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A malevolently bad map

[beeves @BeevesMe]

Refuse to accept any minister is both “genuinely shocked” and has two brain cells to rub together. Real mutual exclusivity on this one.

[Robert Peston @Peston]

I know we’re mostly inured to Donald Trump’s disregard for institutional norms and proprieties, but pre-announcing the resignation of the prime minister of America’s supposedly most important ally is pretty extreme, even by his standards. UK ministers are genuinely and understandably shocked

[beeves @BeevesMe]

A lot of the seemingly rational objections to this amount to “I’m getting older and increasingly resistant to change”.

[beeves @BeevesMe]

Turkey vs Türkiye: what ppl call it on TV makes no difference to your life. No one cares in social settings if you still say Turkey. If you do call it Türkiye & it’s questioned say “oh apparently that’s the official name now so I’m trying to get used to it.” Drama solved!

[beeves @BeevesMe]

Plenty of addicts before they come to terms with it will use temporary periods of sobriety as evidence then don't have a problem! And also it doesn't seem like Holland's driven by vanity or hypochondria given his doctor told him his liver was in danger.

[beeves @BeevesMe]

People's reaction to this is strange. Not only is it better that someone get a handle on a potential addiction early, but also "if I get to six months I know I'm not addicted" is the exact kind of thought process addicts use to delude themselves.

[Percy @percyishim]

Tom Holland reveals how he found out he had an alcohol addiction and how hard it was to stop, even when a doctor told him he had a liver problem.

“I decided to do dry-January and in doing dry January it really scared me because I had a really tough time. I couldn’t wrap my head head around how much I was struggling without booze in that first month and it really scared me”

“So I decided that I will do February as well and I would do 2 months. The second month got a little bit harder and then I started to panic thinking ‘damn I have a bit of an alcohol thing’”

“I’ve had quite an upsetting conversation with a doctor about my liver a year earlier and as a young kid, I ignored the doctor”

“Then I decided I was going to do March and then I got through March and started to feel a little bit better”

“Then I said if I could make it to June, which was my birthday the. I’d have proved to myself that I don’t have problem”

[beeves @BeevesMe]

Sanderson’s big strength is in well mapped and satisfying plot resolution. He is great at throwing a hundred balls in the air and catching them all. Downside of that meticulousness is constant asides explaining away potential plot holes which can stop paragraphs dead their tracks

[beeves @BeevesMe]

Everyone seems to assume Brandon Sanderson will finish these but his prose reads like children’s fiction, is increasingly rife with therapy speak and all his lead characters are prudes I just don’t see it. I don’t think he’s interested in the things that interest Martin.

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

The wait for 'The Winds of Winter' has officially surpassed the time it took George R.R. Martin to release the first 5 ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ books 📚

[beeves @BeevesMe]

Martin isn’t the greatest prose writer but he seriously outmatches most fantasy writers, which is going to be a real issue re: the possibility of someone else taking over one day. He’s just lost the driving passion for the main series, it happens.

[beeves @BeevesMe]

@GrahamC47 There’s been a few attempts to get that style of working up and running in the UK. I think the sitcom My Family (bad) was the earliest. Never quite takes off, though a big series like DW will have multiple episode writers.

[beeves @BeevesMe]

@swaggboi_420 @besslilburne Isn’t that just literally because of our ridiculous house prices

[beeves @BeevesMe]

Oh my god AT LAST Thomas at last

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Tom Holland reveals he is developing a project with ‘Another Round’ director Thomas Vinterberg.

[beeves @BeevesMe]

@DaniellaMazzio Its register would more fittingly be in conversation with assorted Be Careful What You Wish For episodes of assorted US network genre tv shows from the 1990s/2000s but alas even there…

[beeves @BeevesMe]

@alecrobbins Honestly, I’m kind of depressed at the general air of ingratitude on here at what crew are prepared to go through to help directors get their stuff made

[aLec robBins @alecrobbins]

a really important detail i think maybe a lot of people don't know here is that if you are working on an indie/non-union production, your work conditions are going to be pretty terrible across the board: long hours, low rates, unpaid overtime, subpar equipment, much higher stress

[beeves @BeevesMe]

Wonder what Keir Starmer’s up to tonight.

[beeves @BeevesMe]

Is this a good moment to say I think he should star in the Death Stranding movie.

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Charles Melton is in talks to star in The Daniels’ secret film at Universal.

(https://t.co/2GLgPQYRT4)

[beeves @BeevesMe]

Anyway, when you actually consider what the risk is for investors, at the absolute worst it's the risk of losing enough of your wealth that you have to work to live, same as all the plebs who actually made the film.

[beeves @BeevesMe]

Some notes on the definition of "risk" being limited to "financial investment" as a means of justifying why only the already wealthy people deserve to share in a low budget film's financial success:

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

‘Obsession’ director Curry Barker was asked about art director Sally Choi’s viral IG post, where she advocated for industry-wide change and improved pay conditions for low-budget crews:

“I have nothing but respect for the art department, and the work they did was extraordinary. Everybody on this film worked so hard and they deserve to be recognized. This movie was made for so little money that it’s typical that the only people who [directly] benefit from its financial success are the people who took on some sort of risk"

“What I hope is that every person that worked really hard on this film will see opportunities to catapult their careers in ways that can be very financially fruitful for them — like what’s happening for me"

(via @THR)

[beeves @BeevesMe]

I bring up this eg. because anyone right-thinking is immediately revolted by that logic. Which tells me we DON’T believe that capital investment holds special moral status over human dignity, we just have red lines behind which we accept its necessity to keep the world moving.

[beeves @BeevesMe]

@brofromanother "the lamentable rise of the girl dad" yes! thank you!!

[beeves @BeevesMe]

The combination of First Past the Post, parliamentary sovereignty and the whip system effectively means our Prime Minister is a five year dictator, and he's possibly going to be selected today by a few thousand people in a Manchester suburb. The British political system is dumb.