100%. FFG are of course hurrying to copy their Imperial Masters in London, bringing in ID to go on social media to "pwotect the childwen". The whole thing is a cover, they don't give 2 hoots about child safety. Shame on them and the voters who vote them in.

Dr. Katz was a calming TV presence in the 90s, a time when I was under a lot of work stress. Most of it melted into a happy memory haze, but this clip from ~1995 rented out a room in my head. And look, it's pre Daily Show Jon Stewart!

Scum.

ICE agents also blocked a physician and pointed a gun at him when he tried to provide first aid to Renee, which could have kept her alive.

The murdered woman's glove compartment is filled with stuffed animals.

The Irish govt is so afraid of Musk's political power that it will do nothing to prevent the monetisation and dissemination of CSAM on X - to quote the odious gowl who now owns the platform, let that sink in. Not only should they have left the platform en masse, the Dublin offices should be raided.

This is good, right? FIFA is not available for comment I tried to email them but it bounced.

Things happen.

Happy New Year Keir, keep 'em coming! RefUK 26%(+1), CON 19%(nc), LAB 17%(-3), LDEM 16%(+1), GRN 15%(nc)

Animation Union building, Burbank, 2010. A friend told the outgoing union head that he put in 2 days work pro-bono for his employer, Disney. "If 2 or 3 people do the same, you're actually putting someone else out of a job". He was shocked, it hadn't even occurred to him. Poor Disney, hurting for $.

Grim, accurate. "The intelligence apparatus and the military are so thoroughly integrated into US operational command that, to all intents and purposes, the British state does not have sovereignty over deploying its forces...slavishness to the US is embedded in UK bourgeois culture"

A friend (and like me, an ex-Bluth employee) was a huge ST fan. Always talked about taking the audio from these eps and re-animating them in a feature Bluth style. Hell, you could do each episode in different styles, puppet, CGI, trad, would be fun! Someone needs to open a wallet though.

That's 2026 f0o0ked, so.

"Sometimes you get the best illumination from the light of a burning bridge".

Bloody hell. In case anyone has thoughts about this lot.

JFC, it just keeps getting worse. Hopefully this is the year when the Slop Machine collapses. Eddy Burback did a great video a few weeks ago to see just how bad AI is. It's worse.

"Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods." AESCHYLUS

The woman who gave the world Rhesus Christ is gone. RIP

TWICE now I've had their tech support unable to fix basic issues. Buggy behaviour with .htaccess, unable to alter CM issues that any admin should be able to handle. Have been told "We can't figure it out, we don't support this issue, talk to the devs". The DEVS? yeah, let me phone the DEVS. JFC.

Finished S4 of Babylon 5 last night. It strikes you very differently, watching it in 2025, let's just say.

Ireland never changes. If anyone wonders why I follow UK politics so closely, it's because the 26 counties never really cut the mental umbilical with the Colonial Masters. What happens in London often trickles down the sewer pipe, into the Dail, shur sorr, roit enough we'll be doin dat sor. SIGN

It's not as if they did anything really serious like holding up a sign at a peaceful protest. And if 100 people burn to death, well that's just an economic externality in the Free Market.

"the biographer of Bobby Sands Denis O’Hearn, wrote an open letter to the UK Government "even in the case of the Irish hunger strikes of 1980 and 1981, where the prisoners were considered at war with the British state, the government opened a dialogue with the prisoners and their representatives".

Nice overview of the disastrous AI turn Firefox has made (following their odious data-mining announcement a few months ago). There are still firefox forks that can be safely used, but FF itself is done.

Chortle 🤭

From 2006. Took long enough for the S to hit the Fan with this c.harmer.

JFC, under NO CIRCUMSTANCES use BLUEHOST for your web hosting. It's gone from a decent business to a 100% grift. I hate them.

...a computer ... for WOMEN?

Jokes

Starmer was a human rights lawyer, allegedly.

Don't worry, Britain's top hotdogs will be on the case any day now. Wonder who was DPP from 2008 to 2013 oh no

Mr President, a poem for you. John Milton from Paradise Lost Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

As an animator (even a chronically under-employed one) I would like to apologise for my industry. Oh, and Andy Serkis can kiss my ring.

British Labour party member numbers finally out - 250K. Bastani (yeah I know) points out that it's probably more like 200K, as it takes 6 mo for lapsed to be taken off books. Greens at 170K on course to overtake them next year at this rate.

Bloody eck.

I demand we change our fonts to Carolingian Miniscule.

Dynamite that overrated narcissist.

Update on the hunger strikers. It's getting serious, and the media/gov scabs are about to come face to face with it.

Well, shoe-horning AI into Windows11 is working out as expected.

What a vile party. " trans women will be barred from voting on policy debates, motions and national women’s committee elections – and from hearing speeches in the main conference hall."

Had no idea about the Irish influence on Bosch.

ISS could be borked now if this is as bad as it sounds.

80% of the Irish economy is US multinationals, sure, we'll be fine.

Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine. Nothing to see here, just British Justice working as designed.

Sharing in the unlikely hope that someone in our pandering 'government' might see it. Stop trying to win the votes of white identarian racists in Washington and Idaho, idiots.

More on X's exposure of bot farms (e.g., the US racists who post as "Irish Patriots", etc.

Zach Polanski stopping the BBC from parroting the Tory 'household budget' excuse was great to see. Of interest:

You will have to imagine my surprise, because I am not surprised. The dogshit rightwing Irish 'patriots' who fall for this psyop should cop on = it's just another anglo invasion, wake up, muppets.

Well this story just keeps getting worse. Well done Labour, well done police. "one of the women—Ayeshah Behit—was denied anti-seizure medication during her arrest and told that she wouldn’t be released if she kept asking for it. Anyone who knows anything about epilepsy knows how dangerous this is."