Jack

Making words at the word factory. GQ UK. Occasionally elsewhere • [email protected]

[Jack @jackarking]

“if you don’t want to watch the last of us because it has gay storylines, that’s on you, and you’re missing out.” spent some time with the wonderful, resilient @bellaramsey for this week’s gq hype: https://t.co/rfR8vNtE79

[Max @Maxisntheree]

Club kid reaches a “normie” conclusion but conservative it is not. Ig the opposite of doing hard drugs every night is in some ways traditional and assimilationist(?) BUT the film doesn’t judge the characters who stay in the scene. It simply didn’t work for peter anymore.

[fka popcorngate @stevieRML]

Can I just say I was charmed by Club Kid because it never demonized nor vaporized “nightlife” it was just kind of the water the characters were swimming in

[y2k @srpntspth]

the world that club kid is set in is very familiar to me, that particular sector it really goes up close with is one i recognize but still from a bit of a distance (my closer friends in the "scene" are not those people, but i know a lot of people like them). but i found the

[Jack @jackarking]

Great movie

[Jack @jackarking]

Not surprised that anyone would read Club Kid as having a small-c conservative logic behind it, but I just think that it appreciates that two things can be true: partying is euphoric, liberating, and incredibly fun, but this one particular guy needed to call time

[Jack @jackarking]

Actually came out if it thinking it's refreshing and commendable that the film doesn't just demonise queer party culture, nor does it make any attempt to sanitise. I think it's more about one dude for whom the fun stopped because he specifically has lost grasp of moderation

[Devika Girish @devikagirgayi]

I think Club Kid gets at something profound about the queer rave subculture's relationship to time & mortality—its embrace of the present in a world that denies queer/trans folks an imaginable future—& how, to love & raise children, you have to be able to imagine a future.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

COYG!

[Rohin @RohinBalkundi]

Liberal Arsenal fans are on a generational run right now

[The Different Knock 🏆 @DiffKnock]

Some interesting Kai Havertz numbers I ran this morning, in wake of the contract talk:

— All time Arsenal G+A per 90 (+5000 mins) Kai Havertz is now up to 13th, above every eligible member of the current squad.
— End of 23/24, had 1.2 G/A per 90 for a 16 game PL sample. That's above Henry's all time G/A record.
— Winter 24/25 before the injury, 1.03 G/A per 90 for a 14 game PL and UCL sample.
— January 2026 to the Chelsea game at home recently it was 0.97 G/A per 90 for club and country.
— All-time leading German goalscorer in the Premier League with 46 goals, overtaking Ilkay Gündogan.
— By September 2026, Arsenal’s Premier League win rate with Havertz was 72.7% while without him was 52.4%.
— Kai Havertz had scored or assisted in 48% of his Premier League starts for Arsenal (29/61), the highest percentage of any player under Mikel Arteta. [@OptaJoe, September 2026]

[Kyle Buchanan @kylebuchanan]

Here’s the trailer for my new video podcast The Kyle Buchanan Show, launching Oct 21 with special guest Inde Navarrette! Twice a week, I’ll talk to Hollywood’s most important people to give you an insider perspective like no other.

[RohanJivan @RohanJivanAFC]

Hold that you corrupt flipping frauds @ManCity

ARSENAL ARSENAL ARSENAL

[@buzzfeedjenny.bsky.social 🇧🇷🇧🇷 @buzzfeedjenny]

I resigned from Sniffies today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both Grindr and Sniffies. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Jack @jackarking]

Hmmm. Forgot my brother follows me on here

[Jack @jackarking]

Tutting and shaking my head disapprovingly while I hold Luthia's hand in GTA 6 for the romance points so my boyfriend knows I'm still gay

[Jack @jackarking]

[redacted] his [redacted] while I make it rain on strippers to boost my focus bar

[Billy Dunmore @Dunmoreorless]

The Mykonos Messi they’re calling him

[Jack @jackarking]

Lukewarm take: Tobes bad

[Jack @jackarking]

Rewatched SM3 last night for the first time since I was like 12. It's so much fun, and overflowing with the Raimi Juice, until the Bully Maguire stuff kicks in and your soul is cringe-yeeted into another dimension. I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye <3

[zach @zachitsv]

the more overstuffed, studio-meddled, poorly paced superhero movies I watch, the more forgiveness I have for Spider-Man 3 being what it is. it’s quite a beautiful film when it’s not giving you whiplash

[Jack @jackarking]

Sorry but MCU Peter is a tech whiz once mentored by the smartest (and richest dude) on Earth. Ofc he isn't gonna be Maguire povvo. Besides which, it's hardly the biggest leap in movie logic that he can afford a 3-D printer. Probably mines Bitcoin or smt. And crucially, who cares