What if… it’s not even that bad to be autistic?

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951): It's not always the first thing mentioned about Hitchcock but he really knew how to put together a set piece and the merry go round plus tennis ending is one of the best. Reminds me not just of the obvious similarities to other Hitch films but also Kubrick's THE KILLING

Last one on Farage setting the terms of debate atm: he's by all accounts *the* major face of the primary policy change of the last five decades in the UK (we were told without a doubt that even if you don't like it, you have to respect his role in it) and he's never asked to stand for how that went

Think I’m going to get a lot of use out of this.

Repeat after me: I am not more leftist than Paul Frazee. I am not more leftist than John Travolta. I am not more leftist than Joko Widodo. I am not more leftist than Bethany Mandel. But if I stand back and watch and learn, I will be more leftist than I am.

I was hoping to hear more about the shadowy plots that definitely did not involve Sean Gallagher in any way. Alas, democracy.

You wouldn't make Father Ted today because it's a pisstake of Ireland in the 80s and 90s and not remotely of the country as it exists today.

Elite radicalisation is going to get much worse once the AI bubble pops btw

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Once again tapping my 'AI is a huge existential threat to the Internet and e-commerce' sign:

One thing we've learned from the past decade is that cancel culture was not in fact real at elite levels and you could get away with saying what you liked without consequences. If we're going to deal with the current wave of racism, that needs to change.

Going to be difficult to list all the ways the Reform Party intend to break the GFA.

Of course he's an Arsenal fan. Of course he is.

what were the top minds of the Claremont Institute coming up with some great ideas during the Biden years, you may ask

101. Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshige/101-asakusa-ricefields-and-torinomachi-festival-1857

Inside the Vampire's Castle

So nothing is going to change any time soon.

Of all the ridiculous “now that we have [x], we don’t need a knowledge-rich curriculum”, AI is maybe the silliest. How else are you meant to know whether it is right or wrong?

This was pointed out multiple times back then, and nobody cared. Because the anti-immigration crowd don't care about management, they care about power and hierarchy.

It's quite striking going through 1960s–70s railway files: any opposition to cancellation is dismissed as mere sentimentality from people mired in nostalgia, while supporters flatter themselves as forward thinkers whose decisions are rational and must be accepted, even if undesirable

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Protestant women who date Japanese men expose them to Protestant culture and electoralism.

The likes of Embery and Glasman will always give you thousands of lines of scutter on the beauty of a homogeneity; thus giving detailed deportation plans with much love and care and then talk about the need to reindustrialise with a level of detail that could be found on the back of a postage stamp.

When all this is done, America should unite together in the noble cause of putting the entire Star Slate Codex comments section in jail forever.

One decade since piggate

THEY DEFORMED ME, COOP. REDUCED ME DOWN TO ONLY MY MOST RECOGNIZABLE CHARACTERISTICS. I’M A CUTESY SHELL OF MY FORMER SELF. THE BOYS AT QUANTICO ARE CALLING ME A “CHEE-BEE.” I’M SEVEN CENTIMETERS TALL, COOP. 150 GRAMS OF VINYL PLASTIC.

Interesting to square this with tabloid headlines and pointless answers which suggest widespread knowledge of 70s British sitcoms.

I have seen some left accounts assert Connolly is the favourite if not a shoo-in, I don't see that at all...

Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes gammons

The sheer contradictions of anti-immigration activists - immigrants have too much rights but also are an enemy to social cohesion, they segregate themselves yet are everywhere these days - shows the extent to which 95% anti-immigration activism is just status anxiety.

Anti-immigration activists will state stuff like this and also at the same time demand only 'high quality immigrants'.

Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes TikTok wellness influencers

Riots in loyalist Northern Ireland has been a long-running permacrisis even before immigration.

This Barry Lyndon remake is a bit low budget.

"smart" appliances are trojan horses to take data and play ads

So the Irish Presidential Election is now pretty much confirmed to be an election about whether or not we want a President who will mention Gaza in every speech for the next seven years or a more traditional figure.

And more of us are now in the red bit than the blue bit.

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Hartwell terrace, Queens Road, Hyde Park, Leeds, 1970s, photo by Peter Mitchell.

Sending this tweet to Paul Schrader to see what he can do with the material.

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[Withnail, close to tears] “I have become vulnerable in the night-time economy”.

I just discovered that the great Dr. Peter Weller has launched his own YouTube channel. And it has fun material here that should boost anyone's mood. Here is Weller making a great introduction to a Naked Lunch screening. youtu.be/NQHAcmWQ7u4?...

William Shatner teams up with coombrained, accelerationist incel and disgraced zookeeper, Sean Bean, in a new podcast which promises to be as shitty as you're imagining it to be.

Oh, this is going to be the new line.

Tesla dispute becomes longest strike in modern Swedish history as management refuses to accept the “basic elements of Swedish industrial relations” www.industriall-union.org/tesla-disput...

While I am on the subject, the aforementioned Stanford university - as anyone who has read Richard White's excellent Railroaded would know - was founded by and is essentially named after essentially the Marc Andreesen of the 19th Century.

Looking forward to watching "Poster: The Will Stancil Story" in cinemas in 2055.

Politicos seem to imagine that the reason young people tend to sneer at business school grads is because of woke snobbery and not because they have a more accurate picture of what business schools are like