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It's always been fashionable to put the boot in, now even the Graun is having a pop at PHP.

In total fairness, Sue Ellen is not *just* racist.

I hate to sound confrontational, but I don't think those pricks' concerns are actually legitimate.

Saw the Odyssey. Was left a bit flat. It's okay, but they cut Nono out of it.

In terms of intranominal tmesis, "Jesus *Fucking* Christ" is hard to beat in terms of pure invective. In other news, we have a new secretary of state for defence.

Where are the hundreds of QT appearances that @countbinface.bsky.social is owed?

According to Arsene Wenger in a clickbait headline, "only one team can stop France from winning the World Cup." Well, duh, obviously: that's exactly how knockout tournaments work.

How do you explain VCRs to modern kids? "They were like a streaming service but they had skippable ads."

Zoning in late, but it's a travesty that "the 100 best novels of all time" doesn't include the novelisation of Hawk the Slayer.

I initially misread this as "Pam Ayres" and it shook my world to its foundations.

Watched: Dracula (should be: Dreckula): a love tale. It has a colon in the title, which is all you need to know. Having said that, if the Muppets made a musical version I'd watch the shit out of it.

One of the things most striking about Mick Lynch is that he knows what he believes and articulates it well. Listening to him talk feels noticeably less stressful than listening to someone repeating what they're pretending to believe.

Robin Ince just delivered a lesson in integrity for Christmas. What a lovely human being.

R4 just now: "this decision will cause untold worry and should certainly be reexamined by the courts." The irony is fucking staggering; and the spin on the tribunal conclusions was appalling.

It's appalling that "don't be an arsehole" is a newsworthy stance.

On feeding AI: "Mr Pichai said action was needed, including in the UK, to develop new sources of energy and scale up energy infrastructure." We should probably earmark some of Google's corporate tax take to fund that, then.

I can't remember a time in my life when the English flag hasn't been an icon for the NF, the BNP, or whatever current rebrand the racist hooligans are organising under. It's bullying, not patriotism.

I call myself a mathematician but my better half had to explain the geometry in Alt-J's "Tessellate". I did get the TGTBATU reference FWIW.

When I was growing up, the flag was a symbol of the NF: nasty, stupid, brutish thugs. Then for a brief, glorious moment, it was associated with the Spice Girls. Now it's just back with the twats. How fucking depressing.

Presumably "Pleistocene Action" is next, etc. etc.

Oh no, no adult content or direct messaging. Okay, so we have an infantalising and authoritarian government; but honestly in this case it seems like no loss.

Trying to work out if this is more or less reprehensible than shouting "nonsense" at Jack Straw.

It's hard to picture anyone packing more effective communication into just two words.

There aren't enough quotes in the internet to sufficiently surround "justified". What an abysmal* way to bully people for nonconformity. (* "Abysmal" here is a value judgement. If you're *actually* a bully then what the EHRC reckons seems hugely effective.)

I'm not an expert, but it looks like Trump's following on from Canada by securing an election in Australia as well.

That the electoral reform act wasn't undone prior to these mayoral elections is a real pity. There's something viscerally appealing about any kind of ranked choice being better able to reflect "please god not any of these awful chancers" than FPTP.

Happy International Womens' Day!

There's too much bile and anger in the world already. It doesn't need me watching"prime factor".

I think I finally understand comonads. So there's that.