Adam
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huge missed opportunity to title it "And Another Thing"
John Carpenter says he's working on a sequel to 'The Thing'
"We'll see"
"We'll see"
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
huge missed opportunity to title it "And Another Thing"
Patriotic is not a word I would use to describe myself but the way that these people don’t appear to like anything about this country but still get to wrap themselves in the flag really grates.
SPOILER ALERT: The BBC told the truth about Liz Truss tanking the economy, and she's never forgiven them for it.🤦♂️
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Patriotic is not a word I would use to describe myself but the way that these people don’t appear to like anything about this country but still get to wrap themselves in the flag really grates.
The other significant change is that politics programmes no longer have INCREDIBLE theme tunes like this. It’s our loss youtu.be/9lSFSi8Dup4?...
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The other significant change is that politics programmes no longer have INCREDIBLE theme tunes like this. It’s our loss youtu.be/9lSFSi8Dup4?...
This line from Katie Razzall's report suggesting that the board actively prevented the BBC from getting on the front foot about this makes the whole thing feel even more murky. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This line from Katie Razzall's report suggesting that the board actively prevented the BBC from getting on the front foot about this makes the whole thing feel even more murky. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thought of a better example of this. Let’s say the BBC does a Panorama about the South Korean government‘s attempted coup last year. Would that be allowed to stand alone or would you also need to do an equal length Panorama about dodgy judicial appointments made previously by the opposition party?
Prescott openly wondering why the Trump Panorama wasn’t balanced with one looking at Harris shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the issue. Would he expect a programme about idk the excesses of the Thai government to be balanced with one about problems among other political groups?
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Thought of a better example of this. Let’s say the BBC does a Panorama about the South Korean government‘s attempted coup last year. Would that be allowed to stand alone or would you also need to do an equal length Panorama about dodgy judicial appointments made previously by the opposition party?
I’m fully aware that it’s just the not very thought through opinions of columnists but the constant reminder that, to a lot of the media and politics, I don’t count as a ‘real’ person because I don’t hold all of these ‘common sense’ opinions gets fairly grating.
Rage against group think, writes Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, by reading out a paragraph of what *I* think at the beginning of every BBC editorial meeting.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I’m fully aware that it’s just the not very thought through opinions of columnists but the constant reminder that, to a lot of the media and politics, I don’t count as a ‘real’ person because I don’t hold all of these ‘common sense’ opinions gets fairly grating.
This is the most French thing that has ever happened.
Cool kid.
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is the most French thing that has ever happened.
This is the basic problem and it does make you wonder whether anyone decent would go for either job. Ludicrous expectations, no resources, God knows what skeletons from 30 years ago that might suddenly kill you, lukewarm government backing, the money isn’t that good by industry standards...
I can't imagine a job i'd like to do less. Managing an organisation held to a ludicrous standard by roaring idiots on a daily basis, while the main mediums it uses are all in decline and it's starved of resources.
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This is the basic problem and it does make you wonder whether anyone decent would go for either job. Ludicrous expectations, no resources, God knows what skeletons from 30 years ago that might suddenly kill you, lukewarm government backing, the money isn’t that good by industry standards...
While I’m not exactly shedding tears for either (especially the latter) it does feel a bit wildly over the top. This is an internal dossier by someone with an axe to grind. It’s not the Hutton Report.
Tim Davie and Deborah Turness both resigning at the BBC. 💥
November 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
While I’m not exactly shedding tears for either (especially the latter) it does feel a bit wildly over the top. This is an internal dossier by someone with an axe to grind. It’s not the Hutton Report.
New digital camouflage pattern just dropped.
Quelques Feuilles / Some Leaves
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
New digital camouflage pattern just dropped.
I see we're having another go at 'economic competence is going to save the Tories'. It's a truly bonkers take given... everything and the campaign had to be briefly rested a few weeks back after Kemi Badenoch did too many mad things for it to seem remotely plausible but Fraser's bringing it back!
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I see we're having another go at 'economic competence is going to save the Tories'. It's a truly bonkers take given... everything and the campaign had to be briefly rested a few weeks back after Kemi Badenoch did too many mad things for it to seem remotely plausible but Fraser's bringing it back!
The BBC has its issues but I really don’t feel that the Telegraph basically spending all week yelling about a rather thin series of ‘scandals‘ and then pissing itself with delight because they got Trump to say something about it is a great look.
The Daily Telegraph: Trump goes to war on the BBC #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The BBC has its issues but I really don’t feel that the Telegraph basically spending all week yelling about a rather thin series of ‘scandals‘ and then pissing itself with delight because they got Trump to say something about it is a great look.
