David Stubbs

(posted before reading very fine review btw - you already noted the point!)

I'm looking forward to this. I remember interviewing Mike Judge and he said that unlike The Simpsons, his characters would age. True to his word!

the 90s was an awful, regressive decade. it’s a much kinder society today — you can observe that directly if you have kids in school. the issue at the moment is there’s a large, well-resourced and organised pushback campaign

Been thinking about Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) a bit recently for some reason. Here is my favourite crack of his. "Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so."

Take care, Justin.

the amount we heard (and still do) about the intolerant, purity-testing left, and its antagonists can’t even accommodate this absolutely milquetoast lad who didn’t want rivers in his constituency to be destroyed

Huffpost story "The former editor of the Sun has been convicted of breaching the Sexual Offences Act after the paper printed a photograph of Adam Johnson's teenage victim, who should have been granted anonymity. The Sun published a photograph of the girl following the former Sunderland and England player's arrest in March last year."

press reporting that Starmer is to appoint ex Sun editor David Dinsmore as his new permanent comms secretary. He has a conviction for doxxing the teenage victim of sexual abuse by a famous footballer. For most people this would be a new low but here it depends on exactly what Mandelson's role was

One of these days a senior politician will actually say something positive about the 10 million people living and working in the UK who happen to have been born abroad, but that day is not today

Take a moment to take this in: This incredible image from the JWST reveals a huge number of galaxies, each home to billions of stars...

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Gozaliasl, A. Koekemoer, M. Franco, the COSMOS-Web team, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Colbert comes out swinging. Gonna be a fun 10 months...

I truly hate being this person, but

HOW, really how can it be #r4today headline news that Nigel Farage has claimed if he was king we’d all be twice as safe & happy ffs 😫 what are you doing?

Oleksandr Usyk is just superb. He's small, he's old, he's modest, he always speaks well, especially considering his personal position re the Ukraine, he's slightly camp with that fringe, he has beaten all of the best, he never loses. He is one of the very, very greatest heavyweight champions.

YouTube video by Lô Borges - Topic O Trem Azul

Currently listening to Clube du Esquina, the 1972 double album by Brazilian musicians Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges. It's a beautiful piece of work.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b7x...

YouTube video by Jeff Moyer Joy Division - Dead Souls

Ian Kevin Curtis, born OTD in 1956, Stretford, Borough of Trafford, Lancashire
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTdF...

It shows a female patient in an asylum admittance photograph after have hair cut. (sometime in the 1800s)

Did you know?

In the Victorian era, when a woman was admitted to a mental institution, her hair was often removed, and repurposed to make wigs for wealthy women.

Women in asylums had no legal right to refuse, making them a readily available and exploitable source of hair.

#Victorian #history

Think about this image every now again. The salt mountains in the Zagros mountain range of Southern Iran. The things on this earth.

yes!

This Guardian pic of Rayner captures something truthful - the veneer of “I’m a blunt talking Northern lass so I must be salt of the socialist earth” peeled away. Seen, and knowing she is seen.

John Lydon said he was a fan of disco at the time. This was considered contrarian!

A lot of PiL fans had wished it had been called "Death To Disco". The stupidity of the times.

Yes! Love the album and "Summer".

Norman Tebbit died. You chose, in practical and effective terms to be a total cunt. It is unjust that you lived as long as you did when people who made a joyously positive contribution to this world lived far shorter lives. You permanently immiserated lives. Better that you had never been born.

YouTube video by WoodysSecretOldSchoolFunk S.O.S. Band - Just Be Good To Me

An absolute eternal banger with a thoroughly dubious lyric. Your friends are right, mate - he is a user. Get rid. (Oh, and lose about seven minutes of that guitar solo at the end).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2MaOeDibps&list=RDP2MaOeDibps&start_radio=1

Post yourself from a different era. Me, 1988.

My get out is that, unlike other comedy actors of his time who unfailingly played "themselves" with mild variations (Sim, Rutherford, Miles Malleson, etc), Sellers' characters were creations which did not reflect his own character at all.

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin

Totally. Feted by liberals as some sort of refreshing commentator. She has posted nothing about Gaza till this.

Glastonbury chanters or the Southport hate-tweeter – throw the book at one, you must throw it at them all | Marina Hyde There are many nasty idiots in the world – but whether the offence was at a music festival or online, none of these people should be in jail, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

What a stupid piece of shite this is. Equating Lucy Connolly, who advocated the burning of asylum seekers with Bob Vylan, who advocated the extinction of the organisation who have burned alive tens of thousands of Palestinians. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.