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Lewis Jones
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Perpetually a philistine but darling I am longing to learn
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SNL UK was real good. Very pleased.
March 21, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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February 27, 2026 at 4:31 AM
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Fucking delighted those Yanks lost the curling, a sport I didn’t care about before Saturday
February 10, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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Was not excited by this but Celeste, Al, Ania, Emma, and (the funniest person I’ve ever seen live) George Fouracres gets me very vibed indeed
scottygb.bsky.social Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · Feb 4
Saturday Night Live UK is out on the 21st March.

The players are announced: Celeste Dring, Hammed Animashaun, Larry Dean, George Fouracres, Jack Shep, Ayoade Bamgboye, Al Nash, Paddy Young, Ania Magliano, Annabel Marlow, Emma Sidi.
Celeste Dring, Hammed Animashaun, Larry Dean, George Fouracres, Jack Shep, Ayoade Bamgboye, Al Nash, Paddy Young, Ania Magliano, Annabel Marlow, Emma Sidi.
February 4, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Wondered why the person doing the voice of Fergie in SAIPAN was bad and then in the credits I saw it was Jon Culshaw, so there you go
January 28, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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This almost made me cry lol
hels.bsky.social Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · Jan 19
Sometimes someone writes to my intermittent @newyorker.com advice column and sets me up in a manner resembling Payton alley-ooping Kent www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
THE FOOD SCENE HELEN, HELP ME: ON THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF CHEESEBURGERS A New Yorker food critic answers questions about burger toppings, beef tallow, and the subjectivity of memory. By Helen Rosner January 18, 2026 How do you approach the sweetness of pickle relish on a cheeseburger? Does it complement or compete with ketchup? There was a legendary place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that used to do mustard, relish, and ketchup, and I can't for the life of me decide if I loved it, or if I just loved being there in the middle of the night eating it. — Brian K., N.Y. C. Honestly, I've never really considered pickle relish to be one of the hamburger's totemic toppings. Sliced pickle rounds, certainly; spears on the side, without a doubt. But relish, that finely chopped, neon-hued, marmalade-textured stuff? To me, that's a hot-dog thing-which I mention here not to issue judgment but rather to illustrate how distinct my own personal associations are from your own. Herein, I think, lies the answer to your real question, which is not actually about the sweetness of the relish. The question of what toppings make a burger great, while we're eating it, is both technical and trivial, having to do with the nature of the patty and the bun, the mood of the establishment serving it, the sensibilities of the person eating it, even the time of day or night or life. Regarding the substance of the burger itself, the same accoutrements that might show a slim, lacey-edged smash patty in its best light—a little slick of mustard, a few circles of raw onion, and a melty cap of American cheese, say-might be too flimsy against the brawny heft of a half-pound bar burger that can sustain degrees of sweetness, richness, and piquancy (your barbecue sauces, your secondary meats, your nontraditional cheeses) that would suffocate a smaller patty. But what you're really asking, I think, is what makes a burger great not as it's being eaten but as it lives on in memory. Or, more to the point, how can we know that our memories of happiness are true? I spend an inordinate portion of my professional life creeping around in my own psyche, untangling knots of nostalgia and pleasure and, god, so many emotions, not least self-love and self-loathing, all of them unavoidable colorants of any bite I take. I give myself the task of locating some sort of unassailable, uncontaminated truth: that this dish of dumplings, or that cocktail, or such-and-such restaurant is actually, inarguably, wonderful. It's impossible, of course, and more than a little absurd, but it's so irresistible, isn't it, to attempt to discharge the burden of our own experience? Was that burger you ate from the Tasty, in Harvard Square? I think it must have been, and it's been nearly thirty years since that perfect little sandwich shop closed forever. I imagine it was a simple construction: a bun, a patty, a slice of cheese, ketchup, mustard, relish. But you created it, just as much as the white-capped guy standing at the grill did. The mouth and brain and cascade of sensations were yours. There is no true burger per se, lurking behind your experience of it; it didn't become the burger you ate until you ate it. It's a ludicrous idea, this notion of an objective culinary truth, but it's even more ludicrous that we're so quick to doubt our own taste in pursuit of it. Just as I go looking for proof that my rapture— or, at times, misery—at a given meal has nothing at all to do with me, here you are wondering whether you should append an asterisk to your reminiscence of a long-ago cheeseburger, one that you could never eat again, even if the Tasty were still up and running. Why question a recollection of sweetness, even of the pickle variety? You did love the relish. And you love the person you see in your memory: a young man, awake in the middle of the night, a burger topped with relish in his hands.
January 19, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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I hate seeing Steve Holland in a United tracksuit
January 17, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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brb off to the Bone Temple, anyone need anything?
January 16, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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Twice this morning, my boss (a woman in her 40s) has spoken to her stomach outloud and told it to calm down because she will feed it soon
January 7, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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Most importantly from today’s cinema journey, it looks like Ann Mok’s dark reign is over. Harry Styles’ car advert is back and kicking, baby
recklessrapid.bsky.social Lewis Jones @recklessrapid.bsky.social · Dec 6
I don’t care that she’s blind, I’m sick to death of Ann Mok
January 4, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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I’ve got so many freelance jobs to do, so obviously I’m going to see a four hour long documentary film about a French restaurant
January 4, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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Covering The Style Council but changing the words to “I really like it when you speak like A. Chiles” and it’s all about doing mundane things in a Brummie accent
December 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Big 20th anniversary of becoming a top shagger today. Just wanna shout out all the legends that have helped me come this far, and not ever lose the love of the game. Here’s to 20 more
December 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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If you want me asking football trivia in your festive ears, get on this:

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UTAS Christmas Quiz IV
Podcast Episode · Under The Abbey Stand · 26/12/2025 · 1h 13m
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December 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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I hate Steve Smith
December 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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It’s been about 25 years and Zoe Slater is still up there on my all time crushes
December 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Saw a film today that had two Aaron Wan Bissaka jokes in it
December 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Dad keeps sending me AI images of my grandad meeting himself at different ages. He’s been gone 22 years, let him rest.
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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I don’t care that she’s blind, I’m sick to death of Ann Mok
December 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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The PlayStation advert at the cinema where there’s a petrol tanker impaled on a scraper. What has it got to do with playing a game at all? (Or, mostly, using my PlayStation to watch streaming apps)
December 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Mum and step dad visiting for the weekend. Mum won’t stop talking about her Super 6. Constantly checking her phone to see how she’s doing on Super 6. Getting upset because she backed the draw for Spurs/Fulham. It’s not conducive to an enjoyable life.
November 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Is there a better 21st century (and explicitly 21st century) love song than Don’t Delete The Kisses?
November 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I’m not saying I’m hungover but I just burst into tears at the Loco Lounge because they started playing Nico’s These Days at 9.05am
November 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Every advert on a iHeartRadio podcast sounds like an advert from a Grand Theft Auto radio station but without any jokes
November 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Incredibly sobering realisation that the snake handler in the trailer for the upcoming (and abysmal looking) ANACONDA reboot is the dad from I’M STILL HERE. Being an actor hey
November 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM