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The Student List had no party machinery. It operated through university assemblies, protests and hiking between cities & towns. They had 2% of national TV political advertising airtime vs 93% for Vučić. This is one of the most remarkable grassroots democratic victories in modern European history.

Going to revival screenings of Tristar movies and screaming when the logo pegasus gets too close to the camera

A Scaramucci is ten days (july 21-31). Zacharia was appointed on Oct 9 and lasted till October 16. So a Zacharia is seven days, or 7/10ths of a Scaramucci.

My apologies to anyone else who’s old enough not to want to be reminded just how fucking long ago it was, but: today is the 41st anniversary of the release of Cloudbusting—so it must be time to tell you about Wilhelm Reich and his orgasmatron...

My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"

Happy Dog Carcass in Alley Day to all who celebrate.

Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia

Riggs is supposed to be the crazy one but at the start of Lethal Weapon 1, Murtaugh is shown having a morning bath on a workday. That is absolutely insane behaviour

Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

I really need journalists to learn that every time OpenAI or Anthropic or xAI says that their model has broken containment and could destroy humanity that it’s a marketing pitch by companies running out of cash with high overheads and no profitable business model wanting more investment.

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin starts by setting up Reggie's increasing impotent, in more than one sense, frustration with everything.

Jet Set F*ckin' Willy (Sir Clive's Endless Nightmare Mix) Lord Arse (2024) CRANK IT UP TO 11!

FRAME THIS IN THE LOUVRE

That's no imposter. That's the real. Do we have a clip where he scales a building. We must.

"Where did he come from??" "Never mind that. WHERE DID HE GO???"

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

You honestly don't have to show me what Twitter's saying. That's why I'm here and not there.

Any shop can look ominous in “The Prisoner” font!

The reich wing panic attacks over movies point to an underlying fear that the culture is moving past them and they will be left behind, fading into irrelevance. In this and this alone, they are right.

If you want a measure of Nigel Farage, and how his craving for attention is inextricably fused with a fanatical devotion to denial of responsibility, here's a story for you...

This is a hell of a piece of writing from an essay by German Philosopher Jurgen Habermas,

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"Emergency podcasts, sir. Thousands of 'em"

Farage just called a referendum on the concept of objective reality iandunt.substack.com/p/farage-jus...

Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster

THE TIME OF THE IMAGE IS ENDED... THE AGE OF TEXTPOSTERS IS NOW

Miami Vice episodes on streaming do not need a 'Skip intro' button. Nobody's skipping that

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov