Feel like it should be bigger news that the Home Secretary is very publicly losing the plot

Look not everyone has the star power to shack up with Katy Perry

Trouble is we cannot underestimate Starmer, the cabinet and the PLP's ability to find a reason to put off making a decision

steve rogers turns to the camera and says 'and ignore anything you hear about this 'kang' guy, that'll all work itself out'

For all of Starmer’s talk of putting country before party and civic duty etc etc he is pretty straightforwardly doing harm to the country and governance by choosing to prolong the inevitable

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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...

Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...

I do think whenever he resigns Labour is going to get a sizeable boost in the polls

Oh, so its actually difficult to tell the difference between authentic bugshit conspiracy theory content and satirical bugshit conspiracy theory content, especially when theyre both published under the same brand name?

Yeah I actually thought it was an interesting look at an under discussed and unglamorous side of recovery from eating disorders/mental illnesses/addictions - sometimes very close relationships end because the friend through no fault of their own becomes a walking trigger for the person in recovery

Correlation doesn't equal causation, but the fact that all the Gaza fundraiser hacker spam disappeared more or less simultaneously alongside Molly Shah deleting her account sure does raise my eyebrows a bit.

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:

“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

Much like that Civil War movie or the original British version of House of Cards, the Hunger Games is kind of a Rorschach Test in how you view its commentary: “are they meh stories about politics or are they great stories about the media?”

Collins IIRC said that the inspiration for the Hunger Games was “flipping through the channels one night between reality television programs and actual footage of the Iraq War”

Very sharply written column. It remains amazing how much Starmer loves talking about making tough choices and taking responsibility, and how he never, ever *actually* does it.

my edgy Covid take is that I while I did socially isolate until vaccines came online for the good of society, I absolutely loathed being unable to see people in person, throw a party, or travel for over a year, and I enjoyed absolutely nothing whatsoever about any of it

It does not matter if you are engaging in conspiratorial thinking for satire and comedy purposes. You are laying the tracks for conspiratorial thinking and your brain will outsmart you.

Also it would be extremely strange if the movie adaptation of the biggest video game on the planet wasn’t a runaway success

I think Reminders of Him - an adaption of a bestselling drama novel that’s mostly people talking about feelings and devoid of action setpieces - could’ve been considered fairly highbrow stuff 55 years ago

I think that is if anything more likely than the Dem shutout everyone is worried about

The other problem with this is that Infowars is basically beyond parody already, what could you have Not-Infowars say or do that is more ridiculous or beyond the pale than what they have already said and done

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.

Hot take, this is the exact ethos of Alex Jones’s infowars

It is an indictment of the level of attention paid to devolution in Westminster that nobody is noticing the rebirth of a party that junked a clearly incapable leader and replaced him with a former leader not previously regarded as a success and drawing conclusions.

I do think takes like this should look at what was on American television at the time. Due to limited budgets and content restrictions, television just couldn't do mature programing like cinema could. Now it can. That naturally changes what draws at the box office

The most obvious example of this is how Kramer Vs Kramer was the highest grossing film of 1979 and Marriage Story, very overtly the spiritual successor to that, went straight to Netflix without a cinematic release