Everyone talks about the Iron Maiden bit but I don’t think I can ever hear Duran Duran the same way again

Damn what a stupid post (sees that they follow me) lets hear them out

At the beginning of June 1961, after a long and anxious assessment of the South African situation, I, and some colleagues, came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be unrealistic and wrong for African leaders to continue preaching peace and nonviolence at a time when the Government met our peaceful demands with force.

Four forms of violence were possible. There is sabotage, there is guerrilla warfare, there is terrorism, and there is open revolution. We chose to adopt the first method and to exhaust it before taking any other decision.

The image of Mandela as an icon of nonviolence doesn’t survive reading his Rivonia speech. He was very explicit!

One day Tangy Cheese flavour will write Octopus’s Garden

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (1992) Music: Aquatic Ruin Zone [Extended] YouTube video by D'Angelo Perkins

Someone brought this game into my school for some sort of fundraising day and I was earwormed by the music for months m.youtube.com/watch?v=R5iJ...

CHARLIE BROWN: Yes mistress, you're right, mistress, I'm a blockhead! a hopeless blockhead!

DOMINATRIX: wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah

ads peaked in 1891 i guess

I wish my UK GP had been using a fax machine ten years ago rather than having to physically send prescriptions to the pharmacy, my doctors in Canada send them by fax and it’s a massive improvement

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning

American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV

french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts

British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

Still with lyrics from the music video for Thrill by Band-Maid

St Botolph rn

Can’t forget Gene Hackman at his most magazine editor

"Here’s something that takes place years before the main story, featuring different characters" is a real malady of genre fiction specifically

The only prologue that comes immediately to mind as being good is in From Hell (the comic), and in that case it and the epilogue are a framing device that takes place after the rest of the story

I’ve never skipped reading a prologue, but my actual opinion is that a huge proportion of them are redundant and should have been cut

My favourite thing about the screenshotted post is that the Gunn Superman movie is all about Clark refusing to be a coloniser the way his parents wanted

"Always shocked how many people want to be New York mayor, a hamburglar-like figure created to absorb public scorn"

I always used to cite this as one of my favourite tweets but Mamdani has ruined it for everyone

Going to be furious if you cut the audience participation section and we never find out if the right side of the audience outsang the left side

Gosford Park (2001)

Gosford World (2015)

Gosford World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

(scrolling Bluesky) I reject the premise. I reject the premise. Granted. I reject the premise. Not my fetish. Granted. I reject the premise. Funny. I reject the premise.

It’s basically the same failed governing strategy, Keir Starmer has his own version of The Baileys that keeps him from doing anything they might think of as ideological

Is The Misheard World published in the USA? There don’t seem to be copies of the hardback in any bookstores and I just noticed that Edelweiss still lists it as Forthcoming

The data centre boom actually just a series of increasingly larger Slan Shacks for Claude to unite into the Cosmic Circle

Suffering from a sad inability to type the words Operation Focus into the wikipedia search box

Twilight, but it’s probably better as a proposal than it would have been as an actual comic

The Larry Sanders Show. Without Larry Sanders there’s no 30 Rock, no The Office or Extras, no The Thick of It or Veep or Curb Your Enthusiasm, I could go on at great length,

Had to get off the JoCo Cruise ship and head straight to the airport but San Diego already No Kings-ing it up. Think it’s going to be a big one, levels of "fuck that guy" reaching unprecedented heights

Last day of school before Principal Ellison takes over vibes

I don’t have strong feelings about the British Royal Family but I do support abolishing the monarchy purely so I can upset Americans by telling them I’m a republican and also a socialist

Axl at the mic

"YOU KNOW YOU’RE A CUTE LITTLE HEARTBREAKER! FOXY!"

He continued to attend life drawing sessions until a couple of years ago, long after his health had deteriorated and he’d fallen irrevocably into the orbit of hospitals and senior care facilities. I’m glad his ordeals are over, but he’ll be missed