Tom Wilson

It's incredibly mean, but in a way I actually enjoy.

Having got to the end of Act 2, can now confidently say the Silksong is a masterpiece by the way.

Apparently not!

When we say things could always be worse. They really, really could.

News story screenshot of a data centre fire in South Korea that wiped out 858TB of government data

South Korea really seems intent on putting all other world political domestic crises in perspective.

On the bright side I have a fair few pints to call in

Sunak genuinely likeable in person and don't get the vibe anyone at the end of the day blamed him specifically for the result. Bad opening hands are easier to fuck up with.

(Don't think they were meant to tell me where the request had come from)

They cancelled the moment I said yes!

The moment that confirmed the strategy had worked was when a week before the election, I got contacted by the Country Land and Business Association saying the PM's team had asked them to put on a last min invite-only rural issues hustings between me, him, and the Lib Dem for their members and NFU.

By my count it was ten days!

The flip of this thread's observations is also true; I had almost no internal opposition for that selection as every ambitious Labour type bar yours truly was going for a seat they genuinely thought was winnable given the polling context

Whereas Hollow Knight movement/battles felt like paragliding with sword combat, Silksong feels like dancing with kung fu.

Faro. Airy, quick, and about 50% chance on any given day in Summer that you bump into a member of the England Squad.

The 2010 to 2015 era of Labour Party history looking more dignified and respectable by the hour.

Thankful that there is still such a thing as an audacity too far.

Watched five masked kids try to knick a parked motorbike today while sat outside a bar. One who unlocked it and tried to kick start it crashed it within 10 feet, got leapt on by four blokes, his friends ran, and after demasking it turned out he was about 15 and had *a broken right arm in a cast*.

God knows how these parents would have reacted to Baldur's Gate 3.

So this all got measurably worse overnight. Worst I've ever seen it. Gonna go hike 20 miles and get offline for a bit.

Agreed, and also fairly sure they hand them out to literal bots too now based on some of their replies, which does not help either.

Who is he calling ginger?

Could report homophobic abuse from someone with a swastika in his bio, but he's blue ticked so they clearly have already ruled that's fine already.

Reminded quite acutely today of how much of a complete sewer the other place is.

The Rest is Entertainment is I think the last celebrity/politics adjacent product left that both makes me laugh and where I actually learn things.

Now even Popbitch has become bad, is there a single genuinely good gossip/diary piece published anywhere in the UK?

Cameron and Osborne remain simultaneously the most politically effective government of the Tory era, and by far the most damaging long term.

Only "single moment" answer here is the crash, and refusal to make use of the ultra low borrowing costs to that marked the entire period of austerity to invest.

They don't say this stuff because they are unaware it is not true.

Alcaraz very impressive as always but his head wasn't in it from around the third set.

Watching Sinner v Alcaraz in a lovely open-front pub in Keswick that’s been showing the tennis…

While being serenaded by an enthusiastic but truly awful busker who has, impressively, managed to play Chappell Roan and Nick Cave and make them sound exactly the same.