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It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.

“For the arthouse sector, perhaps the most encouraging revelation is Cosgrove’s assertion that "film's past is its future" - a sentiment being validated by younger audiences who are discovering cinema history through new platforms but choosing to experience it in the traditional theatrical setting“

Just read a review of Glengarry Glen Ross that describes Kieran Culkin as “well into middle age”. He is 42.

He didn't care if his last running mate lived or died. And he doesn't care if you live or die. is something that should have probably been said a lot more last year.

Very much looking forward to thinking up some unhinged names for drinks!

Since caramelized onions always take longer than you think they will, this post just set the new baseline to at least 2 hours. But don’t go in thinking it will take 2 hours, or else they’ll take 3.

“The significant rise in the number of people being diagnosed with a mental illness in recent years has been driven by real issues that affect us all, such as increases in poverty, housing and food insecurity, as well as loneliness and isolation. ” www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...

Encounters Film Festival is looking for Volunteer Pre-Selectors to help review submissions for the 2025 edition of the festival! Please fill in the below application form to be considered for the role. buff.ly/3EHl9vP The closing date for this position is 24/02/2025 at 17:00

It's not"comedy on prescription". It's an intervention from a charity that could be 1 option for someone receiving social prescribing support. It's not NHS - social prescribing systems are partnerships across health, LA, & voluntary sectors. No-one commenting has any idea what they're talking about

umm it's called having hobbies

Gift link: "At California’s Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms."

oh wow the future has arrived, move over Pauline Kael

Ed Miliband, the secretary of state, has written a strongly worded letter to the regulator asking them for help. You are the secretary of state. You are the government. Why not just nationalise the greedy parasites? www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...

Phone now sends me transcriptions of voicemails. Very confused by this one until I listened to it. Turns out ‘sexy literally’ is in fact ‘Specsavers Bletchley’

It's weird as a biologist to say "ignore the science part" but here we are Science: Vaccines don't cause autism. BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER. If vaccines caused autism I would still recommend them. Dying of preventable disease is bad. Autism isn't a disease and most of the "bad" of autism is society.

If you could find a way to generate electricity from Ronald Reagan spinning in his grave you'd be able to power the Eastern Seaboard right now.

Bet father bought the bloody thing tho.

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First commute of 2025 in almost daylight, Imbolc doing its thing

Everything but a hurrah for the brownshirts front page

Just saving this for posterity, like someone grabbing the family photos before fleeing a house fire.

In four years time, the papers will still be writing shit about benefits and the small boats will still be coming and Britain's economic need for neither immigrants nor Europe will have changed, and these voters will blame the government and you'll have wasted your chance to actually fix anything.

And it *doesn't mean they're heroes*. Your job as a government is not to elevate the prejudices of a particular group of swing voter - against foreigners, benefit claimants, Brussels - into iron laws of politics. Your job is to improve the country enough to show them they were wrong.

I keep seeing well meaning people telling americans that they can move to the UK easily because of their British spouses. they may be well meaning, but they're also handing out irresponsible and wrong advice. please do not bet the farm on team UK offering anything but high fees and bad vibes

'Rookwood Operations...has launched a product that enables phosphates to be extracted from problem areas and then reused on farmland. This week one of the ­company’s founders, Jane Pearce, will be awarded a £75,000 Innovate UK Women in Innovation Award for her role in setting up the project.'

Stupid decision.

sad to hear gary fisher has died, the greatest of celebrity dogs

God tier charity shop find

Honey wake up, new Breakfast Room meme just dropped #TheTraitors

Our smart husband doesn't believe her #TheTraitors

Claudia deserves a BAFTA for this moment alone #TheTraitors

#thetraitors I am so worried Jake and Leanne are going to walk away with this

Want to see a photo of Charlotte when she's at home? #TheTraitors #Traitors

The exec who said "women over 50 are not a valid audience" should lose their job instantly, for being too stupid even for British television.

Pssst want to spend your Friday night listening to a playlist and filling in a google form? You bet you do!

Such a weird way for a species to slowly die out

Nothing like the animosity of two cats who 98% of the time hate each other but occasionally decide to have a snuggle.

Tangerines Satsumas

My cat doesn’t want me to get another dog

For the, “they’re taking our jobs” crowd. Here’s your chance—$16.50 an hour, no benefits, and no time off. Let’s see how fast the patriotic job-seekers line up for the grind they’ve been so mad about losing.

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I want less Silicon Valley companies and more companies like Tabasco where everything is just put into big oak barrels and once in awhile an aging Cajun man walks in and goes “how them babies doin”

The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.

I think Reeves is going to leave the reversing Brexit stone unturned. That qualifies as a stone I think.

I wish we could say nobody expected Tories and Faragists to be competing over who could most enthusiastically promote racial hatred, but really the Conservatives embraced xenophobia in 2016 when they embraced Farage’s Brexit. From that moment, they were finished as an independent party.

Your regular reminder that 'Lust for Life' - era Iggy Pop was indistinguishable from Melvyn Hayes.

Fascinating piece