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House to Astonish » X-Men United #1 annotations

On House to Astonish, annotations for X-Men United #1.

11.03.2026 23:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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This is hilarious.

Also, completely enraging.

11.03.2026 01:56 👍 8823 🔁 4049 💬 130 📌 202

To be fair, ICE was within the margin of error of AI’s approval rating.

The only people to record net positive approval ratings on this poll were Stephen Colbert and the Pope.

10.03.2026 18:42 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NBC News poll

Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

10.03.2026 15:39 👍 17099 🔁 3474 💬 306 📌 237

At the risk of boring everyone,a little context.

$100 oil in isolation isn’t that bad. It averaged around that level from 2011-2014 without severe economic ramifications*.

It’s the pace of the rise that has people spooked. And not knowing where it might stop.

08.03.2026 22:56 👍 438 🔁 117 💬 21 📌 16
House to Astonish » Daredevil Villains #74: Rotgut

On House to Astonish, Daredevil Villains #74: Rotgut.

08.03.2026 12:14 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
House to Astonish » Charts – 6 March 2026

On House to Astonish, this week's chart post.

07.03.2026 17:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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unfortunately I lost it at this extremely stupid New Yorker cartoon

06.03.2026 22:30 👍 365 🔁 49 💬 6 📌 2
House to Astonish » The X-Axis – 4 March 2026

On House to Astonish, this week's X-Axis.

06.03.2026 22:32 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I think their best chance of success is certainly through individual sketches on Instagram/TikTok/YouTube.

06.03.2026 19:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

To be honest I think launching anything high profile on Sky One is a bit of a doomed effort but that's another matter.

06.03.2026 18:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That's true, but SNL is a much stronger brand in America than it is in the UK. Here, SNL is "isn't that where Wayne's World started? Are they still going?" I think you need at least a couple more rising star type names to sell this and you'd be better calling it something else.

06.03.2026 18:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I do think there’s a really interesting comparison with the reaction to her memoir about the failure of her first marriage (where her own behaviour was somewhat similar but she got plaudits for her bravery in talking about it).

06.03.2026 14:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

06.03.2026 03:10 👍 4516 🔁 846 💬 55 📌 57
House to Astonish » Wolverine #17 annotations

On House to Astonish, annotations for Wolverine #17.

05.03.2026 22:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When I started practice in Scotland, the court would still bounce writs on the grounds that the binding was incorrectly sewed, and the rules of court solemnly stated that we were using A4 paper for an “experimental period”.

05.03.2026 12:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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05.03.2026 12:42 👍 26 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
House to Astonish » X-Men #26 annotations

On House to Astonish, annotations for X-Men #26.

05.03.2026 00:10 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's very tricky to gauge these things precisely, but it had felt Farage's messaging lately had been a little less disciplined than usual. His talent has always been knowing where the line is in terms of political acceptability, but forces beyond his control might be putting that under pressure?

03.03.2026 00:33 👍 25 🔁 4 💬 7 📌 0
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YouGov has the Greens in second place for the first time

03.03.2026 06:58 👍 377 🔁 93 💬 21 📌 99
House to Astonish » House to Astonish Episode 217

House to Astonish Episode 217 is now live, with me and @ifdestroyed.bsky.social talking Tatjana Wood, 3 Worlds 3 Moons, Hulk War, Terminal, Skate Ali, Concrete, the scourge of blind bags, JLA/Avengers facsimilies, The Punisher and The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery bit.ly/astonish217

02.03.2026 22:08 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 1
House to Astonish » Daredevil Villains #73: Project Reptile

On House to Astonish, Daredevil Villains #73: Project Reptile.

01.03.2026 12:29 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
House to Astonish » Charts – 27 February 2026

On House to Astonish, this week's chart post.

28.02.2026 11:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Theme Song
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Theme Song YouTube video by racheldoesstuff

The pinnacle of the form:

27.02.2026 23:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just checked on YouTube and the difference is only about 10 seconds, and yet somehow I feel you must be right.

27.02.2026 23:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Did Zeus write this article?

27.02.2026 18:20 👍 43 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

White on orange makes it look like a mobile phone advert.

I know it's been ten years since the Orange brand was dropped in the UK, but it's still the first thing that comes to mind when I see this.

27.02.2026 15:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s not. Its political results are that of a standard European democracy in 2026, mediated through a worse electoral system.

27.02.2026 12:30 👍 737 🔁 109 💬 31 📌 8

Need to think more about turnout. Yes Gorton and Denton matched GE 2024 turnout and in that sense is 'high' for a by election *but* 2024 was a very low turnout election and turnout here was below 50% - the national 2019 turnout was over 60%

27.02.2026 08:59 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0