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It is the strange thing about living in the Golden Age of Prestige Television, how often you'll watch something glossily produced with great acting and dialogue but which is not actually *arguing* anything.

Just fyi to people not aware of Wikipedia’s various issues: the Wikimedia Foundation is currently trying to stop its workers from unionising. Rather than donate to them, donate to the Internet Archive, which a lot of Wikipedia relies on anyway. archive.org/donate

I might be wrong here but I think this means the (film) actor most dubbed into Welsh is...Peter Cushing! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Star Wars dubbed into Welsh for first time for S4C broadcastRhys Ifans, Matthew Rhys, Aimee-Ffion Edwards and Mark Lewis Jones among actors voicing characters from 1977 blockbusterwww.theguardian.com

Extremely niche--anyone know if in ancient regime France the day of a nun's profession might be termed her 'journee?' (Script is clear, abbreviations not an issue, inscription grammar is often...condensed.. so I'm brainstorming)

Oh, hey! Got an email from Terry Gross, who apparently does NPR business from a gmail account. She wants to interview me about Radiant Star! At this point if you want me to visit your book club or do an interview, you need to contact my agent or publisher cause I'm deleting requests in my inbox.

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

It’s interesting that a powerful religious left is developing in America led by clergy and lay people in response to Trump and ICE! We desperately need that here in the face of the appropriation of Christianity by the far right.

Once again I find myself asking "have you considered simply not breaking the speed limit?" www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Writer Lynda La Plante breaks down as she is handed driving banLynda La Plante said a driving ban would effectively end her writing career, as she would not be able to meet contacts for her works.www.dailymail.com

Careful now, last time someone posed this problem, parts of Wales got flooded.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Think this also touches on my theme that the pop right is largely driven by negative emotions and an absence of love, which makes it incompatible with Christianity.

This is completely the precise nonsense I'm here for...

As a priest who hears confessions: this is bullshit. We (Anglicans) are trained to, if someone confesses something reportable, withhold absolution (and thus the seal of the confessional) until the report has been made. The needle can be threaded. Some church bodies just choose not to.

We had a trainee teacher (m, about, I dunno, 22) in my girls' school biology class once. He carefully drew a lovely diagram of the eye situated in the human head on the blackboard, and then equally carefully labelled the destination of the optic nerve B-R-I-A-N. Poor man.

I'd like to thank the people in our Government who challenge others when they say we need to punish more disabled people for, er, being disabled. Just in case that makes them suddenly stop being disabled, & find magical nonexistent jobs they can do, etc/

I'd like to thank all of the advocates and allies, all of the supporters and carers, who work tirelessly and often for no or little pay, in a system that wants them to starve too (or so it seems). I'd like to thank the media outlets who enable disabled people to say what life is like for them/

It seems relevant that the thing Isaiah is being sent to do in that passage is to deliver a prophecy of doom to his own people for having fallen away from the path of righteousness. So if these guys were like, Isaiah, that would be robustly bad news for...the United States.

Bus deregulation was one of Margaret Thatcher's worst policies 🚌 A leading transport campaigner has shared how Scotland could fix the mess Thatcher left On The National Podcast 👇

Margaret Thatcher broke Glasgow's bus system. This is how we fix it nowwww.thenational.scot

I agree with the principle I saw a year or two about AI texts: "Why should I bother to read something nobody could be bothered to write?"

This lack of typing instruction created frustration for both my kids in elementary school, when they had to hunt and peck their way through occasional digital assignments. But it became a huge issue when my oldest got to 6th grade. 5/