Simon Laurence Doyle

Nice way to end the year - finding out my medical-inspired psychological #horror 'The Mare' has ended up on @barnstormmedia Short List. Next year I'm finding this guy a home and writing his sequel 😈

@KayNigc Yup. More than an hour now

Is Elden Ring Nightreign down on PS5 for anyone else??

@lance_corporate @MurrayHillGuy1 Kids are absolute madness and I'm all for it

@MurrayHillGuy1 Well we have these little copies of ourselves that run around the yard and say hilarious stuff and make every mundane errand a memorable adventure because they think bugs are their friends. So yeah it’s actually amazing

How do people in the suburbs genuinely look forward to Friday night on the couch, Saturday morning at Costco, and call that a weekend? Like you really moved out of the city just to LARP as your parents at 34?

@MalloyAlgos @MurrayHillGuy1 I'm too busy enjoying being a part of my family and having a fulfilling job to really want that much else tbh. Sorry to disappoint 👍🏻

@MurrayHillGuy1 They don't actually look forward to that part They look forward to daydreaming about what they could have instead They fantasize about what life would be like if they hadn't wasted so much time being comfortable

@AmmousMD @TheRealDHR Squamous cell carcinoma can't metastasise? Are you really a doctor? Like really really?

@TheRealDHR x.com/AmmousMD/statu…

Biggest lies I was taught in medical school: 🥩 Meat causes colon cancer 🧈 Animal fat causes heart disease ☀️ Sun causes skin cancer 🧴 Wear sunscreen 🧠 Depression = chemical imbalance 🩸 High cholesterol is dangerous 💊 Statins are safe 🕶️ Sunglasses protect your eyes 🧬 It’s all genetic 🧂 Salt is bad for you 📉 Count calories to lose weight

So many people who die in car accidents wear seat belts

@AndrewMorcheles @HeyNurseKat @drterrysimpson You sound unwell

1. Putting on my glasses, I see little to no muscle mass. His body fat percentage is likely above 20%, making him, as a male, overfat. Not uncommon with Ozempic. 2. I have better insults for this guy, but calling him “fat” in the context of his posting weight-loss nutrition advice, as someone who needed to resort to Ozempic for success, was more an argument than an insult. Better insults: He’s a fat person butcher. He’s a drug dealer. He’s disingenuous. He spouts bad information. He’s an industry shill. He’s arrogant. He’s harmful.

I'd choose neither. Most don't need extra protein that has the same flavor as sawdust and tossed in with those ingredients they eschew when talking about other foods - but somehow say it is from "grass fed whey" it is ok. Why are "real food ingredients" now defined by the people who make them. Want a protein bar - try some salmon.

@alt_w_v_g I'm ridiculously engaged with your Tweets and its both heartwarming and infuriating. 👏

Saturday afternoon My kid's soccer game I'm in the cargo shorts Capri Sun in pocket three Backup batteries in pocket five You never know Timex on Folding chair set up six feet from any other parent On purpose By 1:04 a dad on the other team was screaming Not encouraging Screaming At a referee who is legally not old enough to drive to this game The kids are five Half of them are running the wrong direction One kid just did a cartwheel at midfield And this man wants a replay review His wife whispered something to him He did not lower his voice She moved her chair three feet to the left I've seen that move before My wife does it at every professional appointment I attend It means "I don't know this person" Rolex Ron was there too Standing Arms crossed Sunglasses on His kid touched the ball once With his shin Ron clapped like it was a goal It was not a goal The game ended I don't know the score Neither do the kids The only person who tracked it was the screaming dad He told everyone in the parking lot it was 4-3 No one asked My daughter ran over She said "dad I had so much fun" Not "we won" Not "I scored" Just "I had fun" Five years old and she already understands something half the parents on that sideline never will I handed her the Capri Sun Loaded the chairs Timex still ticking Sent from my iPhone

@BeAfraid_Movies It's fun if you think of it as an entirely separate game

RE 3 remake is on sale for 10$ and I never played it since it has less content than the original. Should I go for it? I'm leaning towards yes

@TheLaurenChen Weight loss isn't as simple as deficit

At one point in college, I had an obese roommate. After a few weeks, she complained about how lucky I was to be thin, since I ate more than her. The thing is, however, that I absolutely did not eat more than her, in terms of calories or just amount of food. She put ranch on everything. 600 calorie drinks. Endless snacking. Maybe my plate was more full than hers at dinner, but it was obvious tp everyone but her that she was consuming more throughout the day. I'm sorry, but after multiple instances of this happening with other overweight people, I just don't trust when someone heavy insists they're in caloric deficit. Maybe some people lose weight faster than others. For sure. But it's simple science that if calories out exceed calories in, you WILL lose weight.

