Agree, that is monstrous (in a good way)

"One to check!" written on the stickers

I prefer to stay away from that kind of stuff too, although I do have a Boy And The Heron themed T-shirt that once caused a colleague to gingerly ask me if I knew what it was. They were visibly relieved when I said yes (although I shamed myself later on by forgetting who directed Pom Poko)

The other day a work colleague was wearing a New Order "Technique" t-shirt so I complimented him on his music taste. Turns out he'd never heard that New Order was a band

It wasn't too bad, I got good feedback on a Sylvanian Families* birthday card more recently, so I have some life left in me yet!

* although they call them Calico Critters here

I lost dad points when I made Esther a Kpop Demon Hunters Christmas card - already played out by then

What's she reading? I'm always on the lookout for book tips

AI slop cover of Billie Jean plays in background: I furrow my brow but don't really pick up on the fakery

AI slop cover of The Message comes on next: by the time the second bar begins I've already pulled the speakers out of their sockets and hurled them across the room in disgust

If sulphur is a "niche yellow powder" then I wonder what counts as a "mainstream yellow powder". Sand?

You in another decade

My jaw dropped at this quote

Sounds similar to my experience. I have a Garmin watch which tracks heart rate, sleep data and so on - it reckons my REM sleep cratered during the illness, and is just slowly inching back to normality now. This was all despite getting the flu vaccine (probably kept me out of hospital though!)

Made it to the last day of the Art of Manga exhibition at the de Young museum on Sunday, cosplaying as a culture vulture. It was educational - I'd never realised manga's breadth and diversity. A curatorial panel described it as a medium rather than a genre, and by the end I saw what they mean

I had it in the first half of January, it wasn't fun at all. Although I did manage to emerge with my caffeine habit intact

My dentist can do it all, from a simple cleaning to identifying my charred remains

Then YT Music followed it up with a horrific schranzy techno atrocity at 200% volume. Nearly had a heart attack. Back to DJ school for Sundar Pichai

Days since last out-of-body experience triggered by Model 500 Starlight (Intrusion Dub): 0

Everybody thinks 'https:// stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

Season's Greetings card depicting a monster clawing at another monster, festively.

It's that special time of year again...

After watching episode 7 of Pluribus last night I had to go straight to Bandcamp and start mainlining "Esperanza" by Hermanos Gutiérrez
hermanosgutierrez.bandcamp.com/track/espera...

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.

Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

Clarifications & corrections •A COMMENT piece in Wednesday's paper wrongly In fact Mr Robinson made no • To report an inaccuracy, please such statement. We apologise email corrections@dailymail.co.uk. claimed that BBC Today for the error.

The Daily Mail has been relentlessly attacking the BBC over the editing of Trump quotes in a documentary and look:

It completely fabricated a quote from a BBC presenter. Robinson should sue them for, ooh, at least $2 billion dollars as it’s worse than what they accused the BBC of.

In a just world, RZA would be a billionaire and Dr Dre would have a voice acting credit on Minions: The Rise of Gru

"We're all trying to find the guy who did this"

Just got woken up at 3am by a legitimately scary earthquake and realised that I have terrible earthquake instincts - went running to my kid's bedroom when I should be rolling under the nearest bit of furniture

I recently walked past a car that had a Terrance McKenna bumper sticker, which also made me think of this album. Thanks for posting the link, now I can have a re-listen too!

Man on Zoom with CDs behind him, including Joy Division, Cluster and Eno, MARRS, Talk Talk etc.

Is this the coolest backdrop on Channel 4 News ever?

I mean, Cluster &Eno?!

Props to whoever is writing these "Cloud+" phishing emails, they've been running rings around Gmail's spam filters for a good few weeks now

I've been considering whether to get one to sell stuff on Marketplace, sounds like it's probably not worth the psychic damage