Pluribus is so fucking good in following up Carol's 100% philosophically correct righteous anger in episode 2 by spending an hour dunking on her for not even beginning to comprehend the unseen labour of thousands of strangers that her little bubble has always been reliant on

I see we've all decided the gloves are off and the boot is getting put in, to clear the way for Wes. Wonder if they think it will go any differently with a different repellent creature nobody likes?

“I’m not ringing Spellar” “Because he’s a horrible neocon bigot and crank?” “Oh that doesn’t bother me. I simply cannot socialise”

Yes, yes, all well and good. But what about his favourability ratings within the Labour Party? Absolute dog shit.

You don’t ever particularly need a reason to repost this, but it’s always nice when it’s timely

The fictitious enthusiasm for someone is going to be overwhelming. It may as well be for the epitome of the 21st century Southern briefcase jobsworth gobshite.

Need the Safdie Brothers film adaptation with Matthew Mcfadyen as Keith and Martin Freeman as Morgan

This is even funnier than it just being Streeting on manoeuvres.

Albeit it’s predicated on achieving astronomical milestones that history suggests are hilariously unlikely, but the board of this company just ratified a trillion-dollar compensation package for this bozo. Not sure who’s the more whacked-out, them or him.

It does seem like the “ceasefire” has served its purpose, though, in terms of quietening the noise that had been building from folks who had spent two years not seeing fit to object to Israeli crimes against humanity, because you aren’t hearing a peep from them about the violations…

There is a (in my view, deliberate) overemphasis of Hannah Arendt’s remarks about the ‘banality of evil’ and regular people doing evil things versus a more urgent point she makes about the farce of trying to locate the evils of the Final Solution in the body of one man because Nazism was structural.

Sure, though for the past 3 decades (?) the idea of a national culture has p much been undermined by successive governments : cuts to arts funding, walling off access to creative industries to the richest in society, making the UK incredibly difficult to be a creative worker etc.

Tricky one to parse, this. Because all the signs pointing to the explosion of the genAI bubble point to this being a real harbinger of economic doom… …but SoftBank’s track record of catastrophically bad bets is certainly a confounding factor! (Nah, this bad. Confidence-spiral bad, probably.)

I’ve never noticed John being reticent about criticising the public for views he thinks are wrong, but there’s a particular section of the public who basically can’t be wrong about certain topics and it seems that saying they are, is childish student politics.

It's also notable, when one watches the whole thing, that neither of the people she's talking to makes this point to her. But then that's how ideological capture works, isn't it. Exactly the way they describe earlier in the show. They are all on the same page so nobody challenges bias.

What's fascinating here is that as she rhymes off the list of gender critical people at Newsnight pursuing an explicitly gender critical agenda, in the context of a discussion of ideological capture at the BBC, she doesn't recognise that she was part of the ideological capture of the BBC by GCs.

Remember, when journalists just let trans people live their lives in peace, it’s “ideological capture”, but when they use their own personal anti-trans beliefs to lead a campaign to close down the only place in the country trans youth received healthcare, it’s absolutely fine, nothing to see here.

If old farts have gone mean as fuck and viciously reactionary with age, then it’s not clear to me that young people are to blame for this or that it’s obviously them who should shut the hell up.

Imagine if someone had to resign every time the BBC misrepresented trans people, for example.

Seems astonishing that there’s as much of this game left as there is. Feels like it’s been on forever. Not that it looks like anything will meaningfully change in all this remaining time. Just a thought. Long old evening. Glad I built my Sunday around being able to watch.

Don’t want to catastrophise, but… It will be very interesting to see whether in three months’ time the Real Madrid match is seen as a dead cat bounce rather than a turning point, or whether it *was* a corner turned and this performance is the kind of blip that can happen against a very good team.

You can says there’s been some bad luck if you want, moan about VAR decisions either way — and yes, Neville has been a *bit* melodramatic, but that’s par for the course — but Liverpool look poorly coached, timid, and both physically and mentally fragile. These have been problems all season.

Think it’s a pretty familiar set of problems, to be honest. Konate has has been poor all season, the back line don’t seem to be vibing with Mamardashvili, the midfield is too easily bypassed, Salah’s space-jammed, and setbacks send us spiralling mentally…

I do have *some* issue with it, in that Robertson’s positioning seems *very* unlikely to have impeded Donnarumma’s view of the header *or* decision to dive for it. But if you’re in an offside position you give the officials room to make the decision, so… The inconsistency though, 100%.

