Watching Highest 2 Lowest and it has one of the worst, most cloying, overbearing, undermining tone deaf scores I think I've had the misfortune to hear.

Lest we forget...

If Highlander 2 can bring back James Bond from the dead, so can you.

"And James Bond, who did NOT die"

I honestly can't work out which ones have always been a bit bigoted and have just used media's tilt to right wing sympathy to break cover and which ones happily threw their brains in the radicalisation pan and got boiled, frog style, and they don't even realise they're now hateful fundamentalists

Imagine these headlines: "I was forced out of BBC News over white-supremacist views" "I was forced out of BBC News over anti-semitic views" And if you're relying on GC views' "protected belief" status, you're spectacularly missing the point.

SNP are indeed the least worst option in Scotland but that they've done that having perfected Starmer Labour's goal of "managed decline" isn't a great resume. NHS and education is absolutely in the bin under their tenure. But nobody else can offer anything better & Scot Green are barely on the radar

Opposition party that is not that far ahead, is deeply polarising, keeps adding *new* polarising positions to its platform - lose Crap government that keeps being crap - lose Rejected and unrepentant former government - lose Smaller parties in the government’s bloc - lose

Why not have Bond wake up from a dream? Why not? He wakes up with a start in bed with a lovely young improbably named lady. Make it really fucking meta by having him tell her he just had a really weird dream where he was fighting Christopher Walken on the Golden Gate bridge. Have fun with it.

Silly cheat codes that do silly things.

*Amazon purchases Doctor Who* *five minutes later* "Our Who actor is leaving and in the established continuity his character is out of regenerations, what are we supposed to do? This is an impossible quandry!"

“It’s impossible to reboot Bond” says production team who decided Bond first got his licence to kill in the 21st Century, as Daniel Craig, then got incredibly old within two films and was being put out to pasture, but also had Sean Connery’s 1960s car. It’s Bond. Just do whatever the fuck you like.

Bond walks into a room. Rando says “Why Mr Bond, I heard you were dead.” Bond says “Clearly you’ve been listening to the wrong people.” If you wanna be really meta, add “It must’ve been that other fella.” THEN MOVE ON END OF FUCKING QUANDRY

Mr Horowitz. Good news . You’ve been commissioned to write a sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street. Sorry. Can’t do it. I saw him die.

There’s a good chance the British Prime Minister’s main adviser on AI is an OpenAI shareholder - but the government refuses to say whether she is. 🧵 1/5

I mean they literally did a lampshade gag to camera addressing the actor change in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, if you can't handle this then it shows just how poisoned creative writing has been by the sudden need to adhere to nebulous "lore" in what had always been an Airport Novel franchise.

Bus is running 20 minutes late. Good thing I don't have an appointment *look to camera*

I'm at the dentist, and they've put an artsy print of a molar next to a bunch of lilies on a small table and it feels like I'm at a funeral for a tooth

"Sorry I didn't better disguise my ugly racism with more considered word choice."

I feel like apologies lose all meaning when they're "forced". I mean the whole idea of an apology is contrition and you don't have to be forced to apologise if you genuinely realise you've done e something wrong.

Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting;

Neurodivergence is being mocked your whole life for being "weird" because you're different, then after years of social trauma finally learning to embrace your differences only to be told "everyone is like that, you're not special" 😒🤦‍♀️

I'm not saying this is almost certainly the dumbest generation (in broad terms not delineated between Boom/X/Y/Zoom) buuuut...

The Joyce Carol Oates approach is more sophisticated, yes, but it’s important to remind you that (while we should ideally avoid discussing him at all) when the subject has to be addressed, we should always refer to him as ‘noted dogfucker Elon Musk’ in the hope that he eventually hears about it

Running a book on how long it is until Romesh releases his first "cozy crime" novel.

All in all, it’s no surprise that the only welcome this friendless freak finds extended to him in Soho is in the offices of one of the world’s most famous white supremacist nutters.

Fascinating to break this down and understand what stage of brainworms the Spectatorati are at now.

(Looks to camera)

This is the fifth or sixth time I’ve been served up a paid Times ad pushing their criticism of one of Epstein’s many victims, and I’ve spoken before about where you will find that paper situated on the matter, when rich and powerful people are accused of crimes. Water that always needs muddying.

The varying degrees of alarm and disdain in the "after" photos will brighten your day.

You are "ideologically captured" by "trans activists". I, however, am doing VRY SRS Biological Science Journalism™©® supporting a hate campaign by a children's fiction author with a degree in French, an Economist journalist with a degree in Maths and a think-tank wonk with an agricultural degree.

It would never occur to Emily that she is at all ideological, or that she and her crank pals were imposing their views and desires upon others. What do you mean, ideology! We’re doing Science

Funny that Joyce Carol Oates and Dionne Warwick are some of the most savage poasters on social media.

The whole internet loves Emily Maitlis, a lovely journalist that made then-Prince Andrew sweat in an interview! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the journalist is a TERF

Remember, when journalists just let trans people live their lives in peace, it’s “ideological capture”, but when they use their own personal anti-trans beliefs to lead a campaign to close down the only place in the country trans youth received healthcare, it’s absolutely fine, nothing to see here.

Does remind me when the newsagents quoted Glinners tweet about kicking trans women in the genitals and said it was clearly a joke and people over reacted. Shows you exactly the (at best) indifference they have towards trans people.

Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next

At the beginning of DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, Moneypenny asks Bond to propose to her, which is a bit rum given that his wife was only just murdered at the end of the previous film.

Worth wondering how many different major British institutions have to be deeply malicious, for a story like this to appear.

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

Jesus Christ.

I avoid reposting twitter, but this is well put. Directed at Musk but captures Trump, too. I think it's tragic that such men are so clueless about the beauty of life. I believe their lack of joy is why they try to squash life and light from all of us. Living joyfully is how we will overcome.

My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

Keep thinking of when Disney tried to sue the BBC when Alexei Sayle’s Stuff parodied Snow White and the BBC legal person was heard to say, ‘Fuck Disney, we’re the BBC.’

This list of books Elon Musk nade to prove he has a rich inner life and loves books fails to prove either