Nathaniel Tapley

British.

I love this bookstore. This is in the town where I went to college and it's a marvelous staple. Someone's dream is waiting for them.

Urgh. Is it time for the biennial trying-to-remember-my-Mastodon password, then?

"He must have been much smarter than his sister Lisa, about whom we know nothing."

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.

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Charley's *unt

Wim Wenders' Lysistrata

If we could turn back time I would love to see Rob Reiner direct a Young Ones feature film.

Fuck you, Google Photos. Fuck you a billion. Fuck your machine-synthesised simulacra of emotions, designed only to make me engage with your app. Machines can't experience time. I am ACTUALLY 20 years closer to death. Fuck you into outer space.

James Whale's Anything-by-Wilkie-Collins. Big, camp, fun, gothic, short

Also #worthing

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

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Such a huge difference between Yo Mama and Yo-yo Ma.

Fuck you, Google Photos. Fuck you a billion. Fuck your machine-synthesised simulacra of emotions, designed only to make me engage with your app. Machines can't experience time. I am ACTUALLY 20 years closer to death. Fuck you into outer space.

Blobby in a black turtleneck.

look how far we've fallen

There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on.

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It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored.

People's work is not the government's to give away.

If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP!

/end

In the House of Lords today, a government minister refused to rule this out.

To be clear, this would amount to legalising theft. It would fly in the face of public opinion on what is fair, and would mean a surrender of British creatives' work by this Labour government.

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Brits: Please scream. This is a Labour govt proposing to hand the property of individual British workers to largely US corporations.

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there really is something immensely clarifying about realizing that "death cult" is not an ironic or jokey term

Operation I Raped Dozens of Girls and Maybe Just Maybe Murdered One Or Two And Everything Is In Those Files But I Make Kaboom And You Forget

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics.

But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

At one point I wrote a horrible joke about the Landis family being "men who just can't keep control of their choppers". It's unpleasant but solid work.

Max Landis, Whose Career Imploded During #MeToo, Returns with ‘G.I. Joe’ Movie at Paramount (Exclusive) At the same time, Danny McBride will also be writing a separate 'G.I. Joe' script, with both projects potentially being combined down the line.

Fucking hell when I pointed out this morning Ellison had a history of hiring (untalented) men who faced allegations of sexual harassment, had no idea a new one would drop in hours www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Wait, isn't this the government that refused food a year, until forced with gritted teeth to scrap the "cruel two-child limit of which at we were completely in favour at our first Budget".

Oh yes! That should absolutely be on the list!

Based entirely on my becoming aware of it in about 2001, I'd say mine is Audition, The Ring, The Grudge...