An American is a European head of state.

poster's bushido logically implies the existence of historical european posting arts

Much like real Bushido, poster's bushido is a post facto romanticization of an earlier era of uncontrolled conflict, constructed by the inhabitants of a more centralized system to justify their own pretensions.

Danny Dyer AND David Tennant in this episode of Foyle's War? Mr. Horowitz, you spoil us

More than 600 British service personnel died fighting in American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

In the global electrification race China is marching ahead. The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.

Oh no

Bleakly inevitable that Michael Tracey is running rhetorical defence for Trump re Epstein

“I’m a Grok guy” is the single most embarrassing phrase ever uttered in the course of human history.

> steam machine > look inside > electricity

Insane that filmmakers keep putting everyone in leather coats and yet refuse to give us films based in 1600-1650, which is the one period they'd be even vaguely appropriate

would you like to see the ancient medieval wooden winch that Durham cathedral used to hoist great tonnes of stone up several stories to build the nave? silly question, here it is

Weren't these guys grizzling about paracetamol the other week? And they have a long-stamding dislike of opioids Do they just love the concept of pain

Yeah like believe it or not all those times the US intervened in Cuba it was bad.

British social media will have precisely one joke for weeks

Naomi Wolf "No! No!!!" tweet but it's every time I see people talking about the Prime Minister's "mandate" or about a mid-term replacement being "unelected" This is Yank Patter! Decolonise your brain! Resist Yank Ideas! We are a Parliamentary not Presidential Democracy! We do not elect PMs!

i can never quite tell when they’re ripe

If they tried to reshuffle me I would simply say no. Rip to Yvette Cooper but im different

Sleep well, my sweet Uni

my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️

The yorps are really the perfect 21st century (derogatory) political party. It's not designed to be a political organisation trying to accomplish concrete goals, it's designed to be an object of endless Discourse

Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution

the Labour approach of endless snippy briefings to the press does kind of pale in comparison to the Tory approach of "the 1922 Committee has gathered in the Baron Von Gout Memorial Chamber, where the assumptive challenger will shortly kill, fuck and eat a heron, in whichever order they see fit"

notably he stole this idea from the slap drones in the Culture books. if you calculate the walking time from Scotland to Texas under the ocean you should be able to work out when Iain Banks' wrathful revenant will make it to him.

Good!

I feel like "But James Bond is dead, how do we bring him back?" is a poor excuse for "Being owned by Amazon means uncreative people keep throwing up roadblocks at us as we keep trying to revive this character."

My last word on the matter

A good living, if you can steal it

"And James Bond, who did NOT die"

Think the bigger problem with Bond is there are a bunch of commercial reasons (not least the now owner) why it can't represent the real geopolitical world, but a spy film that doesn't at least nod to it just looks a bit ridiculous, and worse, pointless.

The next Doctor should be Daniel Craig and Bond should regenerate into Billie Piper

That Radar piece about Bond is obviously made up. The claim that they can't work out how to resurrect him after he's been blown up comes from that old favourite, "a source close to the production". I don't think a team of experienced screenwriters is unfamiliar with the concept of a reboot.

Elba's rather too old now imo but do this with Dev Patel and you're off to the races

A lot of good comment on the story here - but it’s really a complete non-story. No source for anything suggesting the writers at Amazon are in any way stuck. And then a quote from someone not involved in the project.

Since when has Horowitz been this much of an idiot?

Writer types have gotten way too into 'lore' and 'cinematic universes' Just say a wizard did it and move on

Like, I don’t know, I just don’t think that, when someone is the victim of hate-fuelled murder, the entire focus should be on the fact they were depressed. I would go so far as to say it is actually completely irrelevant for the public reporting of a murder influenced by bigotry.

Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down

Whenever America’s not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, "where's America?"

The Iliad, famously written between 1870 and 1930

low polyamory

I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.

we live in an era where we are burning the legacy of civilization on the altar of men who don't want to do what their mothers told them when they were 6

There is no more deranged online obsession in this country than the whole “yookay” business - completely confected out of nothing, a vessel for whatever dopey prejudice performative right-wing types fancy, utterly baffling to anyone who regularly goes outside

"We are in danger of becoming a race of fear-ridden neurotics - we who live in the finest country on earth." Garfield Todd.

Didn't make sense not to live for fun To bring us sugar and tea and rum

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