Out of the mouths of babes and little children... or to be precise in this instance, in their hands.

THIS is 100% TRUE. But in general, every time you hear a politician shit on election workers (who, of course, are gagged from clapping back) its a safe wager they will do precisely NOTHING to bring about meaningful and constructive election law reform or increase resources and staffing to help.

Waiting for Godot: The Hunt for Godot is the recently announced newest installment of the Godotverse. The long awaited sidequel follows Godot's adventures during the events of the original play.

I get beyond angry listening to politicians shit on election workers whose one job is the execution of black letter election law with the budget and resources given to them by, guess who? POLITICIANS. ANd to add insult to injury? Luxon knows this crap isn't only untrue.... #nzpol 1/2

Old enough to remember when you could buy a packet of cigarettes AND a bottle of milk and still get change from a ten dollar bill. Which you seldom saw because a tenner was real big money back in the way back when.

I hope every Terf out there is proud that the "gender critical" movement has done such a bang up job of defending the dignity and safety of women by *checks notes* trashing the dignity and safety of Brigitte Macron because Candace Owens decided to get on the transmisogynist train for fun and profit.

This is a fascinating question, and not just for gamers. I don't have negative feelings about David Lynch's TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME - it's always been a dark, challenging materpiece to me. But I'll never detach the film itself from the first viewing in the wake of an ugly breakup.

{RP with typo corrected} Am I alone in one of my red flags for dangerously high levels of anger being screaming in unrhymed iambic pentameter?

One reason I don't think there will ever be a 'Project 2029' is because it would require honest answers to two questions :- 1) How much of the "legacy effects" of the radical right's authoritarian rampage can never be repaired? 2) Will the perpetrators ever face consequences for any of it?

I am not worthy to even aspire to being a bilious salty bitch in the presence of such magnificence and terror.

Lectures on "cultures of victimhood" from a pair of professional right-wing grievance-mongers should be taken as seriously as relationship advice from Ghislaine Maxwell.

THIS. As Oscar Wilde's Miss Prism put it in her auto-critique of her own effort at the cosy three-volume novel: "The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."

Isn't it curious how Geriatric Gossip Girl just happens to "hear about" liberal Jewish billionaires and uppity black women who hard trigger his lust for revenge.

Remember when a legendary hairstylist convinced Meghan McCain that white girls in cornrows would be the next hot 'do - and it wasn't? THIS is why people hate McCain enough to be that ingeniously mean to her.

Slipped on the #TWINPEAKS pilot (yes, that's my comfort food TV watch RN - don't judge) and trying to imagine the cognitive dissonance of the people who tuned in 35 years ago expecting the latest hot and horny nightime soap opera and instead getting the terriffying spectacle...

If you're inclined to be snotty about "media tie-in" books, I do hope you're not of the bookishly middlbrow vintage where every well-dressed bookshelf had at least one volume of John Mortimer's Rumpole stories - all made over from his scripts for the TV drama Rumpole of the Bailey. #BookSky

I know this Administration regards the law as more a series of value suggestions for suckers than imperatives, but I'm pretty sure the courts and law enforcement tend to be helpful in moving on squatters and imposing sanctions on tenants who aren't paying their rent.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have a wild guess as to why the Democratic Party consultant-lobbyist-donor industrial complex and their paid simps from City Hall to Capitol Hill HATE Zohran Mamdani like vampires being served garlic bread on a tanning bed.

To steal a bit from Jimmy Kimmel, there goes J.D. Vance's late night talk show.

Serious question: How much trust should we take on any ICE adjacent matter from anyone in an administration that has shown a disturbing propensity to dissemble or straight up lie with monotonous regularity - including in Congressional testimony and filings to federal courts?

Dude, you're the mouthpiece of a self-confessed sex pest and adjudicated sexual abuser. (Legal note: At the time the New York State criminal code restrictively defined rape as vaginal penetration with a penis.) Dude, you're not a protector of girls and women. You're an existential threat.

I don't kink shame, as a general rule, but its way too much information that Steve and Katie Miller require an energetic bout of animal cruelty to get the bang bus revved up.

Keep these things in mind, too, be a responsible news consumer. 🧵👇🏼

In all seriousness, Vance's children should be taken into care with NO unsupervised contact with their parents. All of this is textbook red flag abuser rhetoric.

Dude, if you feckless goons want to stop people calling you Nazis, stop making it so damn easy. After all, and y'all used to so love saying "Facts don't care about your feelings." And I'll welcome the day I can start calling you all "convicted felons" and "disgraced scumbags" instead.

