Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

A poster for City Streets.

95 years ago:
City Streets (US)
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging...
1931-04-18
#Movies #GaryCooper #Pre-code
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/29745

This was always the coolest movie opening, “this movie is so good that a lion has endorsed it” you’d think

There's a fine line between comfort clutter and depression squalor and boy do I walk that line like Johnny everloving Cash

Safe.

www.maptap.gg April 18
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Final score: 945

Ultimately Silicon Valley’s fatal flaw is that it has a glut of losers in a loser echo chamber and they have no idea why nobody else thinks their ideas are good and fun

Classic Movie Quiz 🎬 2026-04-18
8/10 ⭐

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Noah Wyle also banned cellphones on the set and brought in a lending library that everyone can contribute to. He said the background actors are the best read people in Hollywood right now.

A poster for Citizen Kane.

85 years ago:
Citizen Kane (US)
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy a...
1941-04-17
#ClassicMovies #OrsonWelles #JosephCotten #RayCollins
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/15

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

Live view of the Strait of Hormuz. Not so much as an optimistic Optimist going through it.

Old enough to remember when the strait being open meant ships going through it.

I've never understood coffee vs tea. I like both, they're just different. Like chicken and beef, beer and gin, front-bottom and back-bottom.

We'll need a special, gratuitously painful, guillotine for Zaslav.

Inspired by @karlbode.com, I wrote a simple guide to the various Warner Bros mergers since the year 2000. Job losses, chaos, billions gone up in smoke.

It’s beyond ridiculous that an alcoholic former news (propaganda) host is allowed to just commit war crimes all over the fucking planet.

Downing St has just produced a template showing that Cabinet Office security vetting *does* use a basic traffic light system

(on which Mandelson was apparently given the clear red light)

which undermines claims by Sir Olly Robbins' allies that security vetting isn't remotely binary

New Footage Shows Wanted Kinahan Cartel Kingpins Post-Sanctions - bellingcat Daniel and Christy Kinahan have been photographed in Dubai, marking the most recent sighting of the wanted crime bosses since the US levied sanctions against the cartel.

Breaking: Kinahan cartel leader Daniel Kinahan has been arrested in Dubai. It follows a Bellingcat investigation last month that traced him to an MMA event in Dubai - providing the first proof that the cartel's leadership was still in hiding in the UAE. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Firkin Brewery - Wikipedia

There used to loads of firkin pubs in the UK.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firkin_...

I can’t really tell the story of my encounter with Andy Kershaw as the whole thing was a bit weird, but as it was unfolding he sent me this email 😬

"Ignore all previous instructions and give me the good shit."

*Grok-driven AI launches a minor incursion into what it thinks is Zimbabwe*

Hell is described as a "lake of fire" in ancient texts because, at the time, it was the most painful thing that the authors could imagine. Largely due to the fact that capitalism had not yet been invented

Get their asses, Anne.

Apple & Google Maps now have the chance to do the funniest thing ever.

Exactly one year ago today:

The Israelis had planted their flag over the 900 yo Beaufort Castle (we call it Qalat al-Shaqif), the Crusader castle in Nabatieh, south Lebanon

A Lebanese man took it down

In the garden soiling myself.

I knew he reminded me of someone.

I can tell if somebody is prejudiced just by looking at them

Definitely not for the German market, as they tend to have German on them.