Medlife Crisis (Rohin)

For the overall feeling that this series has been close, which it has, India have been consistently poor in every crunch situation. 3-1 doesn’t feel a fitting score line but ultimately it reflects that a fairly substandard England have beaten them in every mini-battle. Beyond disappointing #ENGvIND

Quite the opposite

What gets me isn’t that racists are posting racism but how many likes they get. Even if you assume half are bots (which I think is about the right ballpark) then that’s still thousands upon thousands of people

Annoyingly TMS is blocked in India and so are most VPNs including the one I use

The OP confirmed it, bar one or two. We all know that doesn’t matter to racists!

Ha! It truly is crazy what chameleons politicians are

1. Hilarious to watch the anti DEI brigade realise that they should’ve said from the beginning that what they actually want is white supremacy

2. A normal person still using twitter is simply a masochism fetish and my mind will not be changed on this

Goodness Gracious Me were, as I say so often, lightyears ahead

For people that complain about identity politics all the time, right wingers are obsessed with conflating ethnicity and citizenship. Rare praise for Sunak–he never tried to hide his Indian identity in contrast to silliness from Badenoch or Braverman. They simply don’t understand hyphenated identity

No offence to Mia Farrow but it is kind of quaint that americans are still asking if trump is allowed to do something

…but this look is unmatched

Good isn’t it? He does lots of period movies…

When iPhone thinks Heathrow should be part of the holiday

Pretty cool. One of India’s biggest actors will release his next movie on YouTube for £1, after a theatrical run. Just like in the West, going to the movies has become unaffordable to many. For such a film-crazy country I didn’t realise how few people now go to the cinema here in India

I do like the ones mentioned but...

This is a step on the road to the loss of a shared culture, where AI generates unique content that is perfectly designed for one person’s tastes & expectations, and will only ever be seen by one person.

And we’ll never have our assumptions challenged, and never be exposed to something surprising.

I pay for YouTube Premium, which to me represents much better value than Netflix etc, but I realise this is because YouTube has made the default viewing experience as unpleasant as possible without tipping over into full intolerability

As someone who does fake sponsor spots for things that don’t exist, I’ve just resigned myself to people watching random bits and cobbling together their own choose-your-adventure videos. A very big YTer everyone who watches me will know says they use Adblock and sponsorblock. We are hypocrites lol

Just a reminder that even though he might not have voiced such racist views openly in previous years, he was known to be an appalling human being from the very start and @channel4tv.bsky.social *repeatedly* gave him TV shows and @harpercollins.bsky.social books to make them and him lotsa 💷

Saw a demo of this on twatter, I will concede it LOOKS better than I imagined but my god it is a soulless look at our soulless future. Hard to convey how a couple of mins of animation can provoke such a depressing dystopian response. Another example of how we are just sleepwalking into a trashworld

Amen break whenever Mario vibrates extremely rapidly while emitting a barrage of "ha", "hoo", and "hmm" soundbites

TikTok has absolutely cratered people’s narrative attention spans. I make educational YouTube videos with deliberate acts to build story, and I purposely loop back to ideas to reinforce then, but if it takes longer than 3 minutes to watch then inevitably someone comments “get to the point”

simple and quick answer, not visiting a webpage and trying to understand nuance. Tiktok hasn’t just killed attention span, it’s fundamentally changed what people think of as science as scicomm. It’s superficial soundbites. In my field the biggest accounts give succinct misinformation snippets

Yep, I get those ‘get to the point’ comments all the time which I find especially silly as my opening minute is often just a comedy intro, I’m literally not trying to get to the point. They want to suck all joy or narrative creativity out. I do feel it’s the same mentality of asking chatGPT for a >

You could argue he started it! He was too good, but execs took the lesson that celebs bring in money, instead of ‘this guy was absurdly good at that job’. But even then, Aladdin, Lion King etc–it was about a few guest actors with exceptional voices. Now it’s just any bland fool from the met gala.

There must be a name for the grok dweebs by now? The sad losers who see a poorly rendered image of a giant lizard man with 16 fingers delivering a waffle iron to a cosmic avatar of George Washington on a flat earth and can only respond with grok is this real

In the following video essay I will argue that civilisation began its inexorable decline when animated movies starting casting A-list actors instead of voice actors

I have bought several fiction books I would’ve never otherwise bought, simply because I saw posts on here – none from people I follow. Just random opinions that seemed to resonate for some reason. And they were great books!

As a fellow shorts-only packer, never let realism extinguish your optimism. Don’t succumb to the modern doomerism trend or cynical ‘weather forecasts’, if you pack shorts then the weather will surely be shorts weather. Keep that upbeat hopeful flame alive! You will need it for heat.