But likely exactly what 'they' want.

(, Tue 17 Feb 2026, 16:24, Reply)
That's the worrying thing - that Trump might actually be the lesser of two evils at this point.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2026, 19:07, Reply)
I reckon he’d be out quicker than Truss.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2026, 19:50, Reply)
(, Wed 18 Feb 2026, 2:17, Reply)
There's a huge amount of weird distractive bollocks being pushed at the moment.
Take Epstein, for example. The guy was a slimy nonce cunt, but let's not pretend he was on the same level as somebody like Ian Watkins or Paul Gadd. But apparently flying in vulnerable, runaway teenage girls to be sexually exploited by the rich and powerful wasn't sufficiently lascivious enough, and so now there's this fucking ridiculous internet lore being constructed about how they were sucking the shit from the bowels of dead babies and cooking their victims up in stew. Never mind all the AI 'photo evidence' slop salting the genuine evidence.
Same with Trump. People are literally comparing this thick cunt to Hitler. Hitler?!
The guy is as close to a puppet ruler as I think modern civilisation will ever see. He's not evil incarnate, he certainly doesn't have the initiative or intelligence to make calculated, malevolent decisions independently of others. Certainly not the type that would ultimately be of benefit to him, at least.
He's the perfect figurehead the division of the west. I honestly can't think of a personality more polarising than Trump. Beloved by the morons and hard of thinking on the right that find him so easy to relate to. Equally beloved by the fuckwits and intellectually challenged on the left, united in their animosity of the great orange despot and by association, his supporters.
And while we're all distracted by the bread and circuses of demonic sex offenders and innocent leftist freedom fighters being executed in Minneapolis, the Chinese government are slowly chipping away at the last few strands of unity keeping America from flipping the table and tearing literal chunks out of each other at a civil level by using Social Media manipulation to quite literally control our thoughts.
And just like always, us Brits in Little America will be right behind them.
And guess what happens while we're all busy exhausting resources fighting each other?
Happy pancake day!
(, Tue 17 Feb 2026, 19:59, Reply)
that wont simply tranfer to Vance, who's a bit of an oddfish, when the glorious leader shuffles off
(, Tue 17 Feb 2026, 21:02, Reply)
Have you seen what he's up to?
(, Thu 19 Feb 2026, 2:23, Reply)
I would like Trump and the VC to have a terrible dual accident. Not so bad they would die, just be unable to do their job or talk ever again.
Who's third in line? I mean whoever gets the job it will be a republican, so no winners there.
(, Thu 19 Feb 2026, 15:13, Reply)
voting-wise I mean, but it's a small influence nationally, despite the outrage. many of the maga faithful dig that sort of shit
what's going to make them take a bath in the mid-terms, unless they're successful with some of their many schemes to stop people who tend not to vote republican from voting at all, and why his approval ratings are tanking, is that life has got observably shittier and harder and more costly there, and that's peeling away the more marginal voters that were inclined to take a punt on Trump's big promises at the last election
(, Tue 17 Feb 2026, 21:12, Reply)
SC says what he said in his monologue, CBS say he wasn't blocked per se, but they were scared of being fined under election rules and offered guidance on how to achieve equal time with the rival candidates.
Either way the TV company is scared of the corrupt politicians they've spent so much bribing already and are acting accordingly.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2026, 1:11, Reply)
Did they end his contract for losing them millions of dollars?
(, Thu 19 Feb 2026, 0:30, Reply)
even though there is an existing legal exemption. So CBS lawyers directed the Late show not to interview him. CBS's owner Paramount, has become something of an arsekisser to trump both in order to get their merger with skydance approved, and david ellison their CEO (oracle's larry ellison's kid) becoming a trump ally like his daddy and the other tech bros. So CBS caved rather than fight a direction they had strong legal grounds to reject. The late show putting it on youtube was their way of getting around CBS's restriction
(, Wed 18 Feb 2026, 1:47, Reply)
Allowed equal representation of his opposition: Look her up.
