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The Greatest Trivia League in All the Land.

Bounded lists of geographical things are v good learning for quiz performance: counties, capitals, US states, presidents and PMs, etc (also, if you aren't already a player, you might find Learned League interesting; it's US-centric but has lots of players from around the world)

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I don't buy this. I - a brown-skinned Brit - am not in any meaningful way "'facing' US white supremacy" in my life here. Nor am I convinced that anyone else is.

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 15h

Polanski as Sexx Tricker sort of works tbh

2018 Election candidates of note 3: Dorian Salazar O'Malley, Sexx Tricker, Hillary, Holden Bloodfeast (by @beanytuesday on ye olde Twitter)

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me at the first traitors round table: so are you a traitor if she taps your shoulder? because i think she tapped my shoulder. is that good or bad. its good right.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 15h

I don’t watch any Traitors, but the impression I get of the celebrity version is that it massively prioritises quality in the form of proper huge-star a-list participants, and this has a virtuous circle effect both for viewers and for future participants.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 30/09/2026

When you’ve got to defeat Vigo the Carpathian at five but you also have to get to Avonmouth dump before it shuts at four.

A photo from r/Bristol showing someone driving what appears to be the car from Ghostbusters, with junk strapped to its roof

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 30/09/2026

They were supposed to be selling the Life Raft one in Iceland this summer but I never managed to find it in any branches :-(

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 29/09/2026

This will of course mean bringing Ia_ Le__ne into government 😬

Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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The first thing I will do when I am appointed global dictator is mandate that PDF/report pages have to match, ie if the report page says it's page 28 it HAS TO BE on page 28 of the bloody PDF.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t think: ‘we are bound by our current manifesto so things are going to be tough for a few years but don’t worry, if you vote for us again things will get better but also taxes will rise’ is a good political strategy.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 29/09/2026

The interesting bit was to be forced to cast my mind back to 1997-2007 and to remember, counter-intuitively given how he's remembered, how Blair was not just engaged with the intellectual side of policy thinking, but he was clearly and deliberately *publicly engaged*.

Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 29/09/2026

I thought this recent LRB podcast ep was good on stuff that is highly connected to all this - made the interesting point that in the Blair admin, including TB, it was run-of-the-mill for pols to be highly engaged with the intellectual side of politics, and now that just seems completely absent.

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Film: William Davies and James Butler · On Politics: What happened to the intellectual?

London Review of Books

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I am slightly joking about all four of these, but I reckon you could make a case for each of them in their ways. My actual answer to the question remains Hedwig, though.

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Part of what makes that film so powerful is the way that Jonathan Glazer firstly draws the viewer into a sense that perhaps the family aren't fully aware of what it is they're shepherding, and then once that veil is ripped away, he then makes the viewer complicit in the actions of the protagonists.

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The Zone of Interest, specifically Hedwig, and specifically from the moment in the film at which it becomes extremely clear that not only does she know *precisely* what is going on on the other side of the garden wall, but that she revels in and takes some pleasure in it.

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Even I had my finger on the Dice button at 9am, and I don't particularly rate a 2026 Elton performance, but it was forty quid and half an hour from home in a venue smaller than most west end theatres, and why *wouldn't* you go under those circumstances?

Elton John could easily sell out a venue fifty times that size at five times the cost (admittedly probably not in seconds) and that's what you were up against rather than because someone conspired against you.

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From the AppleMusic community on Reddit: Tickets for Elton John sold out the second they were available

If you want a perfect current display of motivated reasoning, check out the Elton John subreddit where people are complaining that £40 tickets for tonight's 600-cap gig in Battersea sold out in seconds because "bots" or some other conspiracy theory, rather than "it's dirt cheap in a tiny venue"

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God, I love Brian Butterfield's entire shtick so much. I think this must be the first time Serafinowicz has been on tour as himself.

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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A timeline of five pints of DIPA

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Feel like this post and your sean lennon post are linked by the "grandma/rap battle" classic x.com/ch000ch/stat...

hi, grandma? can u come pick me up from my rap battle? it's over. no, i lost. he saw u drop me off & did a pretty devastating rhyme about it

Nit Nurse With Wound @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Sweet Jesus. So concerned about stopping people right-clicking your public collection of images that you put the whole lot in a private DRM provider that goes under, and the whole lot is fucked. Sweet. Jesus.

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I meant to reply to your comparisons point @thatsoph.bsky.social and I think there's a psychological break between "I see a bigger number than I've ever seen in my life" and "I should actually validate this purported 'value'" in most sellers' minds.

even though the "loss" is not real in any meaningful sense because that higher "value" never existed anywhere outside the head of a twentysomething EA with a commission target in their head. Seller is anchored on the higher number and part of their brain fixates on how mindbogglingly big the num is.

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magnified when an EA in a shiny suit and a flashy leased car turns up and gives you their reckon (full of motivated commission-based reasoning, obv) that you can get some number that's fifty grand more than you had in your head. Massive loss aversion starts to kick in when you consider lowering...

There's a lot of behavioural psychology stuff going on in house pricing. For almost everyone in any given home sale transaction, the amount will be the most money they've ever had to think about in their lives so far. This has a delusory and boggling effect on people's brains, which is only...

Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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So, massively speculating, but it sounds as if they were waiting and watching, but a farmer coming home from a party called in the local plod, who jumped into something they weren't meant to be aware of. Quite Slow Horsey.

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That's right. Which is why the Brick Lane dc is being proposed there (and why there are already two of them on Brick Lane) - it's obviously a stone's throw from the City.

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Ah, interesting. I need to go back and re-read them: I’ve seen some such jokes referenced here or on old Twitter where, as you describe, the reference went over my head at the time, and it’d be interesting to go back over them.

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For instance re Airplane this line (and the subsequent running gag) is a reference to an American TV ad that was popular at the time, and the woman who plays the wife is the same woman who stars in the ad.

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Also interesting is contemporary but cross-cultural references, my favourite of which is “Facebook” which had a specific meaning to American college kids, I later understood, that was completely absent outside North America

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Face book - Wikipedia

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The AA/SA thing is fascinating, yes. I too only heard about it a few years ago. There are several of these in Airplane, where the joke is funny to us anyway, but that were also specific references to late 70s cultural touchstones.