beth

Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People

Julie Bindel showing up to the Trans Mission concert

Zack Polanski at Trans Mission

Zack Polanski at Tran Mission

Zack Polanski at #TransMission.

Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm To: Byron Preiss Dear Byron, Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above). I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible. One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the way it is! There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense. Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay with

are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And 'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'. There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to "Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.

Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸

i cannot believe we let him go. it will haunt me till i die

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

i was right ofc (george)

talking to my little brother about the beatles and i said 'i bet i know which one your favourite is' and he went 'you'll never guess' it's only a one in four chance lad ffs let's just think for a minute here

Female athletes must pay £185 to prove their sex Matt Lawton - Chief Sports Correspondent British female track and field athletes are being asked to pay £185 for a sex test if they want to compete internationally. World Athletics requires all athletes to take an SRY gene test before competing in the female category at major championships and Diamond League events to guarantee fair competition by excluding trans and DSD (differences of sex development) competitors. Before the World Championships in Tokyo last September, World Athletics gave $100 per test for the thousand or so female athletes needing one. More money will be provided by the international federation for this year’s World Junior Championships. But British women have been advised by UK Athletics (UKA) to pay for the test themselves, urging them to have the cheek swab, which indicates the presence of a Y chromosome, “as soon as possible to avoid delays around selection”. However, some women have complained it is unfair when the test is not required for men. UKA has a hardship fund to pay for the test and will assess requests on a case-by-case basis. But the situation is symptomatic of a national federation already facing financial challenges, made worse by UK Sport cutting its funding for this Olympic cycle. While almost £32 million was given to the relatively niche sports that won five medals at last month’s Winter Olympics, athletics has had its funding cut from £22.18 million to £20.45 million despite winning ten medals in 2024. It was only last year UKA returned to some form of financial stability, posting a profit of £107,588. But it is now facing a big fine after admitting corporate manslaughter over the death of Abdullah Hayayei, who died in 2017 after a metal cage fell on him while he was training for the World Para Athletics Championships in London.

"Feminism" [Times]

This account is a Spurs Women account now.

all of this leads back to letting ange go btw. what an embarrassing waste

unfollowed this influencer i used to like/respect years ago bc she was always simping for dubai saying the only people that hated on it r broke and wouldn't you know...it's crickets on her socials about it rn

yes im from deeper darkest lincolnshire and yes he really is that nice of a guy

guy martin took over cutting our grass when my mum was struggling with the mower

Yet be well assur’d
You put sharp weapons in a madman’s hands.

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state"

CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏

(Same goes for sport btw)

#Speirgorm

Lmao

was nice to spend my afternoon gazing at wagner moura’s beautiful face x

thank you for citing tumblr im so tired of seeing recycled popular posts from there on x/tiktok/everywhere in the big 2026

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage.

I learned a lot.

Paddington Bear stuns at the 2026 BAFTAs.

#Paddington #BAFTA

HOT FUZZ scene. Pegg as a cop talking to some underage kids in a pub When’s your birthday? 22nd of February. What year? Every year.

Happy birthday to this young man, and really to us all

sorry why are people acting like this is reasonable from her

THE BEAUTIFUL GAME 🐺🐺🐺

"what's on your mind?"-meme, with a screencap of Lyonel and Dunk dancing in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

plagued by thoughts of the baratheon rave tent

you have to just admire the lack of fucks that india, a country with 1.4bn people, gives about organised sports

write drunk, edit drunk. read drunk. go to the supermarket drunk,

valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.

this england v scotland game is ummmm extremely embarrassing

deleted hinge happy vday eve