I really, really need to know why all of this week’s #totp 1998 links were shot on really terrible green screen rather than in the studio
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I really, really need to know why all of this week’s #totp 1998 links were shot on really terrible green screen rather than in the studio
Drop off some tins of soup for the ATC and airport security folks is really not a message the richest country in the world should be pushing out.
November 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Drop off some tins of soup for the ATC and airport security folks is really not a message the richest country in the world should be pushing out.
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This chart is so good I remember it eight years (!) later…
November 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This chart is so good I remember it eight years (!) later…
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On this day, 14 years ago, passengers were unable to alight from trains at Shepley due to reports by police of a lion in the area
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
On this day, 14 years ago, passengers were unable to alight from trains at Shepley due to reports by police of a lion in the area
It is noticeable that while poppy wearing has become a much more toxic political and media issue in the last decade, the number of people you see wearing one out and about has fallen through the floor.
November 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
It is noticeable that while poppy wearing has become a much more toxic political and media issue in the last decade, the number of people you see wearing one out and about has fallen through the floor.
Fair play to the writers, the FIFA subplots in Trump term 2 are not a bit I saw coming.
Fifa to award new ‘peace prize’ in Washington next month on.ft.com/43efnLR
Fifa to award new ‘peace prize’ in Washington next month
Head of football governing body is close ally of Donald Trump, fuelling speculation that US president may be first recipient
on.ft.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Fair play to the writers, the FIFA subplots in Trump term 2 are not a bit I saw coming.
This Telegraph 'I moved to Italy to escape the UK and it wasn't like I expected' article is wonderfully telling
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This Telegraph 'I moved to Italy to escape the UK and it wasn't like I expected' article is wonderfully telling
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...
Finally, a SimCity 3000 playing mayor. Cats of New York can finally rest easy about the rumoured kitty kibble shortage.
November 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Finally, a SimCity 3000 playing mayor. Cats of New York can finally rest easy about the rumoured kitty kibble shortage.
The Today programme is increasingly on its own for these sort of things (which is a problem as it's by far the biggest morning outlet). Breakfast and rolling news went for 'self-described democratic socialist'
BBC Radio 4 this morning joined Trump in describing Zohran Mamdani as a "radical leftist".
November 5, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The Today programme is increasingly on its own for these sort of things (which is a problem as it's by far the biggest morning outlet). Breakfast and rolling news went for 'self-described democratic socialist'
I really hope that whoever named this was aware of the great shipping forecast gag they have made.
AMAZON: AWS ANNOUNCES FASTNET, A DEDICATED HIGH-CAPACITY TRANSATLANTIC CABLE CONNECTING THE US AND IRELAND - WEBSITE
November 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I really hope that whoever named this was aware of the great shipping forecast gag they have made.
The AI English translation of this Argentinian TV debate on trambuses (basically that glider thing they have in Belfast) is absolute, glorious nonsense. So many of the mistakes of machine translation circa 2005 seem to be back? youtu.be/JeWOIkzravo?...
Un nuevo medio de transporte en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
YouTube video by Televisión Pública Noticias
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The AI English translation of this Argentinian TV debate on trambuses (basically that glider thing they have in Belfast) is absolute, glorious nonsense. So many of the mistakes of machine translation circa 2005 seem to be back? youtu.be/JeWOIkzravo?...
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This is the key point I think - a lot of people till view online as a whimsy or a place with no IRL impact.
But what happens online, in porn, politics, discussion etc etc. is entirely driving IRL now. And I don't think we're doing anything more than occasional patches
But what happens online, in porn, politics, discussion etc etc. is entirely driving IRL now. And I don't think we're doing anything more than occasional patches
..it's also why online space needs regulation. Having one law for one space & another for another assumes people can keep them compartmentalised & maybe some can but a lot really, really can't; what's allowed in one will seep into the other. Just as sometimes speech will become action.
November 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This is the key point I think - a lot of people till view online as a whimsy or a place with no IRL impact.
But what happens online, in porn, politics, discussion etc etc. is entirely driving IRL now. And I don't think we're doing anything more than occasional patches
But what happens online, in porn, politics, discussion etc etc. is entirely driving IRL now. And I don't think we're doing anything more than occasional patches
Love an aspirational clam
Shijimini Daichan, an aspirational clam, is a mascot for Otomo Town, Fukuoka Prefecture.
November 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Love an aspirational clam