You'd cry 'Some woman's perfectly straightened and shiny hair
Has maddened every mother's son':

Never mind

Screenshot from Mastodon, white text on black background: Erik Uden @ErikUden@mastodon.de Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital "library". Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.

A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information

If I say, "The cool S you used to draw at school" do you know what I mean? And are you in the uk or elsewhere?

All those "show us what you looked like ten years ago" or "show your green art/animal art/art of women" memes are being used to train AI

Spaceballs: The New One YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios

Rick Moranis coming out of retirement to make Spaceballs 2 should be bigger news than it is imo

muppet fozzie bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a hat and tie . ALT: muppet fozzie bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a hat and tie .

Very happy that no one has spoiled the new Mummy yet.

Delighted they're managing to keep it under wraps

Wanted to show you this post in English because it’s so good and we truly are a global village

two tips!

1. You can't make a sandcastle without first making a big pile of sand. tell yourself you're just shovelling sand and let it be a bit shit first

2. set a timer for 10 or even 5 minutes and just write placeholder nonsense. things like "character says stuff in reply". super basic

I didn't think Flann would be on it! Wasn't he a Tyrone man originally?

ROBOCOP has the best multi-tier group of villains in a single movie: a cold-blooded crime boss and his street-level thugs, slimy mid-level corporate yuppies, their corrupt, power-hungry Senior Vice President, and a malfunctioning enforcement droid designed for "urban pacification."

Absolutely brutal line

www.politico.eu/article/keir...

"It ended, as magic duels often do, with someone being kicked down a flight of stairs."
www.mentalfloss.com/literature/a...

Although the #1926census blew up my laptop 😱 it’s been a fascinating dive into an early year of the Irish State,only 4 years after a bitter civil war. So far a number of anti-treaty Cumann na mBan signed in Irish - haven’t looked at the pro-treatyites yet but could be interesting - an article maybe?

A lot of sneezers and runny noses on the bus this morning. If I get sick I shall blame them.

Wow.

In 1926 there were 9 people (including a lodger) living in what is my house.

There are 2 bedrooms....and at the time there was only one outdoor toilet.

Yeah it's kind of depressing it just got pulled into the 'this is just incels whining" discourse - especially in this country, given that we have a well-evidenced problematic-to-severe problem with social isolation

That's definitely an issue. The jobs of partner and friend are similar in some respects, but still different enough to require more than one person.

A person can have sex and still be lonely, like.

The rebuttal to "that is a face that has never seen an iPhone." She looks like anybody I could encounter at the bookstore or yarn shop right now. Such a wonderful photo from 100 years ago.

I thought the male loneliness epidemic was about male friendships not surviving life events (marriage, kids, moving house etc) and entirely separate to the vicious cycle of "not getting the ride making it harder to get the ride"?

Down and Out in Beverly Hills also came earlier (1986).

key difference there was that the govt was pushing for previously unaffordable things to be more widely available, breaking down the "digital divide", whereas now with AI we all already have access to the tech despite the fact we didn't actually need or want it

It's later but also: Taxi

Les Fugitifs, starring the same duo as the Comdads, was remade as Three Fugitives. We watched that one too!

We were spared a remake of the Fabulous Life of Amelia Foal and I for one am thankful

Some of the best were adaptations of Francis Veber. I think The Man With One Red Shoe in 1985 may have been the first, but I’m not sure it was a big hit.

I remember Green Card, 3M+B, Mrs Doubtfire, Birdcage, My Father The Hero... but I think there were others?

There was one with Depardieu called The Comdads that was earlier I think; I only remember because we watched it in French class and my teacher was very excited that it was being remade by Hollywood.