Tom Huddleston

#TeamRosanna all the way

Thanks for the warning! I'll be sure to steer clear.

The inability of very stupid people to understand that other people make their own decisions and do not just react the way you want them to in your ideal scenario remains undefeated in producing generational level shitshows

Pretty sure that's a Nirvana lyric.

One for my Sunday supplement quiz 'Who said it: Herman Melville or Kurt Cobain?'

Asked if the US attacked a desalination plant in Iran, Pres. Trump says Iranians are "among the most evil people ever on earth." "They cut babies' heads off—they chop women in half..." "I know nothing about a desalinization plant, other than to say, if they're complaining about a desalinization plant, we complain about the fact they shouldn't be chopping babies' heads off." Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can be seen nodding in agreement.

A pretty clear demonstration here of how the lies told to sell the destruction of the Gaza Strip to the public helped to create the structure of impunity required to destroy as much as possible of other countries too

Welcome to the Garyneum, the 13 day period between the birthdays of Gary Numan and Gary Oldman.

None for the ents because their fingers are too weird and gnarly.

THE RZA IS COMING TO THE RIO! This is basically the most exciting thing to happen to our family since that kid showed up. Book your tickets now!

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@riocinema.bsky.social

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

AMERICAN GESTAPO: A new anthology from RHP Press this fall. We're looking for dark crime stories (2-7k words) about American fascism. Subs open Feb 15 to March 15. More info: bit.ly/4pTIdJF

This chart is endlessly fascinating.

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

Oh so that's how we obliterated 100 school girls

Israel Epstein - Wikipedia

They’re calling him “the least Googleable man of all time”

'Britain is a nation of contrasts'

I cannot wait for the insights on this! He's going to:

1. Sample some local street food.
2. Ride a train.
3. Visit a temple.
4. Not mention the pogroms that the serving Prime Minister presided over.
5. Smile at some elephants.
6. Top up his kids' private school fees.
7. Say "India is changing".

Black and white still from The Girl Chewing Gum.

As his experimental film marks its 50th birthday with a screening in the Dalston street where it was shot, John Smith speaks about his life's work exploring the unreliable perspective of the camera's lens

Mr Smith Goes to Dalston: John Smith on The Girl Chewing Gum at 50

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I see it's #WorldBookDay.
So fuck it, why not?
Yeah, I did write a book, since you ask...
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Are they snakes?

It's remarkable how easy a functioning press could shatter these fragile fascist losers to pieces with very little effort.

Currently on a spectacularly ill-timed trip to the Saudi-Yemeni borderlands...

PREORDER: 'Smoke and Mirrors' by Green Seagull

Late 60s pop jangle meets baroque instrumentation on the latest from the UK neo-psychedelia group.

www.normanrecords.com/records/2145...

Now more than ever, you don't have to be cutting and pasting batshit posts that you have seen over on That Other Site and also, for fuck's sake, get off That Other Site, again, now more than ever

To be fair, the UK did hold out for nearly 48 hours, which is a new record.

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

The Wedding Present - Brassneck YouTube video by WeddingPresentVEVO

My brain is so full of outdated cultural detritus, the kid got a LEGO batman robot he called the BatMech and I immediately started humming this.

youtu.be/d9DjDh3yjSM?...

Or they could just say: 'Nah. I'm not going to go and kill a bunch of kids to take the heat off a corrupt paedophile'.

30 years ago none of us would've cared what the world's saddest men and boys got up to in their bedrooms and basements and I absolutely do not intend to start giving a shit now.

There are things in the world I feel like it's fine to just ignore and this is definitely one of them.