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Artist: Dennis Goris

How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...

FAO people in Scotland: If you have a recent election leaflet from the Scottish Family Party, I'd love to see a photo please for a story I'm working on. Also keen to chat if you know much about them and their funding/connections etc! DM me or email in bio

It is an excellent question that should be asked of Trump and every Republican.

Duel is always the obvious answer, and I'd have to argue for it. However, I think there's almost as strong an argument to be made for The Night Stalker, which was such a radical updating of the vampire movie.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

RAISE YOUR SONS.

Take half the effort you spend accusing girls of being temptresses and women of being golddiggers and make sure your sons aren’t becoming murderers.

A still from the 2002 movie SOLARIS. George Clooney sits in a spacecraft with the lights of its control panels reflecting on the helmet of his spacesuit. Because he is in space, doing space shit.

I will personally give $5 to every journalist interviewing Soderbergh for THE CHRISTOPHERS who asks him where the fuck my SOLARIS Blu-ray is at.

They dressed like a bear and damaged a Rolls-Royce in an audacious insurance scheme A fraud scheme involving wearing bear costumes across Southern California has ended in jail time for three people, according to authorities.

What about their Second Amendment rights? www.latimes.com/california/s...

Prone to reductive misunderstandings of other cultures and nations.

I had forgotten Pen Densham co-wrote that though now that I think about it that all tracks.

Yes. Jones' accent is quite something too. For someone who claims not to sanction buffoonery I'd sure love know how he justified any of those choices.

If you were to remake this now, the accent issue wouldn't arise, there's absolutely no shortage of very famous Irish actors with movie star chops.

I didn't manage to see it in a cinema in Ireland when it came out but even the Scottish audience I caught it with found the opening prison break sequence deeply hilarious.

Easily the silliest Troubles-inspired Hollywood film.

Anyone working in history of comedy/satire, television, modern British politics - there's a fully funded PhD to research the Spitting Image archive @theul.bsky.social, with supervision at Exeter Uni. All disciplines considered, pls do share widely.
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South Armagh photo. Quote: "The only thing that's growing in many rural communities…are the graveyards." jim lennon, caledon. we need to change the conversation on migration, as spain did.

We need to change the conversation on migration.

A BBC feature heard from Jim Lennon a chair of the board of governors at St Joseph's Primary in Caledon, which is earmarked for closure in 2027.

His assessment: "The only thing that's growing in many rural communities…are the graveyards." [1/n]

Yes, Muntz is a fascinating figure and I have always assumed his name inspired his almost namesake in Barton Fink. If the Coens ever delve into straigyt bio-pics, Muntz would be a great subject.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Today marks 7 years since Lyra was killed and I’ve been thinking about her today. I think about her often. She was someone who made every life she entered better.

Closed at weekends? What is this a theocratic authoritarian state or something?

Yes, but it ain't 90s and thus doesn't get to be VertigoCore. There is another obvious UK TV contender here, Neverwhere, but let's just pretend its creator doesn't exist...

Vertigocore is SUCH a great label. I think two TV series would also be a good fit for this. The second season of Millennium, with its deeper emphasis on demons and weird theology and the short-lived UK vampire series Ultraviolet from the same era both feel similarly Vertigocore.

Yes, it was such a delightful surprise. I watched it purely because it has a screenplay by Freeway writer/director Matthew Bright, and it has a good deal of his trademark dark wit and subversion.

Just noting that the wild popularity of The Pitt, Project Hail Mary, and Artemis 2 are all signs of a culture that's overwhelmed by anti-science quackery, ignorant influencers, AI-pilled slop, and decreasing literacy, clearly starving for examples of expertise, knowledge, and expert leadership.

Sarah Moss: The unshed tears of men with big trucks are costly indeed How different would Ireland have been this last century if the tears of women were a national emergency?

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Tweet by director Joseph Kahn: The solution to the theatrical problem is very simple. Extend the time before it goes to streaming. Make it 180 days. 6 months. If you don't watch it in theaters you won't get to see it for a long time. Studios have devalued their product by letting the consumer know there's no urgency. They're going to see it for "free" later. They've cheapened the business into a buffet and violated basic supply and demand.

plainly true

Reese Witherspoon Doubles Down on Telling Women to Learn AI: Jobs We Hold Are ‘Three Times More Likely to Be Automated By AI’ Reese Witherspoon is again advising her followers that there's no time like the present to start learning about and using artificial intelligence.

Vanessa Lutz would have absolutely none of this nonsense.

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Battleship Potemkin would be a bold choice for movie night I think.

Netflix and Sony Set to Follow KPop Demon Hunters Success With Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory, a New Animated Movie Starring Taika Waititi as Willy Wonka Netflix and Sony Pictures have announced Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory, a new take on the classic children's story set to release in 2027.

Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of IP exploitation...

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I am so sorry for your loss. Such a beautiful cat, and I'm glad she found such a warm and loving home.