I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

"Subsequently, Cullen has appeared at Reading Crown Court in connection with offences relating to possession of child pornography. He denies the allegations." shocked, shocked I say

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d ago

The High Court also heard RTC leader Ben Cullen had threatened physical violence to a resident removing flags, boasting that he was a “violent criminal” who had served 15 years in prison. Full report in today’s Clarion: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d ago

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"we should build an army by creating a society no one would want to defend"

From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection.

We got about 5 drops of rain around work earlier, enough to unlock a brief moment of petrichor but nothing that's stayed.

I will remember Rod Liddle for the fact that the lawyer who checked my book before publication had no issue with me writing that Liddle couldn’t be a teacher because he’d have had sex with the students. Why? Because Liddle wrote it in a national magazine.

speak on it

'Its outsourced guards are barred from the building’s high-quality “hub” – bright and airy recreation rooms that are available to the institution’s mainly white employees. They are not allowed to take their breaks there, or even sit in that area.' 1/2

National Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’, curator claims

Exclusive: Outsourced guards, largely from minority ethnic backgrounds, barred from staff hub for mainly white employees

theguardian.com

WHY WAS IT NEVER MY TURN TO BE HAPPY

and it's just really striking to me that amnesty can't capitulate here and have any value as a human rights org, but also that transphobes and the right wing are hoping for that. they want trans rights to be the wedge issue which errode liberties generally

"rom-com" is short for "roman commerce". olives and garum and suchlike

Sometimes when doing genealogy research you stumble upon stuff that leaves you speechless.

Just such a scene is, I think, one of the most extraordinary moments in all of cinema. Rebekah Del Rio, as Rebekah Del Rio, in Mulholland Drive. (I've tried to capture the particular feel of the scene in the alt text.)

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 6d ago

Name your fav film cameo by someone portraying themselves.

Ooh, look at those marbled papers.

Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷@book-historia.bsky.social · 6d ago

Are you familiar with the University of Washington special collections Decorative and Decorated Papers digital collection? If not, you SHOULD be... what a cool resource! digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/coll...

"A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included ⁠in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools. The company did ​not respond to a request for comment."

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 7d ago

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

ESA Rosetta NAVCAM 23 October 2014 - From 2di7 & titanio44 - https://flic.kr/p/ts57tN

Watching a film that I've quickly realised isn't good, or isn't to my tastes, hard to say which at this point, but it DID have a brief scene where Carrie Fisher wields a rocket launcher. One point in its favour.

There's going to be a fun pivot from annual wildfires/crops struggling due to drought/good sun tan to no more temperate weather in W Europe when the Gulf Stream stops, but these ghouls will be dead by then, so what should they care?

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7d ago

I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.

well well well

jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · last wk.

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.

[asphyxiates laughing, dies]

Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · last wk.

The front page of the Daily Telegraph, standing up for the real victims in modern Britain.

Easy mode.

Maximus: Are You Not Entertained?

Alt: Maximus in the film Gladiator, turns to the audience to say: Are You Not Entertained?

static.klipy.com

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog.bsky.social · 7d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

you're trying to crush an esp annoying and dexterous bug, which should be a 1min task at most, but random people keep coming in and distracting you from the bug or putting a cup over the bug and taking it elsewhere. eventually you are so baffled that you give up. poseidon trying to drown odysseus

Sharing bc I think it never hurts to be reminded what scam texts/etc can look like, and to always go independently to the legit platform to check, as Dylan's done.

manta del ray@seafoamghost.bsky.social · last wk.

so i just got a whatsapp from someone pretending to be booking dot com about our stay in october for my surgery, trying to get me to click a link to confirm my stay they obviously know my number, & they also know the dates we are staying does anyone know if there’s been a leak at booking dot com?

There is no one original review of Nolan's Odyssey, they’re all the product of an oral tradition of going “hmm, not quite right" at Classics conferences.

The Trader

Two puncture wounds on my wrist like I've been bitten by an immortal vampyr (admittedly one with a small gap between their canines), but unfortunately it's the humble mosquito, not so immortal once I found the fucker.

“There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible” is honestly the most authentic academic critique of a film that I can imagine