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2026-08-20 23:28:47 CEST

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Familiarity. Most of the users are not tech savvy, I want to keep it as simple and similar as possible. I would be astonished if more that one or two of the potential users knew what a public key is.
And, tbh, I found Nostr very hard to find like-minded people on. It’s too diffuse, here you can find an instance and know roughly what the people on it will be like.

2026-08-20 23:22:01 CEST

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I’ve honestly never seen people lining a street outside a courthouse supporting a murderer, other than that Luigi guy.
I was just making a point about societal attitudes.
(I would make a point about the reality of post-partum psychosis, but I’m sure you know it is a real thing.)
(I make similar posts when I see members of my own instance going off about men leaving babies in hot cars after forgetting to take them to day-care: it is a recognised and very sad occurrence that has been extensively documented in the medical literature, caused by a break in routine.)

2026-08-20 20:52:01 CEST

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This kind of thing.
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2026-08-16 09:10:51 CEST

Well, that’s not good.
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2026-08-15 21:38:05 CEST

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All backed up In The Cloud.
Cash is a good point.

2026-08-12 19:08:10 CEST

He’s very hot and stressed, but he’s back where he’s meant to be.
Sadly no test results yet: they’re short staffed. The vet will call me tomorrow.
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2026-08-11 23:21:15 CEST

More on my sister: per her husband via our aunt, he called the police because he knew that they needed separating before something worse happened. He answered the door to the police, told them what was going on. They asked if there was anywhere local she could go, and he said our mum. They went upstairs, where she was in bed, and said they wanted to take her to mum. She refused (I’m going to assume swearing and yelling), so they arrested her.
She denies that the police made this offer. I know who I believe.
Mum is starting to sound a little sick of the company, although not yet coming out and saying it.
He says she needs therapy. I told him that four years ago.

2026-08-08 14:23:54 CEST

Thai gun law is wild: civil servants get discounts on buying guns, and you can inherit a gun licence rather than need to apply.

2026-08-02 22:28:09 CEST

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2026-08-01 21:40:01 CEST

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2026-08-01 20:37:16 CEST

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At least over here, Bravissimo was an absolute game-changer: they only do (iirc) D and over, and they made the other retailers up their game.
Good for you making the effort for her.
(I misremembered, I walked out a FF, same as your Mrs. GG now, which isn’t too bad for twenty-odd years of getting older.)

2026-08-01 20:28:08 CEST

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Yeah, that’s why I will never go to M&S again, they used to only go up to an E cup, and I (with hindsight) outgrew that in my mid teens. They “compensated” for it by just giving me bigger and bigger back sizes until I was something like a 40E. The middle of the back was between my shoulder blades and the straps forever falling down even when I sewed them shorter.
Then Bravissimo launched just after I moved to London, and I trekked across town (two hours each way) to go to the shop. Walked out wearing a 30GG, had about a week of back pain as I adjusted, never looked back since.

2026-07-27 17:01:04 CEST

The tomatoes will enjoy this compost tea!
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2026-07-27 12:46:59 CEST

Shocked, I tell you.
(Actually, I am surprised it’s such a small amount.)
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/lib-dems-stance-trans-issues-donation-jzrkbpqvk
The Liberal Democrats have been accused of softening their stance on women’s rights after accepting hundreds of thousands of pounds from one of Britain’s biggest financial backers of transgender causes.
Sex Matters, the campaign group, said that the timing of a series of policy interventions by Sir Ed Davey and senior Liberal Democrats raised questions about whether the party’s position had shifted after donations from Simon Ruddick, a financier who has publicly described support for trans communities as a priority.
Electoral Commission records show that Ruddick has donated more than £200,000 to the party this year. In an interview published by the LGBT charity GiveOut, he said that he had chosen to support transgender people because they were a “tiny and disproportionately oppressed” community whose rights were under attack.
https://archive.ph/HS09J

2026-07-25 22:16:45 CEST

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I have a similar weird one: I’m fine with dairy (as long as I don’t go nuts) and with wheat, but cook to two together and I’ll be on the loo in half an hour.
I’m fine with, say, biscuits baked with cheese on top, but if you mix the cheese into the dough….
I’m particularly bad with synthetic “cheese product”, like you get in cheap ready meals.

2026-07-23 21:06:19 CEST

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There are at least four that I know of.
I did tell him to put it in his bio!

