Not sure about this A-Team reboot

Sun Tzu actually has an entire section in The Art of War about screaming at the other side to open a strategic route on your own personal social media platform

If you ask Polanski whether, since the Tories are led by a black woman or Reform UK’s chair is Muslim, they couldn’t possibly have issues with racism, sexism or Islamophobia, he’d reject that ‘logic’. Remember that when he tries to use his Judaism to deflect about antisemitism.

turns out this is not a parody

I've spent years struggling to prove that the sunk-cost fallacy isn't actually a fallacy. No sense in giving up now, though.

Solidarity with Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics at City University. Students are demanding his sacking simply because he is an Israeli Jew who has done (mandatory) military service. The antisemitic harassment he is being subjected to is horrifying. I hesitate to amplify it, but British academics need to understand what is happening. instagram.com/p/DPtJchuiInk/… instagram.com/reel/DP6Wop0iM…

BBC presenter corrects ‘pregnant people’ to ‘women’ JK Rowling hails Martine Croxall as her ‘new favourite’ BBC newsreader following live broadcast remark

So, Radiohead front man Thom Yorke has posted an 8 page statement about the Israel/Gaza conflict on Instagram. In it he claims Netanyahu and 'his crew of extremists are totally out of control and need to be stopped' because he has a 'transparent desire to take control of Gaza and the West Bank'. He criticises the 'blockade' and asks us why 'endless thousands of innocent human souls are still being expelled from the earth... for what?' He calls for the 'international community' to do all they can to make Israel 'cease'. But in a surprising turn of events, Yorke goes on to say: 'At the same time the unquestioning Free Palestine refrain that surrounds us all does not answer the simple question of why the hostages have still not all been returned? For what possible reason? Why did Hamas choose the truly horrific acts of October 7th? The answer seems obvious, and I believe Hamas chooses too to hide behind the suffering of its people, in an equally cynical fashion for their own purposes'. So, Israel and Hamas were given a good kicking in Yorke's statement. But if you could hazard a guess, which side do you think is responding positively to it and which side is having a massive meltdown about it? You know the answer. Thank you for your courage, Thom Yorke.

you gotta hand it to sabrina carpenter, i don’t think i’ve heard anyone say “expresso” in like a year

That was the Village People

Ed is right & I’d go one further: there is something worrying about the fury being heaped on someone trying to explain the motives of people who have done wrong. Very few people intend to be bad. They are all heroes in their own stories. We have to understand *their* motivations.

Why you shouldn't celebrate the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting. gurwinder.blog/p/the-riddle-…

“The assassination of Brian Thompson does not call for a “conversation” about health care—it calls for a reckoning with Americans’ moral breakdown.” city-journal.org/article/lui…

Quite…

Is any of it going to fit him?

I’m broadly against censorship, but this seems… not good

You know it's possible to have sympathy for Caster Semenya, Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting, *and* think that they should not be allowed to compete against women.

The amazing synchronization of Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan winning the Olympic Gold in the women's synchronized 10 m platform diving. x.com/i/status/1818877620941…

Women say “dad bod” the same way men say “no makeup”