Ireland now has a Basic Income for the Arts.

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

Can't make this stuff up. 👎🏽

DfE failure to plan for Covid school closures was ‘extraordinary dereliction of duty’, academy head tells inquiry Jon Coles tells of shock at lack of planning by government and says it was ‘perfectly clear’ schools would likely close The leader of one of the largest academy trusts in England has described the Department for Education’s failure to do any planning for school closures before lockdown in March 2020 as “an extraordinary dereliction of duty”. Jon Coles, the chief executive of the United Learning Trust, told the UK Covid-19 inquiry he nearly fell off his chair when he read a statement from the former education secretary Gavin Williamson, in which he said there was zero planning for closures because the priority was keeping schools open. Continue reading...

DfE failure to plan for Covid school closures was ‘extraordinary dereliction of duty’, academy head tells inquiry

Just watched Carnival of Souls (1962) and I feel like I was rooting through a basement and accidentally found the blueprints for David Lynch's entire career

On a backbone trail in Bryce Canyon

One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.
-Omar El Akkad

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The image is an X post by RB (@rbisrb ) from 1 day ago, with the caption "Absolutely..." The post includes a meme featuring a photo of several men in suits, with text overlay stating: "Instead of 'billionaires' can we go back to calling them 'robber barons'?" The individuals in the photo appear to be prominent figures, though they are not specifically identified.

I’m down for this.

Being accountable to an international court means our Government has to answer to them if it tries to undermine your human rights. Be very suspicious of any UK politician who wants to remove that check on their powers.

Share this and speak up for your freedoms.

The Nerve We've got it. Do you?

open.substack.com/pub/broligar... way cool @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

Semper Fi
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The Age of Enshittification In a new book, the technology critic Cory Doctorow expands on a coinage that has become bleakly relevant, in Silicon Valley and beyond.

The Age of Enshittification | The New Yorker buff.ly/ka2W4eg must read book!

A retro-style promotional graphic for a Columbo watch party. The text reads: "COLUMBO watch party – Saturday 11th October ’25 – Now You See Him." A vintage television set on a wood-panelled background displays an image of Columbo holding up a playing card while standing next to a man in a magician’s outfit. At the bottom, the watch times are listed: "2PM (LA / PDT), 5PM (NYC / EDT), 10PM (UK / BST)" and the hashtag "#ColumboTV".

A little over a week until the next #ColumboTV watch party - the penultimate for the time being... and by popular vote we'll be watching Now You See Him!
One of the stonking Jack Cassidy episodes! Join us and find out... will the Great Santini's secrets ever be revealed?!
Save the date: Sat Oct 11th

Some ginger might be a nice addition?

A promotional graphic for a Columbo watch party on Saturday 16th August 2025, featuring the episode Fade In To Murder. The image shows a vintage television set with a still from the episode, where Columbo (Peter Falk) is standing beside a man in a white suit with a red carnation. Columbo is wearing his usual beige raincoat and smoking a cigar. The background appears to be a set or backstage area. Text above the TV reads: “COLUMBO watch party – Saturday 16th August ’25 – Fade In To Murder”. Below the TV, the watch times are listed: “2PM (LA / PDT), 5PM (NYC / EDT), 10PM (UK / BST)”. Hashtag: #ColumboTV. The background is a dark wood panel design.

Get set for another stonking #ColumboTV watch party! 📺
August 16th we'll be watching Fade Into Murder - guest starring William Shatner (and also, briefly, Jaws!)
Hope to see you there! 🙂

“Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.” ~ Eartha Kitt

🎬 Paris Blues [1961]

Stanley Kubrick, Self-Portrait (1949)

Classic comedy hijinks and whatnot…

The same view without correcting Io

When processing images like this from most planetary spacecraft, which take images through multiple filters to be combined into a color image, each world has to be done separately, as they move relative to one another between frames.

Jupiter and Io from Voyager 2

Jupiter and Io from Voyager 2 on June 25, 1979.

Monday

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Also me when someone tells me they don't watch old movies...

*Spencer Tracy in Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

Hip Kitty Jazz & Fondue Lounge
Claremont, California 🐈‍⬛️🎷🫕

Mood: beating the summer heat with Edward G. Robinson in #FilmNoir Key Largo (1948) 📽️
#FIlmSky #MovieSky

Boo Hoo (You've Got Me Crying For You)
Written by Carmen Lombardo, Edward Heyman and John Jacob Loeb
Heard early on and again over the end credits. 😊 #ColumboTV

You can't just put a £ sign and a value, on every aspect of Society and expect to make a few quid from it.

Housing, Comms, Water, Power.

As Margaret Thatcher showed, decades later, it comes back to haunt you.

Like what we're seeing in the UK, now.

Io with two erupting volcanoes.

Io, moon of Jupiter, seen from Voyager 1 on March 5, 1979. The plume of the volcano Loki can be see non the upper left, the plume of Prometheus can be seen on the right. The big, horseshoe-shaped feature to the left of the center of the image is the volcano Pele.

a woman in a white sweater is walking down a street ALT: a woman in a white sweater is walking down a street

Warning - if you see this woman - just keep driving, do not offer her a ride...

#FilmNoir Detour (1945)

Every time this film is on TCM, it is an instant watch. #TCMParty #MemorialDay #TheBestYearsofOurLives