US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2

no AI can ever dream of capturing the absolute batshit frenzy of any Uwe Boll film also they can't tell their critics to meet them in the fuckin ring about it

September 30 ... October 1

PSA

🍂 You should read this, even if you're not Canadian, and even if you don't live on Turtle Island (North America) Learning about the struggles that various Native peoples face is really important

The book club scams I recently reported on keep evolving. I received a scam email this morning from someone praising one of my stories. The email was totally written with AI, with genAI also summarizing my story and career. Ironically, the name the scammer used is Cashin. 1/

ASMR where the S stands for "Shouting"

One of my traditional midweek "planning has collided with reality" posts. If anyone wants a free ticket to either show tonight at The Bill Murray, let me know www.angelcomedy.co.uk/bill-murray/

Disappointed in the lack of "Juste Pour Riyad" puns (Also that people's knowledge of Saudi Arabia for constructing jokes extends to about 3 things)

Things only a comedian/producer would post: I AM LOOKING FOR A TRUMPETER IN BRISTOL AVAILABLE THIS WEEK. Long shot, but let me know. I will not block joke answers as some people do but I also won't laugh at them. I *might* roll my eyes indulgently.

Mass shootings you may have missed this weekend: 3 killed, 8 wounded in N.C. 2 killed, 8 wounded in Michigan 2 killed, 5 wounded in Texas 1 killed, 3 wounded in New Orleans 4 wounded in Louisiana 4 wounded in N.C. via Gun Violence Archive

It's truly insane that it's legal to go "I'm going to spend $50 billion dollars to buy this company. Do I have $50 billion dollars? No, the company I'm buying is going to take out a big loan"

Always brightens my day to see a Scottish person in online comments disparagingly refer to someone as a "fanny"

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

Getting to the age where buying glasses with brightly coloured frames would save me lots of blurry rummaging around and passing my hands over flat surfaces time.

Just realised that people in Minnesota order popcorn & pop at the movies

The time of year when driving on motorways & dual carriageways that to the cries of "Horses!" & "Cows!" you add "Apples!"

Where in the world is Carnal Sandiego?

Got new headphones. Took me much longer than it should have for me to work out this was just a typo, not some cool slang I had missed

I note here that the police raided Nicola Sturgeon’s house live on national television because they thought her husband had spent party donations on a camper van

The English language is marvellous for its flexibility and ambiguity. For example, if a member of the Saudi secret police says "I saw Jimmy Carr at the Comedy Festival", you don't immediately know how disappointed to be.

hiking down the trail, with her magnesium, sipping on her thing, my magnesium girl 🎶

Perturbing chimney

Took some nuns mudlarking, then watched as they wandered around, hands filled with vertebrae and shards of bone, showing people their finds. I'm a good influence.

Mmm. Maple syrup. If honey tasted a little bit like feet.

Following a 20 yesr old art installation. Little radio transmitters on lamposts constantly broadcasting archive intervirws about the construction of the A12

I think people shouldn't be criticising Jimmy Carr for doing a double bill with Louis CK. If there is one thing that will prevent LCK relapsing, it's the sight of Carr hovering around backstage like a Madame Tussauds Bela Lugosi

OK. But only if the police have to ask for it in Welsh

Tattoo inspiration. Symbol of excellence.

Why "apply" for a job when you can "up-lie" for it?

Le Parlement slovaque adopte un amendement constitutionnel anti-LGBT+

I was looking up Brooklyn Beckham because of REASONS and I’ve never seen a more savage burn.

They've fully reversed direction and started putting extra things into people's cold, dead hands

Attempt at fox pic did not quite capture the moment

Exciting round of "Have I been out there before (and not just passed through there)?" tonight: Deptford

Hot American cheese singles in your area want to get grilled.

Super ego meets super id

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

These boys took a hell of a beating today.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Wait what? Can yall clarify on this? You spoke to him *BEFORE* he'd gotten word his brother was dead? Did you tell him? Did you let him go on not knowing? What the fuck?

Drummers have a more textiles going on that I'd really thought about. Rug underneath the kit. Pillows inside the bass drum. Tea towel on top of some of them for intimate shows. Hence Cozy Powell, I presume.

Please support the kickstarter for my movie Kraven the Gatherer. Kraven gathers so much shit in this movie and his friends are all "Kraven, where are you gonna put all that stuff your apartment ain't that big" But Kraven ain't trying to hear it. He is a gatherin' fool and whatnot

£21.78 worth of damage.

That new post sharing thing on instagram is a series of design choices The share icon just a little too close to the like one for blocky fingered oldsters like me And when mutuals have shared one, their avis get scattered over the post like crumbs or confetti made out tiny faces. Ugh.

Oui alors voilà bonjour bisous