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This is what is left of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

Screenshot of text from the interview: You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still? I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe. [I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

working on a feature on a similar character at the moment and the advance TL;DR is that these guys are pretty good at making themselves feel unavoidable and intellectually overwhelming, when their reactionary views are very often just incredibly pedestrian and unoriginal, it's their main strength

"Do you still get paid in Roubles Ted?"
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What a lifetime of playing football can do to the human brain Six things to know about the NFL, concussions, and brain damage.

It fucks the brain up which fucks up their lives and the lives of those who know and love them and sometimes strangers lives too.

American gladiatorism is dumb.

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Using 20 litres of clean drinking water to get the computer give me increasingly generic messages to send to someone I am trying to make a personal human connection with

These 2 speeches, which, as Nick points out, on the same day, precede what Gill has pled guilty to by 4 years, are more damning for Farage as they also precede Brexit.

All European secret services would have been alarmed by this & would/should have been investigating.

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Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

Et tu, Gordon (and @theguardian.com)! Enough with this euphemistic neologism. Call a spade a spade! Far right, not 'hard right'. 🤬

"Do you really want your tax dollars going to feed someone else's kids??" Yes! 1000% yes, I want my taxes to help feed hungry kids. Wtf is wrong with people?

#TaxTheRich

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

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This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Worth thinking about …

Tag yourself, I'm Goldfish-catcher

Electric bath attendant.

Job's not bad but the clientele can be a bit sparky.

This seems like a mistake.

#Immigrants in London 🙏

Parliamentary staff of colour earn £2,000 less than white colleagues, study suggests Exclusive: Report by GMB union also finds pay disparity for women and disabled, trans, non-binary and gay staffers A race and gender pay gap among parliamentary staff means people of colour earn on average £2,000 less each year than their white counterparts, research seen by the Guardian suggests. A study due to be released this week will say that parliamentary employees who have a range of protected characteristics under equality legislation are more likely to suffer disparities in pay. Continue reading...

Parliamentary staff of colour earn £2,000 less than white colleagues, study suggests

Asked lots about this piece on Chronic Lyme disease, and disappointed in the @guardian (a publication I both subscribe and contribute to) for running it. Short thread explaining the multitude of problems with it, and why I consider it irresponsible to run as is..🧵

Just to point out and as a reminder for Europeans traveling to the UK, the UK system (ETA) is already in place, much like with the us Europeans who do not need a visa have to register and pay before traveling (16 Pounds). Here’s the link www.gov.uk/eta/apply

Feel seen.

I never finish anything. I have a black belt in partial arts.

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Madeline Horwath on St George returning to England – cartoon The St George’s flag is more popular than ever. It’s more complicated for England’s patron saint

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A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

Stylised painting of a white woman in a soft blue dress holding a round stringed instrument with a long neck on her lap and holding it as if playing

Tamara de Lempicka,
Blue Woman with a Guitar, 1929
Polish painter who created her work in an Art Deco style #womensart

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

Ideas seller to customer: WHERE WRITERS REALLY GET THEIR IDEAS I'M ALL OUT OF MIND-BLOWING CONCEPTS AND HEART-RENDING NARRATIVES, BUT I'VE GOT AN ACERBIC OBSERVATION, AN UNEXPECTED OUTCOME AND A COUPLE OF AMUSING NOTIONS DEAS TOM GAULD

Tom Gauld in The Guardian.

Ich werde niemals so reich sein wie die Benkos es waren. Aber auch niemals so unglücklich. (Via @spiegel.de)

Well. Quite. Also worth noting the article is intrinsically defensive. London is a great city but its pre 2016 era of being (imv) the best city in Europe are long gone.