If you want to read more about how BBC Newsnight actively worked as agents of anti-trans propaganda - platforming misinformation and working as a lobby platform to influence anti-trans policies - you can read more from the excellent @simonwhitten.bsky.social here:

👉 archive.is/Z8deW

See also "The Sixth Sense is so surprising" and "The Blair Witch Project is really scary"

I for one welcome our hyperintelligent space lemming overlords

Fucking Diageo

"If you're getting attacked from both sides you must be getting it about right" is a decent heuristic *when you can assume honest disagreement from both sides*.

What we’ve done is create a kind of Wanker’s Veto where nothing good or useful can ever happen, because MPs and the press will unite and destroy it. So the only things that will ever succeed even temporarily are projects that nobody likes or wants, except for said MPs and media figures.

But it turns out that isn’t true: MPs and the press together can rend, kill and destroy anyone and anything they want, just by all agreeing to do it. But they can’t build anything that anyone wants that lasts more than five minutes, and that’s why governments keep collapsing to hated enemy status.

The clock can stop sweating now

The clock rests, for it is a Tuesday

And until the next Lib Dem leaflet is published

Time, inglorious sweat-bound time

Blissfully ceases

Well I had to avoid things I might otherwise have chosen from your list, obvs

Yeah it does happen; it would've happened to me had i not wanted to nominate somebody and discovered i wasn't getting the emails for nominations

🫂

that said i do think del toro’s frankenstein erred by cutting the creature’s canonical performance of Puttin On The Ritz

Nooooooooo