James Hutson

Me and the late, great, Terrance Stamp at Hatchard's Piccadilly in November 2017.

I'm heartbroken to hear of Terrance Stamp's passing. I only met him once, but I've grown up with his films, Far From the Maddening Crowd is a triumph, Priscilla Queen of the Desert is perfection and Superman II has haunted my dreams for 40 years.

I suppose I should tell my Terrance Stamp story. 1/7

The poster for Superman II starring Terrance Stamp as general zod

Only one choice for tonight's movie...

Icon. 💔

Mongolian draw vs modern archery (vs the rest)

Re: Barco Mercado v. Noem et al., 25 Civ. 6568 (LAK) (KHP) Your Honor: This firm, along with the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, and Make the Road New York, represents Plaintiff Sergio Alberto Barco Mercado in the above-entitled action. We write to respond to the government’s letter dated August 13, 2025, which requests certain modifications to the Temporary Restraining Order (“TRO”), ECF No. 67, and to the Court’s August 14 Order, ECF No. 68. As detailed below, we have conferred with counsel for Defendants and have reached agreement on the provision pertaining to interpreters, and partial agreement on the provision pertaining to medication. The parties disagree regarding the provision relating to toothbrushes. The Provision of Toothbrushes Plaintiff objects to the government’s request to modify the TRO to remove the provision requiring distribution of toothbrushes based on an unsupported and vague assertion that physical toothbrushes pose a safety risk. Individuals in immigration custody routinely are provided with toothbrushes, and ICE’s own policies provide for them.

If you find yourself arguing that human beings shouldn't be provided with toothbrushes and toothpaste, you are the 1000% the baddies.

The lawyers making this argument for the government should be shunned.

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ARC onstage at Canberra theatre under laser lights

ARC performing Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here & Dark Side of the Moon. Rad.

🫠

Regions sending their militaries to capitals is civil war.

Not "leads to," it is the opening volley.

This news should not be regarded in any other way.

Looking forward to the federal takeover of Tusla, Oklahoma's police department.

More in tomorrow's Popular Information.

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Fuck this shit

National Guard deployed to protect the Epstein Files.

Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office. 

Don't trick yourself into thinking an LLM is a real person, but also remember that at some level, your brain is already a little tricked into thinking an LLM is a real person.

It’s sort of unrelenting. This war on truth and evidence and fact. All to replace it all with ignorance, ideology and vindictiveness.

Not enough to lie about the current stats and likely all future ones so now they need to rewrite history too?!

These people are seriously dangerous!

I found a little bit of color tonight. No blues. I. think I need a different angle for that. #rainbowwings #birds #hummingbirds 🌈

8 state based characters doing science: TAS vet nurse feeding face tumor vaccine bait, VIC ranger using traditional indigenous eel trap, SA excavating fossil, QLD ranger with black cockatoo, NSW recording frogs, NT studying turtle, ACT counting echindas and WA with SKA antenna

My latest editions to the #scienceweek cast: the state representatives.

A self-portrait of the Tove Jansson smoking, from 1940.

Tove Jansson in her Helsinki studio, in 1948.

A sketch of Tove Jansson surrounded by Moomins.

Tove Jansson swimming with her birthday flower crown on Klovharun.

Happy birthday, Tove Jansson! This is a lovely interview with Tove from 1968. It’s subtitled & features some wonderful footage: youtu.be/StO-NmkK5Aw?...

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Basically “ummm err ummm we umm err we can’t stop supplying weapons parts to Israel that are used to kill civilians because of existing contracts and it wouldn’t make much difference if we did”
What an absolute cop out

AOL notice about ending their dial-up plans

Good night sweet prince 🫡

AAAAAAAHH

I have a hot take.

Getting a PhD has nothing to do with intelligence (if intelligence is even a thing), so "PhD levels of intelligence" is meaningless.

Getting a PhD is about tenacity + curiosity, two things LLMs don't have even if you accept they are anthropomorphic.

Republicans are such fucking trash.

we all know that the proof for the administration that an institution is not implementing affirmative action will be the percentage of nonwhite admits. the lower the better. any more than a smattering of black and Hispanic students will be evidence of illegal discrimination (against whites)

Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian artist’s painting of a swallow on a flake of limestone, dated to the New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, c. 1479-1458 BC. The sparrow stands in profile with head to the right. It is delicately painted with a pinkish body. The outline and details are highlighted in a reddish/brown pigment. It’s legs, eye, and beak are painted black. Limestone flake dimensions H. 6.6 cm x W. 10.6 cm. This may have been a practice drawing of the sparrow hieroglyph which was used for words meaning ‘small’, ‘poor’, or ‘bad’. Egyptian artisans who decorated tombs and temples made practice sketches on flakes of limestone which are known by egyptologists as ostraca (singular: ostracon). Sometimes the drawings were used as a template when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available for this purpose as by-products of the construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of ostraca were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations.

Artists have always loved to sketch!

Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC.

Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used small flakes of limestone as sketchpads!

MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

I'm sorry.
I couldn't resist.
And yes, that sound is people groaning and slapping their foreheads all over the world.

It happened again

Australia strongly rejects Israel's plan to seize Gaza City The foreign ministers of Australia, Germany, Italy, New Zealand and the United Kingdom say this decision will "risk violating international humanitarian law".

Words have had no effect.
Sanctions now. Travel restrictions - against all members of the government and IDF, and their families. Freeze assets and all trade. Kick out diplomats. Enforce ICC findings. Pressure Israel’s active supporters. Anything but this.

Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn't be allowed to vote The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to v...

Men with big accounts get Vewwy Angery at me for noting that MAGA is a war of men against women, for which Trump has built a coalition of men across race, class & religion.

Anyhoo a Cabinet official supports the idea of disenfranchising the majority of Americans (women).
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