I’ve got very little time for Charlie Kaufman. I quite liked Eternal Sunshine, but I generally find his stuff pretentious and get a vibe of smugness. That might be unfair – I guess I’m just not the target audience.

It’s a photo from a 2021 Australian youth climate protest, taken by Jamie Wdziekonski (@sub_lation on Instagram).

I haven’t found a second angle of the same sign (though there are others with the same message), but I think it’s real.

MTG is anti-abortion, anti-contraceptive, and talks about women being the “weaker sex” and belonging to their husbands. She’s rabidly trans-exclusionary but by no measure can she be called a radical feminist.

Raspberry crown borers aren’t wasps, they’re moths that look like wasps - I guess it helps with survival. They eat their way into the crown at the base of plants, so they’re considered a pest.

It’s not just the EU flag, it’s the flag of Europe.

Indeed, the original read, “It was 9 hours of non-stop Star Wars cantina band.”

https://xcancel.com/spectissa/status/1148709655385976833

Jurahundredssic Pahundredrk was a classic. Shame the film adaptation was so reductive.

Are we doing authors too? Because the Winnie the Pooh series by A Hundred A Hundred Milne is a classic.

A Hundred Games of Thrones.

This is pretty much The World of Ice & Fire.

Is that USD per US gallon? If so, that’s 69p/litre, which is a little over half the current UK fuel prices.

Best choice is to switch out the em dashes for parentheses ( even where that doesn’t make any sense.

i’m stab

Huh, Ald’ruhn looked very different in the concept art.

This is snobby of me to say, but the general level of skill in writing in the UK - as in the US - is shockingly low.

I might be too dense for this - is it a joke about traumatic brain injuries? (I’m not being snide!)

SDIDSY

Yeah, but all tetrapods are just fish with flair.

The audience was misdirected into thinking the shaven-headed child who climbed out of the Pit was Bane rather than Talia, but Bane was also in the Pit – it’s where he sustained his injuries that require the mask and where he met Talia. We don’t have enough information to know if he was literally or figuratively “born” there.

“Would you say it’s time for everyone to panic?”

The link is an archive of OP’s article, for anyone wondering if they should click.