"I'm 40 years old; I can't be dealing with this" is such a mood

The best #ValentinesDay

In a crowded field, spraying forever chemicals linked to cancer, liver, kidney & thyroid disorders directly on to food crops has to be one of humanity's worst thought out moves ever.

"includes 32 parts" Model kits can be hauntology.

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.

This is amazing but missing alt text, so I'll do a thread with detailed alt text for each of the three pictures.

Back from driving across the country in all the rain and rain and rain am now curled up on a sofa in my pyjamas watching Hudson Hawk

Given the WaPo disaster, I’m re-posting my starter pack of indie journalists—it probably needs an update so give me a shout to add folks. #wapo #journalism go.bsky.app/A2UpMn5

I just saw a tagline for 'H is for Hawk' that simply says "time doesn't heal, it re-arranges", and I don't remember the last time, if it's ever happened before, that a tagline for a film had such impact

Add the CIA World Factbook to the long and growing list of disappearing government datasets: www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

I wore some of Gordon Brown's cufflinks to The Avengers premiere

"wait now you want to get rid of ALL the abusive & monstrous people???" Yes. Yes we do. There are more good people than bad in every industry, whole scads of people who'd never in their wildest dreams think of being systematically horrible & ask to be rewarded for it. Wild but true!

MAGIC HOOTON

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

And yeah, the sexual exploitation of children and trans folks is white supremacy down to its bones. Every inch of this is because of the system they and their ancestors built to crush the world and get other people to vilify the targets of their sexual exploitation. Like, I was 100% right. Fuck.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

I think of this scene all the time these days

Went out hawking yesterday with dear old friends for the first time in years. Healed wounds in my soul I didn't even know I possessed.

another banger from nextdoor. i genuinely love this one it's pure

This made me cry, no lie. Complicated reasons, one being its fuck you to the baked-in structures and strictures of the world that consider harm to be inevitable.

Catherine O’Hara was beautiful. She was loud, she was assertive, she took up her space and demanded some of everyone else’s too. She will be so missed.

This is objectively terrible (in Leicester) but the thread is very very funny

Ok so it’s clearly an EPGO (you need to have read Prophet to know what that is) but anyway look at this nostalgic BEAUTY from @hiddenbritain.bsky.social

Just found this at the back of a bookcase

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

A thing I'm encountering: People wanting to do mutual aid often get angry if the job they want to do is already flooded with volunteers. Rather than telling organizers how you want to help, please ask what help is most needed. Also, be prepared that sometimes the answer will be, "Not today, but soon

(from www.instagram.com/nobodyssweet...)

I'm not going to read this right now but this sure sounds like the exact opposite of what I want from a web browser.

Asteroid City (2023) Dir. Wes Anderson Runtime 105 minutes 🚬 x 17, or one cigarette every 6.18 minutes https://howmanycigarettes.com/asteroid-city/

Right, starter for ten: where am I?

the incredible gall to say “we have to look honestly at ourselves” to a room full of investigative journalists at the peak of their careers after you’ve been hired over them from your blog

emphatic german win for this one

This hit hard just now...

HT @brianbutterfield.bsky.social

I shrieked “sleep deprivation is a form of fucking torture” at a cat at 4:30 this AM

I told a saucepan to go fuck itself.

I'm not saying I'm burned out but earlier today I barked "what (do you want)?!" at a noise and it was a magazine falling off my desk

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

I used to be like "does Sherlock really need a cocaine and violin room" but after 12 pages of Watson's inner dialogue I am looking on the situation more generously

The era is aptly defined by this, up against “boo hoo” and “fucking bitch”

On the fifteenth anniversary of his death, I wrote about one of my favourite poets, R.F. Langley, who I was lucky enough to know for ten years someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/we-speak-f...

pour one out for a fallen homie

this Bambi anti-ICE post goes hard

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

/inarticulate cry of fury and pain and FURY