"Bobby and his monocultural dreamcoat" is just *chefs kiss*

#r4today

THIS.

‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins The territory’s ancient heritage has too often been ignored. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present

‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins

A getty image by Mike Powles of a chameleon that is mall enough to sit on someone's thumb, its tail is curling ever so slightly

another getty image, this time by Alexis Rosenfeld, of another stump-tailed chameleon, this one small enough to sit comfortably on the tip of someone's thumb. Its mouth is slightly open, and its little toes are so small it is making me want to die a little bit.

BREAKING: I've just learned that there are teeny-tiny chameleons called stumped-tailed chameleons and they look like this AND I CANNOT HANDLE IT

A coat of arms has to be impressive, full of symbolism, it's important, it represents an powerful family or person, so you have to think long and hard about its design and take it very seriously.

Or just put some underpants on it.
Like Lord Jan van Abbenbroeck did;

Trump Is Worrying About the Afterlife. Thank Heaven. “I want to try and get to heaven, if possible. I’m hearing I’m not doing well.”

"'If he wasn’t heaven-bound, if he wasn’t meant for this purpose, he wouldn’t have beaten Hillary,' said Eric Trump, taking the opportunity to plug his book and bash DEI and Colin Kaepernick." Well *that* settles it! www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-w...

Silly Metro headline: Teacher sacked after telling pupils about lad 'left bleeding from dildo mishap'

Roses are red
Some paper’s foolscap

Two Crooked Streets: A Proposed Genealogy of Noir Poetry Lovers of noir are generally aware that the term was initially applied to the works of a set of US authors and filmmakers in retrospect, from afar, when the French were first granted access to films t...

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I will be as persistent with this as I am for my 3rd breakfast

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The Truth About Empire | Hurst Publishers Foreword by Sathnam Sanghera Selected as a 'Book of the Year' by BBC History Magazine Sharp, authoritative essays on the dark realities of Empire and the true historian’s importance for democracy, a...

The Truth About Empire. Foreword by Sathnam Sanghera, essays by expert colonial historians. BBC History Magazine Book of the Year choice. Now available for pre-order in paperback:

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A small black dog with a red harness, the tip of his tongue sticking out, pushing past one snarly tooth above his grubby white beard. He's sitting on a rock with a bush behind him

Today's sunset is Fergus approved.

a little white dog wearing a brown and orange shirt, tucked into a fuzzy blue and white circular bed and totally snoozing

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I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

Worth your time.

Top 5 Midlands-based crime dramas, chosen by filmmaker and author Nigel Proctor

Gripping crime novels set on the mean streets of the Midlands, selected by filmmaker and author Nigel Proctor.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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

SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

If the Norwegians had a sense of humour, they'd give Obama a second peace prize today.

An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

An English degree might help you to spell ‘Britain’ properly…

The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk

The Geat X-Tinction.

From an in-house chat app to the most dangerous social media site in history.

The magical flight and tragic decline of twitter.

And why I left.

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A brilliant piece.

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

I was too late doing this, but feck me, deleting me Facebook account feels good!

This the kind of message politicians need to send:

When asked about Reform UK's plans to scrap indefinite leave to remain, Wes Streeting answered: "Nigel Farage says go home, I say you're home."

New from @EmpirePodUK

LIKE A WOLF ON THE FOLD-
THE ASSYRIAN WAR MACHINE COMES TO GAZA
With Professor Jo Quinn

Our 12-hour-long deep dive into History of Gaza is already our most popular series ever- people are super hungry to understand all the nuances of this contested past

Sadiq Khan bringing Sharia Law to London like

Here are two minutes of lowlights from Trump’s rambling, hour-long address to the UN General Assembly that Twitter is calling one of the most embarrassing moments in recent US history.

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"The Palestinians have cages on their windows because they're under constant attack."

From the new 'We're Not Kidding', Irish actor Denise Gough tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social what she witnessed during her recent trip to Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

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