the line is actually "no JESUS for us meeses," an oblique reference to the fact that, as muppets are unable to take communion, they are forbidden from entering the kingdom of god

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You might think this ludicrous situation would raise serious, urgent questions for the Atlanticist clowns of British politics who spent decades screaming abuse at anyone who said we maybe shouldn’t be so slavishly obsequious for Washington. Luckily, it does not www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

it's ridiculous but i do find it funny that the only people who have ever cancelled xmas are the historical forebearers of the current lot most afraid of it happening

As Dick Van Dyke turns 100, it’s important to give thanks to the sea creatures who made that possible.

This, by the way, is not a BBC problem. Sure plenty of people will respond happily to Robin’s stance as if it’s “anti-Beeb”. This is a problem with the world at large, a cruelty which has been stamped into the face of the compliant BBC, cos it knows its precarious place.

The problem with the BBC being the nation’s finest engine for soft power, is that people have realised that they can easily exert hard, nasty, cruel power on it, and bend it out of shape. Empathy, curiosity and compassion shouldn’t be problematic qualities that need silencing. Seems they are now.

“What does it mean that so many eoty lists are being topped by artists who aren’t on Spotify or are self-released” is a question with a pretty easy answer, which is that music critics are still doing an admirable job of exploring what’s out there despite the contraction of the market.

So apparently I can say this now; I am like 99% sure this was the guy that attacked my friend at one of the protests outside a hotel housing refugees earlier this year an got me arrested for affray (released without charge). Bristol antifascists K/D ratio remains immaculate.

I love the radical ascent of next generation immunosuppressant drugs in the age of germ theory being drowned in the bath tub.

*defunctland voice* The Imagineers, unprepared for park guests' new addiction to generating images of Elsa smoking weed, and indeed their *expectation* to smoke weed with *the real* Elsa at the park, had a difficult road ahead

One reason Disney is OK with allowing OpenAI to torpedo their brands after decades of cracking down on childrens hospitals for painting comforting characters on the walls or a dad who wanted his son's favorite character Spider-Man etched onto his grave is that grieving families don't have $1 billion

imagine taking advice to take *fewer* precautions against acquiring a respiratory virus during the winter season. imagine *giving* advice to take fewer precautions.

I wonder if this photo was chosen by someone who searched for "parent and kid, upset" and this is what popped up and they don't understand the context. Or maybe the Financial Times is accusing private equity of fucking a pie. I just don't know about finance to make a judgement on this.

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Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam This is where we're at now.

pretty much perfect symbolism for labour here. enacting materially, objectively fascist policy, supporting the defining atrocity of our time but cowardly insisting they’re actually super progressive for it

that’s craaaazy

rowntree's chocolate crisp (kitkats)

A real country would make them sissy it up with muskets to see who gets her.

TERF: brings court case with a scattergun of largely ludicrous allegations Court: dismisses almost all allegations but upholds one or two of the less ludicrous ones Media: THIS TERF WON HER CASE AND NOW THE TRANSES ARE ILLEGAL AND YOU MUST STONE THEM IN THE STREETS Every. Fucking. Time.

RIP to Sailor Mars grandpa. The Alpha era of Street Fighter is the nearest and dearest to my heart and that was Nishimura's time to shine in those roles.

the difference between science fiction and fantasy is that science fiction is about magic and the mystical and emotions whereas fantasy is about hard mathematical science and rules and stat systems

Starmer starting a newsletter on *Substack* in 2025 is just a wee bit on the nose, isn't it

Issue #35 of our newsletter is out, ft. The Pricks in The Hand, Sandwichpunk, Kilmarnock Infirmary, M.A.S.K., The Lion in Winter, and fresh instructions for contacting Santa.

I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced

racists roll their eyes at this, they're not happy with any message short of 'send them all back' & they don't trust labour trying to pander to them. people who aren't racist recognise this as divisive patronising nonsense. labour's approval rating is 12% and i'm surprised it is that high

"A BBC journalist ran the image through an AI chatbot which identified key spots that may have been manipulated." FFS

ian bogost getting the timeline riled up by ludocentrism posting….. i will sleep soundly in my bed tonight because obama is president and idle thumbs still puts out episodes weekly and i’ve got uni in the morning for it is 2015

"I think if you go back 10 years ago, that version of Photoshop, you wouldn't want to go back to that version of Photoshop." Interesting, because almost every artist I know still uses CS6 (the last version you could own outright) which came out almost 14 years ago.

much is made of the delays, the inefficiencies and the overcrowding but there’s also the psychological effect of trying to get health care from a system that in every single point of friction hates that you exist and views you as a burden to be removed as quickly as possible

they should do an independent review into how much care is missed because interacting with the nhs is like running full speed skull first into brick walls

But don't you see? If ADHDers like me get diagnosed and treated, we might have happy, fulfilled, lives not completely eaten up by the self-loathing and guilt that are the only things that allow us to even semi-function. And people who don't hate themselves make Wes Streeting bitterly jealous.

one of the few times that I feel aggressively Southern in the England sense of the label is when people imply Oasis are "salt of the earth"

The NHS is due to tackle autism assessment waiting lists by outsourcing some of the backlog to Becky and Olivia from Year Seven, it has been announced.

The "bedroom coders" everyone loves to romanticize were selling shareware. They were selling mail-order software. Victor Hugo wrote Les Mis as a serial for a newspaper and he got paid by the word, which is why it's so fucking long. Labor can only exist if society values its existence.

If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.

As a bioethicist, I also feel the need to add that the central issue with eugenics is “it’s evil” not “it’s factually incorrect.” And if we finally learned that, maybe big name bioethicists wouldn’t publish “what if eugenics but hi-tech” every five years.

So forgive me if I don't think the problem is "overdiagnosis".

I know someone who was denied an ADHD assessment based on a ten minute conversation with a GP who wasn't a specialist, and the letter gave the reason that "it wasn't having a significant impact on their life". Reader, it was having a massive and obvious effect on their life.

Very much underlines the point I was making yesterday about standing up to this shit regardless of the cost. When you capitulate, it doesn't make them happy, it doesn't even make them stop: they just ask why you didn't do it sooner, why you aren't being more full-throated in your cowardice.

Are games art? Not if gamers have anything to say about it

If JKR is willing to destroy every women's and girls' organisation and institution in this country in her crusade against trans rights, make her fucking do it. Call her bluff. Full juridicial kamikaze. Show everyone how much these ghouls really care about women's and girls' spaces.

If your choice is between an existential risk to your organisation, vs being a fascist collaborator, and you make the difficult choice to be a collaborator... ...then you are still a collaborator.

“It was a place only in imagination.” Just when I thought nothing could draw me into this complete mess, 2025’s worst page of prose about wrestling drops.

Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf

Instead of funding things, and possibly even helping reduce crime rates by supporting people, instead we're just going to do away with jury trials! This government is frighteningly horrific.

No just waiting for particularly proactive crows to start robbing full fag packets from smokers.