2026-07-20 14:13:47 CEST

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2026-07-17 23:38:19 CEST

“We grow 80% of our food, we only buy grains like oats and wheat.”
“We only spend about £50 per week for food in the two of us.”
wtf?? How do you spend that much with an admittedly fabulous garden?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KRILhkSPD9Y&ra=m

2026-07-13 22:42:53 CEST

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I absolutely hate pointless, slow, unskippable cut scenes, so that pointy finger thing did my head in.

2026-07-06 21:47:50 CEST

How the hell have you done that, sausage?
At least he’s leaving it alone and not chewing on it: hopefully The Cone will not be needed.
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2026-07-04 21:26:51 CEST

https://spectator.com/article/revealed-the-shady-funding-of-net-zero/
The British left has spent years warning about malign billionaires, ‘industrial complexes’ and dodgy lobbying networks. Yet on net zero it has built such a machine itself: an internationally funded ecosystem that bankrolls thinktanks, campaign groups, media organisations and litigation in pursuit of a single political objective.
The consequences of that work are all around us – high energy prices, industries crippled by those costs, manufacturing in retreat, cities like Aberdeen hollowed out, rising fuel poverty and higher bills for the poor, and an ever-expanding state regulating every-thing from gas boilers to air conditioning.

2026-06-19 22:28:25 CEST

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Fuck knows, I get it all the time. Forever telling Paypal to remember this device and it never does, I assume it’s the ad blocker.
(I’m not that tech savvy, I’m just really good at translating geek language into normal)

2026-06-17 23:34:41 CEST

Oh, that is funny. I got another YouGov “AI” chat request, and when (ten minutes in) I said something like “I already answered that three questions ago. As an aside, if this is an example of a typical ‘AI’ system then I cannot understand why anyone finds the technology useful.” and suddenly got dumped into the “Thank you for your time” screen. I’ll have to remember that for next time it gets tedious.

2026-06-17 08:25:16 CEST

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjxlvp58zgo
Dartmoor hill ponies have been on the landscape for 4,500 years but numbers have declined - there were 6,000 on Dartmoor 25 years ago but now there are less than 1,000.

2026-06-16 12:42:00 CEST

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How many ponies would a herd of 300 horses produce in two years?
Zero.
But if you meant foals, apparently wild herds typically increase by 20% per year.

2026-06-12 23:25:05 CEST

Trying to decide if I should buy heating oil. I have half a tank, which will do me until about the end of the year or a bit before.
Currently about 80ppl, up from 60 previously but way down from 130 immediately after Trump started bombing Iran.
Heating oil, like avgas and diesel, mostly comes from the Middle East.
I’m going to wait a few days and see if this mythical memorandum appears, but if not then I think I’ll risk it and fill the tank up.

2026-06-11 15:06:02 CEST

https://www.404media.co/this-company-will-add-phone-airpod-and-smartwatch-trackers-to-license-plate-readers/
A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) that would mean the devices, as well as capture the license plate of passing vehicles, would also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices in those cars, potentially letting law enforcement identify specific drivers or passengers.
The technology, called SignalTrace, would turn ALPR cameras from devices focused on tracking cars to ones that can more readily track the location of particular people. ALPR cameras have become a commonly deployed technology all across the U.S.; SignalTrace would make some of these cameras capable of collecting far more data.

2026-06-08 20:07:52 CEST

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One of the tests of a non-arse vegan is whether or not they will eat my ducks’ eggs.

2026-06-08 19:22:44 CEST

Jesus, just use an egg!
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2026-05-31 21:08:44 CEST

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I don’t think a marathon is something you can reschedule on short (less than months) notice.

2026-05-28 22:12:44 CEST

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I think Zil was saying she doesn’t know what the weeds are called, not the lupine.

2026-05-27 21:52:51 CEST

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They certainly don’t seem to do any harm to my lavender, nor to my rosemary if they get at it when I’m not watching.
They’re both about the same age, I’ve not been in this garden that long.

2026-05-27 16:18:00 CEST

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I’ve oddly only ever found them on my lavender!

2026-05-12 13:13:59 CEST

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I wonder how long it will take for the usual suspects to whatabout this away as a trivial detail.

