Nice of Locus to slam me right up there on the front cover -

Wolf Alice hitting it out of the park here at the Albert Hall tonight

Bought this for a friend for his birthday - because it really is *very* good - and he repays me by asking “Why is there a vulva on the label?” 🙄 And now I can’t bloody unsee it. Great taste indeed!

Oh FFS.... Harry Potter is trending again, and so, natch, the TRA loons are out in frothing force, spewing their rage & hatred of a woman for the crimes of - *checks notes* - supporting women's sex based rights in law and setting up & funding charities to the tune of about 200 million quid.....🙄

Wow! It's almost like being in the EU gives you a negotiating leverage that a single, isolated small country can't enjoy........

Cripple Anthropic? Hey, sounds like a plan!

Hey, hey, hey! Publication Day! "Harsh, furious and lascivious" - according to one dissatisfied customer 🤔 Get it while it's hot, ladies and gentlemen! Get it while it's hot!

Well done everybody! *golf clap*

Strong Polanski vibes.....

Ah, well, as everyone else is DUNE it.........

Christ! It's Dad's Army in reverse.

Starting to get the first reports of No Man's Land in the wild from people who pre-ordered and got their copy ahead of time. Very happy 🙂

Barriemore Barlow from about 3:10 in..... (played about four other instruments too, IIRC)

Jesus Fucking Christ on a Bike……..🤮

Dune 3 - Atreides Places

Worth underlining that not only is this how we stop fascism, *the very fact* of complex governance at a variety of levels is how you preserve any society from atavism, tribalism and radical excess in all its forms. Exactly why the American right hates "government" so much.

Fucking state of this…. What’s scary is how much Farage looks here like the archetypal smart, evil SS officer in a war movie (gone the amiable tweedy English gent with pint down the local) - and maybe that’s what they’re actually shooting for? Sick-making fascist vibe. This is not a fucking drill.

Uhm.........no guys, you don't wanna do that..... Take it from us, the UK - world champions in fuckwit political decision-making since 2016.

Speaking as someone who was colossally underwhelmed by OBAA, I'd say this is a very decent write up. Not least for this absolute banger of a sideswipe, which brings home the truth like a samurai master-stroke. (My jury is still out on Anderson as an auteur; Tarantino......not so much.)

Ate in a Red Lobster near Atlanta airport a heap of years back. Bloody awesome seafood, great cocktails, lovely staff & they made my wife's night by carding her before they'd serve her alcohol (she was 30 at the time!). Was gobsmacked to later learn it was considered a fast food joint. Go Damola!

I'm sorry..........what??? You keep using all these words; I don't think any of them mean what you think they mean.

"I got a pair of shoes older than you, son. Beginning to think they might be smarter too."

"We will fight them on the riverbanks, we'll fight them through the foliage. We will never surrender.... That alright? We good now?"

Must be super-intense, the temptation for Zelensky to say "Oh, yeah, btw, that'll be double price for anyone who's been shaking this bald runt motherfucker's hand."

Late, late, very late to Euphoria… Whose base premise seems to be What If……Trainspotting, but everyone looks super hot and gorgeous while they’re destroying themselves and, y’know, lives in really nice houses. Hmm….

The irony of having *Walter Goggins* advertise the joys of AI systems.......😵‍💫 Contemporary culture as self-referential tesseract.

Not convinced that murdering a couple of hundred schoolgirls or sinking an unarmed vessel that was on joint manoeuvres with you a couple of days prior counts as "operational excellence" but hey, maybe that's just me.......

Y'know, with this & the Kennedy piece a few months back, I am really starting to wonder what possessed me to take out a subscription to this magazine. "A man full of ideas"? As I recall, Vance entered the White House as a man who would say or do any fucking lickspittle thing to advance his career.

Quick Public Service Announcement to Whom It May Concern -

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Hah!!! A through-line!!!

Willing suspension of disbelief my arse..... This campus romp show about an ageing female academic whose sexual allure has faded would work a whole lot better if they hadn't cast Rachel Weisz, who is painfully, obviously, undeniably gorgeous and hot in every single scene she appears......🙄

They're HERE!!!

Crap vision of a human future as far as the humans are concerned. But the alien Krell & what took them down was fascinatingly prescient. Advanced civilisation eaten by creatures from its own id. Social Media has turned us into the Krell. And - supplementally - who do you think this looks like?

Describe your politics with one gif

Well, see, we have a leader who is a qualified lawyer. As opposed to one who is a convicted criminal.

Wonder if you get paid to go on The Traitors? Have always wondered this about competitive "reality" TV shows. Because if you did.........I think I would still rather eat my own shit than take part.

I’m not!

WAIT THEY CAN FUCKING DRIVE NOW

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Hacksaw bRidgerton

State of the Union speech addendum.....

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Nice to see England’s march to fascism isn’t as inevitable as the British media seem determined to insist. Instructive to see what the electorate is really demanding is radical change, & maybe Labour’d better get on & try to deliver it. Polanski’s still a nut. But let’s take comfort where we may.

Could not resist.......

Outstanding indeed. Enjoyed it far more than GoT itself, for reasons I'm still parsing....

"Stop telling me I can't come to the dance because I've shot myself in both feet! Carry me, damn it!"