Jimmy Kimmel mocks a geriatric Donald Trump as he wanders around aimlessly with the Prime Minister of Japan 🤣

Grim Fandango Remastered key art

Grim Fandango (LucasArts) was released 27 years ago today.

What a masterpiece.

TOTTIE - THE STORY OF A DOLL'S HOUSE (1984): Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms, home to Bagpuss and The Clangers, gave us this charming series about the inhabitants of a doll's house. Young viewers weren't prepared for a favourite character's death by immolation...

Tom Nichols: “This whole notion of deploying riot control troops to every city — for what? What kind of disorder are they expecting? Perhaps millions of people voting, going to the streets to express their choice in an election?”

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

The problem is that MAGA world thinks it's awesome that people in lab coats with advanced degrees are freaked out.

The Arrest That Demonstrates Europe’s Free-Speech Problem The absurd detention of the comedy writer Graham Linehan underscores a deeper issue.

The Irish comedian Graham Linehan was just arrested by British police for rude X posts—which is “totalitarian, absurd, and a waste of police time,” @helenlewis.bsky.social argues.

The way Tice keeps going on about this, you'd almost think he'd received £2.3m from people with links to fossil fuels and climate change denial. Oh, hang on...

A Military Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest Over the course of several months, Pauline Shanks Kaurin concluded she no longer had the academic freedom necessary for doing her job.

Seven years ago, Pauline Shanks Kaurin left a good job as a tenured professor, uprooted her family, and moved to teach military ethics at the Naval War College. Now she's leaving in protest of policies she can't support and that make her job impossible.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Byrds release “Mr. Tambourine Man” today in 1965.

“If you’re someone who grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, the song is like a little telegraph, said David Byrne. “Hearing that, I realised: I have to get out of here because .. there’s a whole world out there that I don’t know anything about.”

This Christmas, spare a thought for the world’s richest man For disruptors like Elon Musk, the statement of intent is all. What happens next – such as running a new US government department – is distressingly boring.

My recent piece on #Musk in the Christmas @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

This title if the comic is ‘Googling Stuff…’ The comic shows two columns: on the left is “Then” showing search results with one thing listed as “the thing you want” On the right column is ‘Now’ - also showing search results but in this case it’s a whole bunch of stuff you don’t need: AI TAKING A WILD STAB AT IT WITH SOME BLATANT MISINFORMATION SPONSORED RESULT SPONSORED RESULT SPONSORED RESULT SPONSORED RESULT PEOPLE ALSO ASK VIEW PRODUCTS And then right at the bottom just off screen is ‘the thing you want’

Googling Stuff: Then v Now.

Was there ever ‘shareholder support’ for Thames Water? New writer Stanley Root’s analysis of Thames Water’s accounts shows that there has never been a year since privatisation when shareholders contributed more cash than they took out

"analysis of Thames Water’s accounts shows that there has never been a year since privatisation when shareholders contributed more cash than they took out."

Opinion | Joel Grey: ‘Cabaret’ Was a Warning. It’s Time to Heed It. (Gift Article) Much has changed since the show debuted on Broadway in 1966, but it’s what hasn’t changed that should worry us.

Joel Grey goes hard: "The democratic election of an authoritarian figure, the normalization of bigotry, the complicity of the frightened masses — none of these are new themes. We have indeed seen this show before, and I fear we do know how it ends." www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/o...

My piece on Tulsi Gabbard and the storm that is headed the way of America's Intelligence Community. The FBI will be first in line, but the whole alphabet soup—ODNI, CIA, NSA, CISA—will feel the shock.
www.economist.com/united-state...

Anyone disagreeing probably struggles with causation and correlation 😁

And THAT is exactly how people with a huge sense of entitlement regularly behave when they get caught out.

#JeremyClarkson

Thinking of my homeboy Edward Jenner tonight...
The father of vaccination, he had his statue removed from Trafalgar Square after pressure from anti-vaxxers.
We should return it to let the world know the UK isn't following the US back to polio, diptheria and measles.

Snap. Heartbroken

Trump cabinet live: Speaker Mike Johnson pushes to keep Gaetz ethics report secret Other administration nominees including Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Robert F Kennedy Jr attended Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago celebration on Thursday night

Trump cabinet live updates: House speaker pushes to keep Matt Gaetz ethics report secret
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The party that is obsessed with child sex offenders, & is close to a cult that claims child sex offenders run the government, just nominated a guy once investigated for allegedly sex-trafficking a 17 year old girl to be in charge of the country’s legal system.

Beyond parody.

How RFK Jr. Falsely Denied His Connection to a Deadly Measles Outbreak in Samoa He also championed a Samoan anti-vaxxer tied to the 2019 lethal eruption that killed scores of children.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vax fakery was tied to a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa. And he lied about it. As head of HHS, he could do much worse here.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump expected to select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.

To state the very obvious, this would put an avowed anti-vaxxer in charge of vaccines, allowing him to thwart the development and approval of life-saving shots. It's almost too horrific to fathom—a potential death sentence for our families and children. It's lethal. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...

Politician or celebrity? Who knows any more? Britain and America do personality politics differently but neither path is a sign of health

"In 2006, a Gallup poll found that Britain and America had the highest levels of confidence in their respective governments among G7 countries; by 2022, they had the lowest"- on.ft.com/47hXiwe
Via @jemima.bsky.social