2026-05-11 21:54:23 CEST

In my head, cow parsley is a biennial, although the internet tells me it can be a short-lived perennial. This one is at least four years old.
Technically a weed, but I like it!
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2026-05-11 20:36:20 CEST

After subsidence left a country road riddled with almighty craters, workmen were sent out to clean up the mess.
It all went awry, however, when their own lorry fell victim to a large hole in the road.
Contractors from Stabilised Pavements were working at Butleigh Drove near Walton in Somerset when their lorry rolled into a ditch that had given way on the uneven surface.
The workers were forced to abandon the vehicle after it settled at a 45-degree angle, metres from a sign reading “skid risk, max speed 20mph”.
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2026-04-27 19:57:27 CEST

https://amp.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/3333042/what-hobby-dogging-trend-training-imaginary-dogs-goes-viral
Believe it or not, a new leisure activity called “hobby dogging” is becoming popular among animal-lovers in Germany who do not want hairy carpets, drooling or expensive vet fees. There is also no need to pick up poo or deal with aggressive behaviour or barking when leaving your pet at home.
Hobby dogging – essentially dog training without dogs – follows in the wake of “hobby horsing”, a previous trend that saw children and a surprising number of adults gallop through obstacle courses on stick horses. In Bad Friedrichshall, north of the German city of Stuttgart, you can even get professional guidance in walking your imaginary dog.

2026-04-27 11:34:02 CEST

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This week parliament will attempt to conclude legislation allowing the government to ban young people from social media. It’s taken weeks of ‘ping-pong’ to land on the specific form that these restrictions will take, and there has been no shortage of ideas. Tory peer Lord Nash’s proposals would introduce a blanket ban on all social media for under-16s, while the government is angling to implement restrictions on features and even introduce online curfews.
We’ll soon find out what the final compromise will be. But from an online safety, privacy and civil liberties standpoint, the details hardly matter. The wave of a legislative wand will not magically banish children from social media. The only way to do this is to force every single user to submit to invasive biometric face scans or digital ID uploads.
It is not hard to see that for all the good intentions, age-based restrictions to social media amount to a Trojan horse for a de facto mandatory digital ID system. Biometric face scans, often falsely presented as a privacy-safe method of age verification, will fail for millions of people: no algorithm can tell the difference between a 16-year-old on the day of their birthday and the day before. Many more users – adults with facial disabilities, young-looking women, or anyone who isn’t white – will face a significantly higher risk of being prompted to upload an ID document because the algorithm cannot accurately verify their age. And so, a biased and inaccurate algorithm will be the arbiter of who does – and who does not – need to upload their ID to unlock huge swathes of the internet.
Many people across the UK, particularly teens, don’t need or have IDs. But conveniently, the government’s national digital ID scheme is waiting in the wings. This multi-billion-pound solution in search of a problem may have just found one to solve.
Monitoring and managing children’s internet use is vital to keeping them safe. But children’s online safety includes more than protection from harmful content or addictive algorithms – it includes their cybersecurity, data protection and freedom of expression as well.
Since the introduction of the Online Safety Act, there have been many examples of just how vulnerable age-verification platforms are to data breaches and cyberattacks. Only this week, the government confirmed that the medical details of 500,000 participants of Biobank, one of the UK’s landmark scientific programmes, were offered for sale in China after a massive data leak. This data included full body scans, medical records and even DNA sequences. The mass gathering of biometric and ID information by age-verification platforms would mean that similar breaches, now on a national scale, would become more common. One can only imagine the devastating impact of such a breach on national security and democracy itself.
Rather than taking these risks seriously, it is all too likely that the government will present a national digital ID system as a ‘safer’ alternative. But any giant database full of sensitive ID information is simply a honeypot for hackers and hostile states.
It really is remarkable, watching hundreds of parliamentarians talk about how dangerous it is when children put personal information about themselves online and then, in the same breath, create a system that asks everyone in Britain to do just that. Even if banning social media would benefit children – which an alliance of 42 children’s charities and bereaved parents strongly dispute – the truth is there is simply no privacy-friendly way in which it can be done.
Comparisons are often made with the requirement to present an ID when buying items like kitchen knives. But in those cases, you flash your ID to the cashier, who checks your age and that’s the end of that. But social media is connected to a personal account, which means that ID information you submit risks being linked to your online activity. A more accurate analogy then, would be that the cashier checks your ID, follows you home, stands in your kitchen, and carefully logs every time you chop a carrot.
By relying on age-verification technology, all proposals to restrict social media for children pose an acute threat to the freedom of expression upon which our democracy rests. A future government could easily age-gate online spaces based on what political content they host, requiring users to pay for their right to free speech along with their right to privacy.

