Something has been made to go wrong at bbc news really

It doesn’t seem that long ago that the 15 year old used to love Sarah and Duck you know Instead I find them laughing like a drain at this

“Now that you can zoom in much closer, maptap is a lot easier” meets number 5 here www.maptap.gg June 7 99🎯 100🎯 90🎉 90👑 78👏 Final score: 883

It’s very important to avoid accidental self-parody as you fall into middle age as i spend an afternoon painting Warhammer figures while listening to Julius Eastman’s Gay Guerilla very loudly

The way to think about the SpaceX IPO is that it's like the 1990's Russian privatisations, but in reverse.

Mildly interesting thing - “shell shock” was first diagnosed as a literal physical condition, then it became a military historical commonplace that it was a face-saving description for mental breakdown under extreme stress, now with what we know about CTE, it feels like it’s probably both?

People of lib persuasion resist the temptation of doing the 'on the surface humorous but actually a bit blood & soil' joke in anything other than the most private of private settings challenge (impossible)

Flashman, Malcolm McDowell was too scrawny and I’m not sure who’s beefy and young enough these days to do it properly.

The very rare exception to the law of headlines. Probably

If there's one thing spending nearly a decade working somewhere where there are only a handful of us has shown me it's that this is both a) entirely true and b) I wouldn't really be truly comfortable anywhere else, annoyingly.

Okay my #2 (and less popular) view here is that so long as people in the Home Isles use "the English" as sin eaters, things aren't going to get much better

one small advantage of being British is that I can use the mnemonic device of 'if you argue or compete you'll call them an arsehole' in a Japanese accent here.

My dad (born late 40s in northern England working class family) occasionally noted when we were kids digging into our nuggets how chicken was something he ate only at Christmas when he was a kid

www.maptap.gg June 5 97🔥 100🎯 100🎯 86🌞 72🙃 Final score: 871 damn fool answer on 5

I really like the way this is handled in THE DAGGER AND THE COIN, where a character who has committed multiple atrocities realizes he's been deceived and deluded and takes action to save the world, and after his death everyone is like 'well that guy sucked ass, let's never talk about him again'

Tbf only the second most consquential bombshell involving Maine

So to explain, rather than excuse, this, I think there are a few things going on. Some structural, some attitudinal, some just moral cowardice. 🧵

Sad to hear Marjane Satrapi, author of this extraordinary memoir, has died

Ok I’m liking other people’s responses to this

Up to 2015, discussion about the pros and cons of UK membership of the EU was such an obviously pointless "debate" for fringe lunatic obsessives it didn't even register on polls about political priorities. It was only when the media started with this kind of normalising coverage it went mainstream.

In lighter news to distract from the news I’m also reading The Remains of the Day which in retrospect seems to have the charming belief that members of the British Establishment associated with fascists out of naivety.

The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming

The right in this country have totally lost it, a complete and utter collapse of any kind of cordon sanitaire with the far right in favour of gutter racism. It's been slow, but the grinding move from "anti-white racism is real" from far right agitprop to Times leader is complete.

Lads next time the woke progressive left successfully captures all the elite institutions we have got to be better at it cos this time it clearly didn't work at all.

Nothing to worry about I’m sure

Bold move by the crossword writer in the UK's i newspaper. But they likely realised that the typical Reform Party fan doesn't do cryptic crosswords so they're maybe safe from their ire. For those struggling with it - the key for is primary - take the first letters of the words.

catfishing.net #711 - 8/10 🎉 🐈🐈🐈🐟🐈 🐟🐈🐈🐈🐈 slightly embarrassed by one of the ones I got wrong today

What the fuck is going on?

Yes, yes I did

Incredible

Huh, just realised that “kickstart” is like the save icon being a floppy disc; a dead metaphor living on

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... feels strangely emblematic in a depressing way. (Not that I ever went or wanted to go myself but knowing that there were enough people in Britain wanting to go see Bali’s hottest gamelan act was quite reassuring in a way)

Wait, are cockroaches only a recent invasion of mainland Japan then?

no you're a smart arse testing out skill design in Claude by asking for a dummy document that is a powerpoint asking it whether LLMs challenge Pierre Menard

Bad news guys this is slop maybe stop sharing it (sorry for slopping your eyes but I keep seeing it)

Only found out they were an eponym thanks to the new Half Man Half Biscuit album

Absolutely not the most important point but it’s noticeable that Farage has to go for an American supposed outrage to buttress his point and assumes his audience will recognise the ref

Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.

It seems pretty damming of society in general that even Farage is crossing the hygiene lines he once thought he couldn't.

Is the new Boards of Canada actually any good? I’m about 50:50 on it so far after several listens; I think the Guardian is onto something about how much more on the nose the samples are

I didn't have "Husker Du member reviews motorway service stations" on my 2026 bingo card.

Not too tangentially was reading @emmasouthon.bsky.social’s very good Servus recently that absolutely brings out how explicit and constant the violence required to maintain Roman slavery was, even and in fact, especially, for the most trusted of household slaves.

really he's just going to coffee with friends. excel mistakes everything for a date

Shin-ichi Sakamoto’s Innocent and Innocent Rouge are eroguro nonsense of the highest order (think Rose of Versailles with more strapons and flensing) but it will casually drop some of the most insanely detailed and strikingly composed panels I’ve seen in ages.

The eldest has flagged Phil Ochs’ Spotify bio to me; in particularly the massive chip on the shoulder whoever wrote it has about Bob Dylan (the whole very long bio continues periodically returning to theme of how much Dylan sucks) open.spotify.com/artist/3JhQG...

One of today's Steam deals is one of the most interesting games of recent years if you grew up on the more cerebral end of Sci Fi as a teenager. store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/...

In so so many ways a very rich image this.

Not after last time. I mean, considering their size, they're very good at it, but their repertoire is limited