn...

Breaking: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has started a letterboxd account. Skeptics point out it has been mostly logging TV shows.

Just because you lack the (frankly quite basic) media literacy needed to understand a work of art does not make that work of art a failure

When I was a reader, I didn't keep stats on CONSIDERS vs PASS. I DO remember that if I had two CONSIDERS a week, that was a rare week.

And we're talking about submissions to agencies and production companies. Even at the pro level, you're passing on significantly more than you are moving up.

A promotional photo from The Mandalorian and Grogu. Rotta the Hutt, a muscular, somewhat chiseled sluglike creature, stands back lit in a large arena pit, wielding two curved axes.

father said it is my turn on the xbox

Deano The Hutt
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Combining the British people’s love and respect for Kemi Badenoch with their enthusiasm about Donald Trump and his Iran war: no party is doing it like them right now

Are you someone who wants to see every pore, every follicle, every crease, every nascent blemish on your face? Try HOTEL MIRROR, the best way to feel bad about your face on vacation.

Specificity in a character makes them feel real and grounded, which then makes their emotional arc ALSO feel real and grounded, and thus... relatable. Additionally, it reinforces that so much of what we feel, what we struggle with, find purpose in, is universal.