Ben

@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

love is the plan the plan is death

i don't think i really have a take on the Jacob Arday thing except to note that i looked up the original substack post by the "race scientist" that started this whole thing and originally thought "this has to be a joke, no race scientist is going to look and dress this much like a race scientist"

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remember when we all got very bluesky-excited about the schismatic consecrations a month or so ago? it happened again on Saturday in Orkney, of all places. did you know there was an entire traditionalist catholic monastery on a tiny island in Orkney and it's less than 30 years old?

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yo, remember chess? remember the whole Candidates thing? remember Javokhir Sindarov? they finally announced the date and place for the actual world championship. get hype

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what is the neighbourly etiquette for "unused office building down the road recently started flying an an-com flag, has a squatters' rights notice in the window now, and i want to drop by and say 'hell yeah buddy we have your back'"

"There's a Professor Jeffries from the Ministry of Silly Cunts to see you, Prime Minister. Says he has an idea to win the war using raspberry jam." "Have him shot, and don't bother me with this nonsense again." [80 years later SAS JAM JAR HEROES enters its sixth series on Sky One]

moving Miliband to the Technically It's A Promotion, See You In Three Years job, re-opening the North Sea for oil and gas, and appointing Angela Eagle to Environment....yeah it's not great it is