The Infamous Grouse

Palantir is Blume / CTOS from the Watch_Dogs games. It’s everywhere.

Andor may have looked to the past for its inspiration, but Babylon 5 did it three decades earlier with the President Clark arc. What’s sobering is that, had we heeded the warnings of B5, Andor might not feel nearly as topical.

(Both shows are great, BTW, in case anyone thinks I’m being partisan.)

Wiktionary definition of “stong”: An area of land equivalent to a quarter of an acre.

I don’t know but you sure get your money's worth.

(There are some… ahem… ”alternative” definitions in the Urban Dictionary but let's not go there.)

Wrong files, Donny.

I rarely disagree with James. And on a couple of occasions he rowed back, so infrequent are his missteps. But this is an absolutely terrible take. She may well have been heartbroken at the behaviour of her favourite son, but she was also complicit in an attempted cover-up to the tune of £12M. 🤮

Leading Reform politician Nadhim Zahawi spoke today of an horrific encounter with a man who looked tired and threatening, and who typified the dystopian nightmare that is Broken Britain…

From the new Private Eye, out now.

We've invented the holodeck before evolving the sort of society necessary for its existence not to be a problem. Since we can’t uninvent the technology, maybe we'll need to look at the society.

All that will keep this tech in its box is the power cost. If that comes down, all bets are off.

Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.

Ah, but did we ever see them in the same room? 🤔

Now I’m imagining Dorries peeling off a mask, Mission Impossible-style, to reveal a cheese-grinning Truss beneath. And now I’m wishing I hadn’t.

If the plan was to appeal to Trump we should have sent Mixed Grills.

did a blog post about how i am gradually switching to linux. hashtag bitching hashtag moaning

www.joewintergreen.com/fuck-windows...

Not even “Good work *on* LBC”, just “Good work LBC.”

Granted this could just be Epstein's oddly abbreviated syntax, which is evident elsewhere, but if not then it doesn’t reflect too well on LBC either. Almost as though he’s praising the station for giving them an uncontested platform.

🐐

Threads post from Fox News promoting their interview with Melania. Text: Melania Trump reveals she is a morning person. “Favorite is morning. Very early morning. Quiet . You get ready for the day.”

“My favourite time of day is when my husband is dead. I mean asleep. I have a coffee, check my email, and get ready for the day. DIE, DONALD! WHY WON’T YOU DIE?”

🧵

Spotted on Facebook- just had to share

Listening to @mrjamesob.bsky.social and after saying the name 'Douglas Carswell' immediately quipped 'What a Country' and I nearly spat my tea...

Judging by the subsequent suppressed giggle I'm not sure he knew he was going to do that until after he'd done it. Either way it was perfectly timed, and had the delivery been slightly slower I suspect the producer might have gone for the dump button. 🤣

It seems as though there’s always a #Babylon5 reference these days, @straczynski.bsky.social’s gift for prophecy being proven increasingly and disturbingly on-point.

(I understand the toy store folks are pushing back legally. Good luck to them).

As requested by Luke Hooverhead

I can't lie, at first I missed the word "satirical" and for a few seconds I thought this news was genuine.

In my defence, "FIFA invents Peace Prize" and "Machado re-gifts Trump a Nobel medal like it's a chocolate coin from a selection box" also sound like satire. I just can't tell any more.

Pentagon readies 1,500 soldiers to possibly deploy to Minnesota, officials say Troops with the Army’s 11th Airborne Division in Alaska are preparing after President Donald Trump’s Insurrection Act threat, according to defense officials.

In this mad timeline in which #Babylon5 is a playbook and not a warning, we are now deep in the "Point Of No Return" phase. Next we find out who in the military is prepared to follow illegal orders. And if we get to "Severed Dreams", that's when the President orders the bombing of civilian targets.

Scene from the Simpsons episode “Homer The Great” in which Homer, everyone else having abandoned the Stonecutters, is attempting to get a bunch of monkeys to reenact the Civil War.

At the current rate of attrition it won’t be long before the Conservative Party consists solely of Kemi Badenoch and a bunch of colobus monkeys reenacting the American Civil War.

Autocorrect has rearranged the letters of the word “Wanker” there for some reason.

Greenland

Season 9. We're living in Season 8.