What the US is purposefully doing to Cuba should be considered genocide.

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Note that he says these death threats are because of his race, not, as it will undoubtedly be positioned, because of "trans activists".

CBS News Radio (1927-2026). The last of America's three original, national radio networks will shutter after nearly a century. The network that defined broadcast news and employed truth-tellers like Murrow is silenced by Bari Weiss. How appropriate. deadline.com/2026/03/cbs-... #CBSNews

John Peel considers William Shatner's musical exploits.

My two’pennorth, and I could write more, but: SNL UK was sodding brilliant. The implications - that we’ve let a generation, maybe two, of terrific performers who could have become the bedrock of UK sketch and character comedy just lie fallow - is however something to keep me awake at night.

For several months, people have been wondering why Reform hasn't declared any crypto donations, despite Nigel Farage saying they'd received some Now @theobserveruk.bsky.social can reveal why...

to be clear: the reason Yggy and the gang keep writing their "hurry up and abandon trans rights already" op-eds is because elected Democrats generally have not done so

this is somehow even funnier than when they cried over losing their NFTs because that time they thought they were art collectors and this time they think they’re property owners

In the world of the Sun on Sunday and the Mail on Sunday, there is no war. What a nice place to be.

It’s crazy how Paddy McAloon predicted two future movie masterpieces (Andrew Dominik’s “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” and Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis”) on Side 2 of “Jordan The Comeback”, a suite of songs about Elvis Presley and Jesse James youtu.be/Lt9MxTTZPGI

Memories from the heart of the Aids crisis Gideon Mendel’s The Ward began in 1993 when he spent a number of weeks on the Charles Bell wards in London’s Middlesex Hospital. All the patients on the ward were dying with the knowledge that there was no cure for the disease. gideonmendel.com/the-ward/

I make no apologies for reposting @pantosplaining.bsky.social because @benbaker.bsky.social and I think we're ace and items like this, about stargazer Russell Grant's truly horrendous single, deserve more social media traction... A podcast about panto posters, *not* the actual pantos themselves.

absolutely wild how the internet has become everything they were warning about it being in the late 90s, but since the guys making bank off the scams are now white dudes in suits whose daddies paid for their college it's actually considered proper business ventures now

Finale was also an odd experience watching with two people who don’t remember Rogue One, because it’s just an unsatisfying cliffhanger without that context

That’s Andor Season 2 finished. Enjoyed it, but not as much as the first season. I’m assuming it was several seasons worth of ideas condensed into a single season? Also wasn’t keen on Bix getting boxed into the role of Andor’s Wife

In case you need it, the UK allowing the US to use UK bases to target Iranian missile sites targeting international commercial shipping is based on a joint statement by the UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Canada, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Denmark, Latvia, Slovenia...

Delighted to report that I've just found my screengrabs from the night Sooty and his friends invaded QVC to do an hour of extremely aggressive selling. One of the funniest things I've ever seen, with Sweep remorselessly scene-stealing as always.

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

I genuinely can’t recommend this more wholeheartedly. It was wonderful in every single way and it made me very emotional by the end. Very funny, charming, heartfelt, action packed, it’s got everything. 10/10.

“Before you condemn the shadow Home Secretary for being racist, maybe you should stop and consider that some Muslims have done bad things. Didn’t think of that did you? Hypocrite. Weak liberal hypocrite”

NEW PHILOSOPHY TUBE DROPS TONIGHT 18:30 British time Our biggest episode yet, the spiritual sequel to “I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times” A full investigation into conversion therapy in the UK. This video names names and has big implications for the NHS and government. youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

La població masculina no està preparada per un personatge femení com l’Undine Spragg. Posats a triar, prefereixo la Florence Pugh. Va néixer per aquest paper. Edith Wharton, eh? Principis del XX.

Of all Osborne/Cameron's cynical and divisive policies, this act of pointless cruelty was probably the worst. The Government's decision to abolish it should be welcomed by everybody who cares about children in this country. www.gov.uk/government/n...

The tendency with stuff like The Metaverse is for the people who championed it to tell a story when it fails about how it seemed like a good idea at the time, nobody foresaw how badly it would fail, etc. It's important to remember none of that is true. Everyone saw in real time how stupid this was.

Perhaps the most infuriating part of the orig interview is where they have the requisite Trans Person He Worked With (in this case Sophie Hyde) semi-excusing this. "Sometimes you have to think about who you're working with/for" should apply to the transphobe donating money to anti-trans legislation.

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

Sort of hilarious that John Lithgows original line was defiant, saying how a friend begging him not to do it didn’t move him at all And now after a few months of realising that people now think much much less of him he tries back down, as much as he can

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Why was Altman even invited to the Vanity Fair Oscar party? That’s some Masque of the Red Death shit

You have to give comedy shows time, people! Remember it took it The 11 O'Clock Show five series before it got axed.

Fallen down the rabbithole of the Thatcher foundation's fascinating and excellent archive, which includes, e.g. John Biffen and Margaret Thatcher's marginalia on Geoffrey Howe's Mais lecture:

There’s a good profile of Len Deighton profile up on iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

I think "it wouldn't hurt the economy, just the consumers" is one of the most telling things ever said.

DUNE 3 has a fine fine trailer Nice and weird with Robert Pattinson being fruity But since reading @maxevry.bsky.social all I can think about with every shot is “How would David Lynch have done this moment? Or this?” TBF eyebrow-less Pattinson does look Lynchian