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@BearJFK They need to approve the T32 pronto

Oddly, there does appear to be an inverse relationship between defence funding and actual threat of real violence. The world of 2026 is vastly more threatening than the world of 1998, when Britain was planning for a much larger armed forces. Peer war is now back. Even minor powers have access to capabilities to launch catastrophic blows to major powers. China and America are very much in a new Cold War. The largest European war since 1945 is in full swing. The Islamic world is constantly read to explode in unpredictable ways. Western nations face the prospect of enormous internal strife from multiple vectors. And yet, the British establishment feels it is a good idea to keep cutting defence. Make it make sense

@yimbyalliance Much needed, that car park has been an eyesore for years

A consultation on the plan has been launched, and will finish at the end of this month. placenorthwest.co.uk/glenbrook-unve…

🚨Plans revealed to turn a large multi-storey car park in Manchester’s Northern Quarter into 300 new homes. The project is set to demolish the car park and replace it with 🏘️homes, 🤝public space, and 🛍️retail space. BEFORE VS AFTER:

@2_Old_4_Gaming @OyasumiBastet Was gutted when the shut Studio Liverpool

@OyasumiBastet They still do but I miss the games from Studio Liverpool, Zipper and Japan Studio

Every former PlayStation studio

@Zaphod2042 @slackkejakke It's pure modernist slop

@slackkejakke I'm generally a conservationist. Yet I make an exemption for buildings that serve as utilities. Railway stations only deserve to be preserved so long as they're fit for purpose. As for the new one, it's brick heavy and very sympathetic to the original building. Huge improvement

That building was built in the 1980s and houses a McDonalds...

@SEGAInforment The lack of big releases and actual dates is hurting them. We're in a dry spell

Stock dipped lmao 5 Days:

@yimbyalliance Looks dystopian, I'm sure it will be more copy and paste housing estates with nothing to do. I'd be moving far away from that.

🚨NEW TOWN & 10,000 homes coming to Hertfordshire After the High Court put an end to two decades of legal challenges back in September, the new town’s first bricks will soon be laid 🗺️ Gilston town will connect seven new villages, and will deliver: 🏘️10,000 new homes across a 660-hectare site 🎒Seven Primary schools 📚Two secondary schools 🏞️Public green spaces 🩺New health centres ⚖️2,300 affordable homes 🏅Leisure facilities 📈£1.2 billion of investment Each of the town’s seven villages will deliver between 800 and 1,800 homes. The villages will also be linked by 5 sq km of parks and green space. All new villages are a short distance from Harlow Railway Station, and they’ll be connected to Harlow town centre with new bus services. theguardian.com/society/2026/f…

@tomhfh The glass boxes are hideous

This is a lovely, suitably grand station entrance.

@cityoflondon Modern design slop

🚆Approved: Major redevelopment of Liverpool Street Station. The City of London Corporation has backed plans for a fully accessible, future-ready station with improved passenger flow, new public spaces, greener routes and modern facilities. Britain’s busiest station is being prepared for the next 200M+ visitors. More: bit.ly/4ksEi5D #LiverpoolStreetStation #CityofLondon #Transport #DestinationCity

@yimbyalliance More copy and paste architecture

🚨Plans have been submitted to turn the former Sutton Hospital site into the London Cancer Centre. The £1bn development will provide nearly 80,000 sqm of life sciences space and affordable housing exclusively for key workers. Before/after👇

@RinseHold @shriverist The dance music scene certainly was

@shriverist Politicians got involved in the 90s and declared British music best in the world just as it wasn’t best in the world.

It really is extraordinary how successful British music has been in the United States (apart from in the 90s and 2000s for some reason)

@jonathanboote @LBC Ah yes because pubs only serve beer.....

@LBC Which might also explain why we don't seem to need as many pubs...

Almost a quarter of adults in England 'do not drink alcohol' lbc.co.uk/article/quarte…

@wingcramp @BuildUpWales @Penyrheolgerrig Cornwall wouldn't survive as a nation.

@BuildUpWales @Penyrheolgerrig Ahem

Parties advocating for independence now lead polls in all three celtic countries in the UK! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Plaid Cymru 37% (14% ahead of Reform) +Green 13%= 50% 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 SNP 34% (15% ahead of Reform) +Green 8% +Alba 1%= 43% ☘️ Sinn Fein 25.3% (6.2% ahead of DUP) +SDLP 9.2% +PBP 2.6%= 37.1%

@PhantasmMr44911 @TheCinesthetic An Angmar war trilogy would be awesome

@TheCinesthetic This moment is more accurate and epic than the ENTIRE Rings of Power show. I can confirm this as a fan of good films and Middle-Earth. It's a big shame that, due of TE, we won't see PJ film about The Second Age. It would be so epic But i still hope on The Angmar Wars trilogy

Even knowing the story beforehand, the prologue of The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) still hits. Peter Jackson gives just enough history to ground the world. In a few minutes, you understand what’s at stake and what could be lost. A perfect setup.

@SThingsMeme Give it 10 years and a heavy dose of nostalgia and boom, sequel film.

Duffer Brothers confirm Stranger Things 5 will be the last time fans see these characters. No spin-offs. No returns.

