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I dreamt that the actor Richard Kind was the new manager of Everton. He seems like a nice guy and I wouldn’t want that for him.

An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

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A photo of entertainers Little and Large. Large’s face has been blanked out and a question mark placed over it.

this photo leaves little to the imagination

Depressingly, they must have been in their 40s there

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

Starmer: Ok, I get the message. You’re saying you want *more* anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

I’ve noticed her mask slip a few times.

Ang Lee’s follow up to his 2000 masterpiece

Fair

My condolences

“Well, it’s been a hell of a few days”. How he should have started his speech #bafta

Every pub used to have a range of bread and baguettes displayed outside. Take me back to those times.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter - PAUL McMULLAN: Oh, yeah - BROOKE GLADSTONE: - which is one case that you truly do regret. PAUL McMULLAN: I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station. Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: And you offered her 50 pounds - PAUL MCMULLAN: Yeah. BROOKE GLADSTONE: - if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for. PAUL McMULLAN: No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless? PAUL McMULLAN: I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I? BROOKE GLADSTONE: This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself. PAUL McMULLAN: Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

Rory Stewart on his way to fire up an emergency podcast.

Bunny Thomas or The Toffs

Princess of Wales Look-a-like

Mark Raffles

BARBARA RAY AND HER ALARMED PUPPETS

But you can only choose one.

Really?

All right, settle down mate

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’ https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-time-in-hot-cars-helps-babies-to-sweat-out-toxins/

The crucial difference, in other words, is not that Starmer has made enemies, but how much effort his government has put into kicking its friends. The performative harshness of policies towards immigrants or trans people; the ministers or spokespeople who’ve noisily attacked universities, welfare claimants, public sector workers, social liberals – almost anyone, in short, who might be naturally minded to support a Labour government. They’ve attacked all these people, in a desperate attempt to make clear to racists and social conservatives that they hear them. If the racists and social conservatives were actually going to vote for them this would merely seem abhorrent. When they clearly aren’t, it’s stupid too. No, it is not surprising that Starmer is so unpopular.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social sums up why Starmer is responsible for voters hating him after such a short time:

I bet Claude doesn’t even play the piano or dance

Always a joy to see him acting and it’s a lovely show

If Australia banned social media for under 16s, I genuinely think we should be doing the same for boomers. They can’t be trusted with it.

I mistook this for a Reform manifesto item.

If you’re seeking happiness, the new Harry Hill show drops at the this time every Monday on YouTube.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Just spent 20 minutes scrolling Facebook (on which I’m barely active) and, fuck me I can see how the boomers are getting radicalised.

Izzy Knowles Update on the flags put up without permission in Moseley Village tonight. I went out and spoke to the group at the time, asked them to take the flags down and told them they are committing an offence under S132 Highways Act 1980. Despite that they continued to put up more flags through the village even though it was clear the community does not welcome them here. I have written to the Cabinet member, the Director for Community Safety and the Police Commander asking for the flags to be taken down as soon as possible and for some firm action to be taken, either a summons to court or an injunction. This group are not being patriotic, they are upsetting and frightening many people, causing division amongst communities, wasting police time and adding unnecessary cost to a council that is already struggling with managing its finances. We already have a flag for Birmingham. It's the Birmingham Community flag celebrating our rich heritage as a city of a thousand trades, built on migration and welcoming to all.

Moseley is lucky to have a councillor like @izzyknowles.bsky.social ❤️

#BrumTogether #MoreInCommon

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