Normal-distribution-brained freak.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 1h ago

Trump: "An outlier is a person that doesn't have a chance" (That's not what 'outlier' means)

Well yes I can. However, that I can scarcely depends upon Jane Austen's writing practice!

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 2h ago

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

My daughter is watching Cruella, or as I like to call it, 'The Devil Wears Madra'.

We were proud to restore this film after programming it at a NOIR CITY festival and only being able to get a 16mm which we had to borrow from a private collector.

Noir Beach Shack ♬@noirbeachshack.bsky.social · 18h ago

#FilmNoir Cry Danger (1951)

Anyone else plagued by a WhatsApp "preparing backup" which endlessly cycles, never backs up and drains phone battery? Yes, have cleared cache, logged out/in, restarted, checked storage (loads), the whole deal but to no avail. Help!

Every fkn day. There is something genuinely creepy about men sitting around designing endless new stealthy intrusion machines.

J.M. Berger@jmberger.com · yesterday

Just in case you didn't already hate Amazon enough, they just added a non-turnoff-able Alexa AI chat window that generates spam based on every product search.

The Wild Swans at Coole The Tower The Winding Stair need I go on?

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterday

alright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.

Many people outside the UK have been asking me who Rod Liddle was. Here's Stewart Lee (from 08:53 onwards) on the man described by Fraser Nelson (former editor of The Spectator) as 'the greatest satirist since Swift.' Let this be the last word on the subject. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFt3...

Stewart Lee Comedy Vehicle - 4.5 Migrants

YouTube video by Ian Kenny

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Reminder that the Tories believe any non-British person who commits more than a minor parking or traffic offence should be automatically deported. They “believe in second chances”, apparently, but only for literal Nazis.

Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened

Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset

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Has anybody checked that it's NOT Grant Shapps?

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · yesterday

Rather puts Grant Shapps being rejected as a Conservative candidate into perspective.

I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

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.

9 million people all looking at the sky going 'Pleeeease!'

If you, to take another entirely random example, describe recent immigration a "squalid chapter in our politics" a "failed experiment", and promise to "shut down the lab" you are contributing to the problem of norm erosion www.gov.uk/government/s...

PM remarks at Immigration White Paper press conference: 12 May 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer's remarks at a press conference on the Immigration White Paper.

gov.uk

I think it's more a case of a market for lemons; online shopping created an economy in which people are only prepared to pay the lowest prices because they suspect they will only be shipped the lowest quality goods.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

Online shopping eliminated these gatekeepers and disintermediated the market, allowing consumers to express their desires more directly. And it turns out that what people really want is cheap disposable goods, not more expensive but higher quality stuff that lasts a long time.

'... technology is not the mastery of nature but of the relation between mankind and nature.' Walter Benjamin, a century ago in 'To the Planetarium', the last piece in One-Way Street. The 'is' should be read, roughly, as 'should be', as the full text makes clear.

'Imitate him if you dare/World-besotted traveller; he/Served human liberty.' 😢

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Fraser Nelson reckons Rod Liddle was “the greatest satirist since Swift” while Michael Gove is comparing him to not just Swift but Orwell. Amazing the comparisons you can get if you’ll pump out exactly the racist opinions even they are too squeamish to commit to print.

Jeremy Clarkson can fuck right off

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 3d ago

🚨 NEW: Jeremy Clarkson says benefits claimants should be forced to write a genuine thank you email to a random worker every week “It is SO kind of you to go to work every day so that I don’t have to. Thanks to you I was able to buy an even bigger television this week”

@paulduane.bsky.social's Barbaric Genius, a film about John Healy - the vagrant turned memoirist turned international chess whizz - is one of my favourite documentaries of all time. It's having a rare full screening at the IFI in Dublin on Monday 17th August. You should go!! ifi.ie/film/from-th...

From 1969, but still wafting around Dublin like a half-remembered essence of patchouli oil, Afghani Black and gentle optimism a decade or more later (which is where I came in). Intriguingly Protestant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tHE...

Dr.Strangely Strange-Donnybrook Fair

YouTube video by DrLearyUSA

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From 1969, but still wafting around Dublin like a half-remembered essence of patchouli oil, Afghani Black and gentle optimism a decade or more later (which is where I came in). Intriguingly Protestant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tHE...

Dr.Strangely Strange-Donnybrook Fair

YouTube video by DrLearyUSA

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Deeply embarassing for editorial standards at The Times to not just have to correct such an error, but then to not even spot their own columnist produce such a mad sentence repeating it

This goes hard

One for Joyceans. Starts with an interview with the electrician who did the wiring for the Volta cinema back in 1909! Interesting details of Joyce's views on sandwich-board men. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Bowman: Sunday: 08.30

John Bowman takes a look back through the RTÉ Radio archives and presents some of his favourite recordings

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I saw an interview with a park ranger who was asked "Why can't they build bear proof dumpsters?" His reply was perfect: "There's a considerable overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest people."

Hate to admit this person from Non-Dublin has some points here. Nowhere is the Dead Dublin Theory better illustrated than the proliferation of new pubs done up to look like old pubs imo. Toxic to native fauna but serving the customer base it seeks. www.westernpeople.ie/opinion/dubl...

Dublin is now a shell of its once former self - opinion - Western People

Dublin is now a shell of its once former self - opinion - Western People

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Plus “I am Springsteen, going on spreventeen” is easily as good as anything in the first one

I did not picture Iggy looking like a member of Peter Paul & Mary when he was putting down those vocals.

Michael Daly@michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 4d ago

1969, The Hit Factory, NYC. Iggy prepares to lay down a vocal for The Stooges' debut LP. John Cale is in the producer's chair📸Glen Craig

You think you've got it bad? In 1903, Americans had to put up with Bulgarian and Italian domestic servants! Stupid Irish land reform! New York Evening World, April 11, 1903

MAGA would like a schism so they can call Leo anti-pope whenever he inconveniences them.

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, facing ethics inquiries for misconduct, has threatened to strip state scholarships from Catholic schools unless the Church rewrites its vaccine doctrine. It is an unprecedented attack by an American state on the religious liberty of the Catholic Church.