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Manchester did something similar in 1971 to Sinclair's & the Wellington, jacking it up 5ft to the new street level. ...and moved it again after the bomb in '96, though that time they did the exact opposite of moving it in one piece (you may have Views on that approach)

edited panel from the Watchmen graphic novel of the character Rorschach, with the head of a cow, sitting in the broken window of a high rise building. Text reads "The unsophisticated filth of all their lumps and pronglers will foam up about their waists and all the steers and heifers will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'... and I’ll look down and whisper “moo”."

day 105 of making a cow tools every day unless i don't

Interestting framing, in that it just isn't the contrast it pretends to be: the Tories Get Things Wrong, while Labour Do Their Agenda without any moral flavour

I think you're bang on that they can't do that stuff, but they did also miss easy-to-copy stuff - e.g. when he talks to camera he's usually stationary, when he walks & talks that's with other people; or camera angle cuts but not him; yet they've just defaulted to this bog-standard frenetic thing

Two tumblr polls with very different results, the first reading "Do you think you could take a werewolf?" and the second reading "In a fight?"

Reminds me of this

The absolute solidarity of the UK political establishment around City protectionism seems most loudly broadcast by the FTSE100 just rolling ever upwards for the last fee years while everyone agrees the economy has been doing nothing much of note or interest

Apparently indefensible for the National Trust too, since that overhead plan amounts to infiltration by English Heritage (or at least their logo)!

Mary-Shelley-vibe autocorrect

Ice cream truck funerals apparently produce the most horror movie ass sound you can hear in real life

I've been assuming they also treat it as shorthand for "what if there's a nuke?" - which i think gets conflated with a WW because that's when one got used last time (and maybe for cold war / 'War Games' kiddoes because they've heard the phrase 'global thermonuclear war' a lot)

My guess is, because they don't get an equal level of replies here from people to the right, they get a sort of existential dread because suddenly they don't feel like centrists

This is the point where the myriad parallels between Trump/US Govt and Henry VIII/Dissolution of the Monsateries remind us that Elon is the Thomas Cromwell figure, and also how he ended up

"post meridiem die veneris nil plumbandum" would be my take, which also makes it easy to replace the plumbing with any other task for other professions

Agreed - his first films established him as recognisably human in amongst the superhero tropes. While the whole MCU spun out into endless quippy dialogue and overscaled CGI threats, his continuing presence tethered it to that original feeling of reality. Increasingly lightly, until they severed it!

I believe this means the sun will set over the entirety of the British Empire tonight for the first time in several hundred years. Chagos is the dot below India on this map. Sunset in the Pitcairns (dot in the Pacific) will happen ~40 minutes before sunrise in Akrotiri and Dhekelia (dot on Cyprus).

That is your well-established tradition, but hope it's nothing too bothersome for you :) Welcome back!

Not even like this is a difficult to shout principle or has any conflicted dimensions, but when you only think in terms of "clearly winnable battles" you've already ceded a lot of territory

Agree, but the etablishment is full of people whose (trained) instincts tend massively more to actions that are 'pragmatic' than 'principled', and the former has infinite wriggle room to dodge discomfort

Also Starmer's spent several years demonising his predecessor as Labour leader, who asked things like "is Trident worth the £bns per year that we could spend on things useful to society?", so even considering untangling that is anathema.

Miss Universe Philippines has a mythology theme going on this year, which is great for anyone whose interests contain both monster girls and mahou shoujo villains (like yours truly).

Even without the etymological demolition, in its commonest usage almost every company or corporarltion has multiple executives? often a whole executive suite? Though I'm sure many of them would be delighted to learn they're actually monarchs (less so about being surrounded by so many pretenders)

If Andrew Tate & his ilk were right about ANYTHING they’d have no audience.

Guys would listen briefly, apply advice, & be too busy with their new gfs, side-pieces, & high income hustles

It’s the Tinder principle: if you’re happy, they lose a customer

Their business model is your unending misery.

1996 CD single for St Etienne "Bad Photographer" which shows track 4 called "Uri Geller Bent My Boyfriend"

The CD single format gave us so many high grade peculiarities with the B-side-equivalents

Their alternative is to be basically pleasant bureaucrats with principles which are already acceptable to the broad majority, which does not provide them anything like the same kick of validation

My read of this blind spot is: they're driven by the need to feel they've *won*, which means doing it through active agency; and they're also convinced they're very very clever people, so they can carry off the feat of pulling in those voters' votes....

A lamppost covered in dark vines that resemble a creature with long hair bent over. When the light is on, it looks like the head/skull is glowing.

I grew up on a diet of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark... I swear these vines covering a lamppost in Wroclaw, Poland are straight out of my childhood nightmares.

The Comics Code seal 😂

Countering Trump's claims of support is the main point, but I liked that he also fitted in that casual sideswipe of still calling twitter 'twitter'

Also what Ozy doesn't know, when he's boasting of having carried out his masterstroke 35 minutes ago, before they got there for the confrontation, is that Rorshach has done exactly the same with his work; he already sent off the information that details Ozy's crimes up to that point.

Changed my mind. I am monogamous now.