Fuck knows why my brain decided to get this out of storage, but this has just earwormed me. Mentally I am now in an ad break during Inspector Morse.

The Covid memorial wall along the riverside in Lambeth is to be preserved as a permanent memorial to those who died in the pandemic, the government has announced. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lam...

Someone on a post about the new M&S Food in Clapham pipes up with "is there any parking?" We're such a stupid species.

parts of Bluesky think the Starmer Govt is bad because they're Actually Right-Wing or Too Centrist or whatever and this is fundamentally wrong because the thing is, they would be much better if they were any of those things, or indeed Left-Wing, or anything coherent, rather than *fucking useless*

Right, time to begin rewatch of all of Stranger Things before season 5 starts.

It's amusing that the US Mint has made a big deal of minting its last penny, but the Royal Mint just stopped making 1p and 2p coins and almost no one is aware of that.

Oh god. Why not ask Rupert Murdoch or Rose West?

A lot of stuff today wondering how McSweeney could’ve gone from a tactical genius to a clueless, spiteful no-hoper, so it’s worth reiterating that his actual role since 2018 appears to have been “Cleanskin deployed by Peter Mandelson to deniably WhatsApp insulting shite and drivel at lobby journos”.

I think the US doesn't understand the jurisdiction of America First.

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

Seriously, if you see anything describing new insights into Hitler's health or stating something about his balls or whatever, you're in full Chinny Reckon territory.

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

My favourite genre of YouTube video: hanging around in the Double Fine offices. Unfortunately not weeks and weeks long. But I'll take it.

This probably won't improve anything, but it'd make me happy anyway.

It'll be Valve that kills Windows.

Confident prediction: The veracity of this will be demonstrated to be complete horseshit within minutes of the "documentary" being shown.

My first proper political memory was the Zuma rape trial in 2006. He became President three years later. South Africa has among the highest rates of sexual violence in the world. When people in power are allowed to get away with things like this the consequences are dire. We lose a part of our soul.

Left: Donald Trump’s Jan 6th quote, as presented in the dossier that brought down two BBC bosses Right: What Donald Trump actually said. Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

Yeah, but Nandy showing interest in her brief? Seems implausible.

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the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.

The Daniel Craig era was a standalone timeline. It was not a continuation of the previous era. There was no attempt to link them. Your Moneypennys, Qs, Blofelds, Felix Leiters, etc. were all introduced as fresh characters, not recasts. They just happened to cast Judi Dench as M again.

In Casino Royal they just made him a new recruit again. What is this nonsense?

If AI is the default solution Starmer‘s ministry can find for any of the litany of issues the UK faces, then he deserves to reap the consequences of his utter stupidity. A contemptible government that keeps finding new ways to illicit contempt.

Hi Rhys Davies on Only Connect.

This whole situation is going to be repeatedly fumbled over the next few years because the board is a bunch of fools and the government won't do anything that annoys the right. There will still be a BBC at the end of it, and it'll be a shameful husk with all its standing crumbled away.

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

We are cooked, Pt. 3,237

Don't anyone take this for granted.

Someone check for open windows at the Kremlin.

Which is a long way round of saying: a lot of the pieces I’m reading on the crucial role of the BBC massively overweight news and underplay the wider role of 50 odd radio stations, a dozen TV stations and the vast majority of its output.

No, the current console generation is 6 months old at most. Stop doing this to me.

Yes. Then police can only engage positively with communities you don't hate. I'm so fucking tired.

Does he do his hip hop voice or his vicar's son voice in the dock?

Roffle.

My very unwoke opinion is that you can identify how you want, but if you're a guy on the apps looking for cock and bum fun, you ain't straight. Get ahold of yourself.

Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK. And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there. THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.

Already, they've just gone straight to reframing it as "women's rights" and not "trans rights". 'When asked why mistakes on Trump, antisemitism, and women’s rights weren’t dealt with she says, “I’m sure that story will emerge”.'

Exactly, so the BBC didn't need to shoot themselves in the reputation by editing it that way. But they did, and here we are

You can - *absolutely* - argue there are problems with the “reporting the truth” element in any news report and I will listen. But if you are telling me the BBC needs to be balanced in its reporting of global news, I need to ask you “why”? It never has been.

So the BBC is biased against Donald Trump? Ok? Fine? It’s also biased against Vladimir Putin or Erdogan or Orban or or or, your point being?

Progressive thought has been totally expunged from the British political mainstream, and *still* the argument is that there’s an unacceptable institutional bias to the left within the news media. It is *utterly* mad. Very clear for all to see what’s happening here.

I love that the Spanish for "bonus" is "bonificación". The nice-ifier.

Managed my two shags per year before December this year.

So I made this video 4 years ago - and somehow things have got worse since then… youtu.be/bJnT2yL66Kw?...

I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.