Can't find the source now, but on Twitter someone memorably summed up Mr Beast with "When I look in the eyes of Mr Beast I find myself believing in the concept of a soul, purely from witnessing its absence"
I'm not sure my French is good enough to understand the full subtleties of Libé's review of the Michael Jackson biopic
I stress constraints more than most and I am still certain that Starmer's operation has made massive, avoidable errors, and that his position has probably been untenable for some time. They have blown a major opportunity. That is on them, and him, and Labour supporters should not be forgiving.
"The FSB, IRGC and other terror organisations are waging a terror campaign against Britain's Jewish population using gullible young people as undetectable proxies" is a national security crisis we are just deciding not to think about
Usually when there’s this much disagreement about whether a strait is open or closed, they’re about six months from getting divorced.
with the caveat that these are preliminary results, suck it Viktor Orban you stupid loser
Politics has unexpectedly hit a special interest of mine so here is a quick rundown on the Avignon Papacy.
I genuinely can't stop thinking about the Iranian kids who spent yesterday wondering if they were all going to die and what that day will do to them for the rest of their lives.
This is very good.
The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back
Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!
Nazis have been listening to it in public in Germany. That says it all. I don’t care how good his back catalogue is (and in 2009 he was probably my favourite artist). He has unleashed something so dangerous and I don’t understand why he’s been given a way back.
A 'Dinosaur Smarties' Easter egg.
Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.
Now that’s what I call Bluesky
Photo from Artemis II with the moon over the Earth, but made to look like a sad clown floating in space.
But Doctor, I am the great planet Pagliacci...
A butthole logo and then Claude
This book is my fiftieth-birthday present to myself. I feel as though I am crossing the spine of a roof-having ascended one slope. I am programmed at fifty to perform childishly—to insult "The Star-Spangled Banner," to scrawl pictures of a Nazi flag and an asshole and a lot of other things with a felt-tipped pen. To give an idea of the maturity of my illustrations for this book, here is my picture of an asshole: * I think I am trying to clear my head of all the junk in there—the assholes, the flags, the underpants. Yes-there is a picture in this book of underpants. I'm throwing out characters from my other books, too. I'm not going to put on any more puppet shows. I think I am trying to make my head as empty as it was when I was born onto this damaged planet fifty years ago.
The Claude logo is just the Kurt Vonnegut butthole doodle
GMBHaar in Vienna is somehow funny to Austrians. GMBH is an LLC. maps.app.goo.gl/8GPPULNHU5Vw...
I was 15 and in London, I just assumed all Americans had names like that.
@actualnames.bsky.social Reminded of the basketball player Randy Duck.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_D...
if this is true, those editors should get a different job
obviously understanding the pressure on productivity/output under capitalism but also. get a different job.
Kanye West being booked to headline Wireless Fest on all three nights feels like a major and utterly grim cultural shift. Ten years ago, a huge artist who recorded and released a tune called “Heil H*tler” would have gone to the wilderness and stayed there. But he has been welcomed back in through the front door. And this is on the heads of the festival organisers, each of whom should be publicly grilled about this choice. Indulgence of anti-Semitism is one of the early warning signs of the return of old horrors, and it doesn’t get more indulgent than this.
As the Green party grows dramatically, it inevitably attracts these types, and they can derail the party. The question of what to do about this becomes urgent.
JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.
They want to police our genitalia and run tests on our bodies to “prove” we are women, at which point they will still deny it. This is why the only feminism is trans-inclusive and why transphobia and anti-trans discrimination should be a top political priority.
if I were having kids take the piss outta me this bad I would simply not admit to it in a national newspaper
The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes.
In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist.
www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...
