Wild thread

IT'S NOT HAPPENING, LADS

Four days of waiting it out with this joke up her sleeve, fair play.

SANDWICH GUY AVOIDS TOASTER

Dr Oz talking about obesity, diabetes and dementia while Trump is slumped over like a man minutes from death is supremely funny content

RFK with the reflexive Chappaquiddick picked up from his uncle.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Love the Isleys, and their longevity is indeed insane. This is their peak, imo: bootleg live performance post-3&3, so with extra material to the slightly earlier though still excellent official "live" album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dv9...

Good to see the Isleys getting some attention. They've been performing (various combinations of the brothers, but always with Ronald on lead) for more than *seventy years* and are still great.

What a band. And Gilson drove them. RIP. youtu.be/nbx_6gavLno?...

Thought was going to be about whether it's acceptable to like Chinatown or not.

I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

I am going to start saying “maybe this is the age of poets” whenever someone says something astonishingly stupid

Monumental hubris, every detail is jaw dropping. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

Kuenssberg's biases always seemed to be towards gossip and personalities and drama, and that made her bad, but Mason's biases are also political, which for someone in his position makes him even worse.

"BBC News is failing and the buck stops with Mason Editorialising at the BBC is not new but it is growing and the corporation doesn't have a grip" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

The Rest Is Harlotry

Further important wombat arse content

Ouch. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

"everyone knows the project won’t work; it is now just a matter of letting MBS down gently" Deep dive on Neom focuses on The Line - a building planned at a scale that would run from London to the Norfolk coast but in the desert. Absolutely wild, absolutely doomed ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

This is presented very well...

[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!

He should be surrounded by a team of nurses at all times

Infantino jumping up in the crowd, the most cringe man on earth.

He read “South America” as “South Africa” because he’s blind, but then he has to ramble incoherently about South Africa in order to pretend that he meant to say it.

I feel embarrassed on behalf of anyone who has ever kicked a football.

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

Is this really all it takes to be a hero?

Of course the lessons he's been told to take from the elections are: 1) it's because of the shutdown, not because of him; 2) voting against him is too easy and should preferably be against the law.

If your takeaway is "be more radically left-wing in an undisciplined way", unless you're also running to be the Mayor of a major metropolis in an off-year election against a candidate with dodgy personal scandals... your take is wrong.

Feel like I'm going insane. Mamdani is charismatic and a good performer, including on social media, but there aren't many more deeper lessons that can be learned from his campaign that can be applied to (a) broader US politics (b) UK politics!

Maybe they should also run some editorials about how X is out of touch and an echo chamber.

Everyone asking these questions should first be forced to name the mayors of Shanghai and Madrid.

Also notable that the Tories are on 7% with people under-50. In fifth place. And only 4 points above the SNP in sixth (who obviously only stand in Scotland).

What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

how is this guy simultaneously completely fucking insane and a more honorable opponent than any republican in national office

Girlbands doc: Mel Blatt, eleven out of ten interview performance, producers must have been doing cartwheels.

THIS IS TRUE

Lupin should have been about five minutes long. He didn't need to go through any of that rigmarole whatsoever.

Linking to an explanation of gleichschaltung as applied to Teen Vogue, what a world. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichs...

Couple of weeks behind everyone but oof the Scorsese documentary is superb.

Yesterday in Blackpool I saw this sequence of images flash up on an advertising screen on the pier, and I don’t think I’ve ever felt so depressed

Today I learned about Al Capone's older brother and wondered why three hundred films haven't been made about this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...

God knows how many times this has happened: Zero. Much like Vance lying about Haitian immigrants eating people's pets, this is 100% racist bullshit being spewed by an unabashed white nationalist. Congrats to everyone who patronizes the Nazi bar he runs.