We literally didn’t, earlier in the season when there was a player yards offside right in front of Alisson, let alone vaguely in his vicinity!

Gomez please. Do it now.

Haven’t settled at all and that’s been coming. Konate at the scene of the crime is no surprise, but need more all round.

If Trent wasn’t the lesson, I suspect Konate will be. Expect to see a few players moved on for good feed at the first indication of unreasonably challenging contract negotiations. Ultimate ruthlessness.

Just one of many clips of Zack taking Trevor to school this morning, but possibly the best one for explicitly blowing apart the notion that voting Green helps Reform. Labour are behind in the polls — a vote for *them* hurts the Greens as the leading anti-Reform party! The tide is turning.

Sometimes everything around us really does feel like a society getting what it deserves based on continued consent for the obsession with this fucking cat

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Only done the fist episode for now, but yeah, PLURIBUS. Vince Gilligan, we are back. We are so back.

Fair enough; rather thought as much. But presumably a rule with plenty of grey areas and/or baked-in exceptions considering the BBC is more than happy to promote the Royal British Legion over and above any other remembrance/veterans charities by having every presenter wear poppies for three weeks…

Related and arguably even weirder is the insistence of some people — many of whom should know better from experience! — that the Oxford fucking Union is real student politics rather than a mad private club in whose elections barely any students vote, mostly under duress or to get invited to parties.

there's an entire sub culture of middle age men who are so impervious to other views that at no point have they ever read any of the many comments pointing out that an obsessive interest in student politics is deeply fucking creepy? anyway, this is worse.

Possibly something @scottygb.bsky.social would know? Or one for @richardosman1.bsky.social? Or The Media Show @rosatkins.bsky.social?

Slightly different CELEBRITY TRAITORS post: can someone who knows BBC arcana please explain whey they could add each player’s chosen charity to their name/age/occupation/status graphic for all solo pieces to camera?

It's not complicated though, is it? He's a bloodless institutional climber who hitched his wagon firmly to the Labour Right Blairism Redux project under Starmer, acting as one of its most proud and outspoken enforcers. Now, Starmer's a dead PM walking, he's knows he's fucked too, so he's pivoting.

The funniest thing about that is that it’s completely oblivious to the reality of the modern Chinese economy. China makes good shit! Huawei makes excellent phones. Every new car I see on the road is a BYD, Jaecoo, or Omoda. Many Western EV companies use Chinese batteries because they’re better!

Sam Altman is committing corporate manslaughter. OpenAI is horrific and dangerous & it should be forcibly shut down immediately with Altman himself fired into the sun

How are we ever going to re-normalise the very important and useful lost concept of shame if we deny ourselves pointing and shouting and laughing to denounce the specific individuals expressing and amplifying eminently shameworthy opinions?

Consent-manufacturing machine go brrr… but for the good guy?

The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.

It doesn’t really raise questions, though? At least, not that weren’t already answered by observers of how/where he’d played at Leverkusen who’d said from the start “sure, the systems are different, but he’d work well for now as a hybrid LW/10 on the left of the front three/ three in a 4-2-3-1.”

So smart, very droll. Sock it to the mad lefties! So done with this condescending dumbfuckery. The generalisable lesson of Mamdani’s win is that engaging with the real causes of people’s unsatisfactory material circumstances — rather than pandering to fabulist fear-mongering — WORKS.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

I think the key takeaway here is that if a young Muslim who the Republicans and many Democrats tried to paint as a scary jihadist and communist can win with a historic number of votes, socialism is pretty damn popular. There's no more they can do. Socialism is a winning formula.

Reminded me a lot of Corbyn using prime ministers questions to vocalise issues that affected people who spoke and wrote to him, using their first names. At the time the British press patronised him for it, and took it as a sign of his incompetence

All policies aside, I really do think there's a massive frustrated base of people out there who want someone to say "all these old conservative cunts suck and we want them to lose and to feel bad about losing and to know they lost because they're suckass losers who we hate."

One other thing that's unusual about this election is that Mamdani really, really hated his political opponent and wanted him to lose. That's also incredibly rare on the left of American politics, if you think about it.