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CMAT TINY DESK youtu.be/xPIMk4d4ulI?...

The National Union of Mineworkers has 211 members.

Inside the auditorium is the star installation though. A "tree" made of lighting and projection onto a circular screen above. Below it people on beanbags laze, watching the changing colours. Those of you who saw the Weather Project at the Tate will recognise the vibe.

The final item sold for £1 will be Poundland itself by the receivers

I can't believe the surveyed British public is entirely made up of "$3600 on candles please help me" meme guys. (Slightly misleading to include "fuel" in the car cost though, and have you seen how much public transport is lately?)

if anything we have a lot more fictional worlds (or "IP"-s) than we otherwise would because what would ordinarily be our stock settings are all privatized

Oh hey, new followers! You're just in time for the latest #KeepBakingPodcast featuring a new TV career suggestion for Gary, Platty Jubes trauma and Handshake Economics Corner <3 #GBBO #BakeOff soundcloud.com/keep-watchin...

[Skee-Lo voice] I wish I was a little bit meeker, I wish that I was beaker, I wish I was a high pitched, terrified shrieker

Wow, I hate it. I absolutely despise the entitled mentality that, "oh, this isn't behind a paywall, so I must just be able to take it and repurpose it without asking." No! No you can't! You need to ask first before lifting 67,000 of my words for your project!

Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!

Something something jam tomorrow something

This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

I think we underestimate the appeal of antigambling politics because every problem gambler is surrounded by 3-10 people who are absolutely sick of their shit.

Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good morning from 28th July 1982 when the Evening News reports that the city is suffering from an outbreak of "British Disease." Dr John Raven from the Scottish Council for Research in Education was reportedly "horrified to discover [the] epidemic" of public apathy was "so widespread". 🇬🇧😷🦠

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

I am devastated to learn that Eric Bauza has died. I just spoke with him a couple months ago and I cannot express how joyous it was to have *the Looney Tunes* speaking to *me* and I also cannot express how much it was clear doing the voices brought Bauza joy. www.vulture.com/article/eric...

Eric Bauza’s final film performance, as of right now, is Coyote VS ACME. Roadrunner’s testimony is one of his final character performances in the film. He says “Beep” around 46 times, that’s all he says. Yet it says everything about his strengths and passion as a voice actor, with just one word.

Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree.

It is ok to decide that—in the middle of constitutional crisis—that the job of social media is not persuasion, but organization and organization. It is also ok to decide that listening and persuasion does not have to involve violence and abuse. You know why trolls hide under bridges, right?

People abroad don't understand the level of interference Meta & bots had in these elections. 5 days before the election a far-right politician posted a fake news video that got 157 MILLION views on Instagram in 24hs. For reference, GTA 6's reveal trailer got 90 million views on YouTube in 24hs.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Reminder that they also did this to Zack Polanski during the Holborn & St. Pancras by-election. Can't help but wonder that was a test run for future elections, such as the one that's just taken place in Brazil

The high street is a place only open 9-5, which means that most employed people with disposable income can't use it. So it got replaced by 24/7 supermarkets and more recently Internet delivery.

The second story here - someone fined for stopping to read the sign, and the operator going 'well, you should have read the sign that tells you can't stop before you stopped to read the sign' is a bit that even Kafka might have thought too much

I absolutely love the photos in this. www.londoncentric.media/p/oxford-str...

Even cooler is: Spielberg watched the godawful dreck, filtered out everything but the visuals, and concluded "this cinematographer is brilliant, I wanna work with him" I remember seeing this in a theater as a young critic and thinking "that's one of the best looking terrible movies I've ever seen"

Lula Goes HARD

Pikachu 1 authoritarians 0

I am THRILLED that three people have blocked me since I posted this picture of a pie.

Can I also just take a moment to note how great the Student List's logo is

This is really good news for Serbia, and like Hungary by extension for the rest of us

Catching up on Genshin plot, and I'm pleased to see it's a proper JRPG: we are indeed going to attack and dethrone Heaven

Two cats, or one cat and the other... creature

My only thought about Cheesecake Factory is that when we went to the one in Union Square in SF, the server greeted us warmly, seated us, and handed us a piece of cardboard so dogeared is appeared to be a piece of environmental storytelling from a Fallout game, informing us of the US rules of tipping

Cheesecake Factory Architect: The vibe I’m going for is “insane sultan sorcerer who keeps murdering his wives and constructs an enchanted palace designed to forever trap their souls”

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

yanks will go all in on british cuisine while seemingly all enjoying eating somewhere called "the cheesecake factory"