thanks to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social for introducing me to this movie poster, featuring a tagline that made me hyperventilate with laughter

Feels like the flag debate has been kicking around my whole life and it still boils down to: Civic institutions should fly the flag routinely. Sporting occasions and national events, sure get it out. Year round flag on your house, bit weird, trashy. Doing it to "intimidate the forrins", obvs bad

I admit I don't follow this world too much -- I pay attention to the main fascists not the pseudo intellectual fascists. But here's Curtis Yarvin, who JD Vance is reportedly a "disciple" of, arguing for the institution of slavery. He tries to dress it up in bullshit, but its slavery.

This, from Tom Scott’s newsletter, sums up the dilemma faced by content creators nowadays. Get known for one thing & keep giving people that, or be more varied/eclectic but have a harder time building recognition?

It would be Ian McShane on how he came to be narrator on Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm: ‘I was in a chip shop with my wife Gwen, and Trevor Horn came in, who I’d known forever. He said ‘Ian, what are you doing after supper?’ ‘Why?’ ‘Well, I need a voice & Orson Welles is dead.’

Poor Gerard is a racist Twitter troll who thinks he may be "in trouble". You can't even take part in a duet incessant racist harassment from 1am to 3am on a Friday night *these days* without putting your [sixth] account at risk, after his racist troll partner finally went too far even for Elon Musk.

No one has ever LinkedIn this hard. I am CRINE.

Was at a conference dinner a while back and one guy said "The future is AI. It doesn't replace senior developers, but no more need for juniors." To which i replied: "Where do you think senior developers come from. Straight from the womb?" He went quiet, then wandered off to a different huddle.

Absolutely insane levels of stupid if you watch the whole thing.

What are 3 things that a party of government which wanted "to celebrate the collapse of the era of globalisation" would do? - Would it put up tariffs on cars, instead of trying to get the USA to reduce tariffs?

Too shitty for Piers Morgan is very shitty indeed.

Mike Pence is smarter than Sensible Medicine doctors

Just learned today that 92% of US import consumption is dolls for beautiful little girls. Higher than I would have expected!

It was always performative outrage.

Wednesday is the tenth anniversary of the 2015 general election, where David Cameron made a successful re-election case for stability, heralding much the most volatile decade in British politics and government for a century

It is quite incredible the extent to which Trump is routinely held to a lower standard than every other politician. This would pretty much end the career of any other national leadership candidate in any western democracy, except none would ever do it - at all, still less during a mourning period

This isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

I've encountered a few people arguing that tariffs are good, actually, because they will force us to consume less and while I think our consumer culture is problematic in many ways, I don't think things such as 'food' and 'medical supplies' fall under the category of unnecessary purchases.

I know of several boys in my kids' circles who are obsessed with gym because they think you have to absolutely shredded to stand any chance of getting a girlfriend. Very much blame the Andrew Tate tendency and hope they see this. Also, as piece says there's nothing wrong with gym either... per se

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

With deepest apologies to Batman:

Observer has long Maurice Glasman interview with Rachel Cooke + rumination on blue Labour Odd for Glasman to praise Trump's tariffs for being a Bennite economic strategy! (Am not sure if rest of blue Labour is pro-tariffs, as well as anti-globalisation in rhetoric) observer.co.uk/news/politic...

First bit is someone else's fess: as an A&E nurse, I once had to pull a My Little Pony doll out of a man's arse. My fess comes next: my colleagues got pretty tired of pony puns: his condition after the procedure was stable, but his voice was a little hoarse, he has the trots...

It’s only until the end of the season…

Settle a debate: Do Dick and Prick (when referring to a guy who sucks) actually have slightly different meanings?

When drying myself, I hold the towel out wide with my left arm and scrub my balls vigorously with my right, also banging my head, imagining I'm in a rock band, Iron Maiden or AC/DC.

Trump just posted a photo of himself holding up a piece of paper claiming to show tattoos on Kilmar Abrego Garcia that are related to MS-13. The paper he’s holding up has been digitally altered to add the characters MS-13. The claim comes from neo-Nazis on X who say the tattoos cover up “MS-13.”

Not only did the IDF deliberately attack an ambulance and murder the health workers travelling in it, it appears likely the survivors of the initial attack were executed in cold blood at short range. news.sky.com/story/two-ho...

The failure of libertarians to pick the right side in this has exposed their whole thought system. A principled libertarian attack on limiting government overreach would be welcome at this time. Put no such thing exists. Libertarian just means selfish.

I understand what Judge Xinis is doing. She is building a factual record so that that record will be crystal clear when this case gets back to the Supreme Court. But I also know it is taking too long. Two weeks is too long. Keep in mind Bukele will just kill Garcia at the last moment if he has to.

Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.

Well, things are still crazy out there (waves vaguely). But I'm watching "Robot Monster" with my sweetie, and the "Ro-Man" is still one of my favorite movie monsters. Which reminds me, a few years back I was documenting some fave robots for my lockdown journal. Let's time travel...

Kemi Badenoch is now jumping on the Lucy Connolly bandwagon by quote-tweeting Allison Pearson (who's been driving the bandwagon).

I'm trying to think of an analogy for selling British steel to the Chinese. In the meantime, who thinks the tories wouldn't have just closed it and brought in cheap Chinese steel?

“Can we get through year 1 with out any more bullshit. Dont we have more important things to worry about” #LeopardsAteMyFace

How it started // How it’s going

I've had a tea mug on my desk for 7 years now. I when I started this job. I only ever rinse it before making tea because I like the tannin stains. It had achieved an almost mahogany shine when some kind soul washed the stains off. So sad. Can't start over.

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

This hasn't displayed right. Ensmallened version:

There are many people in prison (including Ms Connolly) who in my view do not need to be there. But I’d venture that better evidence of a two-tier society is a national media outlet offering a soft focus profile minimising racist incitement to violence because a prisoner is married to a politician.

I'm a 55 year old man who hates it when people my age go on about how much better things were in the 70s, and how we managed without modern things like phones & computers etc. But I do sneer at and feel a little superior to anyone who calls Star Wars "Episode IV" or "A New Hope".

I have managed to throw my back out hanging a T-shirt on the washing line, and all I can say is treasure your youth young people, because the human body goes batshit once your 30s are in the rear view

JFC. For lots of scholars, this is literally their income.

🔥 🔥 🔥 www.ft.com/content/47c2...

Thinking about these guys

Can u imagine this amount of coverage about the economic costs of Brexit? Sigh.

I just did the numbers and this assumption looks to be completely right. Let’s pause for a minute and consider how INSANE this is. 🧵

The thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it

The leaders of academia are not equal to this moment.