I believe the equal representation rule has been around for a while, isn't proactively inforced, and people have to apply for it even when they don't do a slide around,
His opposition was a democrat, a black woman.
White bloke platforms white bloke, deplatforms a black woman to get around broadcasters rules. His show gets about 1 million, his online got about 5 million. His show would have required equal representation for his opposition, a black woman,
She's not happy about it according to her posts.
(, Thu 19 Feb 2026, 0:44, Reply)
Section 315 1) - 4) (1959) establish a bonafide news exemption. that is for a show to be subject to the equal time requirement, it must be a bonafide news show (or news event). So since 1959 until Trump, chat shows, comedy shows, daytime entertainment shows etc. have been considered exempt. You could read the law and it's history here, though you wont scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1143&context=ublr.
Their reasoning to reclassify this particular comedy late night show from Trump's FCC is that it is "partisan". Though this is undoubtably true, this doesn't make the "late show" a bonafide news show. It'd be like calling Spitting Image a news show because they had a Thatcher puppet. The late show is not really any different in format to any other late night comedy show since carson. A comedy monologue, a song, some interviews with whoever they book. It's preposterous to call it a news show. And as others have pointed out, there's plenty of partisan interview shows on tv and radio that aren't even comedy entertainment, like newt gingriches that arent subject to equal time despite being partisan
(, Thu 19 Feb 2026, 12:00, Reply)
"The Late Show was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with Rep. James Talarico. The show was provided legal guidance that the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal-time rule for two other candidates, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and presented
options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled. The Late Show decided to present the interview through its YouTube channel with on-air promotion on the broadcast rather than potentially providing the equal-time options."
There was no pressure. They did it by choice instead of making a few tweaks to segment timing.
(, Thu 19 Feb 2026, 11:40, Reply)
CBS have already taken the decision to cancel the Late show despite it being the highest rated show in the late night slot with an increasing audience, something that Trump has been directly calling for.
So characterising a direction from CBS to the Late Show to be the first entertainment show since 1959 to not be protected by the bonafide news exemption, change their format so they have to start interviewing all political candidates for a comedy show now and into the future or else don't do the interview, as either "no pressure" or "their own choice", might be underselling it somewhat.
One could even say that this reinterpretation of the FCC law could be part of an authoritarian pattern to silence any critical voices, like his kowtowing of universities, using the approval of media mergers (to his allies) to dictate favourable programming, shutting down the release of dept of statitistics data, etc.
From what I see in many of his supporters and the bullshit they get convinced by, it's already pretty effective.
(, Thu 19 Feb 2026, 12:28, Reply)
As had they aired it, their lawyers advised them that they might have to provide a platform for a black woman running against a white man. It's a primary, they're both democrats.
(, Thu 19 Feb 2026, 23:28, Reply)
but they did try the whole "supporting the black woman candidate" before and how did that work out?
(, Fri 20 Feb 2026, 1:58, Reply)
It's the only rational conclusion.
(, Fri 20 Feb 2026, 10:40, Reply)
it might be their audience that are horrible racists and they're just protecting them from having to listen to a black woman talk
(, Fri 20 Feb 2026, 11:03, Reply)
After advice from their legal team that she might be able.
(, Fri 20 Feb 2026, 22:58, Reply)
web.archive.org/web/20070225014114/http://www.deagostini.co.uk/ilovehorses/
(, Tue 17 Feb 2026, 12:04, Reply)
youtube.com/watch?v=CqwJoEGyGMY
(, Tue 17 Feb 2026, 22:58, Reply)
youtu.be/QEImD_r6D8o?si=FUl1OBebsPuLaeKE
(, Wed 18 Feb 2026, 0:19, Reply)
I thought I'd misremembered that they were best of all the animals
(, Wed 18 Feb 2026, 22:46, Reply)
This time with light from a single source and an electric guitar. To distract from well, everything for a bit.
