Ralph Bakshi's gorgeous, rotoscoped, and incredibly dark animated version of THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978) was, at times, like a nightmare to my 9 year-old self. I had particular problems with the creepy Nazgûl, especially during this famous scene...
Simon Scarrow
@simon-scarrow.bsky.social
Writer of historical and crime fiction. Have been known to be a Sunday Times number one bestselling author. I was a lecturer previously and sad to leave formal education. Try to make up for that by making interesting comments on social media.
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
Remind me how capitalism works for our benefit again...
IveyJanetteMcClelland@iveyjanette.bsky.social · 2d agoMy mom and grandma told me about this. It happened in Los Angeles. The last streetcar ran in 1963.
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Our democracy is not representative, relevant or realistic. Can it survive that? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/08...
Our democracy is not representative, relevant or realistic. Can it survive that?
I spent quite a lot of time yesterday wondering what it would take to really transform the current UK political agenda. The antics of those few politicians who appear to be still at work in the UK col...
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Watching Star Trek TNG over again, with my 13yr old. I think this show fucked up my generation because it convinced us that villains tend to concede when Picard points out the moral consequences of their plans, and their unforeseen impact on other people’s rights and dignity.
'So, how is any moon base supposed to protect itself from this sort of thing, Ted?'
onesillyfag@onesillyfag.bsky.social · 3d agoAsteroid strike on the moon.
Perimeters, not parameters. An excursion, not an incursion. Six genders, not cisgender. Insane asylums, not asylum. Transgender mice, not transgenic mice. The IQ of a potato.
I prefer an e-reader these days, but I appreciate the sentiment this carries.
The US is the most powerful 'democracy' that money can buy.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 3d agoCorporate spending on elections has already topped $500 million this year. That's one third of the $1.58 billion in total that corporations have spent since Citizens United in 2010. Hawaii and Montana both have plans to neutralize this disastrous SCOTUS ruling. Other states must get on board.
You can be arrested, tortured, and made to confess to a crime that never happened.
Possibly the greatest single male athletic performance of all time Original post
Animals never forget those who are kind and loving to them. Original post
The Southern Three-Banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus) is one of the only armadillo species capable of rolling into a completely sealed sphere: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
It was always unlawful, under the Highways Act 1980. But I don't suppose Suella would know that, being a lawyer, MP and former Attorney General.
The longer I live the more it becomes apparent that Media Studies has to become the foundation of the secondary education curriculum. Until everyone understands how meaning is mediated then the majority will always be victims of manipulation by cynical oligarchs and their mercenary lickspittles.
Just finished reading this wonderful book by @simon-scarrow.bsky.social. A poignant reminder of the dangers the world faces as nationalist politics continues to take hold.
Today I learned that baby cranes are called "colts" because their legs are so long and they can run around like idiots shortly after hatching. This is delightful, I enjoy knowing this.
Farage wants us all to believe the political establishment has it in for him. The reality is the political establishment now recognises — in his much too overt greed — he’s showing them all up and has to be jettisoned.
Bet it wasn’t a surgery with his constituents.
