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The key point here is that for Tories switching to Reform, it's not *really* a tactical vote. There's clear air between Lib Dem's and Labour's policies and politics, and between Green's and Labour's; between the Tories and Reform it's really just a different colour rosette.

In addition to everything Dylan says in this thread, it’s just a bit tragic for *a government four years from an election* to be saying “they hate him more than us“. That just shouldn’t be your focus four years out!

the *best* thing about this... the creme de la creme of this comedy of errors... the absolute chef's-kiss peak-humour detail of this whole racist debacle... is that Kent County Council, which has both issued the permit and attached the condition, is a Reform-led council

Just rewatched The Marvels, and one small moment really struck me again: it's a throwaway thing, but feels like one of the saddest reveals in the film.

Amazing news from NYC. Bit of a heads-up based on the reaction to a left-wing, Muslim mayor of London: the "Commie" stuff from the press and the GOP won't last long, it'll be wall to wall Islamaphobic scaremongering: Sharia courts "no-go zones," white displacement, curry smells, violent crime.

okay, story time. settle in and gather round while I tell you the tale of [shines torch under chin, spooky voice] The Phantom of Heilbronn...

So pleased to snag Harley's dark, sexy novels for the UK market ❤️ (Cover artwork by Stephanie Hess)

Well, that was World Fantasy Con. Had an absolutely lovely weekend-slash-four days. Saw a bunch of people I really like and had a bunch of laughs.

"irascible" is such a *jolly* sounding word, you know? i guess because it sounds a bit like "rascal."

the really telling thing about this is what it says about how affordable the welfare state really is

The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl. The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.

A lot of people are quoting this post and that's good because they should, AI sucks and robs us of something special and only mediocre uncreative piss-babies rely on it to make anything at all, fuck AI, p.s. Emma Thompson is now the president, sorry, that's just how it is

Another one to chalk up to Hollywood stereotypes, I suspect. Films and TV shows have been feeding us the "once successful writer struggling with writer's block" stereotype for decades.

whomst amongst us

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one of the craziest things about genetics is that making chickens grow teeth requires changing one gene, C2CD3. there are like sixteen genes influencing eye colour

i mean "now" is an interesting choice for a diagram that shows that except for like two minutes (in early 2020 and mid-2021) most britons *have* considered it wrong that we voted to leave since about six months after we voted to leave

one of the most telling things about the way our society views the potential of ai is that two of the most marketed services are: - use ai to do your work for you! - use ai to detect if others are using ai to do their work for them! guess what fellas? if we just did neither we wouldn't need either

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SKELLINGTONS WE HAVE A FIRM "NO NECROMANCY" POLICY IN THIS HOUSE

finally the british museum gets to be on the "colonised" side of Museum Discourse

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"Great first draft, Isla. Now if you could just take out every incidence of 'for fucksake' then I'll sign off on it and we'll put it up on the website."

You should read Extremophile. I loved it - it's a manic antifascist adventure that doesn't offer easy answers but does have music, great characters and bad people getting their comeuppance.

these fucken guys are back again *sigh*

Perhaps my greatest work?

At the end, Bruce Willis finds out he's been dead the whole time. That's right, a dead person killed all those terrorists

bit of etymology: although William is originally Germanic, it entered English from the Norman French Williame, from the Latin Willelmus (the Latin double ll picking up an i when it entered French, as it tends to), which in turn is from the Germanic Wilhelm, from a proto-Germanic name *Wiljahelmaz

Heh. There's a screencapped tweet about how everyone hates AI until their homework is due, and people are commenting to refute it with their examples of mad, last-minute assignments that got high marks, and yes, I too have an adult ADHD diagnosis.

[Depeche Modely] ♫ Your own... digital... Jesus... ♫

"we shat the bed so comprehensively, for so long, that just going back to the standards we used to adhere to in less than a generation is literally impossible" is a bold line to take for an business hoping to avoid going into administration

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in 1980 the vatican had to invent the latin for "helicopter pad" so that they could bless their new helicopter pad (it's "helicopterorum portum")

me: ooh, there's a zootropolis 2! also me: [vividly relives every panel of that horrifying pro-life zootropolis fanfic comic]

okay, now fr I want to write the witches take the ring to mordor

love to see a billionaire who lives in a literal castle suggesting that someone else is "cushioned by wealth and fame"

the second thing that bothers me about Christopher Robin (2018) is that, objectively, what's happening in the movie is all happening

the first thing that bothers me about Christopher Robin (2018) is that it's a fictional story, about a fictional character, that's inspired by the stories A. A. Milne wrote about his real son Christopher Robin Milne's imaginary adventures

music trivia round: what is the only top-100 charting song in history where the name of the artist, the title of the song and the genre it appears in were all palindromes

can you imagine being the fbi agent ordered by your boss to scribble "anti-ice" in sharpie on a bullet to show the press?

there are two types of human in muppet movies: - playing the role as serious as cancer - visibly baffled (and extremely hot)

reminder that Dracula was a contemporary novel, i.e. set in the year it was published, which was 1897 and Coca-Cola was first commercially bottled in 1886 you can 100% depict Harker, Van Helsing, Morris, Seward and Holmwood chugging at these motherfuckers while they go huntin

wake up honey, new political horseshoe theory just dropped

okay but if I take tylenol pm do I just have autism at night or

i've just put dinner in the oven just sayin in case i get raptured, can someone check in like twenty minutes just in case

I'm actually slightly overwhelmed by having TWO books out today, both insane in very different ways, both getting incredible reviews.

the worst thing about the assholes in power is that they've made me a conspiracy theorist