They have done a beautiful job here. Especially as you can hear their voices breaking many many times.
Minister of flags
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"I'll never call myself a cosmopolite. Coz I don't know what it means"
Lloyd Birmingham, American (1924-2010), illustration for When the Glaciers Go, John W. Campbell, Jr, cover of Analog Science Fact & Science Fiction, January, 1962
Close detail of "The Green Man”, 1200's AD, Early Gothic, Bamberg Cathedral, Germany.
Childe Hassam, American (1859-1935), April (The Green Gown), 1920, oil on canvas, 56 x 82 1/4 in, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
"Shamefully, even some in this house have argued for this racist ideology" - yet many of the Black and brown politicians, instead of speaking up against this for the people they descend from, many of them stay colour neutral or parrot these right when talking points
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · yesterdayEd Davey, "Our politics has been affected by poisonous ideas, like the idea that people born in England are not English because they're not white" "Shamefully, even some in this house have argued for this racist ideology" "We must reject it"
Poison cabinet inside a fake Bible, 1600s.
I understand that AI is inevitable and we all have to catch up, unless a sexy lady walks past in a pink dress.
Lucy Beaumont stand up tickets available for next year. She worries she’ll never be booked again. But women control 80 per cent of household consumer spending in the UK. Let’s make sure she’s still in work: www.atgtickets.com/shows/lucy-b...
Lucy Beaumont - Bad at Quiz Shows, Good with Weirdos Tickets | Tours & Dates | ATG Tickets
Lucy Beaumont has had quite the year. She lost a contestant £79,000 on The Wheel, forgot to revise for Mastermind, and generally confirmed she's terrible at quiz shows. So she's sticking with what she...
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If you put your genitals in an unwanted/unlawful space they get clamped until you pay a massive fine.
This week has taught me that boys shouldn’t be given genitals until they pass loads of tests and get a licence for them x
Milton Resnick, American (1917-2004), Music Lesson, 1958, oil on canvas, 169.5 x 172.7 cm, private collection
Hilda's discreet enquiries turn out to be a little too discreet. Meanwhile, Eddie eyes the ring with warm appreciation.
Coronation Street - written by Leslie Duxbury (12th November 1979). Hilda's found a valuable ring. Part of her would like to keep it, but she knows she'll have to do the decent thing and so decides to make discreet enquiries.
[1975 - 1978] The Sweeney - Intro and outro to the series focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London. "Get yer trousers on, you're nicked!".
Which Disney princess are you? (wrong answers only).
Neckties of Noir@neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 15h agoWhich Disney princess are you? (wrong answers only)
Something I'd never spotted before in Evil of the Daleks Episode 2... we see the empty cabinet and the door closes. Listen carefully and you can clearly hear the Dalek prop being moved into position and you can spot it through the crack in the door, waiting to make its dramatic entrance!
In the Brady Bunch, we rarely encounter characters taking a shit on the toilet. This is evidence that bowel movements are a fairly young development.
Institute of Art and Ideas@iai.tv · yesterdayIn Homer's Iliad, we rarely encounter the Greek word for 'I' or much that refers to internal thought or decision-making. https://bit.ly/4C1lZgk Cultural theorist Brian J. McVeigh agrees with Princeton psychologist Julian Jaynes' claim that the Homeric Greeks had no internal life or self-awareness.
Withnail and I quotes over Star Wars stills is just fantastic
Vital reporting in the Irish Times; more people have been arrested for terrorism-related offences in the UK since the PalAct ban than were during the Troubles. The average aged of those detained is 59. What the fuck are we doing. archive.ph/j4T1b
