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damn dude

submitted 22 hours ago • 45 comments

The Ballad of Wallis Island is a gorgeous little instant classic. I laughed hard, I wept, I sighed — such a beautiful film. Go see it in cinemas, and support a charming UK indie

submitted 4 hours ago • 11 comments

Don’t forget to make a quick remark about the hot weather at the start of all your emails today!

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

hot take: i don't think you would like to watch this actually

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

This much-mocked piece is by the son of novelist DM Thomas, whose appetite for including sexually willing young women in his books* led Private Eye to nickname him 'Thomas the Wank Engine'. *he said one female reader told him the erotic poem in his novel The White Hotel invariably made her orgasm

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

seriously, if you say are still saying, in 2025, the 'all this to shave a few minutes off some journeys' thing about HS2, they should ban you from using language. you are one of the animals now. here is a bag of scraps.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

submitted 136 days ago • 3 comments

I just learned there's an American tennis player called Katie Volynets, which even Martin Amis would have considered a bit on the nose as a character name.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

[Wayne Manor] ALFRED: and why do we fall, Master Bruce BRUCE WAYNE: because you keep tying my shoes together A: that’s right, you spoiled little bitch

submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

"Are you actually enjoying that old movie/tv show/game, or is it just nostalgia?" Oh man, I was almost experiencing joy engaging in media that reminded me of happy experiences in my youth, thank God you came to put a stop to that.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

it’s important to find time in your day to just switch your mind off and do nothing. it might be first thing in the morning, it might be last thing at night, or - and this is surprisingly popular - it might be when you get to the ticket barriers at waterloo. just take care of yourself, guys.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

oh that's good, global economy had arguably been doing too well for the entirety of my adult life so far, nice that we're finally taking it down a peg

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

yes, that's right

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

We now cross over to BBC Radio Derby.

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments

So I read this and it's completely fine. I don't know what the deal is with the snark, it's a perfectly okay and informative piece

submitted 6 days ago • 73 comments

Wild story: a quality manager who warned about the shoddy construction of Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes was particularly concerned about the ones sent to Air India in 2014. That's when the Air India jet that crashed today was sent. prospect.org/economy/2025...

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

Finally finished Andor. Loved it, but couldn't get past the enormous coincidences throughout. It's impossible that someone had just farted in every single room that Dedra Meero was in.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

submitted 8 days ago • 392 comments

LOVE & MERCY is a fantastic Brian Wilson biopic, btw. Paul Dano's scenes as Brian in the recording studio are absolutely brilliant and give you just a glimpse of what he was like in his prime. John Cusack's performance as the older Brian is also some of his best recent work.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

They've used up all the torment nexus names and have moved on to venereal diseases.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Saw that CNN has a new show called Eva Longoria: Searching for Spain and I really hope it’s just her pointing to places on a map and someone saying no

submitted 10 days ago • 55 comments

Umm …

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

guy next to me in the café was quite dramatically sitting with his head in his hands so I glanced at his screen to see what he was working on, and it was a doc with "IDEAS:" written at the top and absolutely nothing else my brother I hear you, I feel you, we are as one

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

I worry that recommendation algorithms may be getting too good.

submitted 12 days ago • 38 comments

I mean this from my absolute core when I say I would completely shit my pants if I saw that in real life

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

guys, stop laughing, racists only behave like this when they’re very distressed

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Okay well if you don't want both of your thumbs shot off then don't be popping off at people with shit like "I declare a thumb war," some folk do not take such declarations lightly, now let's chalk this up to a misunderstanding and I'll take you to the hospital

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments