Ian Kikuchi
@curatorian.bsky.social
Wondering if the history of cats is 5000 years of them demanding to know where their dinner is.
He's going to follow up the smoking ban by banning 18-year-olds from buying alcohol, energy drinks, tea, coffee, or sparkling water.
It would be very much on brand for the government to go with the absolutely most dismal option available.
Jesus. Nevermind the unhinged traditional conspiratorial antisemitism of it, even the factual statements are trivially wrong. Stalin's father was a drunken failed cobbler, and Stalin himself attended a Russian Orthodox seminary.
I can't wait for their Chief Legal Correspondent's insights into the Met Gala costume parade.
The NYT; bravely scrutinising the key issues of the day through the wrong end of the telescope.
Stormy Daniels has often been discussed as the most colorful part of Donald Trump’s criminal trial. But in her court appearances she didn’t look particularly colorful. She looked the opposite, our chief fashion critic writes. nyti.ms/3K0RxJa
Surely the values question shouldn't even arise - a proxy who didn't vote as instructed would be committing an offence, wouldn't they?
'Do as I say [in a 50,000-word ranty blog post], not as I do [when actually at the heart of government]'
Seem to remember that series as enjoyably stylish nonsense. A bit like The OA, as well.
Somewhere the NYPD's copy of Critical Thinking: A Very Short Introduction has burst into flames out of sheer embarrassment.
Truss knew what she was doing, she just didn't care that it was bonkers.
It continues to baffle me that someone can rise to Prime Minister and have so little political nous. He seems to have no feel for it at all.
The West Mids result was going to be the tasty breadcrumb of consolation which has now been swooshed into a waiter's miniature dustpan and brush.
The reverses about the two mayors are particularly funny.
* West Mids mayor supposedly personally popular, not marketing self as a Tory. Loses.
* weirdo London mayor candidate supposedly on the verge of squeaking through on ULEZ rage and other nonsense. Also loses.
Quite enjoying the drip feed of humiliations for the government over the last couple of days.
Perhaps Oxford University Press could help this doofus out by sending him the Very Short Introduction to Policing.
Best part of this is … have you ever actually seen an Oxford VSI? They’re tiny. Wtf is Daughtry holding up there?
I think that's the biggest disappointment. An opportunity to think about what was permissible, or necessary, and at what cost, to destroy Nazism, lost amid a reluctance to feel uncomfortable, and ultimately washed away by Greatest Generation schmaltz.
'Hello, prop department? Yes, I hope you can help. I need a book the size of a passport blowing up to the size of a Yellow Pages. No I can't tell you why. Why are you laughing? Hello? Hello?'
This is, by a long way, the funniest and stupidest thing I've seen on the internet today.
Best part of this is … have you ever actually seen an Oxford VSI? They’re tiny. Wtf is Daughtry holding up there?
Found the use of the Holocaust in the series disturbingly instrumental. Felt like it was being used whenever the story needed to be given some moral heft.
Realise I'm absurdly late here, but having just finished Ep9 I thought this was ludicrously reckless. A fighter pilot willing to spray a crowded POW camp with .50- cal rounds just for the sake of mincing a couple of machine guns? Ridiculous.
Presumably all this ultimately falls out from the strategic decision that Britain wasn't going to bolster the Far East if it meant any real diminution of the position in the Middle East - better a disaster in Malaya than a disaster in Egypt.
[adds to my list of Things To Be Fired Into The Sun]
Oh I dunno, I gave him a pretty good shooting in Wolfenstein 3D back in the day.
Have been reading parts of the Canadian official histories for work recently. They've been surprisingly readable.
Ah that must have been very satisfying. (And another sports option - white water rafting!)
This crossed my timeline, though I'd seen it before. I'm always absolutely amazed that these idiots pitched *Hayao Miyazaki* of all people with a repulsive Resident Evil knock-off.
I will never not share this:
youtu.be/ngZ0K3lWKRc?...
Ukrainian navigator Serhiy Verbytsky, who survived an ejection from a Su-24 at high speed and low level:
'I want to fly on combat missions again...up there in the sky; the speed, the focus, the intensity: it is purest pleasure.'
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/last...
Last flight of the navigator: bomber hero ejected from his Sukhoi
Serhiy Verbytsky survived being flung from his SU-24M during a mission to take out a Russian column advancing on Izyum in Ukraine. His comrade was not so lucky
www.thetimes.co.uk
Deploy the bulldozer.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/expo...
Exposed: the ‘illegal school’ teaching children conspiracy theories
At a grimy former nightclub pupils are told how to survive a ‘plot against humanity’. This is what our undercover reporter saw
www.thetimes.co.ukThe really weird thing is Hope tweeting about something other than a royal yacht.
Anyone who didn't see this coming has clearly never been responsible for reading the contents of a public suggestions box.
An interesting problem - do the other details that he recalls make sense?