Lamentably Awake

His introduction is genius.

Bayliss thinking Crosseti is Lieutenant Giardello both makes Bayliss look bad/a fish out of water but also eases the audience into just how fitting it is that Kotto Is Giardello.

Oh shit, I didn't know this. He would have absolutely killed it.

It sucks Biden and Garland couldn't be bothered to punish Trump in any way for attempting a coup and that Harris chose genocide over winning the election, sure.

Literally exactly the same defence the UK government is using.

Just a coincidence no doubt.

I do have to hand it to them that they chose to have the main character from Birmingham played by an Irishman and the Irish character played by a New Zealander.

It's unexpected, it breaks the mold.

I struggle a bit with Peaky Blinders' popularity because it's the kind of show I should really like but I found it a bit meh.

Obviously people can enjoy things I don't but it's strange when I feel like I should be the target audience and really aren't.

The situation in Gaza is rapidly worsening as Israel forces Iran into a brutal war. Food is scarce. Sama'a and her children are struggling.

Please give what you can.

chuffed.org/project/157569

Against Skaven?

Close victory.

ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS: ANY ARAB OR EUROPEAN COUNTRY THAT EXPELS THE AMBASSADORS OF ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES FROM ITS TERRITORY WILL, STARTING TOMORROW, HAVE FULL AUTHORITY AND FREEDOM TO PASS THROUGH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ

everything in the world is incredibly fucked and there are daily heartbreaking preventable tragedies because the world is run by demented ghoulish pedophiles which induces a feeling of powerlessness, but on the bright side, the absurdity is *really* funny. A+ tier bit right here.

Iran could face possible Fifa tournament ban if they withdraw from World Cup Fifa can take action against any nation who pull out of the World Cup, with regulations stating: ‘Sanctions may include exclusion from future competition’

International institutions are a joke.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Anything that rewards people for doing good things is immediately and relentlessly attacked as the nanny state/interfering in the free market/anti-freedom.

It's not like the ruling class are likely to want to encourage good behaviour but there a tremendous cost if they try.

I remain convinced that we're not far off from having access to potable water being framed as a decadent luxury that disqualifies you from holding any left wing views and means you're responsible for society's downfall.

Keeping trans women out of sports has nothing do with sports but I think Gavin Newsom knows that

Pixar was the single handed most misogyny I ever experienced to my face in my life, stemming from my work being "too girlish" with an insinuated, but never directly stated "and too gay", while also complaining that I was perplexing for not behaving like their perception of a normal "woman"

"Punching you is bad because I bruised *my* knuckles" is the argument against mass murder the ruling class will entertain.

For the American ruling class only the lives of Troops matter.

The invasion of Iraq killed ~1m people.

All the mainstream criticism of it revolves around ~2k Troops dying.

If Iraqis, Palestinians, Lebanese and Iranian people could be exterminated without a Troop dying Warren etc would support it.

None of these transportation/no car takes acknowledge racial, residential segregation.

Do you live in a community with a significant population of Black people?

since i'm in maine and inevitably come around a lot of people's takes on the state and platner, one thing i'll say is: the party just has not had the kind of venom against him that they had against... types like mamdani.

frankly, they don't seem nearly as bothered by the tattoo. bad shit.

For the same $6 trillion cost, you could crush child poverty with a child allowance and free childcare, fix unemployment insurance, do paid family, sick & medical leave, massively boost ACA subsidies, and eliminate child uninsurance with Medicare for Kids.

US and Israeli illegal war of aggression: Very good, self defence actually.

Hezbollah responding to an illegal war of aggression against their ally: Very bad, risks destabilising the region.

You've responded twice, you don't have any *comeback* to a clear and obvious criticism of your defence of genocide.

I think it was Dragon Age Inquisition where a lead dev was talking very positively about how they'd drawn devs from the Dragon Age: Origins modding community and then when asked why Inquisition wasn't moddable there was a pause and then they said "...well you can mod other games."

You strategy has failed at two of the last three presidential elections.

Why are you so insistent upon it when it clearly doesn't work?

You will be completely unsurprised to learn this is in response to someone asking why Harris didn't oppose genocide.

So you've got no actual comeback.

Figures.

The Iraqi government claims:

“The rise in fuel prices and mortgage rates is entirely the responsibility of Israel and its allies in Washington.”

Alaraby TV reports

These are deeply ingrained social structures and nobody is immune to accidentally upholding. Because we were raised within them. Sometimes it's just a subconscious thing. Sometimes people don't even know why they are doing it.

But I want us to identify it so we can all do better.

Gottheimer calls Newsom’s Israel apartheid comments ‘dangerous’ The New Jersey Democrat asked, ‘Is it really worth throwing Jews under the bus to advance your political ambitions?’

The position that Jewish safety in Diaspora requires lying about the fundamental nature of the state of Israel and the West Bank occupation is deeply unfair and dangerous to Palestinians, but it is ultimately dangerous to Diaspora Jews, as well: jewishinsider.com/2026/03/josh...

If, and this is extremely unlikely, things go so badly for Israel that there's mass exodus (heh) from there to Europe and North America the Israeli exiles are gonna make the Cubans in Florida look like the most reasonable moderates ever.