Guy Harvey

You be the judge: should my wife stop leaving piles of clothes all over the bedroom? Kevin thinks wardrobes are there for a reason, but Mabel says hangers are a hassle for a woman in a rush. You decide who deserves a dressing down

Dump him, girl www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

💥Dramatic turn in Hungary’s election race: Orbán rival Péter Magyar says that in 2024 his ex-girlfriend set a honey trap to secretly record them having sex—footage he claims Orbán’s camp plans to publish to ruin and blackmail him.

Magyar currently holds a big lead in the polls. Election in 59 days.

Thank you.

My point is that a lot of criticism is aimed at the government for not doing such and such from influential media organisations and I sometimes wonder if they themselves are doing very much, eg. (where misinformation is concerned) working with industry-wide bodies to combat it.

Anything you can share here?

Bondi is possibly the most overt example of the slide into cartoonish autocracy.

Her defence - her actual defence - in the Epstein hearing appeared to be ‘how dare you criticise the president’.

What has The Economist written about this in the last two years?

Essentially vaccine misinformation is a media issue.

This couldn’t be clearer. Bannon’s texts to Epstein in mid July 2018 - “overthrowing May right now” and in “London with Boris” as well as his appearance on LBC with Nigel Farage are prettying damning evidence of a cross party plot with foreign backing

Crypto giant gave away $40bn bitcoin in huge error

This appears to be what crashed the price of bitcoin 17%, as people quickly began to sell their newly gifted coins to reap the major windfall. The company is now trying to claw back that money by asking nicely and offering reimbursements to people who sold as they watched the price crater.

Sam Altman was right - this unironically is PhD-level intelligence

Great now I want to see a drama series with Tom Baker and Brian Blessed playing two retired spy masters from either side of the iron curtain who have to team up and save the world from something they did in the 1960’s.

Threads director Mick Jackson has expressed worry over the upcoming remake’s focus on finding “hope even in the most challenging of times.”

“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”

Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

Also:
We've collectively got into the mindset of assuming very rich = very smart
It doesn't. I suspect often people become rich by adopting a tunnel-vision approach to life. Acquiring wealth is all they have the bandwidth for. They miss all the good stuff. They are dysfunctional in every other area.

They can be the very worst.

Too often it's just luck that gave them wealth

but they think it's because they're really clever and their every opinion is gold

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Another kestrel eyeing me with evil intent. It’s perched in the branches of a conifer.

aaaagggghhhh

A kestrel, warm brown in the sun, perched on top of something, and eyeing me with a quite frankly hungry look.

oh no now I have to post this

It’s coming into land, wings and tail feathers spread.

Well, you know what they say: “if you can’t think of anything nice to say, post a picture of a kestrel”

One more photo, and you'll have matched the Hereford Times' superb headline from 2001.
www.herefordtimes.com/news/5701718...

Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Two men at a car dealership. Man: Cargo space? Car seller: Car no do that. Car go road.

But you might think that their foibles structure their policies

Just drawing attention to the group cognitive bias that's going in that thread.

People who hate Labour are irritated by their foibles.

If you approved of what they were doing you wouldn't mind

You've gotta watch this clip 😂

😂😂😂

The last two English movies I’ve watched (Brief Encounter and The Deep Blue Sea) have both featured scenes where a character is passive-aggressively finicky about how someone else, without prior instructions about preferences, prepares tea for them.

Two dolls on a pink background in the book 'Dolls in Colour' (Faith Eaton, 1975) "These two turn-of-the-century babies illustrate vividly the changing styles of dollmaking and provide a complete contrast to the earlier wax dolls. The doll in blue is German, made by Kley and Hahn the other is French, made by the Société Francaise de Fabrication des Jouets (SFBJ). Both have bisque heads and jointed composition bodies. Heights: approx 35 cm (14 in.), 45 cm (18 in)"

This needs said more often

"School Streets" have become a thing to watch. Even the loudest high-traffic neighbourhood trumpets will mumble "Except outside schools, of course", but this ignores how (1) kids don't live next to their schools and need to get to the School Street safely and (2) kids go to places that aren't school

Microsoft released a study showing the 40 jobs most at risk by AI: