In a world of dull characters explaining why their dystopian future is grey and colourless, be a Servalan.

This whole thread is solid, but damn is this ever the post I’m reposting it with.

Lance Parkin@lanceparkin.bsky.social · 1h ago

Somewhere along the way, we've shifted from storytelling to elaborate descriptive narration. Like a movie is just an inefficient way of doing the plot summary of that movie.

If "Death of the Author" means interpreting a text need not conform to the creator's intent, this might be "Death of the Audience," where there is no interpretation to do at all. A reader is not expected (nor encouraged) to find meaning. Consumerist Non-Being, like an anti-zen breathing exercise.

Emperor Abby (the first pope)@arobertswrites.com · 2h ago

Don't yall get tired of this? Don't yall enjoy the puzzle of figuring out what a story means?

The thing is ... I think the Iraq War is a turning point in the UK. Very possibly a million people demonstrate in London, and what happened was exactly what they warned would happen. I think it's the moment which decouples 'everyone thinks this is a bad idea' and 'so perhaps it's a bad idea'.

~spits monocle~ Good grief I miss the bad guys being less fucking weird. Or at least less proud of it.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

I haven’t been able to stop giggling about this for a day now

*kneeling down by their side and adjusting their blanket and making sure they've taken their tablets* no sweetheart James Bond has to stay basically the same, that's why people watch it

The Independent@the-independent.com · 11h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

I’m giving some serious thought to relocating to Glasgow but I’m going to have to solve the beer problem. Need to find some dingy old man pubs serving dark mild brewed in a cardigan.

My current hypothesis is that being an opinion columnist requires you to look at the world from the perspective “there is no such thing as a me problem”.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6h ago

If I had a terminal illness, my My Make A Wish request would be to sit in on an editorial meeting at this magazine www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

Moon factories is it? Look, I can just about cope with the idea that the economy has always been powered by credulity. It’s how brazen and farcical the lies are getting that leaves me weary to the bones of my soul.

Fifty odd pages in, and Floating Hotel appears to be cosy found family… 40K?

Deleted my AI thread because I’m about to get on a plane and I have a terrible tendency to start with something provocative and then meander round to “it’s complicated” and I do not have time for that before I have to put my phone away.

so… which part of that did they have a problem with? “Actually, he might have been a wife-beating racist paedophile, but actually his writing wasn’t *that* bad actually, actually”

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 14h ago

Now, I *am* a nobody but @seamas.bsky.social is a bestseller so surely Joanna is just showing herself up here.

Stansted security queue today is hosting a fascinating art installation called But It’s My Emotional Support Water Bottle.

The howling mobs of Bluesky are not fit to clean Sid Cunt’s boots | Me for Fascism Daily

iucounu@iucounu.bsky.social · 2d ago

if you think about it, racist newspaper columnist Sid Cunt was really the heir to Voltaire

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

They really need to nerf No Indoor Voice - it’s OP in my opinion if you can stack it as a combo. Totally busted when used with Continually Micromanaging Your Spouse On The Train, for instance.

Happy 12th anniversary of the day Kim Jong Un visited the lube factory.

Back before a coterie of psychopaths who got rich off PayPal decided the internet would be a couple of town squares where they paid the crier, we still had Forum Weirdos pickling their nervous systems out in public but I feel like they were less annoying and we were less weird about them somehow?

Glasgow? Glasgow.

i cannot get over how funny the moderation tag on this is

USSR Pictures@ussrpictures.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Prudery is the enemy of art" - Soviet poster, 1980s

I’m in Wales and they have this weird green stuff on the ground. A bit like we have in England but sort of floppy not yellow and crispy.

"surely we should be able to have a politically heterogenous platform with tight rules on hate speech etc" that's basically it right there - the right-wing now will actively reject "tight rules on hate speech". it's a deal breaker for them, across the vast majority of the political right.

It doesn't even seem to be "he was nice to me" as much as it is "he hated the people I also hate" Proper "I never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a wife beating paedophile" "What about a fellow transphobe?😉" "Aye...I could do that🙂"

On the one hand, there's an Elsa Schiaparelli exhibition at the V&A, London is just under an hour away, I have free time, and I'd quite like to go to the gay bookshop. On the other, it's going to be 29°c today.

It's like Christmas down here in Bristol: “Has he been yet..?” (Father Rain; Damp Old Dan the Drizzly Man.)

I love picturing down-the-pub versions of weird social media behaviour. Today: don't speak ill of the dead scolding. 'yer uncle who only comes in at Christmas, stumbling round the tables yelling "DECORUM!!!" in the face of anyone who mentions the asshole whose wake is on the other side of town.

A thought that just occurred: the modern fascists/nonces Venn Diagram has a lot of overlap. Did the WWII-era one?