If you like it there's a longer and more circular one next door.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2026, 11:16, Reply)
C'est le jou jou jou jou, jou jou jou jou, jour des crêpes.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2026, 14:15, Reply)
and I was sad
but I was ready, batter in the fridge last night....
1st, sugar and lemon
2nd see above
3rd old curry with fried egg
4 Nutella
5 just enough left for another fresh lemon and sugar.
Might go again tomorrow with something pig and cheese based
(, Tue 17 Feb 2026, 15:36, Reply)
savoury surprise.
it had pineapple in it too.
yes
pineapple.....cooked fruit
(, Wed 18 Feb 2026, 10:02, Reply)
There are various types of Indian savoury pancake.
I had a chicken Kiev on a naan last night...fusion food!
(, Wed 18 Feb 2026, 19:34, Reply)
{spoiler} it's horses
thought this might be like a shit Onion site, but I think it's just a local paper with a low bar.
Had a look at the reporter's byline. He's a sports writer but has also printed other stories."Did Rudolf Hess father a son while staying in Abergavenny?" , "Abergavenny man claims AI is no match for a wild horse and a prayer", and "Did Jeffrey Epstein have a connection to Abergavenny?". I'm sensing a theme
(, Mon 16 Feb 2026, 23:40, Reply)
(, Tue 17 Feb 2026, 12:47, Reply)
'Did frustrated writer lose plot on Abergavenny local paper?!?"
(, Tue 17 Feb 2026, 1:33, Reply)
www.abergavennychronicle.com/news/giant-penis-challenge-for-charity-runner-876849
(, Tue 17 Feb 2026, 10:31, Reply)
I believe I can fly
(, Mon 16 Feb 2026, 22:21, Reply)
Pretty pretty good
(, Tue 17 Feb 2026, 12:56, Reply)
It's been a while since I heard this.
(, Mon 16 Feb 2026, 19:52, Reply)
It's Year of the Horse starting tomorrow!
Here's an hour of horse-themed sounds!
马年快乐!
#yearofthehorse #hardhorse #funkyhorse #tropicalhorse #electrohorse #deephorse #progressivehorse #electrohorse #acidhorse
(, Mon 16 Feb 2026, 17:53, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDpxt901D8Y
(, Mon 16 Feb 2026, 18:06, Reply)
00:00 Add N to (X) - Ann's Eveready Equestrian
01:50 Why? - A Sky For Shoeing Horses Under
04:11 Chemical Brothers - Horse Power
08:07 Laid Back - White Horse
10:31 Señor Coconut - White Horse
12:43 Oneida - Wild Horses
16:28 Bat For Lashes - Horse and I
19:40 Bitcrush vs. Dryft - I Kick A Dead Horse
23:52 Charlotte Gainsbourg - Trick Pony
26:46 Sufjan Stevens - Year of the Horse
28:32 Quickspace - They Shoot Horse, Don't They?
32:43 Klaxons - Four Horsemen of 2012
34:54 Theo Beckford's Group - The Horse
38:01 Roy Rogers & Sons of the Pioneers - (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
41:15 Charles Trenet - Vous Oubliez Votre Cheval
44:12 Patti Smith - Land - Part I: Horses
49:19 The Albion Band - Poor Old Horse
55:04 The Divine Comedy - My Lovely Horse
56:22 Deagostini - I Love Horses!
(, Tue 17 Feb 2026, 10:36, Reply)
(, Mon 16 Feb 2026, 17:17, Reply)
Let's mix up some daytime television with some 90s hip hop.
(, Mon 16 Feb 2026, 8:31, Reply)
If someone has made a MIDI to punched card machine.
(, Sun 15 Feb 2026, 16:46, Reply)
There must have been standardised codes and procedures, to be able to sell music for it. If there is a language, it should be called Monkey.
