Suzanne Collins: In my book, I invented The Hunger Games as a cautionary tale Trump: At long last, we have created The Hunger Games from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Hunger Games

he can't abide your makeup he hates your shiny nose if you wear oversized red shoes he'll saw right through your toes oh, you better not laugh or juggle those balls or knock your friends down in stupid pratfalls santa claus is punching a clown! santa claus is punching a clown!

I mean, the fucking state of it, that the leader of the governing party would have to make assurances that he would still be in power two and a half years into his first term after winning around two thirds of the seats in Commons.

I SCREAMED www.instagram.com/reel/DSaex-X...

"prompt stealer" has the same vibes as nft bros calling folks "right clickers"

My MCU crossover event request: the frustrated bar wench from the Oshkosh, WI renaissance faire in 1985 turns out to be the organiser of the NYC Larp crowd in Hawkeye.

I'm just a bit baffled by this; this was happening like six years ago? It's not news??

me lookin in the mirror in the morning

Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

Fascinated by how The Ratio manifests on this site. Back on the Cursed Site, the replies:retweets:likes ratio was pretty reliably somewhere between 1:5:20 and 1:10:100 (reliably enough that tweets whose engagement fell well outside those ratios were highlighted as examples of Bad Tweets).

A lot of people know that some of the population find that coriander/cilantro tastes "soapy," but people don't necessarily know *why*. Bit of science for you on a Saturday morning. 🙂

The version I heard (from a friend in PR who used to work there) was that the PR person on a Walliams gig "had to be" a young, pretty woman, but that the young, pretty woman was always told never to be alone in a room with him.

An early Christmas present for those of us in the #KidLitUK community who've been waiting YEARS for the other shoe to finally drop. Harper Collins knew all about it. They paid off staff to keep their mouths shut. Shame on them, shame on him, and good riddance.

recently rewatched IRONHEART and Mephisto has this line when bargaining with his victims and they ask him what the cost is: "It's nothing you'll miss"

Fascinated by the Beachy Head Woman story. Her remains were possibly uncovered in the 1950s and promptly vanished into a collection at Eastbourne Town Hall. Someone realised what they were looking at in 2012 and she was studied.

Lots of people reposting/quoting the top tweet, but the shot definitely needs the chaser. Obviously Harlequin knows AI can't translate, but they'll use it to force translators to cut their fees.

Anyone who buys these is a chump. Because sometime soon, these assholes will be gone, and the worse shit they do, the more mandate their successors will have to just plain reverse it all. That is, someone's gonna spend 10 billion on Yosemite, and then President Mangione's just gonna seize it back.

It changes day to day, but right now it's "Love yourself as you loved no other, Be no man's fool and be no man's brother, We're all born to die alone, you know, that's the hell of it." -- 'The Hell of It,' Paul Williams (1974)

I wanna highlight two films on this list, because I find they're generally less well known than they deserve.

The Crow (1994) The One (2001) The Matrix (1999) The Quest (1996)

Time for a festive story! This is a tale of a Christmas many years ago...

Just seen another "proof that 1=2" and they always irritate me, because they always depend on pretending you don't know that two different variables are equal in value, and at some point multiplying or dividing by an amount that you also know is equal to zero.

something I discover whenever Love Actually (2003) comes up: almost no-one gets that David the Prime Minister is a tory

really, steve? everyone? does *everyone* complain that?

look, in 1996 you made a movie of one of the greatest villains in Disney history, with Emma Stone reprising Glenn Close as a 70s fucking punk icon, and although it made a splash it has since essentially sunk without a trace in just 4 years, and that is because we don't. want. villain. backstories.

Since my old Princess Bride thread has just been revived (for the very saddest of reasons), I'd like to also mention this thread spinning off it, in which I propose a snarky London-gangster film about the 16th century fencing instructor Rocco Bonetti...

Er. This is absolutely the worst circumstances under which an old thread can be revived, so I'm not quite sure how to react. I guess, thank you all for reskeeting and quoteskeeting, and please share the joy around. ❤️ Heartbroken to hear about the murders of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer.

in this house, we obey the internet's truest law

just heard about the horrible attack at Bondi Beach. May their memories be a blessing, and may the actions of Ahmed al Ahmed, who heroically disarmed the attacker, be praised

[pitching for a Black Mirror episode] what if [looks around my kitchen] biscuits... but too much?

one of the very finest Christmas tunes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR07...

Interesting to note that the trans hostile EHRCs and Labours line is pivoting hard from 'follow the law' (legal) to 'follow the rules' (social contract). Almost like they know segregation isnt allowed under the law.

"nobody is expecting there to be a toilet police" says Dr Stephenson of a policy whose sole purpose is to police toilets, and that "everyone has rights" of a policy that explicitly directs people not to allow trans people to use *either* toilet

The Matrix, yes. Seeing Romeo + Juliet having seen absolutely no marketing or publicity for it. American Fiction. Ghost Dog. Lock, Stock. Captain America picking up Mjolnir.

ONE ESCALATOR it is very late and i am too drunk for this

seen a skeet reminding people that tinsel can be bad for wildlife "when you dispose of your tree," and do lots of people throw away their trees fully decorated???

there's two ways to tell if you're talking to someone with adhd: one, they tend to lose their train of thought...

this is so weird

if i had a pound for every comedy glam-rock musical that came to movie theatres in the mid-70s based on classic gothic horror stories but making a serious point about social issues i'd have two pounds, which isn't a lot but etc. etc.

the social structure in v:tm is hilarious, like "the camarilla are stratified and ancient, they have like six laws and mebbe five titles, the sabbat are anarchic and rebellious, here is a page-long legal code and a tonne of ranks and titles, there are two separate organisations within the sabbat and

it is of course a) awful and b) none of their damn business that the US foreign policy is to try and sow division in the EU with a view, ideally, to breaking it up - but it has also been both US and UK policy since the end of WWII

"later on, we'll conspire, as we dream by the fire, to face unafraid the plans that we've made" is a deeply sinister lyric tho

I spy HOME SICK 👀🪓🐑

I think our focus on how LLMs are being pushed on us by venture-capital-backed techbros to replace human artistic labour, or to sell the LLM software itself, is missing one of the most obvious applications...

The point about Farage saying and doing racist shit as a schoolboy is, of course, to establish intent. If he hadn't been racist as a child, you could entertain the notion that his current behaviour was hapless, or at worst performative, and didn't reflect his sincere beliefs.

"Tick to stay logged in" the security page mocks, sniggering to itself

I wrote a thing! Over with the fab @scifinow.bsky.social crew! About our relationship with the sea, some splendid books which explore that, and some of my, ahem, Opinions... 🖤🌊🖤 @solarisbooks.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/books/gazing...

Someone mentioned to me that the song Feliz Navidad sounds like a Scouser singing “Police nabbed me dad” and now that’s all I can hear