Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The comment about it being unusual for Wolverine to wear white boots is a good excuse for me to post this observation about his colour scheme, which I learned a few months ago and will never be able to unsee: 100
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This BBC listicle's caption makes it sound like Henry Cavill only played Clark Kent in Man of Steel, and played the completely separate character of Superman in other DC films. 110
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Today's match will decide which team has the honour of progressing to the prestigious third-place playoff, and who will suffer the indignity of having to settle for the mere World Cup Final. 000
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 10/06/2026They could just copy the caption Red Dwarf used to resolve a decade-long cliffhanger when it was revived in 2009: 171
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Far from the worst picture of Donald Duck I've ever seen... 100
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Alan Partridge's favourite columnist hasn't changed much in the last 25 years. 000
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 08/05/2026It won't show anything about the populations that did/didn't have votes yesterday, but Wikipedia has these maps of areas that held elections: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Un... 010
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 04/05/2026New Frinkiac confuses and scares me. Mankind was not meant to have the power to create things such as this: 100
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Both Artemis II YouTube streams are finished! But they're not available to replay yet. Hopefully it'll just take a bit of processing time before they're playable... 030
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I remember reading Taylor & Wheeler's Spacetime Physics textbook, and their insistence on omitting the definite article stuck out to me. It meant the book was full of awkward sounding phrases like like "a space probe travels to Sun" or "the tide is caused by Moon". eftaylor.com/spacetimephy... 130
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Glad to see they've got this one: www.reddit.com/r/dontyoukno... 629135
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Also, on the post about the Bombadil chapter, one of the comments had an observation that I don't think I'll ever be able to forget: 030
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Have you seen Abigail Nussbaum's current blog posts about re-reading LOTR? www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/category/tol... She is not a fan of Tom Bombadil, but she did a post collecting several recorded versions of his song: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/tolk... 220
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Reported a minor Bluesky bug: using a mobile web browser, post timestamps are overlapping with usernames. Possibly related to that text alignment issue: the browser's view begins slightly zoomed in by default, hiding the bottom bar with the Home/Search/Notifications icons. 010
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 10/03/2026That reminds me of this bit of dialogue from the third Honey, I Shrunk the Kids movie. (This joke is pretty much the only thing I remember about that film.) m.imdb.com/title/tt0119... 110
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 17/01/2026I knew it had to happen eventually: the word that's been my regular Wordle starting word almost every day for the last few years turned out to be the answer! Wordle 1,673 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Wordle in 1! Woo-hoo! At long last, I'm free to swap to a different starting word! 020
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Chrome on Android no longer displays an image's full alt text when you long press an image - it gets truncated. Looks like this bug was first reported in 2019, but that bug report thread has received new replies in the last week: bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/i... 000
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 13/12/2025I'm not sure if Glinner is referring to Peter Serafinowicz or James Serafinowicz there. James tweeted the below comment about how he'd tried to talk sense into him, but I can't remember what Peter has said about him publicly. 140
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 25/11/2025During the trial, the judge allowed the complainant to use she/her pronouns, and Glinner & defence to use the misgendering "he/him". The judgement document begins by saying that "they" will be used throughout... 1110
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 25/11/2025It looks like that BBC page has been updated in the last few minutes, so that's no longer the last sentence. I think part of it has been moved to this paragraph in the middle of the article, and the age is no longer mentioned: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 1127316
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 11/11/2025But even that was immediately followed by an editorial paragraph pointing out that it's not really a problem at all: 100
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 11/11/2025It's not shown in the original screenshot above, but Oates's tweet was quoting another one that included a screenshot of Musk's comments about "takers and makers". So she *was* explicitly referring to him - he hasn't just jumped to that conclusion. 020
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Since then, he's attempted to prove that he appreciates culture by replying "great" to a few movies mentioned by the account @TheCinesthetic: 130
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 09/11/2025I think this one has got to him because he's posted at least three separate responses to this over the last 10 hours: 4664855
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 09/11/2025What were the studio head's insults/dismissals? I looked at the Twitter account of Secret Level's Jason Zada, and now his only mocking tweet is a "haters gonna hate" GIF. But the reply at the bottom mentions a deleted tweet: presumably he said worse in that, and that's what you're referring to? 010
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 28/10/2025As nicely illustrated in @9mmballpoint.bsky.social's "Political Journey" comic: 9mmballpoint.blogspot.com/2023/02/poli... 030
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Everyone is focusing on Grant Morrison's comments on AI art. But their Reddit AMA featured another question, which may be of interest to @eruditorumpress.com: 0165
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Eureka's Blu-rays normally have good subtitle quality control. But today I watched their edition of The Bride With White Hair, and I think it's the first time I've ever seen a translator/editor's note accidentally make it into the subtitle track! 120
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Whenever I'm browsing DVDs/BRs in charity shops, I check my Letterboxd collection list to make sure I don't get duplicates. But today this habit failed: I accidentally acquired a second DVD copy of Face/Off. 😢 However, the cases are NOT QUITE IDENTICAL. So I *could* swap the discs around... 110
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 05/08/2025This will be Morrisons supermarkets tomorrow. BECAUSE OF YOU. 010
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 20/07/2025www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "Ain't no rule says the sheep can't travel by train!" -- Air Baaaad (1997) 042
Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 21/06/2025A bit of pointless film trivia that I noticed a while ago: The directors of the two Short Circuit movies had each previously directed separate unrelated adaptations of Dracula, both of which were released in 1979. 130