Not wishing to be morbid but this is going to be very useful at times when usefulness is at a premium

And for international listeners! There's no escaping from the ole Martian murders!

Abiut to give this a try!

While this budget psychodrama is playing out, my LinkedIn feed is full of heat pump engineers worrying their business is doomed because of an HMT briefing yesterday, and there’s a prominent story about the imminent collapse of the SEND system. Bad fiscal policy has real world consequences

You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters

NGL, didn’t think it was going to be this funny

Watching 1987 Arnie Running Man before seeing the Edgar Wright version, and, boy, subtlety sure takes second place to kiss-off lines. Also: this must be the least convincing gunfire foley in cinema history

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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

Translation: He’s weighing a pardon

"DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT" I am dying.

Every element of this is comedic perfection.

Trump is incredibly unpopular here! including amongst Tory voters. What are they doing?

Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer

Hans Arnold’s characteristically out-there - and really rather wonderful - gatefold cover for the Swedish 1976 edition of ABBA’s Greatest Hits.

Technosatan latest

Come for the art, stay for the croissant appreciation

I already use their pens all the time. Going to buy more now

The niche moment I'm waiting for is Kemi Badenoch denouncing whichever government was in charge when Davie was appointed.

"Gibb’s supporters say he is trying to save the BBC from itself; he was also heard last year to say that if he didn’t get his way, he would 'blow the place up'" observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...

“Never believe anything until it’s been officially denied”

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection. Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?

One thing not being said - indeed, I think everyone misses this - but the requirement for the BBC to show impartiality and balance relates to the politics of *this* country, there’s no requirement to show some mythical balance globally, only to report the truth without fear or favour.

motivations and politics aside, moderate democrats must suck at strategic board games

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Every now and again people I've met at a work thing will say "I'll connect with you on LinkedIn" and I remember this a month later and log on and the whole interface is a bewildering mess of self-congratulatory nonsense and so I log off again and decide I'm happier missing out.

If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!

Backstage in a little theatre, Somewhere In England, which always makes me think of stories needing to be written

Britain's women break the ultimate aviation barriers, going faster, higher and further, in the fourth and final part of our current series! @cathwarr.bsky.social debates with Cyril Servant who returns as the voice of Official Interference www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4m2...

Or indeed people speculating on anything on margin

Der-der-DERRRRRRR

“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.” Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners? www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.

People thinking they’re inventing network television after 10 years of destroying network television, I am going to walk into the fucking ocean.

“Where’s your poppy?”

The New York Times is going through some things, although not, regrettably, a woodchipper.

It’s all going extremely normally and well at the bubble factory today

Hopefully good news if this bears fruit... "Britain’s biggest mobile networks have committed to upgrade their network within the next year to eliminate the ability for foreign call centres to spoof UK numbers, making it clear that calls are originating from abroad – exposing scammers lies."

Oops! I forgot to announce part 3 of our short history video series on notable British women aviators, after making a nice thumbnail for it too. Came out Friday, part 4 will be this coming Friday, so why not have a look now? www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA0f...

if there's no mustard smear, then he's in the clear

Incredible that in this telling the failure of a left-wing mayor will empower the right but the failure of a right-wing president won’t empower the left. Them’s the rules

Scott nails it

this is very cool: Kodak quietly relisted Kodak Gold and Ultramax on its website and confirmed to me it is selling the films directly to photography stores again. this is a big deal because for the last decade, Kodak has not controlled distribution of its own film www.404media.co/kodak-quietl...

Hostage to fortune in 3-2-1…

Same, toad, same

Melancholy implies the existence of Sueancholy

When Republicans say they have a secret plan to fix Obamacare, you should assume that this is the plan:

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