This really does deserve to be up there with "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" though

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.

I want to do this trend, but my favourite film is The World’s End, and I’m drawing a blank on how to describe it in a way that doesn’t sound at least a little bit interesting

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d ago

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title. Local businessman completes acquisition of entertainment venue.

25 years since this thing came out. I’m very fond of it, it’s possibly the most personal thing I’ve made and, if I’m allowed to be proud for a day, I’m rather proud of it. All 8 eps up on Channel 4. #TheArmandoIannucciShows #Ch4 #ABigEgg

TVARK@tvark.bsky.social · 23h ago

The Armando Iannucci Shows Comedy Channel 4 (TalkBack) 30 August - 18 October 2001 Each episode focused on specific themes related to human nature and existentialism, around which Iannucci would weave a series of surreal sketches and monologues.

The Romans would have been perfectly capable of inventing steam trains if they'd wanted to; what you need to go back in time and give the Romans is utilitarianism

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6h ago

If you go back in time and give the Roman Empire steam trains, the telegraph, and rifled firearms/gunpowder, does the utilitarian math from the lives improved balance out the atrocities they would almost certainly do?

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

I don't think the person who wrote the headline understood the column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The hill I will die on: No self-respecting adult should use the term ‘picky bits’ | Laura Snapes

It’s the Boaty McBoatface of dinner time. Britons, resist the supermarkets’ cutesy branding and have some dignity, says the Guardian’s deputy music editor, Laura Snapes

theguardian.com

Well now I feel bad for not knowing she was Shadow Foreign Secretary in the first place www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Patel to be replaced by Tugendhat as shadow foreign secretary

Kemi Badenoch is expected to carry out a wider reshuffle of her front bench team following high-profile departures.

bbc.co.uk

Are some people under the impression that helicopters are called that because they land on helipads and resemble helicopters

Luke Ontario@coolhand.bsky.social · 10h ago

New etymology visual to share a pet peeve: It’s helico-pter, not heli-copter. Spiral wing.

history would have been so different if Pontius Pilate could just have said this

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 18h ago

Absolutely thrilled for Jesus that he is going to Barcelona: more than any other player he transformed the club. Go well.

someone [not me, or at least not me alone] needs to do or have done a paper about truth in plays like in most productions of Hamlet there is a fact about how many hairs are in Hamlet's left eyebrow. but that's not a truth of the play. yet it seems farfetched to claim the production changed it

Maybe we should all crowdfund a competitor to Google Maps that makes more politically radical choices about place names

My beloved does not agree that this is what Snoop Dogg would look like if he were a lion.

Where does Aristotle stand on maxxing? 1) Against it in all its forms 2) OK in moderation 3) Moderationmaxxing only 4) Question makes no sense

Iceland has voted 52.5% to 47.5% against negotiations to join the European Union as a full member. About 100k - 90k with 99% of votes counted. Iceland is a member of the European Economic Association + single market, so will remain in the EEA after the government's proposal was defeated

a prominent member of Film Twitter told me to "Suck his dick" just because i said that my favorite movie is the tv show Scrubs

I don't think I follow any of these wide-eyed dreamers; the vibe I'm getting is that most of the Democrats are pretty rubbish and fixing this mess would take a generation even if they weren't

Snowden St.@snowden.st · 2d ago

A non-zero number of folks on Bluesky, for understandable reasons, have put way too much hope in the next Democratic administration in the US, and are brewing themselves up for another existential breakdown in like 2029 or 2030.

#COYS

hello bottom of the table, our old friend

The article says the change regarding bestiality is that it will no longer be automatically disqualifying if the applicant did it before they were 18, with a similar change also applying to other forms of animal cruelty

Mediaite@mediaite.com · 3d ago

FBI Reportedly Loosens Hiring Rules So ‘Prostitution and Bestiality’ Are No Longer ‘Automatic Disqualifiers’

In the late 90s loads of bands were trying to sound like Radiohead, but then Radiohead changed. Who are the other bands who are doing electronica but with guitars sometimes and a proper drummer, plus a guy who sings with a high voice

Aw: old-school couple met not online, but by cheating on their partners buff.ly/AqSJiKR

Some great band names in this ad

I see Milo is in the news again, so that's my cue to repost the greatest tweet of all time

First we take Manhattan, then we take the biscuit

The WSJ isn't telling you to stop carrying a big water bottle around because it hopes to make a negligible amount of additional water available for cooling data centres; it's just hating on young people

Psychologist described philosophy to me as "a bunch of bros saying things any 3rd grader could think." And she's right: most 3rd graders walk around saying things like "the grounds grounding the ground grounds the ground." Excellent attack on our discipline Ma'am

making myself a coffee with 1/3 spoon instant coffee and 2/3 decaf

The hill I will die on: The barbecue is fundamentally unenjoyable. Please, put a lid on it | Max Liu

The hill I will die on: The barbecue is fundamentally unenjoyable. Please, put a lid on it | Max Liu

Dress up the barbie however you like – it’s toxic, tiresome and, more to the point, malnourishing, says freelance writer Max Liu

theguardian.com

Film as an industry is so weird - they take these incredible, hyper intelligent, boundlessly hard working creatives, give them the resources to realise the vision they’ve described, then do everything in their power to sabotage it. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...

Marketing meltdown: why has Andrew Garfield’s new film suddenly added Robin Hood?

Paul Greengrass drama The Uprising was supposed to be a historical epic about the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 – but a strange new campaign has inserted a surprising figure

theguardian.com