Pamela

If you didn’t accuse them of poisoning your mind with their bloody 4 Non Blondes, why in the Chris Finch not?

OK hear me out. Celebrity Traitors but with the cast of Slow Horses, all in character.

A seated Edwyn Collins, singing next to his son, standing, in front of his band. The backdrop says "Edwyn", in the style of the Elvis Comeback Show backdrop.

Just back from the last show of Edwyn Collins's last tour, in Edinburgh, his birthplace. An incredibly moving show, packed with favourites and hits. And the beginning of the encore, where he played 'Low Expectations' and 'Home Again' was absolutely emotionally devastating.

Guess this is definitely happening... Come see my try to be funny about what we're doing when we call something a classic, and when we demand that people read them!

11.45am Mon 11 Aug; 5.40pm Fri 15 Aug. Ticket links in thread from quoted post.

@standcomedyclub.bsky.social

Take Back Control Panel

@afrayn.bsky.social second best turn in the Manchester robes?

I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza.
I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice.
🍓🍓🍓🍓

A bald, shaven-headed man in a green jumper, taking a selfie in a mirror while holding and looking quizzically at a soft puppet of William Shakespeare.

Because hubris, you can come see me do two (half) shows drawing on my research on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as part of the series The Provocateurs (prev Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas). My provocative title: 'Don't read the classics'... Scene from writing/rehearsals in pic, links in thread below!

Good morning especially to anyone learning for the first time of the existence of an 18thC Anglo-Irish peer named Clotworthy Skeffington.

Yes, you read that correctly.

Carlitos can’t leave this ceremony but Rune should. No trophy is worth sitting through that ‘singing’.

Definitive proof that Edinburgh > Glasgow

"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law."

I swear to God every woman knows this exchange

It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

Just as Zverev is about to speak at the trophy ceremony, a woman repeatedly shouts:

“Australia Believes Olya and Brenda! Australia Believes Olya and Brenda!”

Broke through the silence.

#AusOpen

At Bounces overnight, I wrote about how many folks here at the #AusOpen —and many more at home—are left waiting to exhale as Alexander Zverev remains in contention.

www.benrothenberg.com/p/australian...

Can’t wait for The Traitors to end and it turns out the lovely Alexander got us into the Iraq war or something #TheTraitors

No, the worst part of Dry January is how good you feel on it (good skin! energy!) but knowing you won’t keep it up a day into February.

Having a thick one in the end game has been one of the highlights of the last two series though!

Zero understanding of plot, character, or language. Incredible.

I can’t be the only person who has only just found out, as a result of their beef, that The Rock and Vin Diesel are not the same man.

Hardest thing about being on The Traitors would be having to pretend to give a shit about people you’d met 5 mins ago.

#Traitors #TraitorsUK

Yin off the Traitors is a dim person’s idea of a clever person.

Street art showing Gisele Pelicot looking badass with the phrase written next to her “the shame must switch sides” in French

Literally crying hearing how French women applaud Gisele Pelicot every day as she walks out of court. #r4today

Everywhere around the world women watch & applaud her bravery too. She stood up for all of us.

Because the shame has to switch sides.

YouTube video by TheSuperEnigmatic Joni Mitchell & Peanuts - The River (Blue, June 22, 1971)

Someone sang The River by Joni Mitchell at a party I was at last night and I introduced them to this beautiful little gem - Snoopy ice skating to it on the soundtrack. youtu.be/aBpw3SEfJSs?...

Maybe because middle class women of a certain age are in a position to call out this shit without fear of losing a salary they need. And can do it on behalf of young women starting out in their careers who are just as sick of this shit but can’t say anything because they need to earn a living.

“Women, eh?”

The Gregg Wallace Defence

Gonna start an Any Class Women of a Certain Age club.

Membership free, just need to be absolutely sick of this shite.

Hidden Homicides - Tortoise How many women are killed – but not counted? In the UK, we’re told that two women a week are killed by a current or former partner. But these are just the killings we know about…

Tortoise did an excellent series on this.

www.tortoisemedia.com/file/hidden-...