SCROOGE: you there! what day is today? BOY: today? it's Christmas Day SCROOGE: the spirits did it all in one night! BOY: NINETEEN SEVENTY THREE [Life on Mars plays, a Ford Cortina suddenly crashes into Scrooge's front room] GENE HUNT: OI, DI Scrooge, get in, we've got a nonce in Didsbury to bust

#hobbystreak Day 1952: picked out the various bones and tusks and teeth and hooves with a base colour

Like are the EU going to do fucking anything to protect its own former employees and ICC judges?? Maybe even make a comment on it? ANYTHING AT FUCKING ALL???!!

This is like when Leo Varadkar said understaffing hospitals makes staff work harder and more efficiently. Sometimes you get the truth from them

Gamers. It’s time

#hobbystreak Day 1951: a quick bit of silver on the remaining small pieces and then brown on some of the larger wooden sections

this is a very good bit

Perfect screenshot. Worf as a focal point is already killer, then your eyes travel to Data in the friar haircut and you think "this can't possibly get any better," and then there's the finishing blow of Geordi in his space visor plucking a lute

really important video from pmg to the point where even complimenting it feels in its own way like a damning failure because this is a couple independent games journalists covering one of the most sophisticated systems of extermination in the history of humanity: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

there's a great interview with a bds coordinator in here where she explains much better than i could that its not about purity, its not about guilt, its about about applying strategic pressure in a movement of solidarity over the long term

"we need a debate where I win and everyone thinks I'm cool"

Former BBC employee Jack Murley has posted on Instagram about the repeated homophobic abuse he received while working for the corporation - often from BBC staff. He says the BBC has now formally apologised. www.instagram.com/p/DSaZBd4DO8F/

[first day as a shepherd] boss: where are you going? me: [pointing] star boss: what? why me: [shrugging] baby

[natalie imbruglia in the pokemon world] i'm all out of faith this is how i spheal i am cold and i'm maushold lying naked on boldore

lol they really love this framing that one reason it's bad to be doing all this frivolous trans exterminationism is that the timing is inconvenient for real americans

if there's one thing we as a society tolerate way too much of, it's acting like people with multiple executive-level jobs are superhuman instead of just halfassing all of them

please don't take the above tweets as a defense of rupert murdoch. i am just telling you that bari weiss is the singular dumbest idiot in media.

#hobbystreak Day 1950: All the smaller silver bits done (except for some at the very back under their arse that I missed)

I know I’m not the first person to say it but the hyper commercialization of the Grinch story is pretty sad and a perfect illustration of the ability of capital to absorb critiques painlessly

a simple lesson in press coverage: every journalist has lindsey graham's cell # and there are never any investigative stories about lindsey graham

The entire american "free speech" panic was about elites being criticized, which is why anyone who ever took it seriously should be ignored forever

Italian broadcast workers union calls for Eurovision 2026 boycott

as foretold by the prophesy

stop pretending polygraphs mean or do anything the skeptic thing had all kinds of issues but at the core is the fact that reality is real and unreality is not and polygraphy is absolutely nothing but fraud and engaging in polygraphy should be punishable same as running a ponzi or picking pockets

In Mr Beast’s new video, a woman is alone for two weeks on a platform in the sky. and each day, a balloon is released at an inopportune moment for her. And if she fails to shoot the balloon with an arrow, they take a small portion of the platform that is her home

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

The Times, just protecting women again today

They will literally write columns telling you why you should be a good Christian and forgive child sex abusers and then come back the following day with a column about why you should hate trans people.

#hobbystreak Day 1949: Got most of the silver done on the boar. Just a few bits (especially the parts that fell off) and on the rider that need silver still

my reasons for this bothering me are personal, i have been making procgen art for a decade now and it sucks to be the baby thrown out with the bathwater

the thing about chartfucker types is that while their bloodless 'we just care about the numbers' tone can sound reasonable and get people going 'why is everyone mad at them, idgi', once it gets to immigration, you get to see the actual horrors and inhumanity behind 'we just care about the numbers'

they are not the barking loud 'i just hate immigrants' bigots, but they do see immigration and immigrants as just a numbers problem to solve, stripping out their humanity. they do not see them as equals with their own lives and struggles. they're just numbers to be shifted this way and that.

for too long our southern neighbours have stolen the sun. but this ends today

#hobbystreak Day 1948: painted some of the smaller plates with a dark silver. I want to keep the more colourful plates a bit more sparse, more as heraldry

Fuckin joke. Once again it's just pure unnecessary cruelty we have to be put through for no bloody reason.

Let's absolutely not let HarperCollins get away with this:

my “yes, even the empty margins of our files are redacted” t-shirt answers a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt

That kind of thing doesn't go on in Ireland thankfully

“Literary snob takes issue with Epstein’s reading of Lolita” is an onion headline

i do not think it's reasonable to assume any death count, no matter high, no matter if it's primarily children, will motivate republicans or democrats to change policies. from the aids crisis to countless wars to climate change and more this has not been my experience with either party.

Oh my god I was right

#hobbystreak Day 1947: hopped back to the big pig since I didn't feel like faffing with bases. Painted all of the fur on the underside and in the recesses. Definitely going to need to do an inside out approach to this one

the UK and the US are totalitarian states every human being deserves privacy and private communications free from outside monitoring

Oh.

When Candace Owens said in 2019 that Hitler was good until he started foreign wars because he was just trying to Make Germany Great Again, she perfectly predicted the trajectory of young stupid conservative thought on the subject.

living in the UK for as long as I did gave me a useful concept to describe people like this. We get weird about it in American English, and the Brits win on this one because it is a genuinely helpful term: these people are cunts. They're not motivated by anything other than being cunts. That's it!

White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.