I love that the image strongly suggests that at some point in their chequered history Bilbo and Gollum solved crimes together, and that Bilbo was the maverick and Gollum did things by the book.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 1h ago

Oh no, he's hot! https://kotaku.com/the-hobbit-magic-the-gathering-bilbo-baggins-2000721931

I didn't recognise her. It needs a speech bubble where she's lying about something.

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 7h ago

Thinking again about the marble Bari Weiss bust that's set up in the common room of the fake 'University of Austin' university she started in property owned by Harlan Crowe, the billionaire Nazi memorabilia collector that bought a Supreme Court justice

The left won so 2 percentage points is "razor thin" and settles nothing. If Haley Stevens had won, the line would be something like 'Democrat voters soundly rebuff Abdul El Sayed in definitive rejection of progressive wing'.

Politico@politico.com · 11h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

A reminder that Rafael Behr was so scared of mild social democracy in the UK that it gave him a heart attack which he claimed it was caused by Corbyn's antisemitism. Antisemitism which he is so relaxed about he's now endorsing someone who was jailed for it.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9h ago

Me: (a smart columnist, looking at claims made by an ex-Tory neo-Nazi booted out of the party for crimes, now standing as a Tory councillor whole doing a rehabilitation tour parroting the agreed media line in his new “anti-extremism” gig) This is extremely convincing stuff, and very worrying.

Joanna, as a member of the "Be Kind mob", I can assist you in understanding this apparent contradiction. It doesn't include people like you. Hope that helps.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 12h ago

I was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…

Lol, over the years I've bought most classic Doctor Who stories first on VHS then DVD now Blu-ray.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2w ago

Name physical media you purchased more than once.

Probably that bit in the US remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo where the serial killer puts Enya's Orinoco Flow on in his underground torture dungeon as he's about to start carving up Daniel Craig. Don't like the film as a whole, but that's a fantastic joke.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 20h ago

Name your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.

If you'd told 17yr old me in 1993 that one day the Tory leadership of that time would look principled in comparison to the inheritors of the party...

I think the rage directed at Wilson shows how hollow the "But he's getting people interested in the classics" line is. Like he probably is and Wilson, correctly, understands that as an academic studying classics this is a moment to talk about her specialism a bunch to a new audience.

🏴ᛏ Sigrún, hræfnes cwen ᚩ🏴@empress-trixana.bsky.social · 14h ago

mad fucking props to Dr Wilson for looking at the internet going absolutely stupid at her and going alright, fuck it, round two let's go bitches

Somewhat incredibly Badenoch has just been defending this man on the Today programme

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d ago

Joshua Bonehill-Paine Self-styled "nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights” who was jailed in 2015 for antisemitic online posts.... Selected as a Tory candidate.

Anyone who thought for one single solitary second that Tillis and Cornyn would actually deny Blanche the appointment... well, I fail in my mental hunt for a comically exaggerated false belief that is more ludicrously naive than hundreds of things these fucking people actually believe...

Elon Musk's politics are indistinguishable from Paul Golding of Britain First [except Britain First is more coded on violence, while Musk has been more openly pro-violence as inevitable, necessary, legitimate since Aug 2025] The main pro-Hitler YouTuber "Zoomer Historian" is encouraged.

If people want to know my opinions about the politics of Christopher Nolan, I have actually talked about this at length. Almost certainly too great length. youtu.be/VPmHqgDcCDM?...

What The Hell Is Wrong With Us? Christopher Nolans Batman Trilogy, With Jack Graham

YouTube video by ExaggeratedElegy

youtu.be

These people are all, every last one of them, absolutely useless.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

They've already made their choice. Indeed, they never had to. As I have said many, many times: they would rather lose to the right than win with the left.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

New in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."

They will eventually converge on the obvious solution. Immigrant labour without citizenship or rights, or the ability to mix with US society. Ethnic cleansing everywhere but in 'reservations' or camps where the slaves are kept, in other words.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · yesterday

Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...

UK media engaging in a collective fit of self-abasement, telling risible lies about what a brilliant writer Rod Liddle was. Actual Liddle was a tedious hack with a huge platform only bc he licked the boots of power under the cloak of juvenile edgelordism. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...

Liddle to be celebrated

An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.

brokenbottleboy.substack.com

Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:

When a stable system predictably does harm, the problem isn't that the system is failing. Rather, the system is clearly *for* doing harm, and is succeeding. The question becomes: how does the harm perpetuate the system. The answer is almost always that someone benefits from it.

The truth about AI-generated content and writing is that, if you're actually paying attention and are actively engaged, you can tell the difference. AI only works in a society where people are dissociating and distracted and unengaged. That's the point of it. To just forward an unlived life.

Rod Liddle was a piece of shit. It's just true.

There doing ADHD de-transitioners now JFC

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 2d ago

You'd have to read to the thirteenth paragraph to discover the pull quote for the title was from Marcus Siding, a 23-year-old Swedish man living in Sweden that wanted to become a cop, but his ADHD diagnosis at the age of 12 barred him by law from becoming a Swedish cop Seems relevant

Quintessential Ezra Klein. An avalanche of verbiage and yet he says absolutely nothing. The Odyssey reminded him of various things. That's it. Fatuous, pompous, pointless, pretentious, uninsightful, moralistic drivel.

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 3d ago

None of these people are tricksters, they are only liars. "We have been living in an age of tricksters. Musk, President Trump, Tucker Carlson, Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes — the grammar of the modern right is tricksy."

Just as I predicted. Just love the crunchy little Wannsee Conference in the photo.

Khashoggi's Ghost@urocklive1.bsky.social · 4d ago

Tucker and Marge want to start a new party. www.mediaite.com/politics/mtg...

"The U.S. was gripped by a reign of racial terror after World War I, when whites rose up to quash prosperous Black communities."

Remembering ‘Red Summer,’ when white mobs massacred Blacks from Tulsa to D.C.

The U.S. was gripped by a reign of racial terror after World War I, when whites rose up to quash prosperous Black communities.

nationalgeographic.com

AI fabricates facts, citations, and arguments that lead to the desired conclusion. It works backwards from a chosen result to confect an aesthetic mock-up of reality. Its only purpose is to have a pseudo mental product shaped to user needs. In other words: it works exactly like right-wing brains.

Amnesty Int is about to learn - Appeasing the beast doesn't do anything but make it want more bites out of you. Giving in doesn't EVER work. It just makes you easier to digest. Fight and you can win. Roll over and you will be made an example of. Every. Time.

Yes. It shows (yet again) how utterly pointless it is to argue with fascists. You will not get them to hear you, let alone persuade them, because they have chosen to start their reasoning from fundamentally different, skewed conceptions of value, meaning, social good, etc.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d ago

It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right