Just Giving People Money is the fucking groundhog day of pilot programs

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

Day by day increasing the odds the world’s longest peaceful border won’t stay that way, and for no apparent reason.

Anyone ever had a good experience contacting a trades person about work that's been done incorrectly?

Easy to compare this to Hitler demanding the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to avoid war, but Sudetenland was German-speaking and there was strong support for German occupation (obviously not in rest of Czechoslovakia) this stands in sharp contrast where Greenland is strongly opposed to US occupation

Well, I'm definitely boycotting the World Cup now.

One of them, SURELY there had to be one who has the tiniest bit of self-awareness to think ‘I’m not the right person for this’.

Doctor McCoy watching Star Trek: Starfleet Academy:

Shouldn't this, I don't know, prevent you from standing for public office?

This is not the future Kevin Costner promised

Satire often relies on exaggeration having some sort of comic effect. How do you exaggerate this?

For your enjoyment, the Superman screenplay. www.superman.com/script/super...

TRUMP: fink Flumpo dink. Finn filling dunno. Youth Yuko thinks. Bono book bank. Bono book bank. Bono book bank. BBC News: this is a classic press conference technique from a president. this is something that normally happens. this is good and normal. it's fine. it's very fine.

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

I know they've separated, but this might be the most Guardian headline ever.

ICYMI

"by focusing the camera on Robby’s anguish instead of the systems that made it inevitable, it mirrors how the country has chosen to remember the pandemic: as a sad misfortune that happened, rather than a moral failure that was done ... "

2266 vs. 3190

I know they've separated, but this might be the most Guardian headline ever.

ICYMI

If Trump is Biff, then politicians should treat him like the McFlys - punch him out, cover him in manure and support his small business detailing cars.

A lot of these political editors see Starmer/Trump and Mamdani/Trump as unexpected bromances, rather than what the rest of us see, which is someone trying to gamely manage a lunatic.

I can never get my paper to sync.

I can accept many things about the brave new world of the internet. "Out of pocket" means something different now, fine. But "not half good" meaning bad will never sound right to me.

This is (1) disgraceful at a moment of national danger, (2) laughably unserious and (3) deeply unwise when the President is obviously becoming incapacitated and the most unpopular person in the whole UK. Utterly disqualifying.

Victoria Beckham at Brooklyn Beckham’s wedding

Gandalf's "a wizard is never late, nor is he early" and Kesha's "Now, the party don't start 'til I walk in" are essentially the same sentiment

📺 TV recap: #ThePitt season 2: episode 2 by @iainhepburn.me "There’s a bit with the erection sufferer which is going to – in graphic detail – have a lot of the men in the audience wincing and going very quiet." Read now:

Brooklyn Beckham: it's time to address the shadowy shape that's difficult to photograph in the room

Today I was at the BBC Written Archives Centre, and For Reasons was reading a lot of early audience reaction documents for Blake's 7. Guess what? Contemporary audiences praised the special effects. Yes, *those* special effects. 🧵

Every so often I get a pang of sadness that we only ever got four seasons of #Blakes7 and it beggars belief - rights issues aside - that there's never been a successful revival of it. I mean, who would want to watch a diverse group of amoral outlaws take on a repressive fascist regime these days?

And here‘s recap of episode 2! From next week on they should be out every Thursday! open.substack.com/pub/latestar...

My first recap of Starfleet Academy, and thus my first contribution to „Critical Star Trek Studies“ is now online! How did you like the pilot? open.substack.com/pub/latestar...

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Considering the British Podcast Awards decided not to give me a prize for having produced 200 episodes PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of making more tedious podcasts.

Has this post been embedded somewhere? It's getting a constant trickle of engagement, which is weird because it's nothing.

What they really want to do is direct.

"Considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize, I no longer have an obligation to think purely of peace." An actual quote from the sitting president of the United States, writing to the prime minister of a NATO ally.

Me every time I see the black cat in the garden that looks like our black cat who isn't allowed outside.

📺 TV recap: #ThePitt season 2: episode 2 by @iainhepburn.me "There’s a bit with the erection sufferer which is going to – in graphic detail – have a lot of the men in the audience wincing and going very quiet." Read now:

We were not unsuspecting

The Pitt season 2 episode 2. Robby’s being a massive prick. which, it turns out, is hugely appropriate to the episode… www.thespoilist.com/the-pitt-sea...

He did, however, come back many times

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At what point does losing 77 billion dollars impact a business? The global box office for all movies, put together, in total, all movies everywhere in 2025 was 33.5 billion dollars. He lost more than double that on “legs”

I started a rewatch of Firefly. I understand exactly why Fox didn't even want to show that pilot first. Sure, it sets everything up, but it takes a long time to get going. In other hands, Mal would be a wise-cracking Han Solo, but they keep him unlikeable enough. It looks great too.

More people should know about the day 90% of Icelandic women went on strike, forcing real political change towards gender equality: www.bbc.com/news/magazin...