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Current iteration gets fixated on identifying logical fallacies and cognitive biases, and the pilot is quite neglectful.
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The sequel, Smiley's People, is also on iPlayer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074tpb/smileys-people-episode-1
#TinkerTailorSoldierSpy #AlecGuinness #johnlecarre
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074tpb/smileys-people-episode-1
#TinkerTailorSoldierSpy #AlecGuinness #johnlecarre
Smiley's People - Episode 1
Seminal spy drama series from 1982. Two seemingly unconnected events summon master spy George Smiley from retirement.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 5:49 PM
The sequel, Smiley's People, is also on iPlayer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074tpb/smileys-people-episode-1
#TinkerTailorSoldierSpy #AlecGuinness #johnlecarre
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074tpb/smileys-people-episode-1
#TinkerTailorSoldierSpy #AlecGuinness #johnlecarre
#cloudflare's #dns over-HTTPs just started failing to resolved Google.com for some reason. Presumably related to recent problems they had with it prior to Xmas.
January 7, 2026 at 2:26 PM
#cloudflare's #dns over-HTTPs just started failing to resolved Google.com for some reason. Presumably related to recent problems they had with it prior to Xmas.
The 1979 #bbc TV adaptation of #TinkerTailorSoldierSpy is currently on #iplayer. It stars #AlecGuinness.
People who enjoyed the #garyoldman / #ColinFirth movie might get a kick out of comparing the two […]
People who enjoyed the #garyoldman / #ColinFirth movie might get a kick out of comparing the two […]
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mas.to
January 7, 2026 at 10:08 AM
The 1979 #bbc TV adaptation of #TinkerTailorSoldierSpy is currently on #iplayer. It stars #AlecGuinness.
People who enjoyed the #garyoldman / #ColinFirth movie might get a kick out of comparing the two […]
People who enjoyed the #garyoldman / #ColinFirth movie might get a kick out of comparing the two […]
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If we don’t get out of this, the tragedy won’t be that evil people managed to end the America experiment. It will be that such unimaginably stupid evil people managed to end the American experiment.
January 6, 2026 at 8:46 PM
If we don’t get out of this, the tragedy won’t be that evil people managed to end the America experiment. It will be that such unimaginably stupid evil people managed to end the American experiment.
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Why...is the barbed wire being strewn across the mouth of the guy suing his critics?
They are so addicted to the "I'm being silenced" trope that they stick with it even when they are doing the silencing
They are so addicted to the "I'm being silenced" trope that they stick with it even when they are doing the silencing
January 6, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Why...is the barbed wire being strewn across the mouth of the guy suing his critics?
They are so addicted to the "I'm being silenced" trope that they stick with it even when they are doing the silencing
They are so addicted to the "I'm being silenced" trope that they stick with it even when they are doing the silencing
Just randomly cropped up on my YouTube feed, old #hignfy from 1992 with #PeterCook & #douglasadams
https://youtu.be/8_ieICHDNXA
https://youtu.be/8_ieICHDNXA
January 4, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Just randomly cropped up on my YouTube feed, old #hignfy from 1992 with #PeterCook & #douglasadams
https://youtu.be/8_ieICHDNXA
https://youtu.be/8_ieICHDNXA
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It seems like a good day to re-watch "Wag the Dog." #Trump #venezuela
January 4, 2026 at 1:09 AM
It seems like a good day to re-watch "Wag the Dog." #Trump #venezuela
I wonder if the slebs that get invited to be in the audience for Jools Holland also view it as the fall-back position for the celebrations...
... "Oh, I'm not invited to a billionaire's eyes-wide-shut party, or getting paid to be at a nightclub opening, or some Groucho club shindig... Guess I'm […]
... "Oh, I'm not invited to a billionaire's eyes-wide-shut party, or getting paid to be at a nightclub opening, or some Groucho club shindig... Guess I'm […]
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mas.to
January 1, 2026 at 12:39 AM
I wonder if the slebs that get invited to be in the audience for Jools Holland also view it as the fall-back position for the celebrations...
... "Oh, I'm not invited to a billionaire's eyes-wide-shut party, or getting paid to be at a nightclub opening, or some Groucho club shindig... Guess I'm […]
... "Oh, I'm not invited to a billionaire's eyes-wide-shut party, or getting paid to be at a nightclub opening, or some Groucho club shindig... Guess I'm […]
January 1, 2026 at 12:29 AM
I've just noticed that #johnnymercer MP's libel case against the #bbc is scrubbed from #Google results under the EU "right to be forgotten" legislation.
Even though that shouldn't apply to him, as he's a public, political, figure, who was voluntarily on national TV, and he discussed this issue […]
Even though that shouldn't apply to him, as he's a public, political, figure, who was voluntarily on national TV, and he discussed this issue […]
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mas.to
December 29, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I've just noticed that #johnnymercer MP's libel case against the #bbc is scrubbed from #Google results under the EU "right to be forgotten" legislation.
Even though that shouldn't apply to him, as he's a public, political, figure, who was voluntarily on national TV, and he discussed this issue […]
Even though that shouldn't apply to him, as he's a public, political, figure, who was voluntarily on national TV, and he discussed this issue […]
#neilyoung's song "Rockin' in the Free World" is actually about #cslewis's 'The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe'.
The eponymous "free world" being #narnia after it is liberated from the ice witch through the re-institution of a divinely appointed monarchy.
The song calls upon the USA to […]
The eponymous "free world" being #narnia after it is liberated from the ice witch through the re-institution of a divinely appointed monarchy.
