Jack Bernhardt

There's an article on the BBC asking if Timothée Chamalet has "lost his shine" and going in depth about the Oscars race, and I know it's very boring to say "i don't care" about something that other people clearly enjoy but god I hate awards chat, we only have one life on this planet, my god

feel like this is a gateway post for getting into cryptic crosswords

"butt doctor, I AM Pagliacci!!!" - weirdly dramatic clown goes to the proctologist

ok let me tell y'all something. I don't know who needs to hear this, but I'm gonna say it real loud and slow for the haters at the back: we are absolutely - and I want to be 100% clear now, no sugarcoating, ZERO cap - completely right now. and if you can't see that it's on YOU. do the WORK. PLEASE.

Union street fire: support Haus of Hair Last month, my wonderful hairdresser and friend Gemma left her job to fulfil her dream of starting her own salon with fellow stylist Aimee. 'Haus of Hair' opened last week. I visited on Friday and wa...

My hairdresser and friend opened her business last week. Tonight it burned to the ground. This is devastating.

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Bloody hell, giving extensive notes on movies like this when they're nearly finished is an inept way to work. If there's a type of movie where you really need to nail your script down before production starts, it's this. And if you make creative decisions you should stick by them.

Discovered Israel tortured journalist (8)

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Yeah, I don't know why I expected better of Pixar really

just realised this article is 8 years old and feel stupid for not knowing the intimate details sooner - I knew Lasseter was a piece of shit but good lord

Pixar’s Pete Docter Says Queer ‘Elio’ Storyline Was Axed Because “We’re Making A Movie, Not Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Of Therapy” Pixar Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter explained the animation company's decision to ax a queer storyline in last year's Elio.

Am I surprised that a man who was able to thrive at a company where women weren't allowed in the same room as the boss, because he'd grope them, appears to have no ethical backbone? Not even a little.

I love (loved?) Pixar films and dreamed of working there - no more. What a hideous disgusting office culture and what a tragedy that so many brilliant, talented female animation creatives would be forced to go through this.

Worth sharing on International Women’s Day. Fucking hell.

all my favourite people are in favour of this war: Donald Trump, Tony Blair, Spectator columnist Reginald Smyth-Childcatcher, former MMA fighter and Dubai resident Chuggy Sweats, three of the four horsemen if the apocalypse, Sir Jim Ratcliffe... it's really making me doubt myself

woah even BLAIR, that famous peacenik, thinks we should go to war? hmmmm

THE KILLERS: Andy, you're a star

ANDY: aw thanks guys!

THE KILLERS: in nobody's eyes

ANDY: what the fuck

THE KILLERS: but mine

ANDY: guys you're all over the shop here, do you think I'm a dickhead or what

Get ready to be annoyed when petrol prizes go up and a) a bunch of politicos declare the government's poll ratings have gone down because Starmer didn't go in with the US on Iran and b) a bunch of politicos who support the war blame the government for increased energy costs.

also illustrative: the examples Sunak has used are of two empires bent on control/domination of the known world

(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa) BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history. REGINALD: Wow! What's it do? BEARTATO: It... what? REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do? (Beartato thinks.) BEARTATO: I don't know. REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do? EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this! (The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet) MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk! (Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)

True Art

Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.

STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

During World War 2 the United States sought to use entertainment as a form of propaganda. In 1943 the Office of Strategic Services (a precursor to the CIA) circulated a memo stating the cinema is "one of the most powerful propaganda weapons at the disposal of the United States" and recommended "the voluntary cooperation of all motion agencies not under the control of the JCS [Joint Chiefs of Staff]".[4] The United States Office of War Information utilized cinema for its own ends to rally the public behind the war effort. Director Elmer Davis stated "The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people's minds is to let it go in through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized".[5] In 1953 US President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared "The hand of government must be carefully concealed, and, in some cases I should say, wholly eliminated" and that "a great deal of this particular type of thing would be done through arrangements with all sorts of privately operated enterprises in the field of entertainment, dramatics, music, and so on and so on."[6][7]

something so grimly funny that the birth of the military-entertainment complex begins with Eisenhower saying "we can never let the American people explicitly make the connection between Hollywood and the US army" and possibly ends with Trump just tweeting it out

it's the kind of thing that will be a primary source in a GCSE history module about The Fall Of The American Empire (1992-2029), and it's the source you'd pray to come up in the exam because it's so on the nose

almost certainly an overreaction, but this feels like one of the most important videos of the 21st century, in the sense that it's the actual White House saying the (admittedly barely veiled) subtext of the military-industrial-entertainment complex of the past 60 years out loud

1967 - Dystopian Sci-fi novel, Don’t Create The Torment Nexus published

1974 - Cult classic BBC mini series

1997 - BBC remake

2002 - Hollywood movie, upbeat ending added

2019 - Nexcon - A Torment Company IPO’s, $324 Billion market cap

2026 - Polymarket bets on who will be tormented next

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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I think this has rubbed me up the wrong way because it assumes the people being bombed should give a fuck about the trivial internal politics of the people doing the bombing. even as a critique of America it's depressingly self-absorbed

The good kind of infighting. Creasy explaining very clearly why the policy sucks. More power to the backbenchers

David Simon The ayatollahs could issue the funniest statement ever today: "Wait. He just appointed the second-most deadbrained Senator to head homeland security and he gave the dog-shooting Barbie some made up job defending the Western hemisphere. And now he wants to name our Supreme Leader? The fuck you say."

"the funniest statement ever"

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

As someone who lives down the road from the Spurs stadium, I've gone from laughing at this to genuinely worrying about the effect this will have on the local economy

Markwayne isn't a name, it's a way of stopping England at major tournaments between 2004 and 2016