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oh no. all my friends will know i think bryan johnson is a huge dipshit

Less of a problem though when they can rely on the BBC to broadcast the whole thing.

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

This is how Biden should have gone for Trump but this is the problem when you go through life thinking you have no apex predators. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Lula Goes HARD

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Bluesky has four kinds of users.

one of my darkest traits is that I can't read for letter acronyms as anything but plays on MILF/DILF. like oh you got a DSLR? that's a Dad Sliding Lengthwise into me, Raunchily

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since when did settlement get granted automatically because I’m pretty sure I had to pay £4k and also fill out a pretty long application and provide about a dozen pieces of paper evidence and also live here for a fucking decade and pay visa fees and health surcharges the whole fucking time

May Bolsonaro Jr follow in his father's footsteps and experience a prolonged period of hospitalisation.

Dead-eyed, cold-blooded predators that strike revulsion into the hearts of many, etc etc and so forth.

One of the fun things about being on social media but not following football is that I can tell from context that something bad has happened to Man Utd but I don't know what

I think where I've landed is: all the "prepare and stockpile" stuff is alarming not because it means "there's something terrible on the way that the government aren't telling us" but because it means "state capacity is so eroded that we no longer have the ability to respond to disaster effectively".

I feel the same way about this as I did when there was all that discourse about whether movies need sex scenes. Sure, quibble about the specific instance, the particular work, but if the point of art is to represent and understand the human experience, then it's going to be in there fairly often.

Sam Selvon looking up from making a single brilliant sentence last five pages to ask what the fuck they're saying now?

So it turns out, because I'm now in the mood for it and don't own physical copies, that all the BBC and Hammer Quatermass is on YouTube.

Who has offered anything in opposition to this? Not the Sensible Moderate centrists, who have fought to destroy opposition and establish themselves as the natural opposition within our enfashed system. A strategy that has gone Kaboom in one country after another.

Here’s Chapoman Matt Christman in 2017, after that torchlit fascist rally in Charlottesville. We’re almost ten years later now. Does anything here sound wrong? I would say no, it is not wrong.

Would you like to see the wrongest review of music reviews ever courtesy of Mark Frith in Smash Hits?

Watching The Stone Tape, which I've definitely seen before but can't recall a damn thing about. I'd also forgotten it has that 70s BBC outside broadcast thing that briefly makes you wonder if you somehow turned motion smoothing on.

Could we simply avoid the part where we’re asked to pretend the prime minister would have to rely on his private stash of baked beans in the event of a crisis www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Ideal for the Friday afternoon WFH crowd.

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