(, Sun 15 Feb 2026, 20:32, Reply)
preferably on a mountain top
(, Sun 15 Feb 2026, 21:38, Reply)
player pianos were one of the early (and rare) examples of an industry of lots of different manufactures agreeing to a single format, in this case the same hole size and spacing, after a decade of everyone doing their own thing
I would have called it Seminhole
(, Sun 15 Feb 2026, 23:29, Reply)
so it stands to reason that there are midi converters.
Here's one:
github.com/nai-kon/PlaySK-Piano-Roll-Reader
(, Sun 15 Feb 2026, 21:32, Reply)
I was hoping for a fancy card punching machine, but of course all you need is some software and a laser cutter, like this:
www.hobbydraaiorgel.nl/subdir/en_midiboek10.htm
(, Mon 16 Feb 2026, 6:59, Reply)
just make the organ part of the band then go on Top Pop
(, Sun 15 Feb 2026, 21:44, Reply)
Similar vibe, of everything thrown in, bonkers and tight as fuck.
(, Sat 14 Feb 2026, 19:51, Reply)
And just found they're called "Angjna Pectoris". Explains why I got a load of medical sites when I googled them!
(, Sun 15 Feb 2026, 16:44, Reply)
this shit is music I didn't know I needed in my life until I heard it.
it's next level!!!
(, Sun 15 Feb 2026, 20:03, Reply)
But it's really fucking good.
The comments are all proper lovely, too.
(, Sun 15 Feb 2026, 20:25, Reply)
Can't think of a reason that's not a bad reason
(, Mon 16 Feb 2026, 0:47, Reply)
Everything that's going on in this video and that's what you noticed?
(, Mon 16 Feb 2026, 8:15, Reply)
(, Mon 16 Feb 2026, 11:10, Reply)
Thank you - I almost forget they're wearing masks after a while
(, Tue 17 Feb 2026, 15:20, Reply)
Once you've watched this you can then watch a reality show about a fat transvestite's multiple sister-wives having their pimples popped before their toddler's beauty contest.
(, Sat 14 Feb 2026, 16:41, Reply)
- cause I've got an ad blocker for YT
(, Sun 15 Feb 2026, 9:36, Reply)
Spotify link to TalkSport's clips of the week. A clip deemed inappropriate for the radio show
(, Sat 14 Feb 2026, 9:10, Reply)
But it does have it's moments with good afternoon radio Hawksbee & Jacobs decent insights with Danny Kelly
(, Sat 14 Feb 2026, 20:06, Reply)
I mean if you can't fire a Russian autocannon jet pack at a school where can you fire one?
(, Fri 13 Feb 2026, 13:35, Reply)
I saw this in my feed when it came out, even then I could have sworn I'd seen it before. Is it in his book maybe?
(, Fri 13 Feb 2026, 17:13, Reply)
'She's giving me the excitations'.
(On reflection 'The Beach Boys' sounds like a Marc Almond/Jimmy Somerville spinoff)
(, Fri 13 Feb 2026, 21:51, Reply)
Brrrrrrrrrrt brrrrt brrrrt
Good Vibrations
brrrrt brrrrt
excitations
(, Fri 13 Feb 2026, 22:14, Reply)
Where nuclear bombs were going to be lobbed out of the back of a rocket to propel it. There are videos of non-nuclear prototypes being tested - how that didn't make them go "Yeah, this is nuts" beggars belief.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
Only slightly more nuts than nuclear ramjets. Crazy times.
(, Sat 14 Feb 2026, 7:27, Reply)
(, Sat 14 Feb 2026, 10:28, Reply)
Some footage of the (non-nuclear) tests: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYoLcJuBtOw&t=120s
The whole documentary is worth a watch.
(, Sat 14 Feb 2026, 16:13, Reply)
time was just going up, had 2 minutes left...
(, Sat 14 Feb 2026, 13:05, Reply)
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