2026-04-13 18:55:22 CEST

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/13/farmers-threaten-protests-unless-reeves-cuts-fuel-prices/
Farmers for Action, a campaign group, has warned ministers of protests unless the Chancellor cuts tax on red diesel.
The threat comes after similar protests in Ireland crippled the country, forcing Dublin to send in the army. Farmers for Action were instrumental in organising protests against Ms Reeves’ family farm tax.
The group wants the Chancellor to cut the price of red diesel, which farmers use to fuel their tractors. It has soared since war broke out in Iran and is currently as high as 135 pence per litre, up from 60 pence per litre before the war.
Howard Cox, the founder of the campaign group FairFuelUK, told The Telegraph: “I am in discussions with farmers and others to hold fuel protests in London and other places as drivers and businesses are sick to death of being used as Labour’s cash cows.
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2026-04-09 21:19:03 CEST

Who the fuck, upon being entrusted with a Fabergé egg to take home from an exhibition, thinks “I’ll just stick it in my handbag while I have a cheeky pinot down the pub”?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj6098jngryo
I would love to know how little money he got when he fenced it.

2026-04-02 22:51:18 CEST

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It’s not there during the day!
At a guess, it’s a big tractor, but why it’s there and stationary for several hours each evening is a mystery.

2026-04-02 20:11:32 CEST

This whatever it is has been parked in that field puffing smoke at about this time every evening this week, but not during the daytime.
Starting to wonder if Howl is visiting on his holidays….
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2026-03-30 08:43:15 CEST

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No, my landline ones. At least they all change when I do one of them.

2026-03-29 22:32:00 CEST

I was looking for, and failed to find, something else entirely, but may I present: me, aged around three, after a long day in the garden.
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2026-03-29 22:12:43 CEST

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The phones always catch me out, for some reason I expect something so techy to DIY it.

2026-03-29 20:11:30 CEST

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2026-03-28 21:38:23 CET

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/jeremy-clarkson-iran-probably-should-have-made-me-supreme-leader-3xjz93bnh
Part of the problem, I think, is that in the West, where religion is no longer a big deal, we cannot get our head round the idea you’d kill a neighbour because his God’s a bit different to yours. We used to do that sort of thing in the olden times but nowadays, it’s un-understandable. So trying to get your head round all the problems and divisions over there is like trying to get your head round what a lettuce thinks about Angela Rayner. It’s impossible.
Do you know why so few Arab states support Palestine? Or why there’s such an issue with the Jews? Or why the Sunni and the Shia don’t get on? It’s got something to do with cleaning your shoes but after that, I’m hazy.
All we do know is that people in the Middle East have been at each other’s throats since the 7th century. They’re like potassium and chlorine. And you’re not going to make those two bond by firing a Hellfire missile at them.
https://archive.ph/e3UlY

2026-03-27 17:03:41 CET

https://spectator.com/article/its-easy-to-blame-big-tech-for-the-results-of-parental-neglect/
If a child found Mr. Kipling cakes particularly addictive and began overindulging to the point of becoming overweight or unwell, would we be right to sue the baker? Or would it make more sense to ask whether the parent had enabled the behaviour by leaving the packets within easy reach, refusing to set limits or using them as a convenient babysitter?
A Los Angeles jury has just delivered a landmark verdict against Meta and Google, finding both companies negligent for designing addictive platforms that harmed the mental health of a young user, known as Kaley. The £4.5 million awarded in damages, with Meta shouldering the lion’s share, has been hailed as social media’s ‘Big Tobacco moment’. Tech firms, it’s argued, acted recklessly in knowingly hooking children with infinite scrolls, auto-play and algorithmic dopamine hits, and so they are therefore fully responsible for the depression and anxiety that ensued.
It is a seductive narrative. It’s also a comforting one, because it shifts responsibility away from the place it is most uncomfortable and most necessary to look at: the home.
(Archive still down, sorry.)

2026-03-27 11:03:54 CET

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The issue isn’t proving that you aren’t a bot, it’s uploading your ID to either Reddit or some random third party, security levels unknowable, and then having your posts linked to your ID if the police decide to take offence at something you post.

