And it made front page

What I said five years ago for its 15th anniversary stands today for its 20th -- BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is and will remain one of the most important and beautiful films that I will ever experience

🚨BREAKING🚨 MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union. The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.

What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again? Writing in shorthand. Thought i would still use it for fun for stuff just for myself until I couldn’t translate what I’d written 😵‍💫

Hmm

Movie you’ve watched more than six times, hard mode (no Star Wars or Trek, no Pixar, no LOTR, no Disney, no Marvel)

This is Magnus. He just beat cancer. His family wrote the big news on their car and bought him balloons to celebrate. Magnus got so much love from strangers the whole way home. His human said, "I hope everyone has a Magnus in their lives, who shows them what determination and strength are." 14/10

The Times has Mean girl energy

Scottish football remains undefeated

JFC

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

This is Jelly. She screams for ice cream. Has been at this for about 15 minutes with no luck though. 12/10 justice for Jelly (IG: jellythesamoyed)

#Dogs #Dog #RacismIsStupid #SameAnimal #BestFriend #GoodDog #FaithfulFriend #LoveDogs #DogsAreLove

I've spoken with a lot of people about this, and all of of them told me they were furious about this tragedy and the apparent corruption that enabled it. They want truth and accountability and justice for the victims, and they're not confident that they'll get any of that, which makes them angrier.

This is Salem. He waited for his mom to leave the car before stealing her breakfast. Loves the thrill of the hunt. 12/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: unhingeddogmom)

It’s Bruce Lee’s birthday. Here’s the time he was asked to show some ‘kung-fu movements’ & an elderly assistant director was nominated to be the practice dummy.

Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social

‘I LOVE SOCIALISM NOW’

JFC they're auctioning off Ennis & Jack's shirts from the final scene of Brokeback y'all

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

Thanks for your contribution to the discourse, Sidremus

John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss" "The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year" "That's a tax yield of £40 billion" "How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"

As Labour proposes limiting the protection of the ECHR, we must remember what it was set up to do; protect us all from abuses of power by our govts. Be v wary then of anyone calling to do that. You may not be the target now. But why shouldn’t you be next? bestforbritain.substack.com/p/why-we-and...

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?

The problem after 14 years of damage wreaked by the Tories is that we now have a f***ed up BBC and a f***ed up NHS. But, remember, the f***ing up has come from outside. It is not intrinsic We desperately need a properly functioning BBC and properly functioning NHS DEFEND THEM!

Lib Dem Leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk: "A great British institution is under attack from a foreign government. President Trump is trying to destroy our BBC... Trump has undermined press freedom in America. Now he's trying to do the same here, disgracefully egged on by the leader of Reform."

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

And all happening on Twitter only.

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

A very enlightening episode on whether you should call it fascism what is currently happening in the US and in Britain. Roger Griffin thinks we should not. And has a generally more optimistic take on the U.K. Which is lovely, when you have the habit to listen to podcasts early in the morning. ;-)

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

She’s a charlatan “journalist” who thinks she’s the spotlight of any situation she’s in.

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP. And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

RIP Dave Ball What a melancholic beauty ‘Say Hello, Wave Goodbye’ is: youtu.be/y9KgEs3Zksg?...

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

Who’s solving the Louvre robbery? Right answer only. (he can’t but you have to give him a chance!)

Centre-right tory voters to Lib Dem, Far-right tory voters to Reform, Centre-left Labour voters to Greens, Centrist Labour voters to Lib Dem. Far-left Labour voters to Greens. Who’s left? Who are they trying to attract?

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman" Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥 "You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

Well this is a proper head scratcher. But yeah, fiddling around with tax and getting rid of consumer protections should sort it. Wonder what those ‘former chancellors and prime ministers’ had to say about this shitshow. Any mention of Brexit at all?? (Times and Private Eye)

“I don’t think you understand. This place? It belongs to me and my friends now. You can either leave through the door, or through the window. Capeesh?”

Lib Dems are the winners of by-elections Super Thursday! 💪 Won 7 out of 10 local by-elections ↗️ GAINS from the Conservatives, Labour and the Green Party 🔶 6 from 6 seats in Surrey as what remains of the Blue Wall crumbles away Congratulations to our brilliant campaign teams and new councillors!

This is Ladora. She's a rescue dog who was just adopted after sharing her secret talent of being able to clap her ears. 13/10 👏 (TT: kshumanesociety)

Rubio:

A very hard scene to watch but Diane Keaton is fiercely brilliant in it as Kay finally gets to call out Michael on ‘this Sicilian thing’. She was a great comic actress but was also stunning in dramatic roles as well. youtu.be/gxEvQwUJElc?...

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

Jared Leto playing an aggressively charmless character? Surely not.