rules for watching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) - try to guess the age of everyone in screen - shout “78!” or similar - look cast up on IMDb - discover they are all younger than you are now

That awkward moment when Helen of Troy doesn't have a two-foot neck and a beak.

Momentary double take.

Amazing coda here.

The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.

Petition to make "hem" the plural of "ham" effective immediately.

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Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

My fave Kubrick anecdote: David Prowse on acting in A Clockwork Orange: 'So you want me to carry Patrick Magee, who weighs 17Olbs, plus the wheelchair, another 30lbs, so 200lbs, down the stairs & then do a dialogue scene?' 'Yeah, you can do it.' 'I know but your name isn't One Take Kubrick, is it?'

Animalgesics. #art #pills #moles

Ireland has dismantled its first commercial wind farm to make way for a step-change in scale. Each new turbine generates more power than the entire 1992 Bellacorick site, illustrating how 3 decades of innovation have compressed land use while multiplying output. buff.ly/goiabIO #ShareGoodNewsToo

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1784

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

And Jessica Jones is back. youtu.be/Ozy1WksEhfk

This is simply Glorious.

Lads. You've invented Rumbelows.

*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*

Fuck Nazis

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.

There Is No Such Thing As Failure*

My grandparents with their son, my three-year-old father were very fortunate to be able to leave Germany in 1939.

Thank you Mr Smallbones.

Out-take from "Doctor Who: The Awakening" part 2 (1984). #DoctorWho

Letter in Times today

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Snail helm is go

“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” is a trick question. The mossy forest horrors that shamble in the gloom know all and hear all. There is no escape.

The whole set is done 🌸✨ #resin #dice

I doubt I will ever see a more inspired bit of upcycling.

In Preservation culture, asking payment for anything considered necessary for living (food, power sources, education, the feed, etc.) was considered outrageous, but asking payment for life-saving help was right up there with cannibalism.

Bit early for Easter, but...

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

Status: Just finished reading an ARC of Platform Decay Emotion check: I still fucking love Murderbot

Starmer’s US policy lies in tatters. Trump is now punishing the UK and NATO allies just for doing the right thing. Time for the PM to stand firm against the bully in the White House, and work with European and Commonwealth allies to make him back down from this reckless plan.

This thread is some of the most exceptional storytelling I've seen in ages?? wow. truly worth your time.

There are gloves. And then there are GLOVES! These beautifully madly extravagant gloves in verdant velvet are pure #Schiaparelli, early #1950s and utterly de trop #madparisfr #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Posting instructions for fellow Lego nerds for kawaii kitty and so i can look at this later. Will be thread of images.

Sound very much on. It reminds me of when a spectator on a bike tries to ride parallel to the peloton in the TourDeFrance.

this is fucking incredible

I was thinking about that 1980s James Bond movie where everybody's trying to get their hands on a Fabergé egg for some reason And then I realized: It's an Egg McGuffin.

"Why aren't the BBC reporting XXXXX when social media has been showing it for 2 hours?" Maybe because they are checking and verifying it like a proper, professional news outlet rather than just throwing any old half-understood, possibly fake shite out into the world.

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

NASA say that the crew member who was ill and returned to earth is doing well and now having a meal with colleagues.

I understand the traditional Finnish approach is not to announce but to let you find out when they’re good and ready for to find out they’re around.

youtu.be/VpgGIWZjlTg Facebook has just reminded me about the greatest video in existence

Repost your home river (Now and Then edition)

This looks awesome! I also found The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare really helpful this past year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOvG...

Who did this? Because I fucking love it and I want to shake your hand, sir (not gender specific)

This is nice but I feel they’ve missed a trick by not including a cord in her back that you can pull to make her say “Twisted flax please, Victoria”

The Batman tv show is 60. Adam West should have got an Emmy for this scene alone. I love DeNiro, Washington, Day-Lewis etc but none of them have had an acting challenge like this. youtu.be/tgCkmUS1IYI?...