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Ouch. Difficult to say "Our previous CEO was protecting a sexual predator" more explicitly than this.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
December 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Ouch. Difficult to say "Our previous CEO was protecting a sexual predator" more explicitly than this.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.
December 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.
If you've never heard it, Anthony Joshua's Desert Island Discs is great. At one point Lauren asks him to introduce one of his more obscure artists to the listener, and he takes it literally: "How's it going, listener? I hope you're well..."
Incredible words from real boxer Anthony Joshua after he knocked Jake Paul the fuck out lol
December 20, 2025 at 7:41 AM
If you've never heard it, Anthony Joshua's Desert Island Discs is great. At one point Lauren asks him to introduce one of his more obscure artists to the listener, and he takes it literally: "How's it going, listener? I hope you're well..."
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Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.
Nice thread on possibly my favourite writer.
“In story after story, epicene young men, difficult children, or wild beasts set out to shake up the stifling complacency around them”
@hekale.bsky.social on Saki’s fierce, funny, & wicked fiction
Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – b. 18 Dec
🎂🧵
💙📚
1/8
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4360...
@hekale.bsky.social on Saki’s fierce, funny, & wicked fiction
Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – b. 18 Dec
🎂🧵
💙📚
1/8
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4360...
Untameable Saki
One hundred years after Saki's death in the Great War, his stories are still wickedly funny
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Nice thread on possibly my favourite writer.
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it was probably a mistake teaching him to read
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
it was probably a mistake teaching him to read
This is great, particularly the tapestry centred on Tooting, the world's most important place
Major update to our map of Anglo-Saxon London... we've now added etymologies for each place name, so you can find out what your bit of London used to be called.... and why londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...
Mapping Anglo-Saxon London: A Big Update
A glimpse of London, 1,000 years past.
londonist.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
This is great, particularly the tapestry centred on Tooting, the world's most important place
A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).
December 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Ah yes, the Basic White Woman bag. I saw three of these on the tube into the City this morning
Is Longchamp’s Le Pliage the most popular handbag on the planet? ft.trib.al/YFfQWUV
Is Longchamp’s Le Pliage the most popular handbag on the planet?
Owned and run by the Cassegrain family, Longchamp is flying high after being embraced by Gen Z
ft.trib.al
December 17, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Ah yes, the Basic White Woman bag. I saw three of these on the tube into the City this morning
Some of the "gifts" here are straight-up psychopathic. Like, actually evil. Jeez. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
When Secret Santa goes disastrously wrong: ‘It was the most awful thing – I just wanted to cry’
A game of solitaire accompanied by a nasty note, dog food for someone who just lost a puppy … Secret Santa is supposed to be fun, but when it’s not, it can lead to all kinds of trouble
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Some of the "gifts" here are straight-up psychopathic. Like, actually evil. Jeez. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize
December 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize
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i think we should all commit ourselves to, at minimum, a national 3 day party When It Happens. one bottle of champagne in the back of your closet is no longer adequate. be prepared
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
i think we should all commit ourselves to, at minimum, a national 3 day party When It Happens. one bottle of champagne in the back of your closet is no longer adequate. be prepared
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When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
December 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
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Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
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me when the local pharmacy raises all their prices
September 5, 2023 at 6:47 PM
me when the local pharmacy raises all their prices
As a female of doubtful reputation I resent being lumped in with itinerant musicians
FFS, just go ahead and ban ALL the best people, why don't you.
December 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
As a female of doubtful reputation I resent being lumped in with itinerant musicians
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absolute bargain if any of yous have a use for 7,949,020,598 wasps
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
absolute bargain if any of yous have a use for 7,949,020,598 wasps
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AI tech bros promising to allow you to talk to a digital simulacrum of your dead relatives as a false comfort during your natural process of grief are, I’m afraid, in contravention of the 1736 Witchcraft Act, the 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act, and should be hanged. I don’t make the rules.
December 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
AI tech bros promising to allow you to talk to a digital simulacrum of your dead relatives as a false comfort during your natural process of grief are, I’m afraid, in contravention of the 1736 Witchcraft Act, the 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act, and should be hanged. I don’t make the rules.
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157 years ago, on the 9th of December 1868, the world's first traffic lights were installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. It used semaphore arms during the day and green/red gas lamps at night. It had to be operated by a constable. It exploded on January 2nd 1869. #otd #history 🗃️
December 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Pyruvate
Acetyl-CoA
Citrate
Isocitrate
Alpha-ketoglutarate
Succinyl-CoA
Succinate
Fumarate
Malate
Oxaloacetate
(Of course, my education was largely scientific...)
Acetyl-CoA
Citrate
Isocitrate
Alpha-ketoglutarate
Succinyl-CoA
Succinate
Fumarate
Malate
Oxaloacetate
(Of course, my education was largely scientific...)
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Pyruvate
Acetyl-CoA
Citrate
Isocitrate
Alpha-ketoglutarate
Succinyl-CoA
Succinate
Fumarate
Malate
Oxaloacetate
(Of course, my education was largely scientific...)
Acetyl-CoA
Citrate
Isocitrate
Alpha-ketoglutarate
Succinyl-CoA
Succinate
Fumarate
Malate
Oxaloacetate
(Of course, my education was largely scientific...)
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I am brimming with holiday spirit
December 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I am brimming with holiday spirit
Glory be, this is magnificent.
sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Glory be, this is magnificent.
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It's soup season!
December 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It's soup season!
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’