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So I first saw Claire Foy in Little Dorritt in 2008 and she kept cropping up in other things. She was in the adaptation of The Night Watch, the Sarah Waters novel, in 2011. I wasn't keen. I found her a weak link. In 2015 she was going to...
It’s a bit light, maybe, to be a day’s sole post, so I’m throwing this in as an extra. I was looking through my saved post list on Bluesky and found a few entertaining images that speak to me. Largely they say, “@!#?@!“, just like Q*bert...
Strawberry Earl Grey for the Full Strawberry Moon Adagio's tea blends that are only available on the day of the full moon feel very specifically targeted to my interests.
Not to bury the lede (and in true meme manner) I have some ‘personal news’. I’ll be leaving my role at the National Data Library / Government Digital Service at the end of the summer (September 4th to be precise) and before you ask, no I...
The latest in a sequence of claims of very large scale structures in the distribution that violate the cosmological principle emerged a week or so ago with a paper in Nature. The paper is behind a paywall but here is the abstract: I’ve...
Big news: according to Sony's latest blog post dated July 1st, 2026, quote:In response to shifting trends in consumer preference, new games will be release on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only.That's right!...
Ok here's what we've got from last month (published in the UK in hardback). With the World Cup in full swing and England not yet out of it, I'm pleased to see at least one football history book on the list! Here are the three that appeal...
Flags flying on the waterfront at Shearwater BC. There are two standard Canada flags and two of Curtis Wilson’s 2005 Indigenous Canada flag I spent yesterday, Canada Day, with my friend Pauline Le Bel inside the common room at our...
I remember 9/11 about as well as anyone would who wasn’t directly involved. I remember being on 24-hour duty that day at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. I remember being skeptical of the trainees calling for us to look at the television in...
On the comedy beat from Broadway to vaudeville to movies, thinking of two terrific writer-director-performers. One is star of stage, screen, Ziegfeld Follies etc. Leon Errol, born in Sydney, Australia on July 3, 1881. The other is Mel...
The Checkout Counter #43 to my RSS readers: a few people let me know that my RSS feed was broken, so hopefully it's fixed now! please reach out to ayu@sweetfish.site if there are still any issues. thank you!we're halfway through the year...
A couple of weeks ago I wrote No Time, an entry jotting four topics that I wanted to expand on but didn't have time to before. Now, I'm ready to reply. My sister introduced me to pickleball earlier this year and it's been so much fun....
The World Series of Poker Main Event begins today. The Main Event is unquestionably the focal point of the entire World Series of Poker, which now consists of 100 separate tournaments over 7 weeks. It costs $10,000 to enter—same as it...
If you put a creative work out into the world and someone has a very negative reaction to it, I find that often the best thing to say is: Thanks for the feedback, sorry it wasn't for you. Now if they made some factually untrue statement,...
M.G. Siegler: A couple years back, I was banned by Instagram. Because I happen to know a few people there, I got it resolved and my account back online relatively quickly. But I never got an answer for what actually happened. A few...