John Mortell

To them, it's mostly a giant game. And before Trump, it was mostly a giant game with comparatively low stakes. Who cares if you let something slide? It's not like democracy is gonna collapse. But in the Trump era, the consequences are very real, and they've decided to choose their ambition anyway.

they’re so close

Feels a bit odd to write a piece warning of musicians being silenced for political reasons, without mentioning the UK's current and ongoing prosecution of Kneecap. Odder still when your example is a Russian soprano who's working happily for the Royal Opera House and merely been subject to criticism.

German campaigners welcome Irish intervention over Berlin police after protest violence Irish Berlin-based activist Kitty O’Brien is recovering in hospital following an altercation with a police officer

German campaigners welcome Irish intervention over Berlin police after protest violence

Because they like him and want him to win.

Remarkable how the police are always on hand to nick people like this but seem unable to detain large numbers of thugs outside hotels.

I dont think there's been a worse government decision in terms of sheer immediate injustice, time-wasting, overreach for quite a while in the UK. lots that had *longer term* implications but this has been a shameful disaster.

Support for Israel continues to deteriorate, especially among Democrats and young people | Brookings American public opinion of Israel has continued to worsen as the war in Gaza drags on and conditions for Palestinians worsen.

84% of Americans want immediate ceasefire.

Only 27% back Netanyahu.

Only 31% of Americans *don’t* believe Israel is committing a genocide.

www.brookings.edu/articles/sup...

Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.

Did a new one

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".

(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.

The people who want to keep their identities secret so they can terrorize people think they should be allowed to keep their identities secret. We are a serious news organization.

This is a combination of “the NYT leadership like Trump and wish him to rule over us like a king” and “the NYT finds the Epstein scandal vulgar and what it says about the rich, power and sex distasteful”

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

Is there a collection of your run as a separate book?

A like for simply the sheer chuckle of the comment

Edit of a parody news headlinne reading "Heartbreaking: The Worst Company You Know Just Made A Great Lawsuit"

I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan.

(thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)

"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately?

anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.

"beyond the childish and cruel sentiments—there was also the boasting. ...that there would be no pause in his tariffs—that they were beautiful things that would set the USA on a course to greater prosperity, blah, blah, blah.

Then yesterday, without a single ass-kissing deal agreed, he blinked." 👇

So you are saying an anti-immigration campaign with AfD rhetoric and a 180-degree turn on your campaign promises has ... consequences?

Elon Musk Rage Quits Gaming Livestream After Repeatedly Dying, Gets Mercilessly Mocked by Viewers During a livestream of himself playing the free-to-play action RPG Path of Exile 2, Elon Musk was ruthlessly bullied by other players.

Elon Musk Rage Quits Gaming Livestream After Repeatedly Dying, Gets Mercilessly Mocked by Viewers
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I hate all of this in almost every way a thing can be hated. I hate the factless waffle that surrounds Big AI’s every improbable goal. I hate how insipidly stupid, or just plain evil, those goals so often are, and the yawning chasm between them and any form of achievable reality. I hate that Big AI’s successes are inflated and its failures ignored — or are even categorised as hilarious mis-steps, like when AI chatbots tell people to eat poisonous mushrooms, put glue on pizza, or make air diffusers from chlorine gas. I hate that Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow. I hate that it can run roughshod over every copyright law and environmental protection on the planet in pursuit of the data it needs to continue failing, with no consequences save for the enrichment of the worst people on Earth, who have managed to make all of this magical bullshit seem sensible to an intellectual class comprised of people I wouldn’t trust to print an email.

On hatred.

Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯!

"You journalists need to get your balls back"

Why Marine Le Pen should be allowed to run for president Punish the offender without also punishing French democracy

Surprised to see @economist.com on the ‘politicians should be allowed to do crimes without consequences’ team. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

People love giving the media shit, but if anything we understate its role in spreading populism. It unquestioningly accepts its narratives and persistently holds its politicians to a lower standard than mainstream ones.

if Hegseth did this while blackout, that's WhiskeyLeaks

I have many flaws, but at least I’m not a ketamine addict with a botched penis surgery.