James Crossland

‘A collective anxiety attack’: the psychology of unexplained drone sightings across Europe Incursions have so far caused few physical effects but experts say such incidents can leave people feeling more vulnerable

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The damage isn't just physical.

When musicians don’t know how to end a song, they just fade out. I think other writers should do that too. Sketch comedy, screenwriting, playwrights. Have everyone talk softer and softer as they slowly sneak off stage.
Novelists can end chapters with gradually shrinking type.

The best thing Conservatives could do - whatever they think of Margaret Thatcher - is to face up to the challenges of their own times, rather than trying to cosplay a leader who was formed in the 1930s and 40s, who took power half a century ago & who governed for the challenges of her day, not ours.

Quite apart form anything else, the sheer amateur hour of this is astonishing. These are just guys in masks. No training. No procedure. No clue.

Aaand that's enough internet for today.

Why I welcome Americanisation. Sorry, Americanization News of the British Museum’s fundraising gala smacks of the sort of imitation and assimilation we’re good at

Oh God, not this again. The use of -ize rather than -ise does not mark a US/British English divide. Standard Oxford is -ize for example. There's a whole Inspector Morse episode about this. Expected better from the FT

Quietly confident that this will be fantastic

Sick and tired of people wanting to defend “western civilisation” especially when they are also attacking arts and humanities in the universities.

The cowbell and drums animations are unforgivablely out of time with the beat.

Given recent events, that is the only thing I find jarring about this video.

The renaissance of the jello dessert is yet another sign that our culture is in a seriously bad place

"Blood on their consciences"?

Even the Mail's hyperbole is badly written.
#news

Pete Davidson just became the only victim of 9/11 to get reparations from the Saudi regime.

Asahi beers tapping out in Japan as cyberattack shutdown lingers Japanese restaurants, bars and stores are running low on beer and other beverages from industry leader Asahi Group as the impact from a cyberattack entered a fifth day on Friday, with no resolution in sight.

Meanwhile, in beer news
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Thank you to the creator of the quesadilla. Thank you for inventing a perfect food

The cheery jingle theme at the start is now in my head and will remain there for at least the next 72 hours

Stunning 12,000-Year-Old Rock Art Emerges in Saudi Arabia

Donkeys and camels, life size! Rock art in Saudi Arabia from around 12,000 years go: "They are the oldest large-scale naturalistic animal art ever found in the Middle East and are among the oldest in the world." #art #rockart #anthropology #archaeology

Might be wise to do a wee bit of reading up on the actual history of technology.

Brewing Controversy: How Coffee Sparked Fierce Debate in the 16th-Century - Medievalists.net A bitter new drink swept through the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in the early 1500s – and ignited one of the fiercest religious debates of the late-medieval Islamic world.

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💯 with a bullet

The current administration is a 1980s "America, fuck yeah" cosplay cult that is utterly divorced from the realities of the 21st century.

In Nineteen Eighty Four all art for the "proles" is created without human intervention at all because they just feed a set number of scenarios and words into fiction machines and songwriting machines, which then create them and disperse them widely to keep the proles happy and FOR FUCK'S SAKE ORWELL

Generals silent as Hegseth ends ‘warrior ethos’ rally speech The ex-Fox News host railed against decades of work to diversify the all-volunteer military as he announced initiatives to effectively exclude women from combat roles and relax protections against haz...

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Tell me you've watched the Patton film too many times without telling me you've watched the Patton film too many times

Very few British born people I know could tick all these boxes.

Reality. I'm pleading for someone- anyone - to acknowledge objective reality.

Lucrative hate: YouTubers target migrant hotels for clicks YouTubers are cashing in by harassing asylum seekers at hotels, turning human misery into profitable, divisive entertainment

Hotels housing migrants are now YouTube content farms. Outrage = clicks. Clicks = cash: £10k–£20k a month, just for filming cruelty. Division is the business model.

Details here ⤵️

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FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed.

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Increasingly convinced this guy's true destiny was to be an occasional extra comic relief character in The Office

You just described Lucas' perfect film. A hail the green screen.

True. But this doesn't take away from the fact that people like Temu and its revenue intake is growing each year.

Not news

YouTube video by Oxygene 80 Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm (HQ)

Ian McShane is 83
On how he came to be narrator on Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm:
‘I was in a chip shop with my wife Gwen, & Trevor Horn came in, who I’d known forever.
He said ‘Ian, what are you doing after supper?’
‘Why?’
‘Well, I need a voice & Orson Welles is dead.’
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Nigeria, India, Vietnam and the emerging penguin market from Antarctica are all being sought as viable alternatives.