My last word on the matter

Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)

THERE'S A NEW EPISODE OF FOOTBALL BOOK CLUB and it's got LUKE blooming CHADWICK in it! We're reading his excellent book NOT JUST A PRETTY FACE and it's honestly one of the most fun episodes we've ever done, Luke is lovely and has some utterly bonkers stories about Alex Ferguson and Final Fantasy

OOOOH this is an interesting thread that I think identifies a good problem but I don't agree with the conclusion - I fear making your main character the person who investigates interesting things (rather than being personally invested) makes them a passenger of the plot, not the driver

in many ways the writers saying "oh no they killed Bond!" makes me more worried that they thought Sean Connery, Daniel Craig and everyone in between were playing the exact same character with consistent memories and shared experiences, I find that viscerally upsetting

There is precisely one person who should get to play James Bond at this point and that person is Natasha Hodgson.

Says a lot that this could be about the UK or America's "left wing" parties

It is utter bullshit that the mistaken splicing of two bits of his January 6th 2021 speech on Panorama in October 2024 had any significant impact whatsoever on the reputation of Donald Trump in Britain, or globally, and the claim for $1 billion damages is bullshit and bullying by the US president

a lot of people say they love nature but act real weird when you ask them what animal they support. "oh I don't root for one animal, I like them all really" damn glory hunters, make me sick

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC. The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

This is actually… worse than the BBC edit?

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Trump is senile but I think he was actually meant to say this, he was swearing in military enlistees apparently, not swearing his own oath to uphold the constitution

i feel like this is a reasonable take that i would have held pre-2024 (the BBC did screw up therefore there should be accountability) but the fact that this trivial editing mistake should have such terrible consequences, while right wing media lies with impunity constantly, makes my head explode

See also the prison service, universities, local government, and the rest. And the response of this government? No - not to fund and run them better and prepare the ground for success. But to join the baying mob. 2/2

The BBC is the latest part of ‘the public realm’ to feel the wrath of the right. The playbook is wearyingly similar. Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2

Okay so this is what I suspected, it's a site that is spreading misinformation with the plausible deniability that it is satire. Obviously Trump is as thick as pigshit but i also don't think these "satirical" sites should exist because they're genuinely dangerous

in fairness that is some pretty weak satire, to the point it's kind of hard to work out what the joke actually is

now that the Trump supporting loons at the Telegraph have got what they want they'll probably drop the whole matter and go back to being normal members of society, that's how this kind of thing normally works

This how I find out I have a son??

why didn't he thank us for our attention to this matter

pop a mannequin in a sexy blond wig and try to kill a crew member with some bricks, it's the Taskmaster Series 20 Episode 9 Stats Round Up jackbern23.medium.com/taskmaster-s...

Big naturals is BBC exec slang for any new David Attenborough series

all the original series on Paramount Plus have names like MOBLAND and LANDMAN and MANMOB and LANDLAND and MANLAND and all the original series on Amazon Prime have names like "the summer I turned pretty" and "mother do you hear the geese ahonking"

Arthur Miller called the main character in Death Of A Salesman "Willy Loman" as a bit of clever foreshadowing because, by the end of the play, he is a very "low man" (he kills himself)

This dishwasher is probably broken now. The reviews of every dishwasher on earth are: average 3.5 stars, 5 star review says "its a dishwasher no problem" and 1 star review says "this dishwasher shot me with a gun!"

The best thing about the Shaun the Sheep theme tune is the way that it posits that in the distant future the audience might make a scientific breakthrough by which they can enter entirely fictional worlds, thus preempting the concept of the novel Ready Player One (2011) by four years

i am genuinely staggered by the fact that Sainsburys have based their Christmas adverts on the 2016 film The BFG, a film with almost no cultural footprint, for the SECOND YEAR IN A ROW

the Mickey and Friends origin story is amazing

love it when Americans talk about non-American things in really American ways, like "what do y'all think of crumpets"

person who came up with the phrase "comparison is the thief of joy": I mean sure, it's fine I guess, it's no "live laugh love" but whatever

"Marvin, it's your cousin Chuck Berry! There's a kid at your prom trying to fuck his mom!"

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over-used tropes to signify upcoming doom 1. thunder and lightning 2. a character saying "let's split up to find the killer" 3. a single raven pecking at a window 4. my two year old daughter running into a room and declaring "I DON'T NEED TO GO TO THE TOILET"

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

I love the Muppets but you can describe pretty much everyone in existence in these terms, conflicting personality traits is at the heart of any vaguely engaging character

If correlation isn't causation, how come every time causation happened, correlation was there too?!

Amazing pro-Zohran, anti-nationalist op-ed by @rabbiandykahn.com in @nydailynews.com today: archive.is/ynzrE

yep this is the most important thing, a big part of my life is now based around the concept that correlation is definitely causation and I cannot unpick that thread

this is what the woke liberati inside the M25 thinks the British family looks like, makes me sick

was particularly happy with that, thank you

This is a great fact that I didn't know, I was similarly dismayed at Ania's mention of smog but I guess I was wrong!

Chris Mason once again writing like he’s narrating a children’s book where the protagonist is a bear wearing a little hat.

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This story is remarkable and farcical but also: "the line is a dot to you" is a joke from Friends?

I'm interested in becoming a born again Christian, but only if I get to spend 9 months in a big sac of amniotic fluid beforehand

the backstreet boys taking time out of a triumphant song about how THEY'RE BACK and they're going to ROCK YOUR BODY RIGHT to ask the audience "am I sexual" will never not be funny to me

if something says "CENSORED" I'm going to assume it's sexual rather than violent, so in my head it's now canon that Jack the Ripper killed people with a dildo

absolute bullshit that we call New York The Big Apple but don't call big apples New Yorks. what are apples getting out of this partnership? Nothing. total scam

but I don't WANT keyhole surgery, I WANT her head to go boom