@TheVoiceMann Give it 10 years there will be a sequel film that will bring her back and the supporting cast. Just need to wait long enough for nostalgia to kick in

Stranger Things Ending Now that I’ve had a bit of time (and sleep) to sit with it, I wanted to add a little more context to my thoughts on the fate of Eleven. SPOILERS… My position is that she made the ultimate sacrifice, though I know not everyone agrees. I’ve been reading a lot of the discussion around details like the hedgehog devices, Mike’s realization at graduation, Eleven’s nose not bleeding, and her ability to communicate with Mike even while the hedgehogs were active. I understand why those moments are being read as confirmation that she survived. However, what keeps me leaning toward a different interpretation is how deliberately the story frames all of this through theory and perspective rather than offering any kind of clear confirmation. Mike’s idea doesn’t come to him as the discovery of something he knows happened. It comes in a moment of emotional processing. It feels less like uncovering a fact and more like grasping onto a way forward so he, and the others, can finally heal and let go. It reads to me as the story he tells himself because he has to. Otherwise, he risks living the rest of his life stuck in grief and pain, exactly what Hopper warns him about earlier. That said, the show clearly wants us to notice that Eleven isn’t affected by the hedgehog devices, that she can still reach Mike, and that Kali’s abilities are part of the equation. And we ARE shown earlier that those devices completely incapacitate Eleven. Every other time they’re active, she collapses in pain. See Dave! She's alive! Not necessarily. But let's go with it for a moment... if what the group saw was a projection, it still raises a larger question: how did Eleven physically escape at all if the hedgehogs were on? Were they activated, pointed at her, or fully powered? The episode never clarifies this, and that's obviously intentional. Did Eleven travel? Did she get a passport? How did she survive? Where did she go? Instead of explaining the mechanics of this, the story instead leaves us with a final image of Eleven in a tranquil, almost otherworldly place. A place so peaceful it feels less like a destination she reached and more like a state of being. Whether that’s her heaven, or Mike’s idea of heaven for her, is left open. But she looks pretty ill-equipped to literally be in that location. ;) Another detail people point to is the lack of a nosebleed when Eleven reaches Mike in the void, even though earlier in the series that’s established as the physical cost of doing so. I don’t read that as the rules suddenly changing though. I read it as the moment no longer being about exertion. She isn’t searching, fighting, or forcing anything. She’s choosing. For the first time in her life, she has full agency. The show removes the visual signs of struggle because this moment isn’t about power. It’s about letting go. We’re also shown earlier in the season that Kali’s projections have limits, including distance. By the time Mike’s theory unfolds, she’s already been gravely wounded and is very far away. There’s also been a lot of discussion about the sound design after the close-up on Mike’s face, right after the cut to black. We hear a heartbeat. Some people take that as confirmation that Eleven is alive, and it absolutely could be read that way. But a few moments earlier, just before Eleven disappears, we hear an exhale, not an inhale. In film language, that can just as easily signify a final breath and a final heartbeat. Again, the moment supports multiple emotional readings without locking us into one. The chaos of the ending, the noise, the movement, the confusion, all create what I like to call a narrative fog, where multiple possibilities can coexist. For me, that ambiguity allows Mike to choose what he believes in order to move forward, while still preserving the weight of Eleven’s choice. The story isn’t interested in walking us step by step through an escape. It’s interested in what this moment means for the people left behind. I understand why some people feel my interpretation denies Eleven a happy ending, especially given how much abuse and loss she’s endured. But for me, her arc was never really about sunshine and rainbows and waterfalls. It was about agency. In her final moment, she isn’t used or controlled by anyone else, including Kali. She has full autonomy. She chooses to save everyone by ending the cycle. If she’s still out there, even if the risk is small, the cycle isn’t truly broken. But if she’s gone, it is. I know The Duffer Brothers have said that Eleven had to “go away” for the others to be able to move on, carefully avoiding words like die or death. That language leaves room for interpretation while preserving the emotional weight of her choice. They want wiggle room for that 20th year reunion show. lol. The epilogue isn’t really about what happened. It’s about what the characters need in order to heal, let go, and keep living. Mike doesn’t say he knows what happened. He says he chooses to believe it. That distinction is the answer for me. For the record, Eleven is my favorite character. On an emotional level, of course I want her to be alive and happy. I just think the ending carries far more weight when viewed through the lens of ultimate sacrifice and everything the story has built toward.

@Beardedwelsh @kevinhollinrake Er no, RHL ends on the 31st March 2026 so is not applicable

BUSINESS RATES SCANDAL Rachel Reeves, Budget speech: “the lowest rates since 1991, paid for through higher rates on…..warehouses used by online giants” So here’s the truth behind Labour’s “fairness”: 📦 Online giants → Ave 16% rise 🍺 Your local pub → Ave 66% rise Small businesses hammered. Big business off the hook. @Conservatives would completely scrap business rates for 250,000 shops, pubs, hotels and restaurants. Paid for by cutting welfare spending and cost of doing govt.

@RinoTheBouncer Resistance fall of man

What game is this?🚀

@RinoTheBouncer Grandia

Name a masterpiece of a video game, but it CANNOT be from those…🚀 ✅Rockstar ✅From Software ✅Nintendo ✅PlayStation Studios What will it be? Let’s go!😎

@IanMckay784931 @TheCriticalDri2 The peak of his career

@TheCriticalDri2 He was in a Tango ad in the UK , that was banned for a ton of complaints 😂

This crash and burn was well earned. I had to learn more about James Corden than I ever wanted to. youtu.be/SDBKCd71Q90?si…

@Mirandalorians It's used to be back in PS3 days

The fact that it's a console that can play online games without an online subscription is a huge W, and should be the standard.