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Been so obsessed with this recently!

I always feel like it’s trying to do big scale a la RTD, but also is attempting to do more of a coda, rather than actually compete with Journey’s End. I think there’s a really strong story and ending there if you scale it down a bunch

Haim are one of those bands where my favourite song is invariably: the one I happen to be listening to at that moment

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

Camping! Walking! Paddleboarding!

Kemi writing "You are a serious person who does big things" for her daily affirmations is actually making me cry with laughter

Watching an engineer fix the cleaning robot. Indeed: who watches the watchmen

“My life moves faster than me”

Like, just quickly

YouTube video by Comedy Centre Nigella Lawson Mispronounces Microwave

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Britain and Europe need to get serious about air conditioning In a rapidly warming world, a former extravagance is becoming a necessity

Important. on.ft.com/4lM0pDo Britain and Europe need to get serious about air conditioning

The Salt Path (post-credits scene):

*Moth & Raynor Winn enter their home to find Hannah Ingram-Moore & Johann Hari waiting for them*

Hari: "I'm putting together a team."

The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le... Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth

I spent months on this investigation and gathered docs from the UK courts, Land Registry and a French local authority, to show that Raynor and Moth Winn's story is not as they claim. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social @observeruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Idk, it’s basic but fancy dress groups are still fun: I’m watching Elphaba (inc plush monkeys) and Ali G sing Drop It Like It’s Hot at one another. It’s silly and it’s fun

Same as comments on a lot of sites though? Takes a type of person to do much commenting and they’re often very self assured (and somewhat intransigent)

So much tension

it’s the freaking weeking baby!!

Where the metaphors (and much of the dialogue) are bad, fine, have at.

Most of this criticism is probably dead valid. But the two things everyone draws out: the metaphors with no internal logic, and the mixing of tenses. Are things that I slightly enjoyed, especially the tenses. You’re never unclear on the intended meaning - what’s the problem?

Took someone’s on call for the £32 and just realised it means I can’t go for a run in the morning. Layers of sad

I think it’s good if you can feel comfortable with them and feel like they understand you.
I think it’s more about if you feel like they’re helping you in the process?

Reading an article about the 25th anniversary of Tate Modern and learned the building was in use as a power station for less than 20 years, from 1962 to 1981 - meaning it's been an art gallery for longer than it was ever a power station.

“There’s a companion who is desperate to get the parallel world baby back and there’s a companion who is going to get their life entirely rewritten to accommodate it”

Padme: “They’re the same companion right?”

I said surely him leaving is because otherwise how on earth does he commit to any other projects he wants to do.
And then said tbh I’d be pro getting to a point where we can rotate them all in and out as we like. Tennant (and Billie) start that idea. Let’s do another Whitaker series! Why not?

What a load of shite that doctor who is now hahaha

You have been to Liverpool?

reading nabokov (right) and happened to come across the phrase the "democracy of ghosts" — which chatgpt plagiarized in the short story (left) that enraptured sam altman

The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max It was, we were told, a case of sudden infant death syndrome interrupted. What followed would transform my understanding of parenting, disability and the breadth of what makes a meaningful life

This Archie Bland piece is such a thing. Beautifully written, heartfelt, triumphant. He's on Bluesky but not active. He should know this is a lovely masterpiece.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

May be wrong, but I think this isn’t new for Rees-Mogg

we DESPERATELY need to improve our basic reading comprehension skills. headlines are not articles. tony kushner’s husband writing about queer art and theory about the closet is not part of a phobic agenda. open the schools! learn to read! act like grownups! stop sending gay authors death threats!