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Yes, precisely this. Thank you.

It's a very good effect imo.

Although, unfortunately, anti-trans bigotry has moved in the opposite direction.

With wife. All hail wife.

(Except Scholomance, which my god they're good too )

Random drive-by comment: The Incandescent is ridiculously, annoyingly good. And I'm off to buy the others referenced.

Corbyn was a perfectly mainstream social democrat, both by European standards and by the standards of what British people, when asked their opinions, actually want. The idea that any of this is "hard left" should be well beneath somebody who is often a sensible and thoughtful commentator.

I only know one high-level strongman somewhat well (Mark Felix), and he is a just delightful human. His wife told me he loved our gym because everybody treated him like a normal person, asking for spots rather than autographs etc.

Even if it were a coherent concept, I very much doubt they would be happy with a film where there were absolutely no northern-European-heritage people. Greeks and Persians and Moors, oh my.

Of the ones who seem to be, I think I'd pick Momoa over Hemsworth for that particular role.

Very comfortably "Wolf" (2019), a film about Roman soldiers encountering werewolves in Scotland that didn't seem to have had a finished edit before getting shown in Cineworld. It displaced "Sex Lives of the Potato Men", which I didn't think would ever happen.

I did not have "a statement from the Church of Wales makes me weep with gratitude for a bit of common fucking humanity" on my bingo card, but there you are.

The tell with all of this is your kids can be taught by sex bots dressed up like John Oliver, but the tech barons send their kids to schools where they don't allow phones and there is an art AND music teacher.

Because British libel law is appalling and the case will drag on for a decade or more. Amnesty simply DOESN'T have the money.

If Already could afford to fight this, the forces of evil wouldn't have bothered with the suit. As a couple of newspaper articles have pointed out, the only likely outcome if Amnesty UK fight this is that they simply cease to exist. I also wish that weren't true, it's sickening.

I'm interested to know why you think Amnesty have millions of pounds spare to tie up for a decade or so of legal action. (They absolutely don't.)

Precisely. I will forever miss the Gaiman that, honestly, virtually everybody thought he was. David Eddings books were my safe return to childhood whenever I felt rotten, and now I just can't. We've all lost art, and mourned artists.

Unfortunately, I've seen more than one person say they're going to stop donating to Amnesty because they backed down.

I feel it's worth noting here for people in other countries that this isn't simply cowardice by Amnesty: English libel law is a weapon for the rich, a genuine stain on our national character (and that's not exactly a low bar these days).

I think there's a bit in one of the Lazarus Long musings (which pretty much makes it Heinlein's pulpit-delivered opinion) where he says something along the lines of needing enthusiastic consent with the gates open and all flags flying welcome to have any interest, which is a tragically rare opinion.