everyone: starmer must go! starmer must go! starmer must go! labour: can we interest you in streeting or mahmood? everyone: woah, slow down. let's not rush things.

I hope they do they timed resignations throughout the day thing again.

Poirot is on ITV3 if you want, m8

What you don't see here is, just after the black cloth screen goes up, a vet with a shotgun walks in.

This feels like peak infantilisation of the elderly. What exactly is ‘disgraceful’ about giving the elderly/infirm practical advice about how to be physically intimate in a safe way? They aren’t children. Their innocent eyes don’t need to be protected. Plus it’s medical guidance not a jazz mag

My contribution to Bond discourse is that it absolutely does not fucking matter how you explain the fact he died in the last film, Bond films ought to be a ridiculous confection with silly jokes and stunts that make you think "whoa, cool". The camper and more action-packed the better.

This is what the EHRC's shitty Code will result in. All. The. Time. It's already happening, but if the Code becomes statutory this kind of gender-policing-based-on-appearance will become an order of magnitude or two worse.

spending the first year in power appeasing the racists in an attempt to win over reform voters who will never vote for him then going "somehow, racism has returned" the second he finally sees people are abandoning him for the greens

The reason Amazon can't get Bond up and running is because every supervillain their ai script generator comes up with is just Jeff Bezos in a variety of wigs.

John Thundergun: Maximum Alpha

"Oh no. James Bond died. How can we write a new film that makes sense?? Anyway, here is Bond's Girlfriend: Denise Tits."

related to this; when "Male gaze" became a pejorative I was kind of realizing no one actually understood the critique, much like the Bechdel test, in that it was an observation of a subconscious bias everyone repeats without thinking. If you *intend* on a male audience, the male gaze is successful!

Fine, I will write the next James Bond. INT: SEX CASINO, NIGHT BOND: Hello I am Bond James Bond my car goes NYOOM CUT TO: ten minutes of a chase in a sports car BOND: Also my watch is a special watch that makes ladies blouses see through EXPLOSION BOND: This film is for grown ups

Our huge, heartfelt thanks to Sam Fender, who’s donated his £25,000 Mercury Prize winnings to Music Venue Trust... after already making sure £1 from every ticket on his recent tour went to support grassroots music venues.

I listen to podcasts and (non-fiction) audiobooks on 2x speed, so I can only conclude that I'm more alpha.

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

OK, the extent of my knowledge of Charlie XCX is that "I Love It" is an absolute tune, so I have no idea how typical this is of her stuff, but it's great.

Just fucking George Costanza it. Have him turn up to MI5 like nothing happened.

Omg she's doing flying Groucho Marx dunks off the top rope

This probably set a red light flashing in the @trashfuture.bsky.social studio

surely not even Trump thinks magnets are real ffs

Fascism didn’t creep in solely via big obvious monsters but with the help of your dad’s sensible favourites

Pitching my animated film to Netflix, about people looking for alligator-like reptiles on a popular social shopping app. I'm calling it Depop Caiman Hunters.

Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.

Last week: Ozymandias. This week: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I'm enjoying how we seem to pick one piece of culture to be the meme for the week.

I love it when the Wikipedia app glitches and doesn't update the photo between articles

When the party launched my view was that it didn't really matter if they and the Greens were similar as the main thing was to prove there was constituency for leftwing ideas within the electorate, and that nearer the election it would be clearer where the energy was and one of them would wither.

They say "Death by Lightning" but I guess "Death by Absurd Medical Fucking About" isn't as snappy a title

I really don't give a fuck about these things but they do seem to be keeping my local comics shops afloat.

I mean it's clear which of these is in the pocket of Big Potato.

"So he was like out there hitting the car with the branch, it was so banter and Manuel was like..."

I am delighted to inform you all that theres a horny emojipasta about The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

what things are happening here. i just wanted to buy a curtain rail

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day! Don’t forget to smash your clocks!

I think about this post a lot, when I'm bored, or struggling, to try and focus on what I'm supposed to be doing. It doesn't always work but it's a beautiful piece of writing.

Horrible isn’t it, when obviously malignant ghouls are kicking you in the balls and stealing your wallet, braying at each other like idiots about how funny their total impunity is, and there’s nothing you can do. A sick, nasty feeling, as they roar at each other about how hilarious it all is.

It's going to be that Happy-Shopper-Rod-Stewart plumber cunt, isn't it?

It turns out that if you scream and stomp everyone out of your organisation except those slavishly dedicated to pushing a right wing agenda, not only will it not stop the right wing coming for you, you also don't have anyone left who knows how to do anything except "give them what they want."

I remember this now! I'd love to say it stood out in my child memory as being weird and enticing and launched me onto a path of finding strange music. But it didn't. I had totally forgotten it but seeing it here instantly brought back the texture of the carpet I was sat on to watch it.

Not really gonna be *just* the broken promise that causes that though, is it?

yeah someone should try that

I feel like we’re going collectively insane. He said those things, in the same speech, to his rabid followers who then tried to violently overturn the election. Those words were real. Everybody saw it. Everybody condemned it at the time.

This is the moderate position.

i think they should let Ms Rachel design a squid games for Mr Beast specifically

I enjoyed this paragraph. "The white poppies were first produced way back in 1933, in the aftermath of WW1, with the idea being that war should be avoided again in future at all costs..." *Takes drag on cigarette* "... didn't fucking work"

Sorry one more

my wife described someone as being like “someone who thinks they could pass an exam because they were an invigilator”, and it sums up a certain mindset beautifully, doesn’t it?