Light will actually bend around an incredibly dense object. Unrelated screenshot

Unmasked At Last: The 9 Authors of the Trump Administration Report On Pediatric Gender Medicine. So Who Are They? The authors, all of were finally revealed today after HHS published the final, peer-reviewed version of the controversial report on this field. benryan.substack.com/p/unmasked-a...

Rushing to Ladbrokes for 10 pounds on "not"

Good night.

Wow, he looks just like him!

I mean, there's anti-racism and "anti-racism" though. Let's not pretend that we don't know this

From @ericidle.bsky.social & Neil Innes' brilliant & criminally overlooked/unavailable RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION, here's a truncated glimpse of George Harrison's Christmas 1975 guest appearance runner, where he didn't want to perform a song - He really just wanted to play a pirate...

<waiting for @showerabsolute.bsky.social's bio to get to the chorus>

I've been stabbed to death in the last week twice

Just made this. I’m a widely respected intellectual, you know

I'm Muriel Gray

I see Jo Maugham is trying to start a witch hunt against Muriel Gray. After all why on earth is a former TV presenter, host of the media show, documentary maker, arts programme presenter and maker, radio presenter, founder of a TV production company, and TV producer doing on the board of the BBC?

Interestingly though there are a couple of "antiwoke" moments in One Battle After Another - around pronouns and land acknowledgements - that got decent laughs in the cinema where I watched it. And the film "After the Hunt" also released this year fits into an "unwokening" movement, if it exists

A lot of the replies to this have shown me that people struggle between "woke" and "Khmer Rouge"

Reporter questions claim of BBC ‘systemic bias’ on trans issues

You're telling me

Please, just a little bit of child poverty reduced and a nicer public realm, for a treat

Does anyone know of any collated account of the total number and list of those who were convicted for primarily online content in July-August 2024?

How much were his socks? I quite like his socks

Rupert Lowe has invited Wayne O'Rourke to parliament O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"

We all know that Americans don't understand sarcasm so the Beeb should just do the most ott apology imaginable to Trump and everybody's happy.

Amazing scenes

Monday

Same energy.

Since we’re in the mood for strict accuracy in broadcast news, worth noting that a rival channel had a pundit - unchallenged - say asylum seekers in hotels committed 44% of sexual offences in one county, seemingly because she cannot understand basic maths.

"They're looking for someone with a thick skin and recent experience of flagship BBC news programming."

It'll be Amol Rajan of course

Also what stands out to me that the last three Director Generals have ended up resigning. A tricky role.

‘Thanks so much for joining us on what I know is a very busy day for you. Tell me, what is your vision for the BBC as the corporation’s new director-general?’

An emerging theme of my Substack is that the arguments the Populist Right adopt can sometimes have 'something in them', but that they are the worst people to advance them with their constant simplism, emotional button pushing, owning the other side, and taking things to extremes.

Indian cricketer hits record eight sixes in a row - www.bbc.com/sport/cricke... Hero

Rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing regains consciousness

Poor Bagpuss.

Film review time! Bugonia - wild and eccentric, dark Great soundtrack

I really can't be doing with any of the defund the BBC chuds

Look, I do *try* and be very not "he looks the type" but, well...

“Where’s your fucking poppy?”

Or can he? @barneyfarmer.bsky.social

Ahh, I see it's not enough for somebody to be a terrible person, as James Watson mostly was, but that also has to mean his scientific achievements should be rubbished. But they shouldn't, he made important contributions, often in the public good.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand... If you prefer reality to the interior of Maugham's skull...

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Getting it wrong about who "Gordon" is is pretty minor to the whole story but it's an indication of the way in which misinformation works

open.substack.com/pub/dandiamo... Here’s a great example of how the social media industry is wired to prefer colourful false information over the mundane truth

Explain a film plot badly: Ginger kid spends seven movies being a gooseberry

Threads is a hoot, too.

Bluesky’s really fun, I think you’d like it.

It's John Rocker