@Brian5_8_1899 @schmidtim @Bigqadi "Account based in Peru" 🤔

@schmidtim @Bigqadi old enough to be deported back then.

Absolutely outrageous from Gout Gout. 10.04 at the age of 16. Speechless.

We need post-match interviews with referees. It's a hard job, obviously, but with modern scrutiny, there's no situation in which a proper professional can't come out and explain their decisions. #MUFC

@Lou_Chmielewski @ann_mcnitt @JacquiDeevoy1 This is called 'survivor bias' Some people who smoke don't get cancer. This doesn't mean smoking doesn't cause cancer

@ann_mcnitt @JacquiDeevoy1 So when my bro had bacterial meningitis last year,NO ONE in close contact ‘caught’ it . No work colleagues, or family members. No one was advised to take anti biotics of wear masks in ICU. He had no limb lost.

Meningitis is NOT contagious, so what’s with all the nonsense? As my friend Kat Watkins says on FB today: “Meningitis is an infection in the brain caused by toxins passing the blood brain barrier. You cannot 'catch' it, it's not contagious 🙄🙄 So all this closing of schools is just theatre. It's to scare you into making sure you jab yourselves and your kids up. How many of those who have presented with meningitis, had the covid vax? Since its a side effect? As well as a side effect of many other jabs 🤷🤷”

@EricLotter Good luck buddy, all my fingers crossed for you 🎉

Beside myself. Nervous about what happens next. Meetings set up for next week. (FL and GA). This is the result of working with a visionary collaborator who trusted me with his story! #scriptchat

@cahiers2cinema @Variety Did you even see the finale?

@Variety I thought a Slayer has to die to make a new one. Violating the core premise of the series is a really bad starting off point. I know there were hoops jumped through to generate Faith, but that was a lot of well-done writing to make that plausible.

EXCLUSIVE: Inside Chloé Zhao’s failed "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" reboot: - Sarah Michelle Gellar’s return was shockingly minimal, with Buffy reduced to just one line in the pilot as the story centered on a new teen Slayer. - Sources say the project, which Zhao directed, was viewed as not mainstream enough and skewing too young, while Gellar has since blamed a Hulu executive who “was proud” he never watched the original series. - After multiple rewrites, the revival was ultimately deemed “unsalvageable” and scrapped. variety.com/2026/tv/news/b…

@wesleytypes @RE_Games @CapcomUSA_ Love this review. Bonus love for use of the word denizens

REVIEW: Resident Evil (1996-1997) Don't let anyone fool you, the original Resident Evil has aged incredibly well. Tank controls might throw you for a loop, but only because the industry abandoned them long ago. The voice lines and delivery are wildly unserious, but also absolutely charming. Despite the age, everything from the controls to the campy live-action cutscenes works in favor of the overall experience and evokes the same feelings as your favorite B-tier horror films. There's not a single piece out of place in this delightfully simple and brisk survival horror puzzle box. The setting of the game, The Spencer Mansion, is directly inspired by The Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining; and the shared use of liminal space horror is immediately apparent. The mansion is brightly lit in many places and feels strangely empty, other than the infected denizens that roam the halls of course. Something feels off, and the calm ambiance of the hallways and solitary rooms contrasted with the ghastly moans of T-virus victims only adds to that uncanny dread. This was more unique than a lot of horror settings I've experienced, and being reminded of one of my favorite horror films of all time was a huge plus. This is a game that just feels fun to play. Once you take the 10 or so minutes to acclimate to the controls, they make total sense. No change of direction when moving to a different screen, and the effort it takes to turn and run is an effective way to add tension in a game from this era. The route you take through the mansion is logical; and when it came to quest items, I never felt like I had more answers than questions. The numerous design limitations only highlight the creativity of Shinji Mikami and team to make Resident Evil as efficient and charming as it. If you're jumping into the franchise for the first time, the original 1996 title is a legitimately great place to start. Not only is it still a wonderful gaming experience to this day, but you'll also get to witness a very important piece of video game history first hand; and if you're like me, you'll have a blast doing it. 5/5 ⭐

