Watching the ski “jumping” at the Winter Olympics and feel like Woody in Toy Story:

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

White House press corps, I know some of you are shy, so let me help you get started. This isn't fifty questions--I could only fit twenty-one in alt text--but let me know if you need more!

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

I'm not sure I have ever seen a more savage movie review headline than the Guardian's dismissal of Melania as a "trash remake of The Zone of Interest."

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Why should I watch something that a director didn't even bother to make?

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Loving the book “The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments” by @liebcricket.com and @kingcricket.co.uk! The only slightly annoying thing is finding out that Pat Cummins is funny in addition to being great at literally everything else. Greedy sod.

So someone thought that Steve Smith, who gets upset if someone’s eating an ice cream 100m away when he’s batting, would be fine with playing through a thick haze of firework smoke? Great thinking.

So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.

Canadian PM Carney’s speech at Davos reportedly received a standing ovation. The speech marked the end of an era. It will no doubt be looked to as part of the historical record of the end of the transatlantic rules-based international order. You can read the speech in full here:

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I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

UPDATE: Mitch Starc wickets taken in the 1st over of a Test innings Ball #1 - 4 Ball #2 - 4 Ball #3 - 2 Ball #4 - 3 Ball #5 - 5 Ball #6 - 9 Total - 27 #AUSvENG

you could probably capture our president by writing "nobel peace prize" on a pie plate and putting it under one of those boxes held up with a stick tied to a string

Cricket update: we had a 6 minute delay because the australian batter was distracted by an older woman in the 2nd deck of the crowd holding 7 ice cream cones. The next pitch went at his head and he did a somersault.

Has a team ever burnt 2 reviews on a nightwatchman before? This is top notch ridiculousness from England. @liebcricket.com #ashes #theashes

Currently thinking about that legendary Frankie Boyle bit about the US military and how they will not only invade your country and kill all of your people but then they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad

Can we have America troops come in and steal John Howard out of the Fox Cricket commentary box. #Ashes 🏏.

So confusing how he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded annually to the worst fucking guy who does the stupidest most destructive shit

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

📆[29/12/1995]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers supported The Stone Roses at Wembley Arena, their first gig since Richey Edwards' disappearance, debuting 5 songs from Everything Must Go. #ManicStreetPreachers

Mark Cuban may well have once been a well meaning person, I have no idea, but the simple fact is that being a billionaire makes you stupid and evil. There is no avoiding this. That amount of money empties out your head and soul. The only cure is to not be a billionaire anymore.

Completely unclear to me how many players Australia need to drop out of their team to make this series competitive. We’ve toyed with Hazlewood, Cummins, Khawaja, Smith and Lyon. Maybe Starc, Carey and Head to drop out in Melbourne? Is that enough to make it fair? #Ashes 🏏

Two comfortable Ashes wins in a calendar year. Great to see. #Ashes 🏏

You'll never guess which US President briefly appeared in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

I am now eagerly looking forward to @liebcricket.com ‘s next book: ‘The 50 Most Ridiculous Moments of the Heat/Scorchers Match 2025’. Will be difficult to whittle it down.

I'm calling it, Australia's 'out of office' message is now on. You can try our call centre, but don't expect anyone to get back to you until after the Australia Day long weekend.

I really can't stay But baby theres bees out there The neighbors might say Baby the bees don't care This evening has been Fine go fight bees

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

Sounds about right.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Rob Reiner had one of the best runs of any director ever. Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery and A Few Good Men all came in a row in just 8 years. He was also by all accounts a great guy. So sad at the news.

I don’t think there’s a city on the planet where the local media are more dedicated to disparaging their home at all times. This article appeared within minutes of the announcement of the road opening. See also: the new train tunnel and everything else.

Americans are all like "computer, show me AI gun girlfriend"

After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT. Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.

Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!

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