Watched the first season of Mobland, pretty good! Brosnan and Hardy are both great, but all my flowers are going to Toby Jones for playing England's dirtiest constable, Bad Detective Chief Inspector.

detectorists! detectorists!

It makes libs incredibly mad when people in communist countries produce great art. You see this a lot when western critics write about Chinese cinema - they’re always desperate to convince themselves the filmmakers are anti-CCP dissidents when they’re simply… not. Lol

are we really doing this again? plenty of great artists survived the soviet system, but it was very emphatically not good for the contemporary arts

last week it was arguing that soviet agricultural policy was good!

Also a great way to tell first world countries apart

OK but not remotely a new phenomenon. at my (southern, boys') prep school in the 90s, no one objected to doing well academically, but to be *seen to be studying* was socially disadvantageous

I know these are just the people who get caught, but I'm kinda shocked how many violent criminals commit crimes where 1.) they'd be the obvious first suspect and 2.) make almost no attempt to get away with it and 3.) never seem to wonder if they should

I am always telling myself that if someone made good choices they'd never need me