When EMI pulled funding on LIFE OF BRIAN days before shooting, the Pythons turned to a fan. George Harrison put up around £3 million of his own money to make the film, simply because he wanted to see it. Eric Idle called it "the world's most expensive cinema ticket."

"I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards".

Partner told me he thought I was prettier than Joseph Merrick (there was context).

This is wild. “Our ethogram, did not allow room for sexual behavior not between a male and a female….The result is a self-reinforcing loop: there is little or no published data on same-sex behavior, so we assume it is rare, so we do not study it, so there continues to be little or no published data”

Not so long ago, it was basically unheard of for respectable people to talk about the white race in Britain. … Now it sounds normal. We are disintegrating so quickly that just a few months ago we’d have been shocked by the things we now find commonplace. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

I hate this myth so fucking much because it started after a study specifically to see if brains developed after 18. So they limited the study to age 25. And people decided that meant brains develop only until 25 even though a later study with no age limit showed brains NEVER stop developing.

Two weeks on from the Senedd election, here are a few reflections on what actually happened and what it might mean for the next four years. Thread. 🧵 jaclarner.github.io/jaclarner/bl...

Tabletop RPG books are not overpriced. They are specialty technical creative writing social interaction manuals. At double the current prices, they would not be overpriced. This is why most TTRPG creators leave the industry. Along with constant fan harassment. #RealGameIndustry

Radio 4's More or Less examined the Tory created, Daily Express propagated, headline: 'Migrants will get half of all new homes'. Chris Philp has been busy promoting this shocking 'fact'. So unsurprisingly, it turns out to be entirely fabricated to stir up hatred and division. pca.st/episode/8819...

I see this non-debate persists. The police believed what the person reporting the incident told them and the various witnesses at the scene. The moment they realised it was not as reported they acted. The police may have erred and must answer for their actions. But cut the two tier nonsense

Horror people turn up for unfamiliar movies with unproven directors and no-name actors. Horror people are the ones who don't use "low-budget" as a pejorative. Horror people will watch horror from 100 years ago. It's not weird that horror people are like this, it's weird that other genre fans aren't.

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

This is a really cool piece on how Alan Alda has funded an initiative to help researchers better communicate their findings to the public through learning improv skills.

A damning account of working on the shop floor of a University that’s being cut so hard, and so deep, that the future delivery of basic educational provision is being questioned. Tranche 3 of a series from a Cardiff University anonymous academic: voice.cymru/diary-of-a-w...

It's more than this. Before Brexit we had a healthy DIY culture of finding bands and arranging UK tours with our networks - enough for at least 1 band a month. That stopped dead because visas are complicated and so emerging bands can't tour. We've lost so much.

Here’s the thing about Tony. He turned up in the NEVERWHERE studio the day before he was booked to be in. He didn’t have to do that but he wanted to get an idea of how the production sounded in studio and how the team worked. A total pro and a lovely human being.

And she said "What about Breakfast at Tiffany's?" And I said "I believe that you're referencing a film I haven't seen but I do remember the song about the film" And she said "I've changed my mind about the date"

[This led to a notorious scandal in 19th century Italy where a maid baptised a sick Jewish child, who later recovered and so was taken off the parents

Nichelle Nichol's family wins lawsuit charging wrongful death 😥

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

If I was invited to speak at a leading medical association meeting and the editor-in-chief of their journal wrote this about me, I'd skip my own talk and call the cops. Wouldn't you?

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Everything we have ever learned about them tells us that the far-right will never be appeased

From Dan Parkinson: So now with the first show under our belts I can say that I will be spending the summer with The Cure on Bass Tech duties After a few weeks of prep and rehearsals, Primavera, Barcelona was a great way start off the shows A lovely, welcoming crew to work and travel with.

Extraordinary violence

Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x

It’s an important rite of passage for a young nerd to realise that the correct option is neither Angel nor Spike but Giles.

noooooooo he was also just one of the nicest kindest people to ever work in the arts. Gutted, what a massive loss not just for film but for humanity. RIP Sir Rupert, best man in British TV to the end

A test camera for a rover due to reach the planet Mars will land on Aberystwyth’s seafront as @aberuni.bsky.social’s popular BeachLab returns - also, meet Doris the Dalek and K9 from Doctor Who, and see self-driving off-road buggies, beach rovers and peek inside a full-size Tardis

RIP English actor and singer ANTHONY STEWART HEAD who played Giles in Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Nathan in Repo! The Genetic Opera. 💔

But can it run DOOM? (It would have been the kind of thing peeps played Colossal Cave and the early Star Trek games via print-out.) 📖: The Computer… and How it Works, Ladybird Books, 1971

NEW The end of the failed Rwanda asylum scheme An arbitration decision gives the UK a lucky final victory, but more than £250m has already been lost My latest at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Considering the exception for the Kirpan is very well defined and not blanket, this is a direct assault on the Sikh community by a senior politician responding to white supremacist rioting and threats of pogrom

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In this post I explain the Supreme Court's recent decision overturning Cheshire West, what this now means for understanding what a deprivation of liberty looks like, and offer some brief comments on the reasoning and implications of the judgment administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/w...

The asylum system is on the brink of collapse as the UK Government fails to cope with severe pressure, the chairman of a cross-party committee of MPs has warned

Query: TTRPG zine culture is vibrant, there’s a lot of riso-printed material, etc. Talk to me about letterpress TTRPG.

R is displacing by getting into the 11th ed rules, and arguments about them. It is truly an achievement that even after many years Games Workshop still cannot draft in a sensible manner.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Goodnight, Marjane. You were right; punk IS NOT dead. ✊️

100 per cent this ⬇️

*the email* has been sent to the vet, Achilles Bun will shortly be hopping across the rainbow bridge.

Also: You maniacs. What have you done?

“What big tea you have.”

Ok I just wrote a whole horror movie plot on Instagram DMs, someone get me A24 phone number

Had to say goodbye to my sweet dog today. Martin Luther (the 16th century monk and reformer, not MLK) was a big fan of dogs. "Be thou comforted, little dog; thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail."

Nowak's father specifically called for his son's murder not to be used to "create further division, hatred or racism", and straight after Farage, and others, went out and did just that, and many outlets media him free reign, including Telegraph giving him an op-ed www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

FIT CHILD SEATS: A somber Jane Asher narrates this 1980s PIF about the importance of child safety seats. It's a PIF that preys on the imagination: the dummies' reactions are horribly realistic. Usually seen in the early hours, making The Hitman and Her's advert breaks a fraught experience.

📣NEW BLOG: What do Home Office asylum & refugee reforms mean for children growing up in poverty? Sarah, a parent from our Family Finances study, shares how these reforms are already having an impact on her family @uofgussp.bsky.social @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Roads in built-up areas in England should have a default speed limit of 20mph, Government advisers have claimed