“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

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Diane Keaton by Annie Leibovitz, 1986

How can Diane Keaton be over? It's an absurd proposition. I reject it

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Pray for Dolly

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

“Technically it wasn’t fascism, son. Definitions were very important…”

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

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Here’s Kaleb Horton on John Prine.

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Is the error that he’s not a terrorist?

Bring me sunshine…

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I quite like immigration.

"Up to 60 ‘ambiguous’ athletes in female finals" [Times]

"Just protecting women"

The sheer half-arsedness of the flag-shaggery is so completely appropriate and the most fantastic satirical metaphor. We are PATRIOTS and our country is FANTASTIC but we can't be ARSED painting this roundabout any better than THIS.

friday night hot take: channing tatum tap number should be just as popular as tom holland umbrella dance

I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.

In London, hate will never win.

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards."

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I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

Checks out

So is this actually an offence, or is this just keeping people (presumably Donkeys) out of the way to avoid further embarrassment?

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