incredible for me to be saying this out loud but i think i have to vote lib dem in scotland. actually can't believe it

having a dog 💪💪💪🥰

yeah I really rate this one - some terrific action beats in it for my money. Interested to see what the director does when he moves outside the MK space

loved this article - i quibble with some of the choices but it really is clearly the product of a lifetime of dedication to shakespearean theatregoing. And nice that H6 got quite high

I love in Speed Racer the villain is Elon Musk, presages pop culture’s infatuation with Kpop, Christina Ricci & Rain do drag, the aesthetic shock of its hyperpop compositing transitions & flares unmatched but I see its influence everywhere even animation. And it’s so camp funny YET lovingly sincere.

he is doing Lear in London next year - have been waiting this for a solid decade (since he did a speech from it for a guardian promo)

Victim of rape in Belfast park receives sick threat from man using AI bot Grok to create disturbing plot Dr Winnie M Li said: “I hike in a different place every year, but it is still terrifying that men are plotting rape openly on social media”

Why is the Northern Ireland Justice Minister still positing away on Twitter?

'One man asked Grok where she was walking so they could show up next year and rape her. The chatbot replied with a location and a possible date and time.'

Honestly this is just great news

Would legit use this to wallpaper my bedroom

Peter ate with this lede

i feel like a challenge for whoever replaces starmer when he goes is that, in addition to inheriting an abysmal legacy domestically and a geopolitical nightmare, you do also have to fix the culture of the labour party, and take on a faction that have proved brutally effective as wreckers

was thinking back to haigh today too. incredible to think of the gap between what's tolerated if youre on the labour right vs anyone else.

So odd that starmer's become the frontman for factionalism that feels almost unprecedentedly egregious

there's also the element that starmer has consistently set the threshold for action very low. RLB being very humiliatingly sacked for RTing an interview with Maxine Peake.

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

i have come out of it really itching to see it again. think it'll def be very different on a second watch. And so many beautiful images. Really impressed

would say i think this is a mistake rather than hate speech.

but if starmer is minded to keep the pretense up that sacking RLB was an act of antiracist principle rather than cover for factionalist advantage then SM has to be fired. and then subject to a round of humiliating, gleeful anon briefing

delighted by mark jenkins's rose of nevada - i think his best film and not even that close

Not to be a broken record, but why on earth is Ed Balls there interviewing his wife's work colleagues about a scandal involving the government department she currently runs?

like fundamentally i dont dispute that his campaign was a lie. just think it is helpful to more fully understand him that he was probably a mark to some degree initially. and i think that he realised it and decided to join in. honestly think if he was a true believer itd be less of a blind spot

there's other stuff i'd put in this category - i remember someone like andrew fisher was interviewed and shortlisted for party chair early on. Not something that would have happened after may '21

maybe the real story of his decision to stay after hartlepool is that he didn't initially fully understand or want to accept the con. And his decision to press on also meant fully embracing it

one of my unresolved starmer mysteries is squaring *literally everything else* with his initial decision to build his cabinet around anneliese dodds and nick thomas-symonds

A Perfectly Legal DadSwap | SNL UK YouTube video by Saturday Night Live UK

working on a theory that the exact moment anything from SNL UK gets good is when you go "Well, this wouldn't be on SNL in America". in this case that moment is 1:16 youtube.com/shorts/rboHL...

i only play 1-3ish games a year but when i do i tend to go HAM

not a step i have ever needed to take but found Hades II gameplay so compelling that on reaching end credits ive just uninstalled it. i need to read books and stuff

You can actually see the moment Ed Miliband thinks, what's the point burning through whatever political credibility I've got left energetically defending a man who's going to be gone in a matter of weeks.

and the robbins stuff has emphasised that even more - this will only make sense to ppl who have read the biog but try squaring the opportunism KS routinely displays, which perhaps reached its apotheosis here, with the portrait TB sketches

this may sound a little silly but during the GE i read tom baldwin's book on starmer, to learn more about him and to try and reset my understanding after the bagging of ten+ years as a labour member. And fundamentally my takeaway from the book is that the man baldwin describes just does not exist

yes i was thinking this - going too hard risks upsetting a hugely successful policy. youre just making it cool again (and also making it more likely ppl buy dodgy product on the black market)

sad to say all this could have been avoided had morgan mcsweeney sought therapy