Charlotte Lydia Riley

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".

(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

Being right wing is so hard bc you’re not allowed to acknowledge any actual phenomena that shape the world, so when you try to describe something you just end up sounding like if a person speaking in tongues worshipped the internet instead of god

Instagram reels, especially in momfluencer material, especially in material that purports to reject the “bouncing back” postpartum narrative but actually really emphasises it.

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I’ll believe it’s immigration policy they’re protesting about when they picket institutions responsible for making immigration policy

I mean, the fact that it *breaches the Good Friday agreement* is surely not a minor issue to overcome.

The fact that ai art and writing programs are built on stolen work really seems to be fading from the discussion even amongst artists and writers, which is a bit shit.

again, I’m a historian, and obviously facts are themselves shaped by interpretation a lot of the time, but the idea that we want centralised punditry over constituency results is emblematic of the trend towards selling political coverage as commentary, rather than as investigation.

But BBC election coverage is also shaped by another tension that seems to run through a lot of British politics media: the idea that reporting *facts* is somehow less valuable than sharing *opinion*, the idea that what outlets really have to offer is their interpretation, not their research.

Or, I can set the students a reading list and a load of questions, take them to the library, and tell big tech to do one.

It's very simple: You can protest all you like about this and wider immigration issues, as is your right, but you can't just turn up with a mob outside actual hotels housing a small number of migrants... especially given such mobs tried to burn down hotels last year.

Plus, you live 5000 miles away.

I’m always very resistant to arguments about Londoncentrism - London is important, actually! - but it does feel like political *coverage* is shaped a lot by that centre of gravity.

Feels a bit like this is also part of a broader trend to centralisation in all news coverage. So few regional (or national!) correspondents in any format. Everything outside London is a quaint curio even during an election where the constituencies are the point.

The BBC had put a huge amount of resource and clever thinking into how to show more counts than ever. and then showed fewer declarations than at any point*! I'm inclined to blame over-rehearsal for how much the TV election night coverage seemed bored of the story in front of it.

As a starting point, the TV coverage of UK elections shouldn't visibly hold the actual viewer in contempt. 'You want to see the declarations? Actually on TV? Ew' might as well have been the ticker tape for a lot of the GE2024 coverage.

The shared conviction of everyone running election night coverage that no one staying up all night to watch the election could really actually be interested in the, y'know, election is one of the mysteries of senior TV management.

It would be insane if the BBC's Wimbledon coverage combined not showing the scores with vaguely mocking anyone interested enough to watch a third round doubles match and making it unhelpful to the casual viewer, but this is basically what they did last year with the election.

Crucial to the pronatalist worldview is the reality that children are only considered desirable so far as those children and their care needs can be used to constrain women’s dignity and prospects.

IVF has always been an untenable question for the pronatalist movement. On the one hand, it alienates the Catholics and anti-choice Evangelicals in their ranks. On the other, IVF allows women to delay childbearing—which conflicts with pronatalism’s desire for a revival of societal misogyny.

Oh there’s also a 2006 version of Peter and the Wolf!

The reverse is also true. The world is littered with good writers who are lousy thinkers, good writers whose love of an elegant phrase runs beyond their sense of 'is that even right or true, though?'

13 Essential Animated Films With No Dialogue Flow joins a surprisingly impressive canon of modern animated feature films that are effectively silent.

There’s a list here too! www.vulture.com/article/esse...

Also: not animated, but would early eg Buster Keaton films maybe fit the bill as well? Lots of slapstick, lots of focus on musical scores, no dialogue.

Everyone seemed to love Flow, which came out last year, and is animations and music. Also if you have Disney Plus I think a lot of the Pixar shorts are like this, though only c. 7 mins - like Lou, and Blue Umbrella.

I think student loneliness is a slightly different phenomenon but yes absolutely: and universities just don’t really know how to deal with this.

think in retrospect the backlash against trigger warnings really was a sign of things to come, had these people saying "hey, some traumatic things have happened to me, I'd like to know they're going to come up if I'm going to watch or read something", and they got roundly told to fuck off

This is an urgent request from Soad. Her son is very weak now. Even small donations add up!

Akhras, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, lost his home to an Israeli strike, in early 2024. He and his family have been displaced multiple times, living in tents where the canvas sweats from too many bodies pressed into too little space. He no longer sits in a white-walled office or wears a badge. But he continues to work, seeing some fifty patients a day, most of them children. One of his regular patients is a young girl, no older than fourteen, who survived a strike that killed her entire family. She woke up in an I.C.U., alone, unable to understand where everyone had gone. Now she sits in front of Akhras in silence, until she asks, again and again, if he can bring them back. He has no answer, only a pencil stub and a coloring book, which he hopes she can use to express and process her emotions.

Read this passage, please, about trying to provide therapy for trauma in Gaza, even though it should make you feel like you are stabbing needles into your eyes.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

It also creates further problems for people with irregular immigration status etc, as not having ID/not carrying ID suddenly becomes something that can become a problem in itself. It would really heighten all the hostile environment/employment check culture that already exists in the UK I think.

Think the civil liberties position is that once you have the cards, you require people to carry the cards, and then who gets stopped and asked to show the cards will be determined by existing police biases (eg it would just become SUS by another name)