Supermarché manager Simon Skinner smiling in front of a framed photograph of himself where he is performing the exact same pose and smile.

QT’ing my own post to buttress my prior astute observations with a couple more:

“Every misogynist joke poses a question to its female audience: Can you laugh along? Will you be chill or are you going to make a big deal out of this? Are you going to be a bitch…? Arriving in the form of a dildo, the joke that is also the question becomes a double entendre: Can you take it?”

Because the goal is to drive trans people out of public life. #urninaryleash

Dwarves: *delved too greedily and too deeply* Balrog of Morgoth, depicted as Michael Jordan with the balrog's head: ...and I took that personally

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Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist.

This is fine.

I wrote this in March, in response to several people I know voicing concern about the impact the manosphere might have on their boys.

There's a lot more to say but, imo, *any* framing of the issue as a problem of The Left is so wilfully wrongheaded I'm reluctant to even engage with it.

Irish handling v frustrating here, even allowing for preseason, & there does not appear to an imminent threat of lightening in Cork #IREvSCO

I think part of the issue is there is such at best bad information & at worst a grifty pipeline to radicalisation out there that has never been accessible so it is important to have these conversations to try and combat that.

Thoroughly deserved by Australia. They’re going to have a case of the « what might have beens » looking back at this series but at least we got one cracking test where both teams played well in the same game #lions

The interesting thing about the male loneliness debate to me is that a lot of it seems to suggest it's a brand new problem that this generation is failing. I didn't read the Western canon of literature to learn that isolated men started having issues in 2010!

I think the central premise that young men searching for information on how to have a sex life will invariably encounter just an absolute avalanche of right wing misogyny peddlers and very little actual helpful advice is a genuine problem.

Having to listen to Will Greenwood doing a 30-minute stream of consciousness lightning delay vamp is what they actually mean when they say the Lions is The Ultimate Test.

Yeah but in the ref’s defence, it’s really really funny

Opinion | They Saw Their Neighbors Taken Away by ICE. Then They Made a Plan.

Fucking cool: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

« I’ve been down here before & I know the way has been something of a personal credo

Pamela Anderson Is Quietly Revolutionary in 'The Naked Gun' Opposite a totally fine Liam Neeson in the franchise reboot, Anderson is a joy in every scene she's featured in.

She's got a face that has chosen joy: Pamela Anderson is the best thing in the new NAKED GUN. time.com/7306445/the-...

Simply ridiculous

I've seen numerous examples of this in recent days - we're at a point where some reporters are using LLMs as a source and not even remotely properly factchecking, but also where LLM generated material is making its way into other material and being unknowingly reproduced by others.

Late to the party here, but Gladiator 2 is just deeply deeply dumb

Shout out to the commentator who was delusional enough to shout « that is proper English » when England won a tournament a) outside of England & b) with a penalty shootout

My parents' ultimate TV show would be one where a Scandinavian is brutally murdered and then Lucy Alexander has three months to redecorate and sell his house.

You have to hand it to the Lionesses, they certainly find new & inventive ways to make watching them as stressful as possible

I recently complained to the BBC about their biased news coverage and in the reply they said that they have a duty to report the world as it is, not how people wish it was.

Aside from being patronising guff, it would seem they’re quite happy to avoid how the world actually is when it suits them.

Please do support your local bookshops. They are esential for independent publishers and have been the patron saints of my writing career through their word-of-mouth support.

Each of these police officers have one life to live and this is how they decided to waste that gift.
Will they look bad fondly on this moment from their death beds? Will they have made the world a better place with their efforts?

Powerful testimony from actress the great Miriam Margolyes

Dan Sheehan shading Leinster’s lack of closing out the biggest games in his post series winning interview came as a surprise

During our 1st test debrief Daddy Mc & I agreed you should never underestimate the resilience of an Australian team nor of a Joe Schmidt team & the Lions are guilty of both. There’s a petulance here you don’t like to see. You’re owed nothing.

We have some woshkabomy in the house #Lions