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Think you can understand a lot about British politics from the ONS survey reporting that 56% of people said they voted in the last local elections, when turnout in those elections was about 36%.
December 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Think you can understand a lot about British politics from the ONS survey reporting that 56% of people said they voted in the last local elections, when turnout in those elections was about 36%.
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The Goodies - The Goodies Rule O.K? (21st December 1975). The trio fall foul of the puppet government ....
December 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The Goodies - The Goodies Rule O.K? (21st December 1975). The trio fall foul of the puppet government ....
I’ve got a bad feeling about this
December 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I’ve got a bad feeling about this
Just watched All That Jazz for the first time. Not what I was expecting! Reminded me of the hallucinatory flow of Alisdair Gray’s Lanark, Iain Bank’s The Bridge, LOST with a little Rocky Horror. And Andy Diagram’s trumpet lines from The Girl at Thhe End Of The World. What a piece of work.
December 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Just watched All That Jazz for the first time. Not what I was expecting! Reminded me of the hallucinatory flow of Alisdair Gray’s Lanark, Iain Bank’s The Bridge, LOST with a little Rocky Horror. And Andy Diagram’s trumpet lines from The Girl at Thhe End Of The World. What a piece of work.
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In Bruges? Great Christmas film
December 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
In Bruges? Great Christmas film
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Because our politics is in such a terrible place, I think we downplay quite how awful Kemi Badenoch has been.
In any other era the leader of the Conservatives saying 'only migrants commit sex crimes - mass deportations now' would have not just been career ending but would've sunk the whole party
In any other era the leader of the Conservatives saying 'only migrants commit sex crimes - mass deportations now' would have not just been career ending but would've sunk the whole party
December 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Because our politics is in such a terrible place, I think we downplay quite how awful Kemi Badenoch has been.
In any other era the leader of the Conservatives saying 'only migrants commit sex crimes - mass deportations now' would have not just been career ending but would've sunk the whole party
In any other era the leader of the Conservatives saying 'only migrants commit sex crimes - mass deportations now' would have not just been career ending but would've sunk the whole party
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If you needed a better example of the way politicians use and discard young teenage girls, this is it. The stats are there if you’d care to view them, Kemi
December 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
If you needed a better example of the way politicians use and discard young teenage girls, this is it. The stats are there if you’d care to view them, Kemi
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Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
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Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.
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Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot
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I heard there was a secret meat
With paprika, and spicy heat
But you don't really care for sausage
Nduja
...sorry, I can delete this. I've just seen a few posts in this format and I wanted in.
With paprika, and spicy heat
But you don't really care for sausage
Nduja
...sorry, I can delete this. I've just seen a few posts in this format and I wanted in.
December 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I heard there was a secret meat
With paprika, and spicy heat
But you don't really care for sausage
Nduja
...sorry, I can delete this. I've just seen a few posts in this format and I wanted in.
With paprika, and spicy heat
But you don't really care for sausage
Nduja
...sorry, I can delete this. I've just seen a few posts in this format and I wanted in.
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Before Google was founded in 1998, Altavista ruled the world of internet search engines.
On December 15, 1995, a team of researchers led by Louise Monier and Michael Burrows created the AltaVista search engine.
#InternetHistory
On December 15, 1995, a team of researchers led by Louise Monier and Michael Burrows created the AltaVista search engine.
#InternetHistory
December 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Before Google was founded in 1998, Altavista ruled the world of internet search engines.
On December 15, 1995, a team of researchers led by Louise Monier and Michael Burrows created the AltaVista search engine.
#InternetHistory
On December 15, 1995, a team of researchers led by Louise Monier and Michael Burrows created the AltaVista search engine.
#InternetHistory
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I hereby state - as a license-fee payer - that no part of the sum I pay shall be used by the BBC to fund what is effectively is a shakedown by the worst person in the world.
I'd rather it was spent on something more worthy, like Cash In The Attic.
I'd rather it was spent on something more worthy, like Cash In The Attic.
Rather than suffer any reputational damage, surely the BBC going to court with Donald Trump can only enhance its reputation?
December 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
I hereby state - as a license-fee payer - that no part of the sum I pay shall be used by the BBC to fund what is effectively is a shakedown by the worst person in the world.
I'd rather it was spent on something more worthy, like Cash In The Attic.
I'd rather it was spent on something more worthy, like Cash In The Attic.
The Shatner/Folds cover is supreme. I’ve always said this.
William Shatner's "Common People", a spoken word cover of Pulp's 1995 hit, is the greatest cover version ever made. Secondly, and rather hilariously, it actually reached number 1 on the UK singles chart in late 2004, while Pulp's original could only manage number 2 in 1995.
December 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The Shatner/Folds cover is supreme. I’ve always said this.
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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The Exorcist. A first date.
Partway through she leaned against me, I put my hand on her arm, it was cold & clammy. Turned to look, she was deathly pale, head flopping, eyes rolled back, started moaning.
Oh shit.
Eventually she came round, she’d fainted at medical stuff.
So was there a second date?…
Partway through she leaned against me, I put my hand on her arm, it was cold & clammy. Turned to look, she was deathly pale, head flopping, eyes rolled back, started moaning.
Oh shit.
Eventually she came round, she’d fainted at medical stuff.
So was there a second date?…
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The Exorcist. A first date.
Partway through she leaned against me, I put my hand on her arm, it was cold & clammy. Turned to look, she was deathly pale, head flopping, eyes rolled back, started moaning.
Oh shit.
Eventually she came round, she’d fainted at medical stuff.
So was there a second date?…
Partway through she leaned against me, I put my hand on her arm, it was cold & clammy. Turned to look, she was deathly pale, head flopping, eyes rolled back, started moaning.
Oh shit.
Eventually she came round, she’d fainted at medical stuff.
So was there a second date?…
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For the record, Robin Ince is a superb comedian, an absolute mensch, a remarkable thinker and the kindest human you’ll ever meet. And the BBC is a genuinely great and globally unique institution that needs to stop being afraid. I think that’s where most of its faults and issues stem from.
December 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
For the record, Robin Ince is a superb comedian, an absolute mensch, a remarkable thinker and the kindest human you’ll ever meet. And the BBC is a genuinely great and globally unique institution that needs to stop being afraid. I think that’s where most of its faults and issues stem from.
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This is only the beginning.
First (official) climate migrants arrive in Australia from sinking Tuvalu in South Pacific.
First climate migrants arrive in Australia from sinking Tuvalu in South Pacific
The first climate migrants to leave the remote Pacific island nation of Tuvalu have arrived in Australia, hoping to preserve links to their sinking island home, foreign affairs officials said on Thurs...
www.reuters.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is only the beginning.
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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AI companies: We can't have 50 state AI laws. There has to be just one rulebook for AI
EU: Here you go
AI companies: not like that
EU: Here you go
AI companies: not like that
December 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
AI companies: We can't have 50 state AI laws. There has to be just one rulebook for AI
EU: Here you go
AI companies: not like that
EU: Here you go
AI companies: not like that
Today the government said it would take 5 years to halve homelessness. Why?
Nothing has radicalised me more than seeing how the government completely elimimated homelessness during the pandemic and yet after it was done we were right back to pretending it was impossible.
December 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Today the government said it would take 5 years to halve homelessness. Why?
We’ve all done it
Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems | Discussion
Exclusive: Home Depot exposed access to internal systems for a year, says researcher
A security researcher tried to alert Home Depot to the security lapse exposing its back-end GitHub source code repos and other internal cloud systems, but was ignored.
techcrunch.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
We’ve all done it
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.