Ben

Its all soup now

[Ben @lankalacks]

Probably the most successful rebrand effort I've seen in my lifetime - now a global brand with the hanger on 'LAD' name, which is now meaningless

[Ross McCafferty @RossMcCaff]

Once again thinking about Lad Bible's posts from the 2011 London riots

[Liam🎥 @Liam_smiths01]

He Walked Into the Casino With Just $10... Nobody Expected Him to Walk Out With Millions.💰

Watch how he did it 👇🎥

[𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖊 @deirdrescig]

Footballer Paul Gascoigne has arrived at Madison Square Garden saying he is a friend of Taylor Swift.

[Ben @lankalacks]

The most vindicated man in gaming

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

PlayStation is ending production of physical game discs for all new games, starting January 2028.

From that date, new games will be available in digital formats only.

[Ben @lankalacks]

This is going to go away.

[Sam @SamCKx]

The more I dig, the more I realise that Nigel Farage is literally done for. It's over for him. The £5 million bung is big enough to take the entire Reform movement down and possibly land Nigel in jail.

1) The fact the donation was made BEFORE Nigel was MP is absolutely irrelevant. Parliamentary Code of Conduct requires all receipts for the full 12 months before election. Nigel receiving his bung just a few days before he announced his candidacy makes it so much worse, not better.

2) "Category 5: Gifts and benefits from sources outside the UK - THRESHOLD FOR REGISTRATION Section 39. Members must register, subject to the paragraphs below, any gifts or benefits with a value of over £300 which they receive from a source outside the UK."

Nigel argues this was 'purely personal' but the Code refers to partners or families when it comes to personal gifts... this takes us to the next issue...

3) Christopher Harborne has a long track record of making SUBSTANTIAL political contributions to Nigel's parties, first to The Brexit Party, and later to Reform. He is a POLITICAL DONOR - any "gift" he made to Farage CANNOT be argued as personal or without political context due to this track record.

4) Using his platform as an MP, Nigel went on to promote 2 companies in which Christopher Harborne holds $ billions in stock - Nigel NEVER publicly endorsed or mentioned these companies prior to the "gift". Nigel also began actively pushing for policy that would directly interest Christopher Harborne and his business affairs. These were not interests that any could argue could possibly be of interest to his constituents - deregulation of crypto, and lowering of taxes on crypto gains. Nigel spent a substantial amount of time and effort pushing these policies.

It is beyond a doubt that this is the biggest breach of Parliamentary Code of Conduct rules in relation to donations in parliamentary history.

But even more concerning for Nigel will be that if it can be proven he was secretly incentivised to use his public office to push for policies to support a wealthy donor, then he should very likely face a criminal probe for corruption and bribery. I suspect Harborne might also be exposed to this. The United Kingdom and Thailand have a bilateral extradition treaty. Maximum prison sentences of up to 10 years for the offence.

This is not going to go away.

[Ben @lankalacks]

Almost got tricked into liking TRIANGLE OF SADNESS because of that final needle drop

[Ben @lankalacks]

Been thinking on this w/ more and more needle drops in 2026 film and tv being some widely recognised song made popular by tiktok, my read is that its cynical inclusion from execs or the director. Young viewers are likely to know that song, so they'll like your movie

[Hit Factory @HitFactoryPod]

the question some of you have to answer isn't "am i online enough to know these songs are ubiquitous across tiktok" but "is it plausible that a 26yo filmmaker/former shortform content creator knows about this context? does that make the selections less interesting as a result?"

[Alistair's Great Tweets @YesitsAlistair]

We’ve legit lost the plot. I honestly have zero idea what people are looking for these days but there needs to be a major shift in criticism. The movie I saw was well written, well directed, beautifully shot, insanely well performed and the sound was amazing

[MeekMill @MeekMill]

I need to use plantir For like a hr!!!

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Four biblical signs the world has entered the end of days as US bombs Iran https://t.co/Sh9tDuOJgL

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Some U.S. military commanders have reportedly been accused of telling their troops the Iran war is part of a biblical plan to trigger the end times https://t.co/MdQVVQIVDB

[Dan Brooks @DangerBrooks]

One regrettable aspect of so much moving to video is that "hot" has become the primary qualification for every field of cultural endeavor.

[Ben @lankalacks]

"You can't build a world where nothing matters"

[Ben @lankalacks]

He said/she said, gossip and vibe carrying as much weight as audits, evidence and 'proper' procedure is probably the most realistic part of s4, politics, finance and murder ushered in on transient feelings and nothing else, a definitively 2026 show

#IndustryHBO

[Ben @lankalacks]

@AmeriKraut Where's this from?

[Ben @lankalacks]

@hering_david Would put serious money on DOOMSDAY / SECRET WARS featuring heavy AI/CGI use, revealed in a post release Variety article, which permanently shifts the needle toward acceptance of AI in movies...

[Ben @lankalacks]

@ednewtonrex Extending this, if Universal is working with its artists using this tool (whatever form it takes), then the artist will inevitably vanish as an AI clone replaces singing and prompts replace producing. That's a zero-sum game regardless of the legalities of it all.

[Ben @lankalacks]

@ednewtonrex Hi Ed, how does this not *also* replace artists and creatives? In either sense, licensed, or unlicensed, these are tools built to destroy creativity and artistry, traditional instrumentation, and craft. Is it encouraging that the future of music creation is prompted?