BBC canceling Doctor Who's Christmas special means we won't get an answer to the Billie Piper question. But it wouldn't have paid off anyway.
How eight beavers solved a Tube flooding problem engineers have been trying to fix for years
Did anyone else notice that a certain vampire's alias was "Thomas Pitt" in the new episode of The Vampire Lestat?
I hope director Neil Jordan and composer Elliotte Goldenthal get shoutouts too. I love the 1994 IWTV film.
"Don't provoke Russia, stating you'll defend yourself is war mongering" is the geopolitical equivalent of "Don't provoke the rapist, if he finds out you have pepper spray you're tempting him."
Russia needs to be reminded, frequently, that if they fuck around, they will find out; the only language an invader understands is force. Appeasement is what you do after you've defeated an enemy, not while he's preparing to invade you and attacking you. Peace isn't passive.
#OtD 13 Jun 1936 the man circled in this photo, believed to be August Landmesser, a shipyard worker in love with Irma Eckler who was Jewish, refused to give the Nazi salute. Learn more about German resistance to Nazism in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-e...
#OtD 13 Jun 1919 200,000 attended in Berlin the funeral procession for martryed revolutionaries Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, who were murdered during the German Revolution by the proto-fascist Freikorps militia shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
#OtD 13 Jun 2010 match stewards at the World Cup in South Africa walked out on strike over being underpaid by almost 90%. Police attacked them with tear gas, rubber bullets, and percussion grenades stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8494...
This is Jax. He applies deodorant every day before leaving the house. Tired of smelling like Fritos all the time. 13/10 (TT: brandledandle)
The creatures were reintroduced in 2023 after being hunted to extinction 400 years ago
Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children.
Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