@Mike87_United Oh not you again

“Supporters” like this don’t want to see Manchester Utd win things and compete at the top of the game. “Supporters” like this just want to see a team full of Carrington and a manager who’s face they like bc it gives them nostalgic feelings from 20 years ago. Enemies of progress.

@DipshikhaGhosh "Handicapped sperm" is an absolutely terrible thing for a doctor to say, and you should be ashamed

No cure for endometriosis. No proper management for menopause. No adequate symptomatic relief for menstrual discomfort. But let’s get handicapped sperm a wheelchair to make not so healthy babies because it would make men feel strong.

@skjsaurabh @aakashgupta Why did you give your kid an iPad at 18 months? Curious, no shade

@aakashgupta I gave my son iPad at 18 months age. He developed speech normally. In fact he became a programmer and a 3D printing expert over the years! I was myself a little late in speaking as per my mother although I did not have any electronic device at that age!

Between birth and roughly 24 months, the human brain is in its highest plasticity window. Synaptic density peaks at about double the adult level. The brain is building its fundamental reward circuitry, and the way it builds that circuitry is through effort-based learning loops. A toddler learning to speak is running thousands of prediction error cycles per day. They vocalize, it comes out wrong, they see a caregiver’s face react, they adjust, they try again. Each micro-correction fires dopamine in the mesolimbic pathway, and that dopamine signal tells the brain: reinforce this circuit. Keep it. The struggle is the building material. Without the effort component, the dopamine signal doesn’t consolidate the circuit. Now hand that same toddler a tablet. The screen delivers rapid visual stimulation that spikes dopamine 100-200% above baseline with zero effort required. The crash that follows drops baseline dopamine 40-60% for hours. In a fully developed prefrontal cortex, that’s a rough afternoon. In a brain that is actively wiring its reward architecture for the first time, you are training the system to expect high-amplitude stimulation without the effort component that wires durable circuits. The Toronto study behind that stat tracked 894 children aged 6 to 24 months. The correlation was specific to expressive speech delay. Not receptive language. Not gestures. Not social cognition. Only the output that requires the child to produce language, the part that demands effortful engagement. That tells you exactly what’s being disrupted. The input pathways are fine. The effort-based output pathways are underdeveloped. The brain scan in this tweet is a stock MRI unrelated to any screen research. Ignore it. The actual science is more useful than a scare image. A 2023 systematic review found that six months of reduced device exposure reversed speech delays in affected children. The plasticity that makes this window vulnerable is the same plasticity that makes it recoverable. More boredom. More failed syllables. More of a caregiver’s face responding in real time. That’s the protocol.

@JLisaJay My take on Moby Dick

Yall complaining about ballet and opera. I just blocked someone for disparaging Moby Dick.

@findro_89 @Variety Did you even watch the original?! 😂

@Variety I'm glad. Studio would've made it woke and ruined it. Nothing can touch the original.

Sarah Michelle Gellar breaks her silence on the “Buffy” reboot cancellation, blaming it on one executive who’s “not a fan of the original.” "No one saw this coming, including the head of Searchlight. I got the call as we were stepping onto stage for the premiere of their own movie. And it’s also the weekend of Chloé [Zhao] going to the Oscars as a best director nominee for Hamnet. For them to call us on the Friday of what should have been Chloé’s victory lap for an incredible film, and my world premiere of something that I worked very hard for is… That says something." "We had an executive on our show who was not only not a fan of the original, but was proud to constantly remind us that he had never seen the entirety of the series and how it wasn’t for him,” she said. “That’s very hard when you’re taking a property that is as beloved as Buffy, not just to the world, but to me and Chloé. So that tells you the uphill battle that we had been fighting since day one, when your executive is literally proud to tell you that he didn’t watch it." variety.com/2026/more/news…