Telegraph journalism is basically accept anything the rcih say without question and subject the poor to any level of interrogation short of water torture.

Not only were they laughed out of town, they went on a mass blocking spree to the point that anyone who was vaguely left or an academic connected to Irish Studies was blocked. They love free speech up to the point someone uses their free speech to point out their nonsense.

Good Boy (2025) is an interesting take on the haunted house genre. It isn't without it's flaws, but it is trying something new and innovative. Well worth a watch.

@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social's joke about ephebophilia is ever-relevant.

The entire ceasefire "agreement" protected Israel's right to inflicit violence and restricted almost every form of Palestinian action. The only testing going on here is of the international community and their ability to continue to look the other way.

In the past these people would have been run out of town, sometimes at gunpoint, for talking fast and scamming sick people with fake oils.

I fully believe all these Techbros and Executives just lack all media literacy.

It must be weird for Creasy, after years of fighting with the left of the party, to suddenly find the entire party has shifted to her right. Especially given that I think she might genuinely not have moved an inch at all on this issue.

What will the government do with seized assests? Melt them down and store them in a Swiss vault?

“Actually, it isn’t a ‘house fire’ until at least 51% of the floor plan is in flames. Ideally half the rooms or more. Before that it’s only ‘architectural burning with house fire architectural characteristics.’”

This guy clearly has no friends or family that are currently under threat of being disappeared by the secret police. It’s not worth more of a response, but people like this in media is part of why we are where we are.

The problem with these, alleged, liberals is that they view fascism as a binary system and ignore that it is incremental and uneven. They view fascism as Germany in 1939 and never consider every step Germany took from 1923. They also ignore the complex and diverse forms of resistance.

This is true, and vastly superior to endnotes that are not organised by chapter.

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

Defending this is a choice. You don't have to do it just because you're a Republican.

So... it's just mass apologia for paedophiles from the people who have been grifting on paedophile conspiracies for over a decade then?

Good to see @igmansfield.bsky.social has now got his numbers right But for those asking, his "evidence" of the politicisation of UKRI's research is based on an error-ridden report by Eric Kaufman, best known for his deliberate fabrication of evidence in a Policy Exchange report.

the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.

Ministerial Accountability does not exist in Northern Ireland. The fact that it has taken this long for some people to realise it is honestly shocking. As Education Minister, Givan has been massively biased in who he's taken meetings with and who he's ignored. No-one has done a thing about it.

Nothing says I really enjoy films and have an great vocabulary like not knowing any synonyms for the word great and having nothing deeper to say than the written equivalent of a thumbs up.

An application I am currently working on states in the job description there are "No budgetary responsibilities" but "Budget Administration" is an essential criteria... I can confidently say I will administer the heck out of all the no money. In fact, I've been doing that for years.

The Ulsterisation of Britain continues...

I think there's something very interesting about the motivation/desire to make personal perferences into either a political point or philosophical statement about the nature of humanity (or at least of men). This goes for people making points based on other people's preferences too.

"My vote to send Brits to die in the desert and kill millions of Iraqis for American [oil] interests does not keep me up at night, but letting the youth engage in politics in their Parliament haunts my dreams"...

Honestly, how do outlets keep looking at a sector in freefall, at 15,000 jobs lost, at maddening spikes in mental health concerns, and not think 'maybe we should hear from the people who actually care about that sector and what it does, and not just from those who've been wrecking it'?

Matt Walsh having the exact same fears that motivated H.P. Lovecraft to write "The Horror of Red Hook" is hilarious, but unsurprising.

Ah, the Whitest House.

Big news for bisexuals... I mean enjoyers of fine cinema who did not have any realisations from this franchise.

It's a great failing of the UK media that they don't recongise anything but the most explicity statement of racist views as racism. They'd not even be brave enough to state "Goodwin express remarks in link with ethnonationalist rhetoric".

This is some poundshop Alex Jones shit. "We have to eliminate and pound the globalists into submission.... 'politically'". It's not even stocastic terrorism any more, just targeted acts with the most thin layer of plausible deniability.

Under the pretext of “defending our country” and “protecting women and children”, Freedomdad, Baker and cronies have targeted: Roma community; homeless; asylum seekers; migrants; Muslims; LGBTQ+; politicians; and now unions. I’m sure someone wrote a poem about this pattern of behaviour once.

I do love when X-Files does a role reversal. Mulder consistently treating specifically Christianity as nonsense while every other folk tale or religion might hold secrets to the monster of the week or the aliens will never stop being funny.

I'm only ten minutes in to The Strangers Chapter One and, like... I'm sure none of these townsfolk are directly involved, but if they do murder the boyfriend at some point, I'd get it. I wouldn't condon it, but I'd understand.

Look... it is obviously AI, but have we considered he might be trying to hide himself from ghosts?

Wild moments in Star Trek TOS range from the entire command structure of the ship just leaving, Kirk taking hostages at the first sign of an minor inconvience, and McCoy saying "I'll touch you in whatever way my professional expertise demands" before slapping a pregnant woman.

New York will never convince me it is a real place, even though I've been there. What do you mean the mayoral race has come down to a charismatic socialist, a corrupt sex pest, and a man who has run a vigilate group for 50 years? Worst of all, some of them will get more votes than they should.

The ceasefire seems very much like the proposed peace agreement - anything Gazans, or Palestinians more broadly, do can violate it, nothing the Israelis do can violate it...

If the people responsible for Cybertrucks weren't the same people backing the destruction of all academia there could be so many fascinating anthropological and philosophical projects done on these two responses alone.

This thread provides an excellent demonstration of dodgy media practice. The headline doesn't need to be a pull quote from the person. "Did you hear about the man who was fired just for putting flags up?" - no because that's not what happened. Same games the Burkes play in Dublin.

In fairness to the Times Higher Education, at no point in my PhD career, any time during my TA training, or subsequent practice as an occasional lecturer did I ever recieve any training on how to entirely fix the UK economic system and labour market. So maybe it is all our fault...

An interesting thread. I'd say, personally, the whole thing has been at least neutral and at most a time sink. Maybe I found a few podcasts, books, and movies as a result, but probably not worth it. It continues to be baffling to me that people find partners through these sites...

The thing about all AI ads is they're either so vague that it is entirely unclear what they actually offer, like the HP "Everyone is so busy" ad, or they provide progressive cover for art theft, Adobe's "I'm using AI to focus on Ghanian farmers who make my product" while stealing art...

I genuinely believe that if you cannot play a word from a song on the radio and that word is a fundamental part of the song, you should just not play the song. As a related point, "wet" beign censored but "tears run down my thighs" not being censored is a window into the mind of censors.

Ideologues, incompetents, and soft (well... not soft) corruption is almost the totality of Reform's political offerings.

I finished Clare Obscure: Expedition 33, a masterpiece but heartrending, and thought I'll play Stray after because being a cat exploring a robot city has got to be uplifting, right? Nope, equally heartrending by the end. Both exceptional pieces of art, but I think I do need to find something cheery.

The idea that someone can become British but never English is so agonisingly stupid that it makes me fear for the future of the species.

Such an obviously contrived and fake answer to argue that English news is somehow defined by an *American* census question (that doesn't even directly say what he claims) rather than the British one, because of course the British one explicitly contradicts it.