poor Fear, his rep never recovered

Starmer’s reaction to the Mandelson scandal has, among other things, given me the distinct impression that he's quite narcissistic. With that in mind, it makes sense that he'd expect complete loyalty from people he's openly throwing under the bus

Or someone else could do a better job over the next three years

"You can't understand our film" is a hell of a weird ad

Going to learn to draw so I can do a Star Trek version of:

Other options are, of course, available

They'll also hit Starmer with net zero (and are).

And in 2015 he wouldn't have been starting with 411 seats and a more divided right-wing opposition w/ the largest party on 251 seats, he _could_ pull it off ("it" being "still is PM in December 2029")

I must sell books to make room for new books that I will later sell to make room for new books that I will later sell to make room for new books that I will later sell to make room for new books that I will later sell to make room for new books that I will later sell to make room for new books that

Ah, that does sound pretty dull, yeah (I'll give we'd usually have "knows how to shoot arrow" but in the same way sports stories have someone good at sports but uh oh, here comes The Other Team who are also good at sports and CHEATING)

One of the things I most resent about this is that I know it to be a deliberate strategy by Netanyahu, he does not want Jewish people to feel safe living outside Israel. And it’s working, global antisemitism is rising. The antisemites are making his point for him.

that feels odd, I'd have thought the idea is that having a game-based plot you HAVE the characters getting agency (winning or losing), even if they don't meant to or are expected to (like in Rollerball where the lead learns the state is very worried how good he's doing)

Among the problems must be that even if everything else went well, the general public haven't heard of Olly Robbins, so why'd they go "ah yes it must've been Robbins"?

I'd really hate to be Belize right now

Happy #MapMonday! It's 1997, and His Imperial and Royal Majesty, Emperor Napoléon VI is dead. His son Prince Charles claims the throne. But so does his grandson Jean-Christophe.

And as Paris slides towards civil war, across the world the other Power Blocs are beginning to stir...

(and employees can't get together and say "the boss sucks, Bob should be the boss" and the boss has to hold a popularity contest to stay boss & if he loses he becomes an employee who can loudly insult Boss Bob in the canteen. But that could happen to Starmer!)

House to Astonish Episode 218 is now live, as @ifdestroyed.bsky.social and I natter about Marvel's layoffs, DNX, Challenges of Doom, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Clayface: Celebrity Dirt and a bunch more, including reviews of Fireborn and Fury of Firestorm! bit.ly/astonish218

His disgruntlement with talking to MPs and solving disputes feels like he's still not realised this isn't like being DPP or other jobs where you have employees who have to do what you say cos you're the boss & hire them, versus Flydale North agreed they could have the job & you might cost them that

The Mandelson fiasco reveals the true nature of Starmerism This is a prime minister who does not understand the difficult trade-offs involved in governing

Keir Starmer famously said there was "no such thing" as Starmerism. He was half-right: there is no such ideology. There is however an approach to managing and running the country that is core to so many of the government's difficulties that we probably should call 'Starmerism'. In tomorrow's paper:

Diverge and Conquer: Volume 1 (Look to the West) Buy Diverge and Conquer: Volume 1 (Look to the West) 2 by Anderson, Tom (ISBN: 9781533404305) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

In this #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #AlternateHistory #books, it's "Diverge and Conquer", the first in the epic #LookToTheWest series by Tom Anderson. #WhatIf King George II had exiled his son Frederick to the #American colonies in 1727? A different world unfolds.. www.amazon.co.uk/Diverge-Conq...

If they mean "people are voting for madness and complete shitheads", well, now is a pretty bad time but the 70s was considered a really grotty time then AND since.

Not the first time a modern cruise ship has graced the cover on an alternate history.

#EventsDearBoy

#90 DEATH METAL (DC, 2020-21)

Check out that cover, pretty sick huh? Now check out that title, what the fuck does that even mean? Thus the great divide of Scott Snyder DC events, a barbed wire leather gauntlet of cool on a fist of the most juiceless continuity shuffling imaginable

not sure about this Feral variant cover

Humanity triumphs!

when the trailer for the last one came out and had a demon saying "we've been waiting so patiently for you", I amused myself by imagining this was about demons going "Hey guess where YOU shitheads are going"

tbc, I dont think you can take InfoWars as a brand, use it as a vehicle for conspiracy and disinfo shaped content, and just say "ok but its a satire site of what it used to do now." Clickhole worked as a satire site bc it wasnt Buzzfeed. You cannot turn Buzzfeed into a parody of Buzzfeed.

The Rogue Trooper Teaser Trailer Is Here! | 2000 AD The first teaser trailer for the forthcoming Rogue Trooper movie was revealed today as part of a Deadline interview with filmmaker Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code, Mute, Warcraft).

The first teaser trailer for Rogue Trooper has landed!

From visionary filmmaker Duncan Jones, Rogue Trooper follows the ‘Genetic Infantryman’ who finds himself the sole-survivor of an invasion force on Nu-Earth. Mission Briefing: bit.ly/4vKLIGI

(same with SFF at a certain budget and that's not new, one of the killers of 1970s tokusatsu films in Japan was that you could see a lot of monster fights for free every week on Ultraman or Kamen Rider)