Not all tourism is from outside the US, but I'm also surprised that number isn't higher.

It is a significant drop though.

Am I thinking of someone else, but wasn't he caught boinking the vicar the last time he was "taken in by a kind church family"?

It'll be another relaunch after the relaunch he already has scheduled for next month.

You chose to make a (stupid) comment on a post from the Green Party leader.

Who exactly did you think would read it?

Joanne closed her helpline for single parents right around when she announced she'd be donating heavily to anti-trans causes. They closed because of lack of funding.

She's a billionaire.

She doesn't care about "single mums".

www.gingerbread.org.uk/our-work/new...

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.

First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

Not thrilled to see Weir's opinion, or who he hangs out with, but that wasn't what put me off

It was him saying there's no hidden meaning, no deeper social theme. Nothing turns me off faster than a writer advertising out their work is a shallow adventure story with some hard sci-fi sprinkled on it.

Yes, that's it!

Thank you.

I got one of these in an organic random veg box years ago.

I had no idea what it was, or how to cook it.

IIRC I googled "Like broccoli only Mandelbrot"

It was delicious.

Never seen one since, can't remember what it's called.

Question: “Now that you’ve met with him -Trump-, you’ve spoken with him multiple times, do you still think he’s a fascist?”

Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”

Question: “And do you tell him that?”

Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”

No doubt NATO called him "sir" and had tears in their eyes during this hallucination

He does know NATO isn't a person and doesn't trade in oil, right?

And they don't turn up to help with wars if you're the country who starts it, especially on a whim.

History has proven Judith Butler right (and The Guardian wrong for censoring her). Just look at the reaction of Justin Webb, Hadley Freeman, Janice Turner and other TERFs to Trump. TERFs are not "part of the contemporary struggle against fascism."

I have a question:

Why have I been seeing BBC headlines posted over the last few days that looks like they're from the front page of the Daily Mail?

On this Tax Day, I have a joke about trickle-down economics, but 99% of you will never get it.

Re-re-launch
When the crowd say
Fuck Keir Starmer

If this visit goes ahead the monarchy must be abolished.

It's that simple.

Starmer is an idiot if he thinks this will accomplish anything other than make the actions taken against Andrew M-W and Mandleson seem token gestures and make us look pathetic and corrupt.

Of course it was doctored, it was AI

She's trying to spin it like it has been doctored in reports after he posted it and make his ridiculous comment sound less batshit by conflating "doctor" with "doctored" in the public conversation.

The Stepford Wife look is not great if you’re trying to look progressive???

This slutty aryan ai housewife in an apron with her cleavage front and centre and her feet bare so she can’t run off staring at the space above the sign she clearly can’t read is def going to own those hateful right wing fucks who dream of exactly this.

The men in the replies making this point extremely well. bsky.app/profile/groo...

An Aryan looking barefoot trad wife with big boobs or the sign?

Either way, her sightline and the lamp in the door itself is an obvious indicator it's AI.

Fairly sure whoever wrote the prompt isn't bothered about women's rights.

I had some people round for dinner last night, and I tried to impress them with a sauce created from vodka, gravy and nitrous oxide. But all I've done is make myself an absolut laughing stock.

spin-offs and wondering why they aren't getting the viewing numbers TNG did.

It's distribution model needs addressing so people can see it and form their own opinions, rather than starting with a Google search to see if it's worth subbing to a service for and getting the usual suspects bitching.

service many are already boycotting doesn't encourage viewers either.

TNG hit big because it went straight to syndication, and had a huge cliff-hanger that elevated it to water cooler TV.

Since then Trek has been used as a lure to new networks with limited reach or streaming services with untested

I agree, but I think that's easier said than done faced with negative review bombs and social media dog-piles.

Part of the problem is it puts people off watching,with SFA a lot of the noise comes from those who haven't actually watched or watched one episode.

It being paywalled on a streaming

It wouldn't be Trek without some silliness occasionally.

All great ideas this Gen X Trekkie would love to see, but I think the bigger question is how do you counter the tidal wave of negativity spread on YouTube etc before it even airs & the resistance from fans there always is for anything new or even slightly different?

Apparently he asked Brannon Braga for a guest spot, they were friends.

Not easy to fire the show-runner.