In return for which, he will presumably hypnotise Putin’s girlfriend into growing larger breasts….. Didn’t I tell you about this guy? The Farage of the Left indeed!

So, eighty odd hours later.........

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Oh FFS! Next up - Was Slavery Really All That Bad? And if not, can conservative working practices bring it back?

In case of an emergency…. Grab 3 friends and sing Bohemian Rhapsody

Zack Polanski IS the British Left’s Nigel Farage. Two sides of the same bullshit snake oil salesman coin.

Or - this is an oligarchy hellbent on inciting the public anger flashpoint that will allow them to invoke the Insurrection Act before the midterms and cement their grip on power for a generation or more. Honestly, I would *love* to believe they’re just careless people, but…….

Veins of Autumn -

And as Halloween approaches, we bring you actual footage of Tim Homan, Kirsti Noem, Stephen Miller and Robert F Kennedy Junior crossing into the Chicago city limits......

Fun bit of news -

Adios Madrid…..hasta pronto!

Appears my 14 year old son has adjusted perfectly to Spanish dining. Breakfast -

Super annoying fucker too… For verily I say unto you that whenever two or three of you SF writers are gathered together, there shall one of you pitch a great idea for a tale, and yea, the others shall shake their heads and say “Nah, Dick already did that in a short story in 1967” 😡

Man…that guy is such a workaholic.

For those who argue there nothing new under the sun, I give you - Tiramasake!

Well, the woman does have form. I mean, she'd already married Edgar the Bug from Men in Black, so you can only be so surprised at any further lapses in judgment.

just a sliver of moon with your sunset, sir?

Death stares at me from the walls of……hmm, Avila, actually…… #feelinLorca

More seriously dramatic local skies - in this case somehow turning the monastery of EL Escorial from a hulking immobile stone fortress into some vast, lithic battleship crashing its prow and conning tower through the waves of an earthen ocean in mid storm…….

Some spook-gorgeous evenings around here…..

I think I speak for us all when I say fuck Katie Lam and the xenophobic brexiteer horse she rode in on.

Woke up here……

🎶Hello T5 my old friend…..🎶

Dipped into "9 Bodies in A Mexican Morgue" and looking at how much people love it, I'm overwhelmed by the same sensation I had when Lost was so inexplicably popular - the feeling that I'm marooned here alone on a planet of beings whose cultural digestive organs are utterly alien to mine.

PS - Ex-English-as-a-Second Language instructor here (14 year CV). This is, in industry technical terms, absolute fucking bollocks. Perfectly tailored ESL exams exist - UCLES First Certificate and/or Advanced for general usage (90% of cases); UCLES Proficiency or IELTS for University/academic.

Not even if they have A level English........???

Simon Jones on a boat in the Channel tomorrow morning screaming questions at people in life jackets about Jane Austen’s use of free indirect speech.

Near as I recall, I was one of the Couldn't Give A Flying Fuck If I'm Cool Or Not Kids..... Haven't changed much either, come to think of it.

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of.

post-birthday haul. *licks lips mentally* - where to start?

Count titles for *at least* a half dozen steampunk/alternate history novels, one smug self-help manual for the modern era, a couple of feminist polemics, and a handful of mournful Scandinavian Booker Prize nominees in translation......

So it appears the Green Party's policy on Violence Against Women and Girls is "You was gagging for it, look what you made them do." 🙄 Luuuuvvely people!

Oh - Their Own Private Idaho......

I'm sorry? "Soros paid for" ??? Jesus fucking Christ, Rog, why not just come right out and strap the swastika on your arm for us all to see?

If ever a movie deserved a respectful remake, it's this banger. Stick with the period, dump out the cheesy, patronising tone of the black African/Afrikaaner reconciliation subplot for something more painfully real, dial up the political edge, and leave everything else *exactly the way it is.*

Think it's fair to say my Krav instructor was pretty chuffed with his shout-out in the acknowledgements to the new book......

"We" doing a shitload of heavy lifting here, Pvt Bonespur......

Speaking as a worker whose work has been stolen and ripped off multiple times by AI companies, I can certainly vouch for the real fucking impact.

IT"S HERE!!

Think she'll find they're called Power Stations. And letting her anywhere near designing them would be nuts. You ever met a Range Rover Evoque driver who was happy with their ride?

He flew 100s of highly decorated & experienced fighting men & women 100s or 1,000s of miles to tell them they'd better not be pacifists. Said serried ranks of in chorus: "You don't fucking say?" Must have had to grip the arms of their chairs not to fall out with the force of their eye-rolls.

Once worked on a video game project with a trans woman who was an ex-US army ranger. Tough, charismatic, smart, witty - any army unit would have been lucky to have them. Hegseth, by contrast, has the aura of a smeg-reeking teenage boy who just got through watching Predator for the first time.

World Cup winners. Unbroken run of 33 matches won. Only a single solitary match lost out of 64 played since 2019. I mean, maybe give them a minute?

My pop culture references are older than people who are whole ass adults

Tend to feel that if someone can't get a Blaxploitation-style actioner out of this called ICEBREAKER, then the counterculture just ain't fuckin' tryin'

Fruits of Labour pt 2 - Winter Is Coming

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Might have to step off this platform for a while, I am so sick of watching the Liberal Left turn inward and shred itself in the face of clearly defined inbound threats of resurgent fascism from both within and without. 1/3