After 20 years of being a Doctor Who fan, I've only recently found out that Freema Agyeman is half Kurdish because my sister looked up her background while watching New Amsterdam 🤯

If more people understood that feminism as we know it today was in its infancy in the early 1800s, I think we'd have fewer "GDTs Frankenstein is not a feminist movie" takes. You don't have to know who Mary Shelley's mother was, just an understanding of the history of feminism.

Recently came across "stab it, strangle it, rip out its guts" as a knitting thing to remember the technique which didn't make sense at first but then I picked up my own knitting today and can't help repeat it in my head because it makes SO MUCH SENSE 🤣😭

One of my recent rewatches is Scrubs and one of the things I find ironic about anything unisex JD uses actually being quite feminine is that generally unisex products tend to be produced closer to the male standard of whatever the thing is.

Every time I avoid opening any social media apps for a day or two, I find that I end up spending a while catching up on multiple shitstorms that have taken place in those 24-48 hours... 🫣

I didn't really see Paul Dano in much until The Batman. Enjoying seeing all the love he's getting after Tarantino's little rant. I've enjoyed some of his movies but the man has always given me the creeps.

Remember when a few years ago Bertelsmann, owner of Penguin Random House, were blocked from buying Simon & Schuster to prevent a monopoly in publishing? Hope something similar happens with these bids on who gets to buy Warner Bros.

Am I disappointed? Yes. Am I surprised? No. Not at all. Disney is the studio that I definitely expected this of. In no world can I see generative AI "protecting and respecting" creators. And it is not a feature I need on a streaming service. ign.com/articles/disne…

One thing I enjoy in the more detective driven storylines in Batman comics is when he has to work with Harvey Bullock if Jim Gordon is absent for some reason. It's an interesting dynamic because Bullock hates Bats but they trust each other enough to get the job done.

The not so funny thing about remembering that in school we were told Wikipedia is not a reliable source is that now you'll probably get better information from someone who used Wikipedia than someone who used ChatGPT or other generative AI.

If I had a nickel for every time a male character's mummy issues have been represented with their continuous consumption of milk....

Some news outlets are getting really sinister with accessing their content. I've come across too many that have asked for payment if I want to reject cookies. It's not rejecting them because they're still demanding my personal details for access.

Happy new year and all that but ALSO Happy Birthday to all the Kurds and Iraqis that have the 1st January birthday!! 🥳🎂🎁

Love that new year's is a universally accepted time to watch all the LOTR movies. Seen a lot of people watch them in full for the first time this year too, and all the extended editions 🙌

You can't expect me to go to sleep at 1am when a character I thought was protected by plot armour is suddenly very much on the brink of death and only ancient gods could potentially heal them in the seconds they have left as they're bleeding out.

TIL that in the early 2000s, Elton John wrote a Lestat musical (yes, that very same Lestat de Lioncourt) but it had such bad reviews on Broadway that they decided not to release the album of full cast recordings.