david byrne is a miracle, man www.youtube.com/watch?v=sreZ...

watched Indecent Proposal last night as a memorialising of Robert Redford. Insanely stupid movie that dares to ask the ultimate taboo question: would you sleep with Robert Redford for *little finger to corner of mouth* ONE MILLION DOLLARS?

this is a good question and i too want recommendations (not pointlessly contrarian shit, obviously)

it's Bilbo and Frodo's birthday and i just got done rereading LOTR for the hundredth time or whatever. here's the moment that stuck with me the most time time (from Faramir's ambush of the Haradrim in Two Towers)

one thing that happens to me a lot is that i play and lose two chess games in a row and then think "ok i'll do one more and win and then it'll just be like i lost one today and then i'll stop" and then well maybe you can guess the rest

[extremely prelude to WW1 voice] my post about Now You See Me 3: Now You Don't has angered the Hungarian nationalists

i realise i'm just sitting her yelling at the news but this is such a breathtakingly insulting way of framing this. people are not angry at the *pictures* from Gaza. the pictures show genocide. people are angry about genocide. we're not dogs wagging our tails at pictures of sausages.

is there anything to the recognition beyond Starmer's statement? the statement contains no discussion of borders, political status etc - is there some policy doc somewhere that was released alongside it? or is it completely contentless?

no WAY???

If everything is as impossible as everything else then we must all go back to demanding the only worthwhile thing: one decent, secular, multi-ethnic, democratic state. What is the point in anything else. Pursuit of the two-state 'solution' is a mirage. Palestinian statehood is a smokescreen

For more than two decades, the two-state 'solution' has been the 'grown-up, reasonable, realistic' 'solution'. During those two decades, Israel has made it an impossibility, with the connivance of many of the people who support it. So what the fuck are we all still talking about.

'We support a Palestinian state.' With what borders? With what military? With what security guarantees? What are you going to do about the settlements? If you can't answer these questions then you are, wittingly or unwittingly, running interference for Israel.

the issue is not the state of Palestine, the issue is the state of Israel

'we absolutely think that all of these dead childen should have had a Palestinian passport.' great, thanks, amazing.

recognising Palestinian statehood can have meaning but this government will absolutely use it to wash their hands further of the issue. it's a gesture that lets them then spend years saying 'we've recognised Palestinian statehood, what more can we do?'

Ed Davey quite clocky imo

in the German elections of 1932 the other mainstream parties, each individually trying to stop the Nazis, all adopted varying kinds of official party salute, modelled on the Hitler salute but involving some different gesture. i think about this fact a lot

'shadow biosphere' 'fungal spike' 'hyperthermophilic origin of life hypothesis' these are just some of the fucking sick-ass real concepts you can think about if you get into fringe geology. talk to your kids about fringe geology today

for a British person of a certain age and disposition, the sight of Ant & Dec provokes the feeling of wanting them to shut the fuck up so Pokemon can start

Charlie Kirk you have to stop. you debate too stupid. your face too small. your racism is too overt. they'll ki-- oh.

this is, in fact, very funny

this would at least be like 7% less embarrassing if it wasn't called Your Party, a name which makes every discussion of it look idiotic even without a bunch of grown-ups yelling "no it's MY party i saw it first"

it's hilarious that Britain has fallen far enough as a nation to allow hack journos to look back at heavy-handed 19th century novels as lazy shorthand for our problems. using Heart of Darkness in particular to do patronising, lordly shit about *Britain* instead of about Africa is very, very funny

obsessed with the idea of a guy wandering around 1930s Berlin in a white tshirt that says, in English, FREE SPEECH

my long-standing "death to late night tv" position makes this awkward

imagining Churchill trying to do voice training

it's incredibly funny to found a group and be like "yeah our cause is ending causes. an end to people caring about stuff is possible in our lifetime"

hmmm

Wes Streeting struggling into the hotdog costume, is it

every occasionally i check twitter and you really can't imagine how bad things have gotten there, my god

this novel goes so fucking hard. great to see it getting a reissue. i wish they'd packaged it to sell to the dark academia crowd and blow their minds, tho

Warlock fucks now

assuming the Tories go under and become a minor party (i realise this is a big assumption still), what will the oldest major political party in the world then be?

every two years The Game comes out. The Game has about 70 pixels. it seems to be about... childhood, maybe? or being trans? it has two characters, one called, like, Jake, and one called, like, Darkname. The Game consumes 30% of your friends for 6 months and alters them forever. you never play it

can a Politics Understander explain why a) there is suddenly Burnham talk and b) there is no Khan talk

no idea about the ins and outs of this (seems bad?) but it is insanely funny to arrange this photoshoot as a way of delivering the news

he's Prue Leith's son??

it's so funny how very, very occasionally - like, with this, and with his own assassination attempt - he briefly appears human in public for about 20 minutes and then does a sort of full-body shudder, goes "ooh, didn't like how *that* felt" and taps the fuck back out

instantly much, much sadder for the kid who did it than i am for kirk. whatever that means. idk.

hello will you be my friend

ship stuck in the Franklin Strait alert nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...

why is 'Full Dark, No Stars' such a fucking great title

hate to do actual discourse on this subject but what's being erased by all this stupid chat is the distinction between celebrating something and joking about it. i see nobody *celebrating* Kirk's death. i see many people treating it with very little, i dunno, gravitas, but that's not the same thing

i want 30,000 words of Luigi/Kirk shooter slash fic on my desk in the morning. and i want it *horny*

don't cancel me

anyway i'm thinking a lot about how Peter Mandelson was a figure of semi-ironic adoration for us fuckheads on twitter about 10 years ago (if you know you know) and, yeah, i don't know, man. i think politics might be inherently poison

the most sacked man alive