Gavin Whenman

When I was a reader, I didn't keep stats on CONSIDERS vs PASS. I DO remember that if I had two CONSIDERS a week, that was a rare week.

And we're talking about submissions to agencies and production companies. Even at the pro level, you're passing on significantly more than you are moving up.

A promotional photo from The Mandalorian and Grogu. Rotta the Hutt, a muscular, somewhat chiseled sluglike creature, stands back lit in a large arena pit, wielding two curved axes.

father said it is my turn on the xbox

Deano The Hutt
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Combining the British people’s love and respect for Kemi Badenoch with their enthusiasm about Donald Trump and his Iran war: no party is doing it like them right now

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Specificity in a character makes them feel real and grounded, which then makes their emotional arc ALSO feel real and grounded, and thus... relatable. Additionally, it reinforces that so much of what we feel, what we struggle with, find purpose in, is universal.

Time for a BSG reboot.

homer thinking: well, off to the dojo!

homer talking: then to the pussy palace!

marge or indeed lily allen: david harbour are you going to a pussy palace?

david harbour/homer screams

today in tweets that would have worked better in october

Just looked through writing gigs on LinkedIn, half of which turn out to be training AI when you click on them. Came back on Bluesky and to find someone complaining that writers who want to be paid for their work are "money grabbing twats".

Sometimes I think people deserve gen AI slop.

Photo of Dexter Sol Ansell, a young actor of maybe 10 years, dressed as his character, Egg. Costume consists of a set of grey robes and a shaved head. He is holding a copy of The Hedge Knight by George RR Martin

Photo of Dexter Sol Ansell, a young actor of maybe 10 years, dressed as his character, Egg. Costume consists of a set of grey robes and a shaved head. He is holding his school bag and smiling.

If you need a timeline cleanse you should know that Dexter Sol Ansell who plays Egg on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms went to school as Egg for World Book Day.

Why is Dubai discourse so rich? Class identities all mangled and so everyone thinks they are punching up and letting rip. Full column 🫵 www.economist.com/britain/2026...

r/relationship_advice u/ElvisAaron • 2h My [36M] girlfriend [26F] makes her vagina “talk” to me and will not stop. Relationships She’s amazing. Cute, funny, emotionally self-aware, great communication skills, everything I’ve ever wanted. She is also quirky and dorky, which is new for me but I enjoy it (after a lifetime of dating “bad bitches” I will now forever endorse dating dorks) —except this one thing. She thinks its incredibly funny to manipulate her vagina and provide a voice for it. I will be just minding my own business, playing vidya or working on my laptop or whatever and then boom. “HEY HANDSOME HOW WAS YOUR DAY?! ARE YOU HUNGRY?! I BOUGHT CHEEZ-ITS!!” There she is, dress hiked up, no panties, both hands gripping her vulva a foot from my head and making her lips talk to me in this horrible high-pitched Grover-esque muppet voice.

God forbid a girl has a hobby

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

Ides of March, so the cast could just be planning to knife Joss Whedon

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

As it’s World Book Day, why not read Making Movies, Sidney Lumet’s superb book about his filmmaking process.
Here’s a telling anecdote about Akira Kurosawa that shows how important pragmatism is in the creative process.

I wonder if on one of the Indian channels some middle-aged comedian is being sent around Britain, getting the Thameslink to St Albans, sampling pey wet in Wigan, poignantly observing that there are homeless folk on the streets even in Knightsbridge, and so forth bsky.app/profile/jack...

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I cannot wait for the insights on this! He's going to:

1. Sample some local street food.
2. Ride a train.
3. Visit a temple.
4. Not mention the pogroms that the serving Prime Minister presided over.
5. Smile at some elephants.
6. Top up his kids' private school fees.
7. Say "India is changing".

No, that tracks

Remember that if you don’t like world book day it‘s important to let people know and not keep your boring opinions to yourself. How dare children enjoy things.

Health Experts Warn Americans Not Sensually Eating Enough Fruit (Photo shows a woman’s lips about to close on a strawberry held at fingertips)

Onion News Network: Scientists Witness 2 Dogs Mating For First Time

Guitar Center Institutes 72-Hour Waiting Period

Man Forced to Come Up With 45 Seconds of Facial Expressions While Waitress Lists Off Specials

The Onion is on a roll again.

evergreen tweet:

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

still, £70k for a three bed...

Shouldn't be that hard either. £5.49 on the newsstands or £36 with a yearly subscription that includes digital access

Hard same, I know it's a marketing gimmick (I hope like most marketing gimmicks all this booktok shit evaporates in the cleansing light of day) but the "tropes checklist" is one of the worst things to happen to the public's relationship to books, every time I see it I feel the call of violence

Good news: AI is good enough to replace your most junior engineers!

And is it cheaper?

Oh good gosh no. And it's still heavily subsided at the moment, too.

Twas the night before World Book Day, and all across the land, parents were saying “Oh. Just. Please. Be. A. F*****g. Pirate”.

Darth Grogu