The song calls upon the USA to […]
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mas.to
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
#neilyoung's song "Rockin' in the Free World" is actually about #cslewis's 'The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe'.
The eponymous "free world" being #narnia after it is liberated from the ice witch through the re-institution of a divinely appointed monarchy.
The song calls upon the USA to […]
The eponymous "free world" being #narnia after it is liberated from the ice witch through the re-institution of a divinely appointed monarchy.
The song calls upon the USA to […]
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Kimmel was suspended for offending the president, after coordination between the FCC commissioner and a huge media company.
This thread underscores an important, overlooked part of all this: To get his job back, he's been told he must make a contribution to a Christian nationalist organization.
This thread underscores an important, overlooked part of all this: To get his job back, he's been told he must make a contribution to a Christian nationalist organization.
September 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Kimmel was suspended for offending the president, after coordination between the FCC commissioner and a huge media company.
This thread underscores an important, overlooked part of all this: To get his job back, he's been told he must make a contribution to a Christian nationalist organization.
This thread underscores an important, overlooked part of all this: To get his job back, he's been told he must make a contribution to a Christian nationalist organization.
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Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3
September 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3
"The Moon is made of cheese!"
Here's an encyclopaedia entry entitled 'the Moon can't be made of cheese, and here is why you'd have to be an idiot to believe it is.'
"I wasn't aware of this: But I don't see why that should deter me from continuing to pontificate about how the Moon is definitely […]
Here's an encyclopaedia entry entitled 'the Moon can't be made of cheese, and here is why you'd have to be an idiot to believe it is.'
"I wasn't aware of this: But I don't see why that should deter me from continuing to pontificate about how the Moon is definitely […]
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mas.to
August 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"The Moon is made of cheese!"
Here's an encyclopaedia entry entitled 'the Moon can't be made of cheese, and here is why you'd have to be an idiot to believe it is.'
"I wasn't aware of this: But I don't see why that should deter me from continuing to pontificate about how the Moon is definitely […]
Here's an encyclopaedia entry entitled 'the Moon can't be made of cheese, and here is why you'd have to be an idiot to believe it is.'
"I wasn't aware of this: But I don't see why that should deter me from continuing to pontificate about how the Moon is definitely […]
Ray Brooks: #mrbenn; the narrator of King Rollo; and David from Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. movie.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/aug/11/ray-brooks-british-actor-and-voice-of-mr-benn-dies-aged-86
#raybrooks #obituary #doctorwho #eastenders
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/aug/11/ray-brooks-british-actor-and-voice-of-mr-benn-dies-aged-86
#raybrooks #obituary #doctorwho #eastenders
Ray Brooks, British actor and voice of Mr Benn, dies aged 86
The EastEnders and Cathy Come Home actor had been diagnosed with dementia, his family revealed
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Ray Brooks: #mrbenn; the narrator of King Rollo; and David from Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. movie.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/aug/11/ray-brooks-british-actor-and-voice-of-mr-benn-dies-aged-86
#raybrooks #obituary #doctorwho #eastenders
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/aug/11/ray-brooks-british-actor-and-voice-of-mr-benn-dies-aged-86
#raybrooks #obituary #doctorwho #eastenders
I often think about how #gandalf comforts #pippin by talking about an afterlife in Valinor in the #returnoftheking movie; how Pippin responds with "that doesn't sound so bad"
... and how Gandalf doesn't then go "Oh, that's just for me.
Elves go roughly the same way, but then have to hang around […]
... and how Gandalf doesn't then go "Oh, that's just for me.
Elves go roughly the same way, but then have to hang around […]
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mas.to
August 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I often think about how #gandalf comforts #pippin by talking about an afterlife in Valinor in the #returnoftheking movie; how Pippin responds with "that doesn't sound so bad"
... and how Gandalf doesn't then go "Oh, that's just for me.
Elves go roughly the same way, but then have to hang around […]
... and how Gandalf doesn't then go "Oh, that's just for me.
Elves go roughly the same way, but then have to hang around […]
The people rubbing their hands at a #rupertmurdoch #donaldtrump schism are probably being a bit optimitic IMO.
I think it plausible that #Trump going to see him a day before the #wallstreetjournal lawsuit was to hammer out the details of how they're using the legal system to money-launder what […]
I think it plausible that #Trump going to see him a day before the #wallstreetjournal lawsuit was to hammer out the details of how they're using the legal system to money-launder what […]
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mas.to
July 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The people rubbing their hands at a #rupertmurdoch #donaldtrump schism are probably being a bit optimitic IMO.
I think it plausible that #Trump going to see him a day before the #wallstreetjournal lawsuit was to hammer out the details of how they're using the legal system to money-launder what […]
I think it plausible that #Trump going to see him a day before the #wallstreetjournal lawsuit was to hammer out the details of how they're using the legal system to money-launder what […]
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It’s 3am here but Matt Taibbi has yet again misread a (politicized) doc release to claim it says something it doesn’t. He’s so blinded by a desire to exonerate Russia/be right that he’s become functionally illiterate.
My article explaining his prior fuckup:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/retc...
My article explaining his prior fuckup:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/retc...
July 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
It’s 3am here but Matt Taibbi has yet again misread a (politicized) doc release to claim it says something it doesn’t. He’s so blinded by a desire to exonerate Russia/be right that he’s become functionally illiterate.
My article explaining his prior fuckup:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/retc...
My article explaining his prior fuckup:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/retc...
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A lesson on how to write a headline.
Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA
Trump has tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as NASA administrator.
www.rollingstone.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A lesson on how to write a headline.
June 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
June 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM