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Broadcaster and writer Afua Hirsch explaining how Tim Davie the now former BBC Director-General looked her in the eye and said Black staff supporting anti-racism “breached impartiality” www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4fxa6...

I blame the Star Wars Prequels

I mean, yeah, they’ve never explained this shit before so why start now?

The guy who hopes somebody got fired for that blunder

Like the entire joke here was that this guy sucks and this shit doesn’t fucking matter, and yet it’s somehow become the dominant form of cultural discourse/ criticism. I hate it.

Tbh I think it never really recovered from Austin Powers

Yeah like stop pretending Bond of all fucking things is serious business just get fucking daft with it.

I don’t actually really *mind* this sort of behaviour, it’s just the extent to which it’s become so predominant in mainstream discourse (rather than eg arsing about with your pals in the pub) and the way people seem to insist on creators “officially” answering these sort of silly little questions.

People are just completely incapable of enjoying anything without every single minutia of the setting in which it exists explained to them. IT DOESN’T MATTER JAMES BOND IS COMPLETELY FUCKING MADE UP.

No don’t do this. Can everyone just stop acting like absolutely every fucking daft slice of entertainment has to have a completely watertight, coherent backstory to it?

"JAMES BOND" IS NOT A CODENAME. HE ALREADY HAS A CODENAME. IT IS 007. RESIST THE URGE TO CANONISE STUFF. CANONISATION IS THE MIND KILLER. CANONISATION IS AMERICAN

BLOEFELD: none of this makes any sense! we're retconning you. you were born in the seventies BOND: *shoots him with a harpoon gun* i think he got the point. that's a repetition of a thing i said in 1962, during one of my earlier missions

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i think if the democrats had dug in their heels and said "this is the epstein shutdown. trump is starving the country because he doesn't want the epstein files to come out" they probably could have ended him. so it was very kind of them to not do that

RADIO Times Radio • @TimesRadio • 4h "I used to be the right, but then the whole spectrum moved." @WilliamJHague insists his views are "still just the same as they ever were" but politics has become "more and more right wing"

Pretty remarkable that it falls to *William fucking Hague* to explain the most basic reality of a decade of escalating wingnuttery right across the board, but here we are

ps. it is arguable that Brianna would not likely have turned to social media for friendships and transitional support had those things been readily available in her local area.

@charlotte2153.bsky.social you want kids like Brianna off her phone? then give them a better alternative.

Now tell us about your "Island of strangers" speech, you absolute binfire of a PM.

Many things have made me feel like I’m taking crazy pills lately, and this is one of them.

Like, we all read about the story. We know what happened. What the hell is all this about? It’s SO weird.

a man is playing a saxophone in front of a fire while a woman plays drums in the background . Alt: a man is playing a saxophone in front of a fire while a woman plays drums in the background . (the man is Tim Capello in The Lost Boys)

Never again

a young man is playing a saxophone in a living room . ALT: a young man is playing a saxophone in a living room .

Lest we forget.

Like if there was a lad there with a hot pink BC Rich Ironbird

There’s some sort of armistice day thing on the news involving a military band and I’m sorry but (specific apologies to @petefrasermusic.bsky.social) a saxophone is a deeply un-solemn instrument.

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

This sort of thing feels especially useless right now

oh my god

Oh bollocks I’ve written another song but it’s not one of the ones I need for the record I’m supposed to be finishing rn.

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

See Red Women's Workshop poster, 1975

Another illustration by Walter Molino (1915-1997) from the Italian newspaper, DOMENICA DEL CORRIERE.

Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Transphobia is a pipeline to the far right. An example:

Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.

Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.

Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.

Weird who gets an apology and retraction for Panorama episodes and who doesn't, isn't it?