Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?
They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:
My neighbour told me Kuwaiti air defence keeps eating his F-15s so I asked how many F-15s he had and he told me he just goes and gets another F-15 so I said it sounds like he's just feeding F-15s to Kuwaiti air defence and then his daughter started crying
Jon Favreau reacts to ICE agents tear gassing a 6-month-old baby.
couldn't stop taking pictues because they kept shifting. I'll shut up now. but OH MY am overwhelmed
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough
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Where did 25,000 vehicles go?
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The guy on TikTok playing random fellas at Connect 4 is the most wholesomely British thing I’ve seen on the app all year 🥲
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 9mo agoTrump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
OK. Seeing how I have been drawn into this.... Dear American commentators: Not every part of the world is the same as the USA. Advising people in the UK to do things that would send them to prison is unethical and makes you look like an overinsulated idiot.
Welcome to #TraitorsGreekMyth Part 1! Alan Carr: Odysseus. He could betray his closest friend without hesitation. He’s clever, plausible, entertaining and ruthless. His greatest liability? Running his mouth off and getting himself into trouble...
A letter from war torn Portland Oregon, truly heartbreaking. Please pass along so others across the world can see how bad it is🤭 #DefendersOfDemocracy
It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance
10 Favourite tv comedies: Blackadder Spaced 30 Rock The Thick of It Yes Minister The Day Today Flight of the Conchords Larry Sanders Show Peep Show Ab Fab
Graeme Swanson@swansonian.bsky.social · 11mo agoOkay fine. Favourite 10 tv comedies. In order that I think of them. Mid Morning Matters Father Ted Look Around You The Day Today One Foot In The Grave Human Remains The Office (UK) 30 Rock The Simpsons (until the mid to late 90s) The Thick of It
Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract. There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m... Thread:
New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
In the last few days, we've assembled independent theatres in LA, New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Chicago to air this thing. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile will be in theatres on October 2nd after all, followed by the first theatrical screening of Sex House. It is going to be fun as hell.
Toni Basil co-directed the famous video for Talking Heads' Once in a Lifetime with David Byrne, and he then asked her to make this video for Crosseyed and Painless (THREAD) youtu.be/yHoqH-26UDk?...
Crosseyed and Painless
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NEW: Britain’s fiercest libel firm, Carter-Ruck, acted for the $4bn OneCoin fraud and threatened its critics. Now they’re being prosecuted at the SDT. Their response? An anonymity order to cover it up. But Carter-Ruck just lost that order - and it's all coming out. Thread
N: St Petersburg S: Melbourne E: Sydney W: San Francisco
Konrad Iturbe@konraditurbe.dev · 12mo agoN: Copenhaguen S: Mexico City E: Kyiv W: Baja California
