John Casablancas is Don Trump Jr's father

It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

A button with the face of Richard Nixon. It reads "He's tanned rested and ready! Nixon in '88"

Going to make one with Ed Miliband for the lulz

Was it Business Secrets of the Pharaohs

The obvious AI tell in upper left is the lack of grocer's apostrophe

At 18 hours I think this would be good value for festivalgoers' money

If I ever play Coachella I'm just putting Ken Burns's Vietnam War on the Jumbotron and calling it a day

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Cartoon image of a chef cutting Shawarma with the words“unknown pleasures” underneath

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

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N from my books and I pitched a "contractors to crew" variant - take some brickies and launch them at Henley Royal Regatta - but we needed a year and he intended to win.

Ah yes "showgirl to showjumper" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Pretty sure there was a horse episode

There was a show in the UK called Faking It, amateurs got a month of expert coaching to try to pass as a hairdresser/street artist/whatever (most could not)

Illustrative to see people who think First They Came For is just starting now, as opposed to has been going on for over a decade

"Amateurs talk tactics, professionals study logistics." --Probably some woke AF ivory tower academic who should definitely never teach our officer class

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Kind of dependent on mission and scale. By Nelson's time pretty much all of the food was arranged by the board of victualling. But a bit earlier you get Cook and his people catching and eating sea turtles &c on voyages of indeterminate length. (There's a really good book on this)

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A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

What is convenient about needing 2 factor authentication to my mobile phone in order to listen to a piece of music I already paid for

Your kids have to buy their own art supplies for school because the White House is sending $20 billion to pay Iran to not enrich uranium, after previously canceling the agreement where Iran wouldn't enrich uranium.

Best thread I’ve read on this - read til the end.

Anne Boleyn ain't die for this shit

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Lol

Anne Boleyn ain't die for this shit

I know it’s just the platform being janky but the idea of a social media network that fires “rate limit exceeded” errors after showing me less than 30 posts might be considered a feature and not a bug

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Poor Sleep Linked to Gong? Percussion Experts Say Not So Fast