I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

Post Malone ergo Propter Malone

Become ungovernable

Much to the dismay of Wes Streeting, it could become a Madame just by popping an egg on top.

Some of y’all never got a approving nod from the record store clerk and it shows.

Front row for @gregjenner.bsky.social and @marjoleinrobertson.bsky.social at The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. Been really looking forward to this.

“Fly me to the Moon, let me play among the stars” - - Frank Sinatra “I need to borrow your rocket, I ain’t telling you why” - Evasive Sinatra

The quality of big animated movies dropped considerably when studios decided they needed to be voiced primarily by A-list celebrities who primarily just play themselves, and aren’t as talented as skilled voice actors.

Mary Poppins and Pennywise - they are clearly both the same kind of supernatural entity, but one is good and one is evil

Walking into the venue when you've taken a punt on a half price ticket at the Edinburgh Fringe...

The tribes of Britain c. 540 in the time of Gildas.

It should be one of the lasting legacies of how the Harry Potter films were produced; a principal cast of kids who, for 10 years, had no normal school/home life, became immediately among the most famous people on the planet, and the majority of them grew up into pretty well-adjusted adults.

If I had £1 for every time Katharyn Powers wrote a racist 4th episode of a first season for a sci fi show, I'd have £2. It's not much but it's weird that it happened twice

The internet, on scientists: They're secretive gatekeepers, they hoard esoterica/the truth, they don't want anyone in their ivory tower little clubs Actual scientists: LOOK, WE FOUND A 300 MILLION YEAR OLD FOSSILIZED CLOACCAL IMPRESSION AND THE VENT IS HORIZONTAL! PLZ READ MY 67-PAGE PAPER ABOUT IT

If I had £177bn, I wouldn't have £177bn anymore and homelessness wouldn't exist. I'd probably eradicate food poverty while I was at it. Which is precisely why I'll never have £1m, let alone multiple billions.

Tell him the weather in Scotland is partly sunni but mostly shiite 😂

Not making any suggestions, but if digital purchasing isn't really ownership then digital piracy isn't really theft. Just saying.

Sometimes when people have enough money that choices aren't governed by how they can afford live, they choose to do things that matter. Things with purpose. It is admirable to choose a hard thing that makes a difference when comfortably doing nothing is an easy option. She is a national treasure

Happy Twin Peaks Day to all who celebrate.

"...and there's been another arrest for misconduct in public office but for who Chris Kamara?"

Sometimes, the right people get famous.

Labour dropped a pledge for Leveson 2 ahead of the 2024 election in return for getting an endorsement from the Sun and the Sunday Times... that they didn't really need anyway.

In the UK, there is the possibility of Justice. In the US? Just ICE.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Same, random pair of trousers on Vinted. Same

All art is glass. Depending on where you stand, it can be a mirror in which you get to see yourself reflected back. Or, it can be a window to see into the experiences of others. Bad Bunny was excellent. If your complaint is that you couldn't see yourself, then you missed out on the view.

You don't have to hate Kid Rock just because of his politics. You can also hate him because of his his music. That's totally okay.

Perfect. No notes.

I think the most creative things gen "AI" has inspired are the ways people design to circumvent it. Chapeau, sir.

Epstein made $10k+ payments to Mandelson's partner around the time of the email leaks. Mandelson says he thought the payments were bursaries from an educational foundation. We're not allowed to say famous people are lying. But is Mandelson lying? A 🧵 on the evidence:

For those who don't know, Cajuns as an ethnicity, only exist because in 1755 the English entered Acadia in Nova Scotia and burned villages, destroyed property, and round up more than 80% of the local Acadians, forced them on boats, broke up families, and sent them out to sea. Thousands died. 1/5

New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor. Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time. A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.

Tried. Can confirm.

*immediately adds this to my 'terrible data visualisation' folder for future workshops. All contributions are, of course, welcome.

Aren’t you a little short for a stormtrooper?

This is wild.

panem et circenses (sine pane)

Pete Hegseth on a signal chat after the US ground invasion is repelled: It was a trick! There was THREE of them!

Art festival boycotts are effective because the festivals, despite all their protestations otherwise, need the participants more than the participants need them. The reason they make financiers and the media so angry is because they're so effective and it interrupts how *they* use the arts.

Many Americans have, unfortunately, already done this three times.

I think the Twilight films are actually pretty entertaining if you view them like a 70's/80's B-movie. They are deeply flawed, and objectively awful, but there's fun to be had if you view that as a way to enjoy them rather than a reason to dislike them.

It is true, there is indeed a deep-fill steak pie of a thread about the New Year's steak pie tradition: threadinburgh.scot/2024/01/02/t...

The story of every RATM live tv appearance: "Hey guys, we're going out live, would you mind NOT raging against the machine?" "Yeah, no problem" they then rage against the machine slightly harder... "Oh no! They're raging against the machine! Who could have foreseen this?!"

Boxing Day with fewer/no top flight fixtures could be a new lower/non-league day. Lots of more affordable local games for people to attend wherever they're spending Christmas.

"You'd be really easy to draw"

For context, taking inflation, comparative purchasing power, etc into account, $32,000 isn't far off what Scrooge was paying Bob Cratchit in 'A Christmas Carol'. Some get richer, some get Dickensian poverty wages. Tax billionaires.