We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%, OR = 3.393, p < 0.001).

Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Maybe I'm biased but it definitely sounds like they singing No Scotland, No Party at one point

“We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of swastikas,” a US Coast Guard official told the Washington Post, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to a fear of reprisal. Free link to full WP article:

once the transphobia brainworms set in it’s over, your brain is doomed

Fuckin yassssssssssssssssss

Scott McTominay’s stunner: the height of contact is unreal 📸 Andrew Milligan

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

Bluesky has the juice. If anything, too much juice. This is the kind of suicidal personal candidness you got from celebs on Twitter c 2011

underrated bit of handwaving in the lizza blog

“Sir, it seems Olivia Nuzzi had an affair with a second old man who was running for president”

oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...

Screaming at Justin’s thread on the worst writing you will come across

“she flamed out and faded away” is such funny framing for a woman publishing an excerpt of her book in vanity fair, where she also works. I wish I could flame out and fade away so successfully

Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people. How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?

Weird seeing a review from someone I've heard of in CineNerdle's review game

Way back when, mayor Pete's reform-minded chief of police, Daryl Boykins, recorded some of his officers making vile racist statements. So Buttigieg fired... the police chief.🤡 Boykins was the 1st Black police chief in city history, and was building trust with Black folk. But it gets worse...

as a bosnian, i cannot accept this depoliticization of the mass murder that was directed against us. to brazenly claim that the violence has "no political or religious motivation" is beneath common sense. it harms any understanding of what happened in sarajevo and bosnia

"What's the point of standards?" is one of those statements that should be recorded and played back multiple times to the person who said it until it sinks in

this is literally never not accurate

Eviscerating, and rightly, this from @janemartinson.bsky.social, about the inept attack that brought down the BBC's inept leadership. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just to get this straight in my head, we've gone from "BBC badly edited a piece about Trump, but was accurate overall", to the "BBC isn't transphobic enough and is all woke", and we're still arguing, regardless of the myriad of issues with the BBC, whether there's a genuine right wing attack on it?

OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars": ".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great." @variety.com $DIS variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Prescott's claims that the BBC has a pro-trans bias are even flimsier than you might imagine. He thinks all positive stories about trans people represent bias unless some ghoul from Sex Matters is invited to say that they are awful actually. Crackpot green-ink stuff

I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.

Incredible shit here: the man who provided the template for stomping on the BBC when it displeases malicious actors in politics, complaining that malicious actors in politics are using his template for stomping on the BBC for displeasing them.

"Okay. So you got a buffet car ..."

My favorite comment on the FT story

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

The racism was bad enough, the subsequent lies, gaslighting and bullying campaign against the people who pointed it out was beyond disgusting

lol

Do centrists like Clinton seriously want to run on "reality has a Chinese communist party bias"?

A+ job of vetting your Peace Prize winner, Nobel Committee.

DO YOU RECOGNIZE THAT SANDWICH How this is case happening in real life

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we? After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism. Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨 🧵 1/22

Scott Adams is firmly in the bulging folder of ‘I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but I’m not mourning it happening to that person.’

"Prince Andrew: The Musical" has been now renamed "Andrew: The Musical," says Channel 4.

No more blatant example of Question Time’s bias than this. Goodwin is a Reform activist and GB News presenter - you’d have to be intentionally blind to think he’s an academic

This is probably the funniest headline of the year.

I was right about her 10 years ago.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Danny Tommo, the fascist organiser, instigator of last year's riots beginning in Southport, and good friend of Tommy Robinson got a warm welcome from local antifascists in Southampton today.

Massive presidential ballroom, you say?

Incredible, incredible stuff. Literally hang this in the actual Louvre.