Hard to believe the Night Manager season 2 is the same writer as season one. Some absolutely cursed dialogue. This is what happens when you don't have Le Carre to work from I suppose.

“You can’t just block everyone you disagree with” sweetheart, I’m a leftist, I block people I agree with.

Never forget that the queen used our money to defend him.

Following the release of the Epstein files Jk Rowling has deleted a decade of port logs belonging to the Super yacht Samsara. What is she hiding?

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Lovely wee piece on my pal John. John is in no small part responsible for a lot of the comics writing I did, an immensely supportive and foundational part of the Scottish comics scene.

Always forget that Labour are a minority government and as such can't effectively govern or pass legislation, only vilify trans people and immigrants.

My son is 14, loves gaming and anime. Gave me into trouble once because I unknowingly referred to a gender-neutral character by a gendered pronoun. He's very politically engaged and kinda always has been. Loved the wizard books but regularly talks about JKR being dreadful for her trans views.

i met this guy on Saturday. he was engaged in the devious business of walking a kid who'd just been maced back to his apartment and washing out their eyes.

Somehow...gaiman returned.

Christ, what a way to realize you still somehow follow gaiman on insta. A disappointing Like on his post from Laurie Penny.

It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

"why are these rich freaks so bad at writing emails?" because they've never had to be good enough at it to keep paying rent

This is great news and when Trump gets annihilated in the midterms, he will absolutely call Vote Fixing and things will get bad fast. Democrats will need to have a backbone with any power they gain.

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

Woody Allen?? It's always the ones you thought, "yeah, definitely him, a nailed on sex offender."

Read Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow and enjoyed. King does well with the prose while Evely's art steals the show. Maybe I've been too influenced already but Allcock's rebel Supergirl but Kara in this book was too...still? Moments of frustration and personality but a still water when I wanted a churn.

Catherine O'Hara, that's a blow. One of the best comedic actors maybe ever? Seemed to have just an innate sense of what was funny.

I cannot stress this enough... lol

I have a very hard time with Bowie, between the Nazi stuff and the credible allegations of sexually assaulting children. Anyone caught doing half of that today would be dropped instantly by a lot of people who give Bowie a pass because, well, he's Bowie and they just like his music.

A headline specifically designed to annoy JK Lovecraft, good work Variety

Nothing particularly stands out, I don't think. Gaiman was big for me in my teens but once you see what he did, dropping him was easy. I do always feel a twinge of sadness seeing a piece of shit like Dean Cain in the Superman outfit though.

God I love him. Fuck ICE.

Genuinely frightening stuff here. They must be opposed at every turn and all costs.

In uni I heard the story of how Hitler and Goebbels courted Fritz Lang to make films for them after seeing Metropolis. Lang pointed out to Goebbels that he was Jewish, only to be told, "Mr Lang, we decide who is Jewish and who is not."

The age of the crowd here is predictable and telling. It's why I hate the idea you hear a lot that you just kinda need to handwave the racist or bigoted opinions of pensioners, from either a "They'll never change now" or "they're just of their time" kinda thing.

Every Burns Night I find Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime more and more relevant.

What a lovely thread.

I feel like the leader of Scotland should be interested and invested in all issues affecting Scotland, even the ones he has no direct control over. Being told to leave it to the bigger boys does absolutely nothing for the image that unionists view Scotland as a junior partner in all things.

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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Imagining Starmer looking at a speech like this and vomiting for 20 straight minutes. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Oh are we doing that whole bit again where we pretend Brianna Ghey died because of social media rather than because of the people who stabbed her 28 times.

Sarwar trying to make "the salmond files" a thing is as desperate as it is insulting to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein. Tinpot maga tribute act.

Pic of the Board of Peace first meeting just dropped.

It's really quite inconvenient that when America has one of the worst leaders and governments in their history, we have a a cadre of opportunist cowards for ours.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace."

A gag gift from colleagues but these Superman playing cards are really gorgeous.

Would have been a strong moment for Scottish Labour to turn down the Easdale money on basis of not being transphobes, putting some space between them and Westminster Labour.

This would be very, very funny if it weren't from the President of the United States. As it is from the President of the United States it's very funny AND absolutely terrifying.

It is degrading for me to have to share oxygen with transphobes, and much more dangerous.

I turn 40 today and have no wisdom to show for it. I was born the year Chernobyl happened and the world still feels irradiated. But hey, nothing good ever happened because good people have up so we keep going. Things won't get better, they'll be *made* better by people. Anyway, here we go again.

I didn’t want to post the chants but I feel I have to, to underline how absolutely insane it is that there is total unanimity on this from far right to the Sensible centre, while it’s crystal clear to football fans and almost nobody at all is saying “This all looks quite fishy”.

Surprised it's Offord as Reform leader in Scotland, genuinely thought it'd be Tom Harris.

Where's my May & Ben / Jonathan and Martha story in this Superman/Spider-Man crossover? Worried parents of kids they adopted bonding and sharing advice. See where the heroes come from. I am quite aware I'm about the only person who wants this.

Unexpected side effect of the US going full fash is me thinking "hey maybe sometimes the private ownership of guns isn't the worst idea" and I hate this.

American fascism is a hybrid belief that pulls from other regimes throughout history and one of their main inspirations is Franco Spain so this is one of those things that we put in the shocking but not surprising category America is run by fascists waging war against the population

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

I will allow a social media ban for kids if they also open a whole raft of third spaces where kids are allowed and encouraged to hang out, places that are funded and inclusive and safe. Until we give kids genuine spaces of their own, we can't get angry if they create them online.