Just saw someone say the new season of Taskmaster is "scraping the barrel" of comedy. One of the announced contestants won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2024 and two of the others literally have Oscar nominations for comedy writing. Like... Just say you don't know much about comedy. It's fine.

Someone at PMQs should ask Starmer if it's okay for any world leader to unilaterally break international law in order to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap their head of state, or is Trump somehow a special case?

I'm well aware that I'm 20 odd years late with another of my sizzling hot controversial takes, but... The Wire is really good, hey? Halfway through the first season, and I am all in.

I've got pizza and Only Connect. Good Crimmis.

Hey, I know this is a completely unique and controversial opinion, but... Clair Obscur is pretty amazing.

I will keep saying this. If you bought a calculator and it EVEN ONCE told you 2+2=5, you’d throw it out and demand a refund. If you had an employee who lied confidently to you, and was easily caught, you’d fire them. LLMs are the untrustworthy calculator and the confident liar. Fire them.

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A brief response to Lisa Nandy, talking to @politicsjoe.bsky.social today about the trans community and the Supreme Court ruling.

TERF: brings court case with a scattergun of largely ludicrous allegations Court: dismisses almost all allegations but upholds one or two of the less ludicrous ones Media: THIS TERF WON HER CASE AND NOW THE TRANSES ARE ILLEGAL AND YOU MUST STONE THEM IN THE STREETS Every. Fucking. Time.

Now that Kishwer Falkner has gone full lunatic mask-off bigot in The Times, will any MP stand up in the Commons and say the obvious? That the EHRC's "temporary guidance" was clearly authored by an incredibly biased and hateful psychopath and should be rightfully ignored?

Is there an overdiagnosis of mental health issues nowadays? Or - and I might be going out on a limb here - was there conceivably feasibly imaginably maybe perchance perhaps potentially possibly a slight chance that until recently we have had an UNDERdiagnosis of mental health issues? Just a theory.

Every. Damn. Day. The way trans issues and trans lives are discussed in contemporary culture is the ultimate example of talking about people like they're not in the room *while we're in the room* begging to speak.

This part is *infuriating*. This cis woman heard an 80 year old trans woman say, 'This is the only place I've been respected as a woman IN MY LIFE.' And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.' Absolutely pathetic.

When will those Labour MPs who don't support the exclusion of trans people from society get together and tell the Cabinet 'Not In Our Name'? Because, with respect, it is well past time for them to do som

UK Supreme Court: You're allowed to discriminate against trans people, but you don't have to cis people: "well, our hands are tied"

Come watch!

somebody once said to me "this culture does not create untraumatized autistic people" and I think about that every day

roy was ahead of the kids today, you wouldn't believe

Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”

Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down. What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide... 🔥🧵

A "follower of Christ" on Argyle Street in Flasgow yelling that "God's wrath has manifested on our streets as homosexualiry! Women lying with women! Men lying with men!" Sounds like "God's wrath" has been nothing but positive! Stay angry, big guy!

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I'm sorry, there's a leaked internal memo that claims the BBC is too PRO trans in its coverage? What BBC has Michael Prescott been watching or reading? Because it's not the same one trans people have been subjected to for years...

Hey, if I was responsible for a product that encouraged desperate people to commit suicide I would probably... Not put out that product any more? That's not a wild leap, right? If you have any sense of morality or ethics at all?

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It happened again

Them: you’re incredibly stoic Me: Thanks, I was brought up to believe my personal needs were less important than what strangers think of me

Keir Starmer's ongoing ability to always find a secret third option that EVERYONE hates is honestly impressive.

Good morning. Attempting productivity today.

William Carlos Williams if he was in an open marriage:

Ideally, a country should be led by a person that understands that other people are real.

Emma Bernard, 31, from St Helens, decided she was ready to “make a move” on Natasha Weaving, 39, who she had been admiring from a distance for some months – by glancing at Weaving’s irises for approximately 1.8 seconds before spinning her head like a barn owl.

On the 50th anniversary of the Jaws attacks we should remember that great whites can live upwards of 70 years, so be careful out there.

Just went to see 'Bound' at a screening with a significant number of Edinburgh lesbians. What a joy!

"You wasted it!" - Kaitlyn Dever is so good.

I hate watching creative young women get cruel, shitty, condescending media & online treatment that people will inevitably *apologize* for in a decade & write about how *bad* it was (in the 70s, 90s, 10s)… then start doing all over again, to another set of young women

Be kind.

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Honestly, how is anyone's mental health meant to improve with the world how it is? I'm going to eat some pancakes, but that's a temporary solution at best.

So when Will Keir Starmer do something to "earn the privilege" of living in the UK? Currently, he's one of the people I would most like to leave.

Call me when the new Pope is trans. That's the future liberals want

So the big argument at PMQs today was which side could be the most transphobic in the most correct way. We are not a serious country.

Keir Starmer remains a spineless coward with no principles, no moral compass, and absolutely no compassion. News at 11.

Even the lorries are in on it.

i’m no media analyst, but in all fiction, the person gloatingly chuffing on a stogie from their yacht is never the good guy

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.