was no one gonna mention Harry Houdini looked like martin sheen in 1980

100 years ago news@100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 13m ago

Aug. 5, 1926: Harry Houdini seals himself into a coffin that’s then lowered to the bottom of the pool at the Hotel Shelton in New York. With no visible breathing apparatus, he remains underwater for 1 hour, 31 minutes, before signaling through a buzzer to be brought back to the surface. 1/2

oh hey we're doing degenerate Jewish art but leftishly.

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago

Oh my fucking god

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 28m ago

Disney said on Wednesday that it had reached a global deal with TikTok to allow fan-created short-form videos based on its characters and franchises to appear inside the Disney+ streaming service. The tightly vetted videos will appear in Verts, a Disney+ vertical video feed.

Weirdly I think "I am not running as a candidate and will refocus my career on de-radicalisation" is possibly the, uh, good ending?

IMO the obvious but probably scheduling conflicted choice is Robert Pattinson, the actual obvious choice is Riz Ahmed and the interesting choice is Himesh Patel Inevitably it will be Callum Turner but boo

The Independent@the-independent.com · 6h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

beautiful thread on the idea of spooks holding international awards for Spooking

Jack Tindale@jacktindale.bsky.social · 5h ago

Properly gone at the idea of having this awarded like a corporate award gigs in one of those massive but soulless business hotel ballrooms, with Romesh Ranganathan hosting.

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

Horrified to discover I might actually not mind running

More metaphorical fuel for the argument that Burnham is sleepwalking himself into problems down the line on climate

Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 6h ago

This is a repeated pattern Burnham has already displayed - portraying environmental protection and economic prosperity as zero sum, sacrificing one for the other. It might be canny short term politics, but it’s a horrible message that validates the culture messaging of the climate deniers

it’s kind of crazy that YouTube, which might as well be the biggest television station in the world, is just nonstop scammy ads—and it’s gotten worse since the advent of generative AI

#wargames #wargaming #acw #shedowar #shedowargames #tabletopminiatures

I've done a bit of a Wikiwalk about this and had the amazing revelation that one of the French agents behind the bombing later became a wildlife photographer and had one of his photos published under a pseudonym in a calendar for...Greenpeace. Most of them had been sold by the time they realised.

Jack Tindale@jacktindale.bsky.social · 4h ago

The Deputy Head of DGSE picking at his overcooked chicken supreme as he waits to hear if he'll get a Lifetime Achievement Award for the Rainbow Warrior.

The Eurovision Jury element to this is amazing. [Cut to a man in dark glasses and a trenchcoat in Belgrade, standing under a streetlight] "Good eeeveening London. And may I say Mrs Metreweli you are looking fabulous tonight and thank-you for a fabulous show."

I am going to be spending the rest of my day and possibly my week thinking about "Werner the Herzog" and quite frankly it's the last thing I needed

MaksonLima@maksonlima.bsky.social · 5h ago

Juro que tem dias que eu acordo pensando nisso aqui:

Not to jinx it and/or say that perhaps the loss of Hungary as a clearing house for far-right money has had an impact...but it doesn't feel like we've had the bubbling far-right tension as much this year as the last two-three? Not that, like, a certain amount of the damage isn't already done

This is not great but still *significantly* better for Labour any other seat estimation since, like September 2024

Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 6h ago

MRP Poll | Labour 81 Seats Short: LAB: 245 (+138) | 26% RFM: 174 (-112) | 23% CON: 99 (+19) | 21% LDM: 67 (-17) | 11% SNP: 25 (-8) | 2% PLC: 8 (-2) | 1% GRN: 7 (-13) | 10% Via @convergent-opinion.bsky.social, 25-30 Jul. Changes w/ 15 Jun MRP.

Really weird to me how incredibly rich white men get to say stuff like "in three to four years we'll be achieving nuclear fusion from honey" and the stock markets go "wow, sounds great bro!" and the news just reports it with maybe a paragraph at the end of "critics say this is unlikely".

Ed Baldwin going nuts after being stuck on the moon alone for six months:

Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 6h ago

Why's that cunt fucking up the moon

Live depiction of my romantic skills

fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social · 7h ago

Chatted to a stunning girl at a bar in Zante, walked her back to her apartment and kissed at her door, she spent 20 mins explaining how she hated her room mates and didn't want to stay there. I walked 5 minutes back to my hotel. Only realised 2 years later whilst reminiscing.

That Joshua Bonehill-Paine is a suitable Tory candidate but Grant Shapps and Gavin Barwell have been excluded is quite a good indicator of how many seats the Tories will realistically regain at the next election.

Still on my holidays! Traveling across Europe by train and seen some amazing sites. Lazying in Italy now before returning home next week. This is the life…

If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.

I used to get annoyed at even sensible outlets like the BBC and FT doing headlines like "who is X, the new Y?" headlines before I realised that that's the only way to get the article to appear in search results above clickbait/AI sites these days.

the whole 'nothing has gotten better' discourse is of course fucking stupid in a million ways, but I just wanted to note that average dog lifespan in the United States has increased by two years since 2000.

Hobbies! As I look at my bookshelf with a wide range of wargames, or my miniatures covering a vast range of settings (sci-fi, fantasy, historical), all of which are far higher quality than even 20 years ago. Hobbies are more accessible, often more affordable, and easier to find communities in

John C@badsocialism.bsky.social · 8h ago

"what's gotten better in the last 40 years" 40 years ago the average person in the western world did not approve of interracial marriage or gay rights

I'll be disappointed if Stevens wins, but mostly what you should take away from tonight is that the coalition really is divided between factions with lots of genuine support, we can't wish the other side away, and we're all going to have to learn to live with each other if we want to win.

I know Americans are meant to be wealthier than the rest of us but does it really count when you said money gets effectively burnt every electoral cycle in a pagan ritual of spin doctoring

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 15h ago

30,000,000 dollars

I'm a Han Zimmer purist, I prefer his early work (piano and synth in the Batman:Mask of the Phantasm Orchestral score)

I think the rage directed at Wilson shows how hollow the "But he's getting people interested in the classics" line is. Like he probably is and Wilson, correctly, understands that as an academic studying classics this is a moment to talk about her specialism a bunch to a new audience.

🏴ᛏ Sigrún, hræfnes cwen ᚩ🏴@empress-trixana.bsky.social · 11h ago

mad fucking props to Dr Wilson for looking at the internet going absolutely stupid at her and going alright, fuck it, round two let's go bitches