And here's Peter Cushing in a 1956 newsreel, showing off his hand-painted miniatures that he uses to play Wells' wargames on the floor of his study.

"i never heard of autism growing up"

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I mean this is how you report on that plan

I don’t have a lot of sympathy for very wealthy, privileged people who are capitulating to fascism and/or staying silent because they’re “scared.” People are being dragged out of their homes and people who could be next are *still* speaking up. Silence won’t protect you but it emboldens them

100m from from where we invented chicken tikka masala Scotland delivers

Shanah Tovah, New York City. Here's to a sweet and hopeful New Year.

The government ought to be holding a fucking press conference to confirm this, every news channel and website leading with the story, boiling it down to three salient points: 1. Paracetamol doesn’t cause autism 2. Autistic people are great 3. Trump is a senile, racist, shit-eating old cunt

Will The Rapture clash with Bake Off?

No Rapture Tomorrow.

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Are Farage and much of the media *really* far right in the UK? The answer in one front page

seems like a bit of a deal-breaker, no

Made Bun Cha today. The recipe is from @meemalee.bsky.social's cookbook "Noodle!" and it was inspired by a recommendation from @jakernory.bsky.social. It's a perfect weekend long cooking project and is totally worth the effort. Photo taken before adding pickled carrot and daikon.

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

Birds is the kind I want in a trifle, plus I love the story that Mr Bird invented it because Mrs Bird couldn't eat eggs.

People claim that posh custard is better but Ambrosia is what my tongue thinks custard "should" taste like

So my husband and I introduced jam roly poly to our kids today, drowning in lashings of Ambrosia custard and all bubbling up with hot raspberry jam. In our haste to take a bite, we all managed to burn our tongues, but oh! It was so GOOD.

Amanda Palmer finally gave money to an artist.

when you’re nice to me online this is how it feels

We're having @meemalee.bsky.social 's Taiwanese Brisket Noodle Soup for dinner and it might have to be an early one because the kitchen smells incredible and I don't think we'll be able to wait. 🍜

My favourite Maggie Cheung fact is she grew up in Bromley.

Anyone else feel like that statement was burying the lede somewhat?

Obligatory reminder that this film is based on a very good documentary called The Dog, and is a true story about trans love (and an exciting one about a bank robbery!). Something to remember when trans-averse people tell you that there were no trans people 50 years ago.

the revolution will not be televised (they canceled their subscriptions)

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

if you are in a professional or personal situation where you cannot fully divest yourself from something being rightly boycotted, you've got an easy out: shut the fuck up. no one asked. you're free. i'm not your priest.

woke up as a skeleton and so obviously first thing i do is try playing my ribcage xylophonewise right? bad idea, i hit one rib and instantly pass out from the pain. don't even know what sound it made. life as a skeleton sucks. i gotta pee and i don't understand what to do about it

I'm very fond of Bactrian camels. Detail from a drawing from 2022. Brown and graphite pencils on Fabriano Medioevalis, 95 × 64 mm.

One of my more controversial, but harmless, opinions is that Leonard Cohen's version of Hallelujah is still the best of the lot. Buckley is a smoother listen, a better arrangement, but the harsh funereal dirge of the original captures the melancholy underpinning both the holiness and horniness.

this needs as much support as it can get. it’s halfway there with just 2 days to go! please share and spread the word.

Latest post on Junk from Japan is a favourite 🧹 www.instagram.com/junkfromjapan

Lemme be absolutely clear *every* H-1B visa employee at my (large cap) US firm was summoned back to the office from wherever they were in the world today for this crap. For some, it was utter panic. Appalling.

A warning to everyone using DNA/ancestry services: US & UK, the two countries in the Western world where those companies are based, are spiraling down into fascism. Delete your data ASAP, before the local, eugenics fans, overlords catch up. Data privacy & international laws won't protect you.

Paul Verhoeven has been tapped to direct reality itself now, I see

People love it

Before caller ID landlines were insane. The phone rang, you just answered. No idea who it was. It could be your mom, it could be prison. We lived like maniacs.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

I am looking for a comforter for the guest bedroom and I'm sorry what monster did this

THEY DEFORMED ME, COOP. REDUCED ME DOWN TO ONLY MY MOST RECOGNIZABLE CHARACTERISTICS. I’M A CUTESY SHELL OF MY FORMER SELF. THE BOYS AT QUANTICO ARE CALLING ME A “CHEE-BEE.” I’M SEVEN CENTIMETERS TALL, COOP. 150 GRAMS OF VINYL PLASTIC.

App and service subscriptions are a plague. The only thing “as a service” should be your bartender and your plumber. We used to buy software as products not so long ago. Now we all pay monthly danegeld to the highwaymen.

1 in 4 medical residents + physicians are international med grads. They often work in underserved communities, e.g. rural GA. So, imposing a $100K annual visa fee would decimate healthcare in the US... ...as it would destroy the NHS if implemented in the UK, as many in Reform want to do.

There are half a million H1B visa holders in USA. Their families, their children, everything will be uprooted, So this will affect nearly 1.5 million people. $100K visa fees, every year! And make no mistake, Reform will bring the same to the UK.

SD Twin Peaks figures made for an issue of Hobby Japan (issue unknown, but safe to say early 90s). Not my scan, so I gotta track down this issue.

Imagine reading booze articles or restaurant reviews only gleaned from press releases.

50% of all posts on reddit are "do i really need a fancy rice maker? i can make pretty good rice on the stove" and the other 50% are all "i have tasted of the zojirushi and i can never go back to my old preindustrial ways of ricemaking"

this exists it is called thinking

Hey when a man has really big hands do you imagine being touched, gripped, squeezed? Or do you think he'd be really good at folding clothes?