Losing to the baby you bathed sounds like a Greek myth

BBC burying the lede here until paragraph 3 - JKR bankrolled this and LOST. I repeat - JKR bankrolled this lawfare against the Belfast Film Festival and... LOST. It can be done! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This Onion article is nearly 11 years old but I think about it every time I rinse a plate or bowl theonion.com/amount-of-wa...

Billionaires having much more success making Earth like Mars than the other way around

How are Labour getting worse

“A.I. Movies” www.tiktok.com/@americanbar...

Daniel Trilling's latest book on the rise of the far-right in the UK lays this out very clearly as he shows that the far-right would not be where they are – regular racist and sectarian pograms, electoral success – without the Conservatives' lust for power, Labour's cowardice, and press complicity.

You should have protected trans athletes because trans athletes have a right to play full stop, but it was so screamingly, insultingly obvious where this was going. I hope Miss 5th Place enjoys them turning on her with a renewed ferocity.

“Everyone is 12 years old now” theory keeps winning

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

"I think women are inferior to men, but for some reason, women don't want to date me. I don't understand why."

I think it might be time to just stop platforming men altogether. you've had a good run, time to pack it up

Utterly vile to hijack my design which I’ve specifically said I will sell on tshirts FOR CHARITY. Please ignore the link if you’re sent it. I’ll set up a proper one.

Have you seen it yet?

Sam improvs in a take where he talks directly to my mate, where it only makes sense for him to respond. Sam pushes for this to stay in, such that my friend gets to keep the money/credit associated with having dialogue. Folks, we lost a good one.

My random Sam Neil story. An actor friend of mine was cast in a small role on Peaky Blinders. Never receives his script pages. Discovers his role has been pushed to non speaking background, which is less fun/less money. Sam Neil spots him looking dejected on set and finds out.

While most people knew him for his movies lets not forget the incredible human Sam Neil was too

my favorite thing in here is "6 hours later" lol. that's what the person who generated this thinks is a long amount of time to spend on a piece of art

Good thread.

So they're all taking this really well

This is bad even for Rupert Lowe. Because of our gun laws we don’t have active shooter drills in schools and children don’t have to go to their friend’s funerals. MAGA ideology is utter poison Restore Britain leader describes Dunblane tragedy as 'one murder' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

Right. Okay. This requires some backstory. In 1984, a small, low budget film studio in North Carolina produced a parody of Star Wars, called Hyperspace. It was released in the U.K. as ‘Gremloids’. The main character, shown here, was Lord Buckethead.

ITS TODAY ITS TODAY!

Like I say: it really is not hard to spot when the Bullshit Machine’s control switch has been flipped from Suck to Blow.

There’s a scene in the dystopian sci-fi movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character is riding in an autonomous vehicle that gets remotely commandeered by the police to bring him into custody. The audience is supposed to see this as flagrant disregard for privacy and due process.

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

The destruction of UK Higher Education is still being treated as a niche concern, not front page news like where Prince Harry will stay on holiday and what Trump said about a football match. Universities matter. The expected closure of smaller institutions will hit whole communities.

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

imagine serving two combat tours in afghanistan and seeing your buddy pulled out of a burning tank and then you have to sing YMCA for a dude who made a billion dollars scamming your aunt with meme coins

Saw this ad for a goat on Facebook. It’s perhaps the greatest advert I’ve ever read. It’s just superb.

There's a perverse symbolism in the legacy of White racism sheltering under the bowers of all African Americans have done for this country while patiently waiting for the chance to go back to insisting we are a drain upon their society and that they never needed us at all.

The BBC could steal a march on that pompous-looking Christopher Nolan film by putting this up on the IPlayer.

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

4 years ago in the Telltale Games Alumni FB group, Michael Parsons was asking if anyone had advice for helping his 15 year old son Kane achieve his dreams of being a filmmaker. Turned out alright.

Can’t help thinking this one has bindun

I’m pretty inured to the effects of the unreality that is imposed on us, but this is making me wobble a bit.

Shabana Mahmood reading The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and getting ideas.

One of the hardest myths to dislodge is the belief that rich people must be smart, because it's so painful to believe that our world is run by dummies. But it's true, and a big reason AI is being shoved down our throats.

On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”

On this day in 1967, Reg Varney was the first member of the public to use a cashpoint machine.

The multimillionaire Nigel Farage rails against climate action, while gliding from one air-conditioned building to another. He knows that he and his ilk will suffer least. But he is prepared to sacrifice everyone else to the demands of his fossil-fuelled funders. So much for "the man of the people".

If I were European I would simply solve the heatwave using good old American moxie. But I will not use said moxie to solve the USA's intractable social problems because America is a real country and I am very busy.

Ignore the fact that you've eaten the same ice cream for 30 years without issue, it's YOUR FAULT for not asking or checking the NEW ingredients. Cool. Cool.

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Your regular reminder that not a single new reservoir has been built in England since privatisation. Water companies have increased our bills above the rate of inflation and made 10s of billions in profit.

ULEZ proves good policy over popularity is what we need. Not dickhead politicians lapping up the support of idiots who want us all to be as miserable as them www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...