A View from a Hill - M.R. James

Got a PS5 recently and immediately bought the Demon's Souls remake having never played the original. Finished it today and my God, what an amazing game. I've played through all the Souls games but this is second only to OG Dark Souls for me. Amazing lore, levels, visuals, bosses.

Some great ‘Debunks’ for arguments against universal Id One I’d add is that currently an ID is required in many situations but there is no universal free one- you pay for the most common forms such as drivers license and passport. So frankly it’s an equalising policy

Agreeing to a Palestinian state and then having it be run by Tony Blair may be the greatest trolling of Jeremy Corbyn and the crank left imaginable.

Sure, there aren't any patriarchal societies or ideologies that are practised by non white people.

British people, particularly middle class British people aged from 30 to 50, really, *really* need to stop reading so much American domestic politics news because it's in the only language they understand. It's mostly irrelevant and it's driving you mad.

Says the man who sucked off Zuck for ten million

If anything puts me off the thought of ever protest voting LD its that this fucker, who holds so much responsibility for the last 15 years of chaos and shit, is welcome at their conference.

A polydactylic cat walks into a bar. It says, "I would like, in pursuance of my desire to have a drink, to buy a drink." The barman asks, "Why the unnecessary extra clause?"

What movie do you consider "perfect"?

"I was just getting ready for bed last night when I heard this tap tap at the bloody window." "Who was it, Pete?" "Bleeding Zarah Sultana, wanting me to set up a new left wing party."

Poor Ea, getting doxxed. Google have no shame.

Ea Nasir is apparently canvassing support

You sort of have to admire Tommy and his boys. If I were a wife-beating illiterate sex offender, I wouldn't have the balls to advertise that fact publicly, yet here they all are.

Garner is amazing. Can't wait until my kids are old enough to traumatise with his work.

Lucy Powell has always struck me as deeply mediocre. If she beats Philipson, who I really rate, I'll be absolutely baffled.

Three Cardinal Richelieus? The Same Cardinal Richelieu!?!

What exactly does David Lammy have on Keir Starmer? He's been useless as foreign secretary, why keep him at all?

I guess in taking over the leadership of the Greens, he has big shoes to fill

I hear Polanski won the Green's Annual Crank off...

He's been sticking KitKats up his arse

Why is Martin on only connect dressed as a racist pantomime villain?

Richard Tice lives in the UAE and wants to give money to the Taliban. Are we absolutely positive that he isn't a fundamentalist Islamist and Reform isn't an elaborate cover?

Batley Townswomen's Guild reenact the Siege of Jerusalem

Might actually, finally, after the money has repeatedly been saved and spent on other boring shit, be able to get a ps5. What games are worth getting for it? So far my shortlist is weirdly RPG centric: Demon Souls, Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, Dragon Age 4. Also, probably Alan Wake 2.

He's right, though. I don't understand either people's obsession with and addiction to pornography or their bizarre paranoia about age verification. Unless you're a nonce, why would you need a VPN?

Oofing me softly

Wait, so Sultana's view of Corbynism is that it wasn't mental and racist enough?

An excellent statement on Ukraine - clear and unambiguous. Every single US President in the modern era would also have signed this statement. Apart from one. Le grand orange. www.gov.uk/government/n...

QT with someone you wish was still alive

I would have simply arrested Putin the second he landed on US soil. That or poisoned his dinner.

Good start to the weekend with a virulently antisemitic leaflet through our door. Full on blood libel, ahistorical conspiracy theory bullshit. I'm so unbelievably sick of this. If it were any other form of racism people would be up in arms. Instead it's unchallenged and fucking everywhere.

Wind in the Willows will probably get read to my daughter. The res I severely doubt it. I always found Stig of the Dump absolutely tedious as a kid.

Peel, Disraeli, Baldwin, MacMillian. Pull itself out if the twin cut de sacs of Thatcherite market sadomasochism and populist Boris bullshittery. Get back to a moderate one nation position. Mixed economy and cautious pragmatism without any of the cringe ID/woke/GB News nonsense. They'd eat up votes.

I misread this and was momentarily very confused as to how Joan Crawford starred in a biopic of Elvis Costello

Whatever your politics "Labour right the ship, Reform falls back, and they get a fairly comfortable second term" would be a great outcome for sending those currently tweet-wanking about civil war even more mad.

A variant of a conversation Mrs. Spectrox and I have during every episode of Miss Marple. "What do I recognise her from?" "Vengeance on Varos?" "Obviously not"

Aparr from S7, which is sublime, the Pertwee era is, a handful of stories aside, a tedious slog, and Three is a pompous patronising arse that probably rates as my least favourite Doctor.

I would probably say the single most annoying thing about LLMs is that "okily-dokily doo, I goofed when I gave you that ludicrous answer, it's my bad that I said cheese comes from cats, I'll do better next time, would you like to know what sort of cat it comes from?" tone when it gets stuff wrong.

Gordon remains absolutely based

My sincerest contrafibularities to this venture

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