My mum’s headshots from her glamorous opera days

This. As a scifi nerd, it’s really sickening how some of my favorite franchises have just become a vector for hatred and bigotry. Star Wars has been mired in this for a while but considering what’s happening with Skydance Trek seems to be next, it just…. Depresses me.

Harry Truman: If it benefits all the people, they call it socialism.

if it had to be someone I'm really glad it was Dan Ballard

LEANDRO TROSSARD, THAT IS MAJESTIC. A SPECTACULAR HIT TO GIVE ARSENAL THE LEAD.

Just think, we would have signed Mudryk instead of Trossard had Chelsea not done us a favour.

That's pretty much the ideal half for Sunderland, a scrappy, stop-start physical game, and they've scored so now have something to defend. Arsenal lacking any real craft in that first half, which is a worry because there's not much on the bench to try and change things. A lot to improve on.

Arsenal boy scores against Arsenal el classico

It’s November 8th and I’m wearing shorts and I’ve just taken my jacket off 🫣👻

I KNEW IT.

I love a shared cultural moment. I’m the opposite of whatever it is that makes people not want to watch something because it’s too popular. I’ve hated stuff and gone back to it because I so crave having a moment to share with the world around me. Not just friends, but… everyone. Live Tv is special.

#TheCelebrityTraitors one of the most popular and one of the best television shows this year. Incredible.

I loved that ending so much! How was it heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time? HOW!?! Magnificent television! #CelebrityTraitors

Honestly I think the people who need to read this the most are the British press, whose podcasts and articles froth with the ire and outrage of what they’ve seen the bots discussing on the platform very few other regular British humans use anymore.

This is a lovely use of data and visualisation and a wake up call for those who still seem to think Twitter isn't a pernicious platform with questionable motives.

TV moment of the year right here.

Specifically: Pirate Jenny

There’s something so emotional at Alan Carr crying at the end of Traitors.

More than 11 million viewers for #TheCelebrityTraitors finale last night. That's up three million on the previous episode, with iPlayer viewership still to come. Bloody hell.

What an absolutely brilliant series though. Traitors was already awesome, how it managed to be even better is beyond science. Loved it.

What a superb series #CelebrityTraitors has been! When it was announced I thought it might not be as good as the regular Traitors. But we got something excellent in a completely different way. Definitely funnier. Arguably better? Undeniably one of the best programmes of the year.

Nick Mohammed, one of the great minds and talents of the nation, being the one to fuck it all up for the faithful by being an absolute moron, is why the Traitors is unparalleled television. 😆🥰

"It’s one thing to watch someone destroyed by an enemy. But how much more fascinating to see them destroyed by their friends?" someone finally let me write about The Traitors

"I'm completely amazed I've made it this far in the game" David babes we all have x #CelebrityTraitors

Nick you mug 😆🥰

Nick you absolute bottle job 😄😄😄 Saying sorry as the person voting someone off the show changing your mind 😄 David. Absolute silly billy. Well done Alan, but man you felt so obvious from afar and gave every reason to think you were one 😄 #CelebrityTraitors

Got home late but what an astonishing end to #celebritytraitors. Who’d have thought!?

"please keep giving us money"

An 18yo served us at a bar last night and opined that chatGPT was 'cringe' and 'harms your critical thinking' and I realised the next gen's attitude to AI is going to be like ours was to FB. Early adopters, early ditchers while the previous gen were early skeptics turned brain dead obsessives.

Celebrating the execution of a guy who tried to blow up parliament is cuck behaviour sorry

I like fireworks but they shouldn't be sold to the general public. Obviously some twat's going to lob one at a paramedic. Garden fireworks are always shit anyway. Go and give the rotary club a fiver and watch a good display in a field with a candyfloss machine and a tombola.

Inspiring campaign messages of our time

And another councillor defection - after another two in London! Over and over again people speaking out against this Labour Government and joining the hopeful movement in the Green Party! Huge welcome to Caroline! 🎉 www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/news/politic...

A new digital era is emerging, and it’s even more anti-social than the last. Damon Beres reports on the false promise of AI companionship:

Loving my west wing rewatch so much. God the politics are cringe and the patriarchal tone to every interaction with a woman is dated but I just love the loving companionship at its heart and that insane 90s bright-eyed optimism.

Every time a pundit mentions Arsenal's depth, another leg falls off an Arsenal player.

Tax wealth. Not work. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Honestly TELL THE STORY. Won’t someone just tell the fucking story of how Brexit created this economic hardship, how a Muslim immigrant just saved the lives of those commuters on that train, won’t someone in politics or even media just connect the fucking dots and TELL THE STORY. IT’S RIGHT THERE

Every Brit posting about Mamdani

Linked to me by a friend, but this actually is the best headline aftermath.site/ea-saudi-ara...

really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know

Men will literally record a landmark change-of-pace 1982 acoustic album on 4-track in their rental bedroom rather than go to therapy.

turns out that x: the everything app is an echo chamber. tonight’s results wouldn’t have shocked anyone who hung out on intellectually and politically diverse social media apps like bluesky

Palace and Arsenal both playing one another after each playing another game two days before. Let’s call it the Hamstring Derby.

Good morning with a looooong screenshot from FotMob, showing when Arsenal last conceded a goal

Max Dowman becomes the youngest Champions League player in history, the first 15 year old to play in the competition.

No matter what you want to say about Mikel Merino, he is the most natural finisher we’ve had at the club for ages. Incredible in front of goal.