Sounds exactly like what someone who would put me in a bucket would say.

There's a kid on my train playing a game at absolute max, obnoxiously loud, bothering everybody volume, except from the sound effects I can tell he's playing Pikmin 4 so instead of storming over I kinda just want to congratulate him on his taste.

I have and it's very good. Total disbelief the entire way.

Crispin Blunt getting done for drug possession is the greatest political scandal since Anthony Weiner lost his job for sending out dick pics

Now that Timothee Chalamet has been taught a bloody good lesson everyone can go back to doing what they do best: Regularly and enthusiastically attending the ballet and opera

The Oscars is the only time one billion people will tune into see a middle-aged Kiwi woman cry and then forget everything she was going to say and that makes me glad it exists

Incredible scenes as for the first time ever ITV seem to have booked some people who don't hate movies for their Oscars live stream

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

They have a big sign up on the door of the screen I just walked into at the cinema saying confetti canons are banned.

I'm seeing Hamnet.

‘Ella McCay’ Met With RAVES in France: “Masterpiece!” — World of Reel French critics have completely been taken by “Ella McCay,” which is getting near-unanimous raves over there.

Ella McCay is good and only me & the French understand this.
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A screenshot of Animal Crossing New Horizons showing Francine saying, "Abolish ICE! Yes! That sounds wonderful!"

Not again

Rugby Challenge 2006 is number one because it's the only game where you can tackle your own players

I've actually played it a few times in the last week and it is now an actual functional video game with almost as much content as it launched with.

It's better than the official 2015 World Cup game and Rugby 15 so that makes it like the eighth best rugby game ever or something

I really liked the luxury of Frankenstein on that front. You could feel the 30 years GDT has been trying to make it throughout the film itself. The stuff he pinpoints and/or adds to the book adds proper depth.

Loved BOWI! It's so lovely. Had a cry had many laughs, what more can you want?!

Same here. It's incredible. There's so much in that movie, it's just bursting with ideas and reflections and as you say, things I've never seen in a film before. I thought it was astonishing. I'm so crazily invested in Spike as a character, I'd watch thirty films about him growing up in this world.

I honestly have no idea.

It's a coming of age movie about Brexit. The only way it could be more up my street was if it didn't have zombies in it.

(And some more)

(I could go on all day)

Some films I really liked but didn't hear many people talking about-

I was going to do an additional shorter list of the funniest films of 2025 but one movie is so far and away ahead of the others it felt pointless

It's that time of year again! I saw 194 movies released in 2025, and these are my twenty favourites-

Snog Antoine Marry Movies

Year Twelve.

Movies are great.

My main accomplishment in 2025 was that I got very tired.

That's a brilliant idea I may have to steal

They should make up a holiday just so people watch Singin in the Rain like how they made up Christmas just so people watch It's a Wonderful Life

Professional sports is the only profession where if you get good enough at your job, you will become a playable character in a video game.

What if the movie was called Glad Boys and Will Smith and Martin Lawrence played men who were very grateful. That’s what I’m thinking abou.