Olivia

Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

We don't get a lot of good news these days so you've got to appreciate it when it comes. This is a big deal!

they’re targeting weeaboos

As Charles Grodin responded to all the griping about ISHTAR’s budget, “Why should the public be concerned what the budget of a movie is? Coca-Cola financed the movie. It's not as if Coca-Cola was going to give that money to the people of America rather than spend it.”

@princecharlescinema.com

Will the Britcard get me 5% off Pizza Express? It sounds like it should get me 5% off Pizza Express

That as well as the economy, the state is being run in their interests. And that does mean we’ve got to look ourselves in the mirror and recognise where we’ve allowed our parties to shy away from people’s concerns. And let the politics of purity patronise people. Now you will all have issues in your own countries. But in Britain, it’s illegal migration. And I suspect that may be the same in a number of other countries. For too many years, it’s been too easy for people to come here, slip into the shadow economy and remain here illegally. Because, frankly, we have been squeamish about saying things that are clearly true. It’s not just that it is not compassionate, left-wing politics to rely on labour that exploits foreign workers and undercuts fair wages. But the simple fact that every nation needs to have control over its borders. We do need to know who is in our country. Our immigration system does need to be fair if we want to maintain that binding contract that our politics is built on. Otherwise, it undermines trust. Undermines people’s faith that we are on their side and their belief that the state can and will work for them. And that is why today I am announcing this Government will make a new, free of charge, digital ID mandatory for the right to work by the end of this parliament. Let me spell that out. You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID. It’s as simple as that. Because decent, pragmatic, fair-minded people - they want us to tackle the issues that they see around them. And of course the truth is, we won’t solve our problems if we don’t also take on the root causes.

It speaks volumes about how unmoored Labour has become from the people who actually voted for it in 2024 (i.e. people in work) that the line on digital ID cards is just an obvious lie to anyone who has changed jobs in the past decade!

Unfortunately when you follow UK politics closely, you realise that around 80% of Westminster believe this kind of thing is very smart, and moreover, true.

Paranormal Activity is a movie about how even demons don't like being filmed without their consent.

I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day

I say this all the time: anti-stratfordian theories are based entirely on the idea that a great author has to be born upper class.

we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

I was literally just thinking I should watch The Way We Were

One of my favorite Robert Redford stories is when Mike Nichols was considering him for "The Graduate" and told him he needed to act like a guy who has struck out with women and Redford replied "what do you mean?"

Imagine having such an incredible impact on American cinema while at the same time being one of history's greatest foxes, RIP Robert Redford

i think how we got here is that the right's favorite move is working the ref and the radical centrist's favorite move is self flattery that they could never be worked

Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89

aw man, RIP

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

I can only assume whoever scheduled a sprint weekend at Singapore hates the drivers and wants them all to die of exhaustion

You'd probably like Blondshell and Lambrini Girls

One thing that I think some not-youngs forget (and is different from 20 years ago) is that Kirk used his ‘debates’ to generate video that could go viral and, to use an old phrase, catapult the propaganda. His debates weren’t in any way, shape, or form educational.

“I’m an eleven, but continue.”

I think the thing I resent most about Starmer, aside from his politics, general demeanor, lack of competence, grating voice and fact that he looks photoshopped into every picture with him in it, is just that he refuses to do his fucking job at every turn.

They're also revealing their ignorance of the online economy. Kirk was doing the opposite of persuasion; he was chopping up clips of ill-informed students designed to reassure his followers that their opponents were all morons and it wasn't worth inquiring into their ideas any further

It's genuinely a problem for counterterrorist efforts, at least here in the UK. People aren't groomed into specific ideologies, they just kind of collect weird extreme views

Genuine question: why have they wasted a whole day defending him

- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

wild that MP3 is an audio file, MP4 is a video file, but MP5 is a submachine gun. Digimon-ass evolution line.