Now that we all know Woody is best friends with Epstein, please go read Dylan's op-ed from 2014, and watch Allen v. Farrow (I worked on this film). I walked away knowing that Woody would never, ever babysit my kids. #EpsteinFiles @ronanfarrow.bsky.social kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/a...

Ah there he is, up he pops, like snowdrops heralding the spring

I believe my idiomatic hyphen use now triumphantly marks me out as human-- a vindication

Not a mistake-- we're clearly in the visible-impunity-is-the-point and the-despair-and-paralysis-that-arises-from-it-is-part-of-the-project stage of collapse

The Mariano Barbacid story is surely proof that the forces invested in keeping us all ill and using their drugs have a stranglehold even on the billionaire class. Because any of them could easily make themselves insanely popular with pocket change. They could make themselves liked!

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Weather never feels more sentient than when it's like this. Nasty, spiteful, petty, boring its way into your bones, absolute bastard

Anyway, the Jusserand has a good section on bridges, which brought back this image of Nonsuch house from Peter Jackson's London is Stranger than Fiction. All images I've seen since far less gaudy, which always disappointed me. Which is true?

Just saved these from the rain. Don't abandon Christopher Hills to this fate, people

Ah crumbs

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

My Instagram's been hacked. And frankly I'm not even confident anyone will know any absurd/unsavoury messages aren't from me

Everyday photos of all of Paris from 1970. From the link below, click on any section of the city map. You'll then be given a choice of photos of that area taken in spring 1970 for a competition that aimed to create a comprehensive coverage of the entire city. A bit like Street View 1970!

Incredible news. This is why craven corrupt, irreparably dirty Labour wants to kill jury trials: realmedia.press/filton-verdi...

Joseph Beuys at Thaddeus Ropac. Timeline cleanse? At least, feels like a message from an old (digestibly gloomy) friend in a time of fathomless gloom

Relatedly, all the Chomsky stuff is good timing for Gabriel Rockhill/communists who were talking about controlled op academics for years and being called mad

Can always rely on Norm

It *is* a flex: as a former audio secretary to a squillion rich men, I can confirm that a) proper grammar and b) computer literacy, at least in those >about 50, are the reserve of the bourgeois, and the richer the man, the shorter/more doggerelized his emails/messages

It’s an indication of how the right wing has rehabilitated racism that, in the 2010s, the Daily Mail thought it would gain credibility by appearing to back a Black family seeking justice. Now it seeks credibility by being as overtly racist as possible. www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

Your genes are not your Self. They're not immortality, not a connection to the future, not the true reality beneath the world of appearances, and not the scorecard in the game of life.

Who wants to EXPLORE INTIMATE SQUARES AND MEWS LOOMING WITH NATURAL LIFE with me

I'm going to stop Mandelsonposting now

Look, if you're going to expel *every* evil mercenary bribe-taking peasant-flogging paedophile-enabling Lord, I mean realistically, that's a lot of paperwork

if you notice quasisymmetric behavior in your mirror, your first priority is to remain calm. do not acknowledge the aberration in the presence of the mirror. do not allow your eyes to linger on the aberration. navigate to a mirror-free room before calling the hotline.

Who among us can claim to remember *every* piddling 75k that goes into their bank account?

I had to take Mandelson's coat and serve him coffee once and he had an aura like a cataract of impenetrable psychomagnotheric slime

I think we've reached the tipping point where medical professionals can make the majority of their income from reaction videos. My entire feed is things like "Pharmacist reacts: woman hammers nails into her eye sockets every evening bc of Ayurveda"/pic of gape-mouthed pharmacist

I don't understand why anyone would eat a brownie. Or a flapjack, more to the point, when just about anything else is on offer. And I have a big issue with "lemon drizzle" but that's more of a disgust at the name; like it's proud of its own shabbiness

Epstein scandal is really bolstering my suspicion that Exploitative Patriarchal Man conceives of Young and Old Woman (or in this case, Girl and Old Woman) as completely separate entities, so separate that they can hardly believe they retain any memory

Every time I meet a Finn they look really familiar to me. Wot does this mean

1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.

"How someone used AI influenced how much information they retained"- this is the key bit. My learning style is I need to see the solution immediately and then deconstruct it. For some problems, no amount of step-by-step learning gets the darn idea into my head. Claude has been a revelation.

Trigger warning: there’s a video circulating of Jeff Koons and Stella McCartney making balloon animals together. Turn off autoplay, protect your peace

I thought this woman was the pure product of a meme generator for a very long time

One of these things is not like the oth- actually no it make sense

I'm not sure we, who know something about narcissistic injury, and its effects and dangers, should be particularly excited at the prospect of finally having material proof of a very powerful man with access to a nuclear arsenal's paedophilia

Incidentally, this is supposed to be John Bigg's (reputedly one of Charles I's executioners) shoe. It is very large.

Also, obvs, Trump's is not an aesthetic position from which I would mock the appearance of a conventionally attractive man. The hurt in his diss tweets is so palpable, they really do always sound like he fancies the targets

Has anyone ever attempted to explain the logic behind his quotation marks? Is he suggesting that these are descriptions he has used, or just trying to signal that they're phrases in common use, or do they not have any relationship to speech whatsoever or what?

I really do want to understand the argument against 15-minute cities but haven't read anything coherent or anything that explains what, exactly, is being "imposed" on us except a slightly easier commute and more manageable existence.... Anyone?

How about smaller classes and better paid teachers and classroom assistants. The poverty of vision in the policy is breath taking.

When people describe things as bitter when they are actually sour I'll never bring any of these things up to your face, it's fine, I'm nice, I'll just be internally outraged

Likewise the way estuary Englanders pronounce lasagne I have a lot of these

I hate when British people pronounce Himalayas in the entirely standardised, socially acceptable way by putting the stress on the third, not the second syllable

Fucking DONE. In your face HMRC

“Bovino” sounds like a failed beef-themed sports drink.

Two Gandharan figures: a warrior (3-400ad), who may or may not have tried to stop the Buddha from attaining enlightenment, and a mourner (1-300ad), who may or may not be mourning for the Buddha

Fwiw I don't think this was ethical. Ashamed to be British right now. It happened overnight. Parents should have been warned.

I've said for a long time that Starmer's mission was to deliver a Reform government, and this will happen, and people will still tell me I'm mad. But watch what happens.