I started watching The Diplomat and now all I want to do all day is watch The Diplomat

This is an extraordinary article by Katherine Rundell: beautiful, impassioned, and stuffed with joy: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Does Indiana Jones have a To-Derring-Do List?

We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect the climate, by putting an end to new oil and gas projects. Will you join me in signing the petition? www.stopcambo.org.uk/p/no-new-oil...

The world has finally tipped into certain oblivion. The climate is out of control, Trump is about to retake power, and I just heard @kermodemovie.bsky.social name The Substance – dull, embarrassing, one-note tosh – as Film of the Year on @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social All hope is lost

Like so many big-name shows these days, Black Doves started as enjoyably silly and became stupidly, insultingly nonsensical by the end. And took itself wildly too seriously throughout. What’s gone wrong with screenwriting?

Boys don’t have cats, says Amazon

Come on, @theguardian.com, this is embarrassing

Is it me, or is 5G massively crappier than 4G?

What’s that? An entirely unregulated media ecosystem dominated by overconfident and underqualified men gives space and weight to dangerous conspiracy theories, pseudoscience and misinformation? Surely not

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Hearing a lot of revulsion for the Assad’s record of mass murder, torture, disappearances and brutal imprisonments. All of which have obvious parallels with what Netanyahu is doing right now, and which we could do something about. Do we really only condemn once something is safely historical?

It's vanishingly rare to see a brilliant idea, flawlessly executed, year upon year, product after product, with not the slightest drop in craft or ingenuity or care. But this is one. Plus, it's all in a good cause. Happy birthday, Hoxton Street Monster Supplies! And hats off to @wemadethis.co.uk

Followed the footprints leading away from X, going round and round Threads like Pooh after a Heffalump, and eventually found myself here