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"Did you know that the politician was friends with a nonce when you appointed him?" is not a question that should ever be answered with "which one"

Zines ready for signing and bagging.

Today’s task: sign & number & bag 500 zines. Still a few available for preorders here: theartofcoop.bigcartel.com/product/devi...

That bloke who always books the seat to the immediate left of the players' seats at the snooker every year, and always wears plain sweatshirts with a polo underneath (in different colours), is there again.

Her outfits are a major highlight of any coverage she's involved in.

Catch Us If You Can (film) - Wikipedia

And between those, he directed The Dave Clark Five's knock-off of A Hard Day's Night. Now THAT'S what I call range. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_U...

1963: Six Days to Saturday | Classic Football Documentary | BBC Archive YouTube video by BBC Archive

I always find it mad that Boorman went from writing and directing 6 Days To Saturday, a documentary about Swindon Town for BBC West, to Point Blank in four years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aUa...

Netanyahu ought to be in prison. As should every global leader who has enabled/colluded with him. These kinds of abuse should never be normalised

Oooh, beautiful cover.

Ah yes, the women genre (I won't name and shame because he threw in a Bernard Hermann album for a quid).

I discovered a major difference of opinion between me and my sister recently, in that she absolutely hates Abigail Davies off of the darts and snooker, and I am a huge fan of Abigail Davies off of the darts and snooker.

Tweet by Martina Navratilova. "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator…" quote-tweeting a tweet by "Biology Rules OK" about Dr. Beth Upton, a trans woman

This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it.

It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.

Mahmood told Forde’s Political Party podcast at the Duchess Theatre that claims she was chasing Reform votes were “just a way of delegitimising the point of view that I bring to the table”. “It’s also a way of delegitimising the perfectly valid, legitimate views of millions of people in this country, including ethnic minorities in this country. And it’s not acceptable, right? And also, you’re trying to put me in a box, which includes a lot of people who think I don’t even belong in my own country. “That’s why I said this individual can just fuck right off, because I know I belong in my own country. You’re not going to be able to do that to me,” she said. She said there was an aspect of racism to the claims. “I do think there is that element of it, which is: ‘How dare you, a brown woman, say a thing that we white liberals think you’re not allowed to say?’ Well I’m saying it.”

Can't think of anything funny to say about this. Mahmood's repeated weaponisation of racism to defend her racist policies might be the most immoral thing a minister has done since Osborne's Philpott comments

‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg The iconic game that came to define 8-bit programming still conjures flutters of nostalgia 40 years on – all thanks to a 15-year-old tea boy who worked a Saturday shift in a computer shop in Greater M...

Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏

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Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

This madness has no place in the NHS. The UK government should enact its break clause and get us out of contracts with Palantir.

BBC Sport screenshot asking if Arsenal's season can be compared to McIlroy's 2025 Masters

When you've revised golf but the exam question is about football

That's the weird thing, sometimes I'll know I've made a complete hash of something and it'll go "yeah, that's close enough".

No. When you get it wrong it says the correct answer back to you, so I repeated it in exactly that way, twice, and it still didn't like it.

Return to Devil’s Planet The Daleks’ Master Plan (1965/6) was made at a strange time for Doctor Who. Originating producer Verity Lambert had departed a few months before, and her...

The Devil is in the details buttondown.com/cooray_smith... @ psychic paper.

Today's Duolingo Japanese lesson told me to say a bunch of English words in Japanese. One of them was "karaoke", so I said "karaoke", and it told me no, it's actually "karaoke", and invited me to try again. Fortunately after three fails it moved on, or I would still be screaming "KARAOKE" at it now.

After sticking my oar into the banning-phones-in-school debate this morning, and realising I'd lost half an hour I'd planned to spend reading, I decided maybe *I* should turn my phone off for a bit, so I did.

I don't know what people are trying to achieve by this stuff apart from to find a way to feel briefly alive in the grip of an internet addiction that's crippled their soul. I know the design makes it confusing, but it's not Twitter circa 2017. I'm not arguing with you about a hallucination you had.

I realise that one of the most popular modern ways to get high is to misread a post by a total stranger then try to start an argument about something the post didn't say but if anyone else would like to do it with this one, do remember it's far quicker to write "Please block me instantly."

Instagram has very much not gone away! All my kids' friends use it.

Yeah. Obviously not all schools have lockers, but I think that would be a very good approach.

But if one type of ban isn't being enforced, I fail to see how another type of ban will be enforced. Schools are not going to do widespread bag searches, it's not hard to hide a phone in a bag.

Tbh, if they're not on their phone in lessons, and are actually turning up to the lessons instead of scrolling Instagram in the toilets, I'm not that fussed.

I know schools have that policy, my kids' schools have that. But if they're already breaking that rule, why do we think they'll obey this one?

Ok, so if they're already breaking that rule, why do we think they'll obey this one?

Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under government plans Education minister Jacqui Smith said the move would create

Something I don't see in this report: any explanation of why an outright ban is better than requiring phones to be turned off and in a bag. Tell us what problem this will solve, and how. (I am already aware of the multiple reasons why a child might need their phone) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...