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Nosferatu is, ultimately, a film about the importance of carefully reading legal documents

One last plug of my Six Nations preview. Five of the six players I picked as "players to watch" aren't starting, and three of them aren't even playing, so we're off to a good start. But have a read anyway.

Kash Patel confirmation hearing: Dick Durbin asks Patel if he’s familiar with Stew Peters—a right-wing fringe conspiracy theorist. Patel: <long pause> Not off the top of my head. Durbin: You’ve made eight appearances on his podcast.

Checking in on Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing:

And so I find myself explaining to everyone in the Trader Joe's line the difference between "eponymous" and "titular."

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

godspeed to the person who chose an iced coffee in M&S then made it to the alcohol & thought “nope”

this is severe, untreatable, terminal lawyer brain. so many legal academics act like the constitution is not a vessel intended to secure actual human rights and dignity, but a mere matter of intellectual curiosity, meant to be batted around like a cat with a toy

I know so much of the focus about Aime Césaire is in the politics of his work and rightfully so but his writing is also so musical and lovely to read

Fiction by brown people doesn’t have to teach you a goddamn thing. If you do learn something, good on you. But we’re allowed to just entertain.

Hamilton describes his first Ferrari test as “one of the best feelings of my life” today

“When I started the car up and drove through that garage door, I had the biggest smile on my face. It reminded me of the very first time I tested a Formula 1 car, it was such an exciting and special moment” #F1

for people who don’t know, Hagay Amir is the brother and accomplice of Yitzchak Rabin’s assassin

they should do this

Chiesa whenever he gets the ball.

I’m old enough to remember when the UK government was about to fall because of the rising cost of gilts

if there is one funny thing about yesterday’s blitzkrieg of executive orders is that it makes the “democratic opposition went too far last time” crowd look like total dipshits

We're going to spend the next few years being told that the things we're seeing in front of our own eyes aren't happening. Cruelty, corruption and naked fascism, covered up by a media ecosystem controlled by its beneficiaries or those too cowardly to call things what they are.

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Tweet from the Anti-Defamation League: "This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety. It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge. In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead."

This is somehow even more cravenly pathetic than if they had just said nothing at all.

What some folk may not know is that @alanbeattie.bsky.social is one of the UK's longest serving trade policy expert. And he brings all the receipts with him today in a learned discourse on Trump, and rather savage dismissal of a new UK government - "I'd expected better"

The rules, if you are keeping track:

If a single left activist anywhere in the world says "defund the police," it becomes the official position of the Democratic Party, now and forever.

If the president's top surrogate repeatedly sieg-heils on stage, it's ambiguous, impossible to interpret.

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to
awake.”
—James Joyce, Ulysses

Blue Smash, by Adolph Gottlieb, 1960

it’s very possible that in a few weeks “Trump saved TikTok” will become a recurring political talking point, mostly because Dems are short sighted and Trump knows an easy political win when he sees it

[mouth directly on the microphone] public opinion on immigration is malleable

I wish to apologise for my ignorance in the above post. I thought tiktok was only for illiterate teens but as many commenters have made clear it’s also for illiterate 50 year olds

Welcome, teens coming here from tiktok. I think you’ll find that through the magic of the written word I am able to craft sentences that are as vivid and compelling as any short-form video!

Thinking of five-year old Hind Rajab and all the other innocent people for whom the ceasefire came too late