Chris King
@northernwrites.bsky.social
Former knife swallower
Unlikely to be the Chris King you are looking for. Unless I am. Then I am currently unable to take your call.
Unlikely to be the Chris King you are looking for. Unless I am. Then I am currently unable to take your call.
Finished the Iris Affair on Sky.
Torn between the "biggest load of guff" and "a great series for Tom Hollander"
It could be both.
Torn between the "biggest load of guff" and "a great series for Tom Hollander"
It could be both.
December 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Finished the Iris Affair on Sky.
Torn between the "biggest load of guff" and "a great series for Tom Hollander"
It could be both.
Torn between the "biggest load of guff" and "a great series for Tom Hollander"
It could be both.
Bram Stoker's really weird and warm wind is terrorising the north of England right now
December 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Bram Stoker's really weird and warm wind is terrorising the north of England right now
Imagine going on Jimmy Fallon and saying publicly that your parents and inlaws were both crap at bringing their kids up, which is why you rely on AI to teach you how to look after a baby.
December 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Imagine going on Jimmy Fallon and saying publicly that your parents and inlaws were both crap at bringing their kids up, which is why you rely on AI to teach you how to look after a baby.
Why are they rebooting Young Sherlock when the magnificent film is already there?
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Why are they rebooting Young Sherlock when the magnificent film is already there?
DO IT
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December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
You will be visited by three spirits
What people think resilience is: Being able to handle some harsh criticism and carry on, regardless.
What resilience really is: Having day after day of shit piled on you and realising it is this, or the dole queue - so you deal with it in anyway you can; with or without killing people.
What resilience really is: Having day after day of shit piled on you and realising it is this, or the dole queue - so you deal with it in anyway you can; with or without killing people.
December 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
What people think resilience is: Being able to handle some harsh criticism and carry on, regardless.
What resilience really is: Having day after day of shit piled on you and realising it is this, or the dole queue - so you deal with it in anyway you can; with or without killing people.
What resilience really is: Having day after day of shit piled on you and realising it is this, or the dole queue - so you deal with it in anyway you can; with or without killing people.
Does this mean they get lunch back?
An OpenAI survey of 9,000 workers at 100 companies: it saves workers ~40 to 60 minutes per day on average for professional tasks; OpenAI has 1M business clients (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Does this mean they get lunch back?
Martin Parr was brilliant. The seaside stuff was perfect.
December 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Martin Parr was brilliant. The seaside stuff was perfect.
Boy was up all night. 12, so manageable, but a bit delirious at 4am. So I am self medicating with kinder Bueno gut spread from Aldi and coffee. I am going to watch 16 candles and just lay on the sofa today.
December 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Boy was up all night. 12, so manageable, but a bit delirious at 4am. So I am self medicating with kinder Bueno gut spread from Aldi and coffee. I am going to watch 16 candles and just lay on the sofa today.
I have no problem with time. My birthdate is closer to the Suez Crisis than Kier Starmer's recognition, but I stumbled on the John Candy doc - and how has it been over 30 years. How? I still think of his films. Cried a tired tear or two.
December 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I have no problem with time. My birthdate is closer to the Suez Crisis than Kier Starmer's recognition, but I stumbled on the John Candy doc - and how has it been over 30 years. How? I still think of his films. Cried a tired tear or two.
The absolute state of people in town. Day drinkers struggling to hold their sauce.
December 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The absolute state of people in town. Day drinkers struggling to hold their sauce.
I remember hearing Optimo play this and it made my night.
Just blocked someone for a) saying McCartney’s Temporary Secretary is the worst song ever recorded and b) Delivering this information with a “C’mon, we all know it” false confidence.
December 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I remember hearing Optimo play this and it made my night.
Watch out, Beadle's about!
A perfectly NORMAL picture of the world's GREATEST president (who is also the HEALTHIEST man alive) picking up his very REAL peace award.
December 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Watch out, Beadle's about!
Is Platini still doing porridge? Can he save FIFA by being less corrupt?
December 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Is Platini still doing porridge? Can he save FIFA by being less corrupt?
There are some absolute dogshit groups
December 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
There are some absolute dogshit groups
A dick from the sticks as they are otherwise known
Robert Jenrick: ‘I’m unashamedly provincial in my attitudes’ on.ft.com/44Sho0O
Robert Jenrick: ‘I’m unashamedly provincial in my attitudes’
The UK shadow justice secretary on embracing populism, his political ambitions — and whether there will be an alliance with Reform
on.ft.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
A dick from the sticks as they are otherwise known
How many Telegraph writers actually believe what they write?
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
How many Telegraph writers actually believe what they write?
Netflix: "we will cancel your silly little programme about the Tour de France"
Also Netflix: "we will buy all of the cycling coverage in the UK and bump up our subscription rates"
Also Netflix: "we will buy all of the cycling coverage in the UK and bump up our subscription rates"
Breaking news: Netflix has agreed an $83bn takeover of the studios and streaming businesses of Warner Bros Discovery, in a deal set to reshape Hollywood and create a new global entertainment powerhouse. on.ft.com/3MGC59K
December 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Netflix: "we will cancel your silly little programme about the Tour de France"
Also Netflix: "we will buy all of the cycling coverage in the UK and bump up our subscription rates"
Also Netflix: "we will buy all of the cycling coverage in the UK and bump up our subscription rates"
Living the dream tonight. Currently watching someone process the network configuration of an AWS migration.
Live streamed from someone's living room.
Live streamed from someone's living room.
December 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Living the dream tonight. Currently watching someone process the network configuration of an AWS migration.
Live streamed from someone's living room.
Live streamed from someone's living room.
You know when you eat rice, and it feels like a grain has reverse Uno'd up tour schnoz?
December 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
You know when you eat rice, and it feels like a grain has reverse Uno'd up tour schnoz?
Normalise dressing like a dirty old man again (without the dirty, bit)
Classic 70s gentle comedy with #WilfredPickles #IreneHandl
♥️ FOR THE LOVE OF ADA (1971) 7pm co-stars #JackSmethurst #BarbaraMitchell 'The Journey' #TPTVsubtitles
♥️ FOR THE LOVE OF ADA (1971) 7pm co-stars #JackSmethurst #BarbaraMitchell 'The Journey' #TPTVsubtitles
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Normalise dressing like a dirty old man again (without the dirty, bit)
On what board of the 9D chess game is...
"I was racist, but so were a lot of now cancelled comedians"?
"I was racist, but so were a lot of now cancelled comedians"?
December 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
On what board of the 9D chess game is...
"I was racist, but so were a lot of now cancelled comedians"?
"I was racist, but so were a lot of now cancelled comedians"?
Things that age me:
- I call it the Milk Cup
- I reference Doris Stokes when talking about the dead
- I say "good as gold" and "all that old jazz"
- I look fucking haggard
- I call it the Milk Cup
- I reference Doris Stokes when talking about the dead
- I say "good as gold" and "all that old jazz"
- I look fucking haggard
December 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Things that age me:
- I call it the Milk Cup
- I reference Doris Stokes when talking about the dead
- I say "good as gold" and "all that old jazz"
- I look fucking haggard
- I call it the Milk Cup
- I reference Doris Stokes when talking about the dead
- I say "good as gold" and "all that old jazz"
- I look fucking haggard