“In every industry, AI is being used to replace all the creative things that bring us joy instead of the boring, tedious tasks we hate doing,” she says.

THIS. Also based on my entirely unscientific sampling (and some pretty eye-opening conversations) I found a much more open and healthy understanding of agency, consent and respect for boundaries and how they're represented (or not) in popular culture that I ever had at their age.

Top three ways not to keep a secret. Telephone. Television. Tell Kash Patel.

Wonder how long its going to take The Guardian to have to retract another fairy tale about magic bullets engraved with mystic runes in the Mines of Antifa?

"You might like The Oprah podcast."

RIP Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025), an icon of Italian cinema and the embodiment of postwar European glamour. Alongside her work with Fellini, Leone and Visconti she appeared in five Radiance releases, ranking amongst our most featured actors.

THIS. I'm trying (with mixed success so far, TBH) to serve less hot-taking and more signal-boosting of better and more deeply informed voices who are more righteously spicy than I'll ever be. Let's see how that works...

I warmly recommend THIS essay. And it really snapped into focus for me why I find so much pious cant about "extending grace" intensely enraging as well as intellectually and morally vacuous. Shame, rightly understood and carefully exercised, has its place.

THIS. Especially when 'The Mood of the Boardroom' is perpetually calling for a sound spanking before being sent to bed without any supper. Also no screen time for a week! Keep pouting and I'll make it a month...

I'll keep saying this because it needs repeating: It's hard to get a precise number on how many American citizens are expatriates with dependent children but I say with absolute confidence that if any nation pulled this shite on a single American family the backlash would be INSTANT and BRUTAL.

I'm sorry, when I'm frustrated I go play catch-and-throw with a tennis ball up against the retaining wall in the back yard. What I don't do is peddle incredibly dangerous junk pseudo-science to already vulnerable parents and pregnant people.

Apart from Film Society and Film Festival screenings, I can count the occasions on which I've gone into the Auckland CBD this year on one hand. And I can't drive, so parking is irrelevant to my interests and needs.

Convicted felon who went bankrupt TWICE running Atlantic City casinos into the ground reminds everyone that he doesn't know how a non-grift business works. Also known as 'a day ending in the letter Y."

But, hey, Apple+ subscribers still have five seasons of SLOW HORSES where all the white supremacists (and corrupt politicians and incompetent law enforcement) are British. And the murderous domestic terrorists in season three of FOR ALL MANKIND are in an alternate universe entirely!

If the Rapture does happen today, at least I'll have some company: My cousin who thought it was a good idea to come to church on Easter Sunday with a raging hang-over in flip-flops, sweat pants and a halter top serving way too much side-boob for any morning occasion.

You just don’t expect random philosophical questions at the supermarket.

Here's a wild idea: Instead of doing "fact checks" nobody reads of the cognitively impaired, factually-defective mouth-shart Trump vomits up with monotonous regularity, HOW ABOUT DOING YOUR FUCKING JOB AND EXERCISING SOME EDITORIAL JUDGEMENT ABOUT WHETHER YOU PUBLISH HIS LIES IN THE FIRST PLACE?

Tell me with a straight face that if anyone in MSNBC's roster - from Nicole Wallace to Lawrence O'Donnell - "joked" about bombing the Pentagon and gassing everyone inside in response to Pete Hegseth's bizarre loyalty oath demand of reporters they wouldn't be fired on the spot?

Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford dying in the same week puts the world in a hotness deficit not seen since at least the 19th century

I'd also note that this "sensitivity" hasn't been particularly noticeable anywhere else either. CBS renewed NCIS for season 23, as its sixth spin-off begins its second season in a few weeks. The Dick Wolf copaganda industrial complex will probably outlive the cockroaches.

Isn't it curious that sensitivities around depictions of "political violence" in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder hasn't prompted the streamer to pull Slow Horses and For All Mankind - two excellent shows that contain major plot lines concerning... well, horrific acts of political violence.

OMG, I haven't seen this level of styling-based side eye in a house of worship since one of my cousins dragged her hung-over arse to Easter Sunday service in sweat-pants and a halter top.

Hilariously over the top, comic book level. Look at the kid in the pink shirt on the left, his face says it all.

Best reason to not believe the spin from Apple+ about killing THE SAVANT three days before launch? All the similar (or straight up identical) shows, limited series and movies precisely nobody pulled the plug on after Charlie Kirk's murder. www.indiewire.com/news/breakin...