Sucks that all the tree protesters in the 80s and 90s spent all that time chained to trees and burrowing underground when they could just have said their favourite womble was buried there.

Sarris believes that what makes an auteur is "an élan of the soul." (This critical language is barbarous. Where else should élan come from? It's like saying "a digestion of the stomach.") (1963)

Sharon Tate was a real person. So was Marilyn Monroe. And Bettie Page. They all suffered horribly. They are not your blorbos for fanfic and remixing

Delighted to see the drone delivery lad getting a familiar warm welcome in Oklahoma

Counterpoint: what better way to honour his legacy than by chatting up good-looking young wans?

[James Stewart as Odysseus] now listen here, Agamemnon, I'm going home, y'see. You keep your fancy armour, I'm getting off this crummy ol' beach. [Spotting the Cyclops] now here's a curious fella, he's only got one peeper

i better pick up some gatorade

The “faculty lounge” stereotype hasn’t caught up to the reality that most faculty are contingent, job insecure, and overworked and thus have no time or willingness to risk retaliation to investigate anything. The real threats to free speech at university: job insecurity, precarity and understaffing

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d ago

My favourite bit of the Arday story, because it combines both the humour and the horror, is that a university department doing research into education didn’t immediately go “hmm. Let’s investigate this a bit further” is the “non-verbal until 18” part.

I think it is not understood: Britain is very far gone now, maybe worse and less recoverable than America is. In America, there are important people willing to look at the Trumpers and say: these people are bad and corrupt. That is not the case in Britain, where our leadership caste sticks together.

Speaking from Britain, where our leadership class spent ten years on destroying the left and welcoming the racist far right into the heart of government and media: Insofar as this is true, it will be happen because people like Hillary will make damn sure that it is effective.

I check Facebook 1-2x a month for family stuff. Turns out a few days ago my dad made a long post begging for understanding about trans people by his fellow boomers. Last paragraphs are below. Dad doesn’t always get it 100% right. He doesn’t need to. He loves and defends me; that’s all that matters

william orbit had a hand in creating so much of the pop i loved at the turn of the 2000s. i had this on cd! rip x youtu.be/dVNdTXEJv1A

All Saints - Pure Shores (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by RHINO

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I was not a fan of that genre of Irish muso generally. I was iffy about him over the whole Once back story. And I was aware of what had started to trickle out a few years back. Even so, and no disrespect to his family, I was gobsmacked by the performance of public grief over the past week.

Dean Van Nguyen@deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 4d ago

The great Jess Kav on the soul-searching (or lack thereof) in the Irish music scene over the last week or so

a “tech bro” is a solid dude who knows how to configure a dorm-wide LAN so that everyone can share their movie rips and video game ISOs with each other. your bay area LLM gazillionaires who love money and hate the computer are “tech dipshits”

If you’d like to read the report exposing the anti trans people ‘Gender Critical’ movement in the UK - which sadly Amnesty took down after bottling it due to legal threats from the Edinburgh Funder - here it is. Like_a_snowball_final_.pdf - Google Drive drive.google.com/file/d/1PSsa...

Today is the day that *any* man who wants to go in the women's toilets just has to claim to be a trans man and everybody's got JK Rowling to thank.

George_T_Truth2@george-t-truth2.bsky.social · 5d ago

#JeremyVine When trans men start entering women's toilets, this whole thing blows up This culture war crap is a nonsense

It's not "harder to determine". We have centuries of jurisprudence on whose fault it is when an object or machine causes harm.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 5d ago

As I said above, focusing on questions of liability might be fruitful in changing the incentives for behaviour through the system

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news... can't do anything these days

Man arrested after 'dressing as Grim Reaper' at hospital and staring at patients

A 26-year-old man climbed on a hospital roof dressed as a 'crow' which resembles a Grim Reaper outfit, as he flaunted a long knife has now been fined for his nuisance behaviour

mirror.co.uk

Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!

Bono doing William Shatner on his own song is peak Bono

Live your life in such a way that Bono does not feel compelled to comment on your death, unless it's to celebrate it.

Sadly, they usually conflate "challenged" with "pissed off and alienated".

Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com · 6d ago

Meanwhile someone's sitting there like "If we've challenged our readers, we've done our job," a ninth grader's understanding of the function of a news organization

Rosie Duffield and co.

They all know what that singer was like, they don’t care - because women and girls experience and pain does not matter

The British Press: “He was simply an inimitable wit and raconteur, who lit up the pages with his silver-tongued prose.” The raconteur in question: “I am a paedophile.”

What more fitting way to remember Rod Liddle’s life and work than by making nasty jokes about someone who can’t answer back

I've written a poem. Cop this: Steel rods of reason through my head Salmon jumping, where jump I? Camels on fire and spotted clouds Striped horses prance the meadow wild and rush on to drink at life's fountains deep Life is cream, I am puce Ching Chang Chollah!

Wow, The Media Terves And Sensible Opinionist Set seem VERY touchy about us orrible oiks repeatedly mentioning that their dead bestie Rod Liddle beat his pregnant girlfriend and wrote repeatedly about wanting to view CSAM and rape children just bc it's true, we should probably all stop saying that

neko case opening the tap, i feel like the stories about glen hansard currently going around on reddit might soon get louder: nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...

IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?

This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.

nekocase.substack.com

Sorry to be going on about it but this Glen Hansard thing has middle aged (mostly) men queuing up voluntarily admit that they are either themselves dangerous to women or completely cool with other people being dangerous to women as long as they seem pretty sound to them. Over and over again.