RIP Tom Stoppard: just an incredible writer. But also Hollywood’s go-to emergency guy for rescuing scripts for YEARS, under the pseudonym “Barry Watson”. Like when he totally saved the script to the third Indiana Jones just weeks before they filmed it: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...

Spotted near Russell Square today.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Here's a thing that's probably right up your Straße, you big mad oddball.x

This is some pretty impressive high school journalism.

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That episode of The Simpsons was absolutely 🎯 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

New unit of astronomical measurement just dropped. Out: “…the size of Texas” or “…the size of ten double decker buses.” In:

The Vatican was excluded from the tariff list and Italy is at the 20% EU rate. I hope some scheming cardinal sees the opportunity here.

As retaliation for the Tariffs we will now be showing any American made TV show without the last five minutes. Good luck finding out how Frasier got out of that one.

It may take a while before the reality of Trump destroying the world order filters down to normal American people, but I’m genuinely not sure they’re prepared - psychologically or culturally - for what they’re about to become: the “bad guys”.

Paul Verhoeven is one of the only filmmakers to correctly predict how fucking stupid and tacky modern American fascism would be.

Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...

Love love love this particularly British form of protocol shithousery

Hey hey so who's up for a BALLSY TACTICAL GAMBIT for the EU and Ukraine? A quick amateurish thread 🧵:

Same with the guys guarding the moon landing sets. Just sheer panic

read a lot of posts calling this unprecedented and I’m sorry but if there’s one thing that’s very precedented it’s nazis destroying a democracy

Telling that after his public plea last year for the “great and the good” of the techbro world to help him remake America, the best recruits Elon Musk could muster… were these guys.

Always remember:

Loving this official funeral photograph of the presidents released by the Jimmy Carter Center. Wonder who they’ve cropped out?

Just in case you were optimistic that it wasn’t the end times, the “hawk tuah” girl has just launched her own version of bitcoin: x.com/halieywelchx...

Like a kind of dark, reverse version of Brewster’s Millions: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Excellent. Now just the white power Christo-fascist as Defence Secretary and the Russian double agent in charge of all four US intelligence agencies to go, then.

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