These films were released within a month of each other in 1994.
I will not be nice about a piece of shit just because they're dead, and I never will: anyone who does this is a superstitious moral coward and I hate them.
Well. Seeing Ben Goldacre get, correctly, ratio’d into the ground is not something that would ever have been on my bingo card 15 years ago.
Being dead is not some kind of state line where, if you can just cross the border, all your trespasses evaporate. The flowers still wither where you poured salt. The living continue to suffer the consequences of your actions. People are entitled to say, he made the garden worse, and now he is gone.
Me, making a toast in the pub: “While we certainly didn’t agree on everything, he was, after all, one of us: A columnist. I hope I never hear a bad word spoken about him, and if I do I shall make it clear I am not angry, just disappointed.”
I glad we seem to be past the weird injunction on being glad or relieved when a prick dies. Such politeness only benefits pricks.
Like all great writers, it's a time to pay tribute to the words they left us with
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a short illness
My first TV job was Kingdom, an ITV comedy drama about a Norfolk solicitor. One of the funniest and most talented people to appear in the cast was Kate O’Flynn, circa 2005. I thought “we’ll see lots more of her!” But, we did not. Occasionally she’d turn up in a drama and I’d PointingLeo.Gif 1/
Feels to me like the UK has forgotten what actual terrorism is. Wait until they hear about dissident Republicans driving massive bombs around the place and loyalist terrorists burning people out of their homes
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists over bank damage
An autistic man with a special interest in the Harry Potter series has made the decision to value the lives and dignity of his trans friends more than a book about a wizard who grows up to be a cop, sources have reported.
Autistic man with special interest in Harry Potter gets over it, leaving you with no excuse
An autistic man with a special interest in the Harry Potter series has made the decision to value the lives and dignity of his trans friends more than a book about a wizard who grows up to be a cop,…
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Not to get political but life should be easy and free
KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor
Until someone can explain it in a basic way, we’ll be stuck with the Thatcher “household budget” nonsense.
Christ almighty. The British obsession with itemized “pay fors” for everything is insane. This is just really not how fiscal policy or government works anywhere functional.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2w agoNew UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham will use money allocated to helping poor countries deal with the worst impacts of climate change to fund a new cap on bus fares across England.
When it happens during a rally I hope this is how it's handled
There was a kid at my school, couple of times he drove his dad’s (fuckin huge) John Deere tractor to school. Because when you are 16 in the UK you can drive your tractor to school.
Cian Ginty@cianginty.bsky.social · 2w agoPlease make it make sense: A 16-year-old will be able to drive a tractor or 90km/h+ light motorcycle, but not a scooter locked to 20km/h irishcycle.com/2026/07/20/p...
Microwave designer: “How should the interface for setting the time work, sir?” Samsung CEO “Ever had a stress dream about cracking a safe?”
Messi’s been playing for Argentina since everyone on this website was in 6th form. Weird.
not being able to move on from a fandom is stunted growth. fandom has gotten weirdly reactionary about this but it’s true. if you can’t let go of characters created by someone suing amnesty international for identifying her as a bigot and need to be told that’s just fine you are not a serious person
Zoe Tunnell ➡️ FlameCon E-09@zoewithasword.bsky.social · 3w agoI swear to god if one more person goes "and this is why I read HP fanfiction :) I still get my Potter stories but without her!" NO! STOP IT! Even if they aren't financially supporting Rowling you are contributing to the continued existence of the franchise as a fixture of pop culture. Just STOP
This is why the Philosophy Tube episode on conversion therapy in Britain was so carefully worded and went through lawyers first! It’s difficult to educate the public on topics that rich and powerful groups do not want people to know about
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w agoAmnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
GNU SAM Neill. As well as being a great actor, I will always appreciate his lockdown videos of him on his farm, somewhere in New Zealand, speaking very gently to his ducks and pigs.
Thinking about scene. The characters are awe-struck because they are seeing real live dinosaurs for the first time. They are us, the 1993 cinema audience, seeing the completely impossible on screen for the first time; CGI flesh-and-blood creatures had never been seen before this moment right here.
Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant's Iconic Shades Moment
ALT: Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant's Iconic Shades Moment
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I thought this was in connection to the other thing for a second
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4w agoGeorge and Fiona Cottrell understood to have been interviewed under caution by Met police
Today it got so absurdly awful, Policer Scotland got the tenants to agree to let some of the crowd INTO THEIR HOMES to see they are not in fact a ISIS operation of groomer rapists hell bent on molesting white women and girls in South Glasgow. Yes, the cops showed the violent racist mob around.