"Hung Up" made its world debut for the very first time in a September 2005 TV ad for the Motorola ROKR phone, made in collaboration with Apple and featuring an iTunes tie-in. The "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" sample hadn't been cleared yet.

Counterpoint:

As part of Slate’s commemoration of my 100th episode of #HitParadePod, this week EIC Hillary Frey interviewed me for her weekly Friday email to Slate Plus members. It was fun reminiscing about how charts have changed, why Casey Kasem mattered, favorite HP episodes and my recent musical comfort food.

reminiscent of when, well before the UK introduced actual immigration legislation, the 1870 naturalisation act would remove the subject status of british women marrying non-british men and essentially leave many of them stateless. v cool that it's happening again 156 years later, but retroactively

They're cowards for not doing this.

10 minutes into watching the first episode of The Minature Wife, and everything about this makes me angrier than the entire series of DTF St Louis

Please enjoy this amazing freeze frame from Liara’s bathtub incident last night

8 years ago, I told a story which changed my life forever. Shortly after, an old pal from college asked if he could turn it into a film. So I am DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE that 'Me, Myself & Mary' is not only finished, but has been chosen to lead the Tribeca Festival's animated shorts roster this year.

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this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

[foreign office 2025] CIVIL SERVANT: Prime Minister we have news on Mandelson's vetting, it turns out- STARMER: no don't tell me, I want it to be a surprise when the scandal comes out in 8 months' time CIVIL SERVANT: I really insis- STARMER: god forbid we have any MYSTERY in our lives any more

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

Ginster’s has reinvented Toaster Strudel

This amazing (real!) thing that is happening next month would make an absolutely incredible episode of Frasier

conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences

pulitzer grade journalism to assign the clavicular interview to a man who looks like that lmao

So once again a man started a wildly successful harassment campaign against a female celebrity who didn’t actually do anything and the internet swallowed it full throated, and the whole thing is revealed to be concocted horseshit he can’t muster anything more than “sorry that happened I guess”

Daily Mail today, left without comment

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For context - I bought a jansport travel backpack in.. 1993. My teenager still uses it. Worn, but still looks good and works. Every jansport we've bought for my kids in the last 15 years has fallen apart in 1-2 years. Literally fabric coming apart.

Interesting that there have been no posts to this account 10 days after “actually I’m incredibly engaged with the electorate, how dare you”

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

The former headquarters of Magic Chef in St. Louis, now operating as a U-Haul, featuring a recently restored ceiling installation by Isamu Noguchi which had been, for years, concealed by a drop ceiling.

In absolutely chef’s kiss timing, Matthew Goodwin is due to speak at Orbán’s in-house propaganda group MCC *today* Badloss strikes again.

The timeline of remaining on Twitter for too long

that's a rough fourteen days

Massive added benefit of not getting into a roasting hot car when you return. Potentially could be coupled with planting?

Counterpoint: DO watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on

Final boss-level boomer exchange. Remarkable

Anyone who describes a mere twenty-hour period as a marathon in any negotiation where there are fundamental disagreements, including peace talks, shows they do not understand negotiations.

women were kept out of meetings and career opportunities at Pixar because John Lasseter was so much of a sex pest that people decided it was easier to simply not have them in the room with him how many talented women didn’t get a fair chance because one guy couldn’t behave himself?

All I'm saying is we should be able to find people who aren't rapists or sex pests or don't have Nazi tattoos to represent us in Congress I do not think I'm asking for the world here

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

This is actually hilariously bad. We have local elections coming up, so he talks (unconvincingly) about war with Iran as if this is something that Nuneaton and Bedworth District Council can do something about.

Gods forbid a woman having hobbies

A boy gets sucked into a chocolate tube going to god knows where and a girl balloons into a giant blueberry rolled off to be juiced - AND YET - as a kid all I could talk about was how weird it was that all of Charlie’s grandparents shared a bed

I do love how the Greens in England all have really funky names, beating the LibDems who are all called Izzy or Matty.

The pushback from journalists should be “are you seriously going to ask UK citizens to indicate their genitals on an ID card you think we don’t even need?”

I’m not the only survivor noting this today. 👇🏼

𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒆: 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒎.

You know what they're clickbaiting here? Quite literally, cocaine.

Together with fellow UN experts, I called on the United Kingdom to ensure that its review of statutory guidance under the Equality Act fully complies with international human rights law and guarantees equal protection for transgender people and all women and girls. #IESOGI #UN #UNCHR

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

30% of UK adults don't drive. The weird idea that if you don't drive your view is illegitimate really needs to die. It's their tax you'll be using to subsidise everyone else!

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Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

Still on track bsky.app/profile/otto...