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you know I wouldn't say I had high hopes for "the Spectator interviews the Tate brothers" anyway but somehow the piece is worse than I thought it would be

YouTube video by British Comedy TV JACK WHITEHALL Live 2012

Cannot find a better hit of pure cringe than British comedy DVDs from about fifteen years ago. This has got a really rough start where ten minutes in Whitehall reverts to a Russell Howard rip-off somehow more agonising than the real thing
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I feel like i'm losing my mind. Feels like "Pulse" (2001 J-horror) where isolated internet users start dissolving IRL.

ChatGPT triggers paranoid episode in a tech VC.

@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social clocks that ChatGPT is just cribbing from a communal fan fic proj.

www.garbageday.email/p/the-tech-b...

day may not have been off-the-cuff remarks. A private notebook from the £1,240-per-night Dorchester Hotel seen by the New Statesman - filled with handwriting that seems to match Badenoch's own - contains a scribbled mind map that outlines the points she made at that shadow cabinet meeting, from the word "buffoon" to a note: "Unforced Errors — D-Day". The words mirrored her criticism of Sunak's gaffe, which was later leaked to the Times. The notebook also contains affirmations about public speaking linked to the heading "Personal Improvement": "Breathe, breathe, breathe"; "Pause, Pause, Pause", "You are a serious person who does big things"; "Pivot to attacking Labour when uncomfortable"; "Remember you are the standard bearer of the right"; "Don't let people think you are easily wound up"

you are a serious person who does big things

RIP Rear of the Year

my Tribune review of Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine now free to read. Is Spotify evil? Yes! But is this also very convenient cover for the three major labels consolidating power and sucking money out of the industry? Yes!

Absolutely. Remember this:
labourlist.org/2009/04/euro...

Shut up and make Don Jon 2

wish they'd done this back when eric dier was trying to force culture onto harry kane and matt doherty www.nytimes.com/athletic/346...

Harry Hill at the BFI was terrible for this… I felt I had no choice but to get involved

Parody song idea "The First American Pope" set to the tune of that Mitski song

Me and Mick got to explain jelqing to our girlfriends at dinner last night

A friend who is a trans woman and who plays women’s football received an email from the FA about the decision which contains this paragraph.

Free therapy to cope with the fact you’ve been transphobic bigots, fucking brilliant.

Jack Kinney’s Get Rich Quick (1951) is an urbane parable about the perils of gambling that also presents it as the coolest thing you could possibly be doing with your money

This is the absolute nuts

Took this photo half cut last night and genuinely at the time I was like, this is the most beautiful piece of photography ever taken

The Alvin Show is so, so good

Watching Girls and thinking it would be fun to start chronicling fake twitter accounts from film and tv. Realising that wouldn’t be fun (in any real sense) at all but posting this anyway

Keir Starmer’s hollow state Labour’s planned welfare cuts are further evidence of a government running scared from two political foes: the City and Nigel Farage.

'Starmer’s approach to government... has its own historical occasion and character... an attempt to develop a more effective form of crisis management for a nation in decline'

Great to have Oliver Eagleton back in the @newstatesman.com today: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Mickey Mouse points shotgun at small baby

Droopy gun is one of the ultimate gags. This bit from Mickey Plays Papa is an exceptionally striking example, charged with meaning

discovering this 90s euroscepticism artifact, an attempt to ride on the coatails of robert harris fatherland with a dystopian thriller where the uk gets absorbed further and further into the eu such that trafalgar square is renamed to delors square and a "classlessness directive" imposes socialism

Every Khruangbin song on a tv or film soundtrack is a failure in the music supervision department. That music is for adverts, bad bars and (in recent personal experience) Big Tesco’s.

News article with this passage highlighted: "who asked not to be identified because she has always wanted to be an anonymous source"

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't live your dreams

YouTube video by tikuanyinwui Cliff Richard - Discovering

We asked AI to make a Cliff Richard song in the style of Kate Bush… you won’t believe what it came up with!! youtu.be/fhw2HBojIHk?...

Getting really into reels about how living in China is better than the uk

'Outraged' mum fights Blue Badge parking charges with petition passing 3k Sian Pugh, who is disabled herself, launched a petition against the introduction of charges in Bromley because of how it will affect her daughter

Bromley locals have expressed their 'outrage' at a scheme from the council to introduce parking charges for Blue Badge holders - as a petition opposing the plan passes 3,000 signatures.