2026-03-23 20:17:00 CET

https://spectator.com/article/the-case-for-cloning-the-queens-corgis/
Think of cloning the corgis as a trial balloon for something infinitely thrilling. After all, we have come to accept as a matter of course that the descent of the crown through the generations is accompanied by a slight but perceptible deterioration of the genetic stock. Her Majesty, to pick just a single example, had a splendid head of hair right to the end of her long life. The King is pretty bald. The Prince of Wales is even balder.
Wouldn’t we all, in our secret hearts, and respect his Majesty though we do, prefer it had we been able to install an exact clone of the late Queen on the throne in his place? The technology wasn’t there at the time, and it isn’t there yet. But one day, it seems likely, it will be. Think how grateful Prince George and his descendants will be to be let off the prospect of doing that thankless job, while Queen Elizabeth III is followed by Queen Elizabeth IV and Queen Elizabeth V and so on. Extra money could be made, to relieve pressure on the public finances, by selling spare clones of Her Majesty to other countries in need of a monarch of proven quality.
https://archive.ph/K5oKm

2026-03-22 17:06:11 CET

I think this may have gone too far, America.
https://www.tacticalpajamas.com/

2026-03-14 18:03:40 CET

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2026-03-10 16:40:00 CET

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2026-03-10 13:50:50 CET

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It’s a newish variety, cross of two other greens.

2026-03-10 13:50:03 CET

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Much less painful these days, thankfully. Took an hour and a half all in, maybe half an hour of actually doing stuff, and it’s now identical to my old one except (mutter) bigger.

2026-03-10 13:45:26 CET

Ok, that seems to be the new phone set up…. Dare say I’ll run across a few passwords needing putting in, but the big stuff’s done.

2026-03-10 13:42:45 CET

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Mispoona: it’s an Asian green, bit like oak choi.

2026-03-10 09:46:10 CET

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No, never come across those. Interesting!

2026-03-10 09:42:10 CET

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Nice!

2026-03-10 09:29:02 CET

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2026-03-09 23:33:53 CET

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UK student loans were nothing to do with Thatcher. They came in with New Labour.

2026-03-09 23:16:29 CET

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No, it wasn’t. Don’t try to project US politics on the UK.

2026-03-09 23:09:24 CET

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University debt in the UK != in the US. Here, it’s more like a tax, with an interest rate that currently means that if you’re on c£40-70k then you pay a 9% effective rate that is less than the interest increase.
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2026-03-09 23:04:04 CET

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I never stopped using RSS, I’m slightly surprised that you did.
I’m also surprised that you still use Thunderbird: it fell over under the weight of my email archive maybe six or seven years agi, but maybe the Linux versions are more robust than the Mac ones.
One odd RSS thing: I noticed a big uptick in spam a few years ago, when podcasts got popular.

2026-03-09 22:51:42 CET

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Lasted maybe a week, now we’re back to fog.

2026-03-09 21:38:31 CET

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Yup.

2026-03-09 21:16:38 CET

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/03/09/labour-islamophobia-muslim-definition-labour-jonathan-hall/
A new official definition of Islamophobia will fail to stop anti-Muslim attacks, the Government’s counter-terrorism adviser has claimed.
Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said a similar definition for anti-Semitism had failed to prevent a rise in attacks on Jews and he was sceptical a similar new definition for anti-Muslim hatred would be any different.
He also warned that Sir Keir Starmer’s proposed definition, to be unveiled on Monday, could “inhibit” people from speaking freely about and criticising Islam or issues affecting Muslims.
“The worry will be with loose language, people will feel inhibited about talking about things that they do think which are genuinely important today,” Mr Hall told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
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2026-03-09 20:09:08 CET

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More likely a shortage of suppliers, I would think. BJ basically works by finding whatever’s cheapest in your area and setting up bulk purchases from them. If you only have one supplier, I guess they have no leverage to make a margin.

2026-03-09 20:01:05 CET

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2026-03-09 19:17:42 CET

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Oh, my grammar is shit, sorry! I did Cambridge, it doesn’t really emphasise grammar in the early years.
I feel like the latter formulation is more motto-ish.

2026-03-09 19:15:58 CET

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Does BoilerJuice cover you?

2026-03-09 19:12:27 CET

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I did it at school… not used it since I did the Latin module in my General Studies A-level.
Well, when I went to Italy I got by ok by smooshing together French and Latin….

2026-03-09 19:11:22 CET

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Chancellor said they’re looking into supporting people on oil.

2026-03-09 18:08:08 CET

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Sounds like we might be getting another cash payout, like after Russia invaded.

2026-03-09 17:09:33 CET

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There website still isn’t fully back after the hack, I think.

2026-03-09 16:21:05 CET

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That was faster than we thought!

2026-03-09 16:20:23 CET

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Ah, that would do it.

2026-03-09 16:17:51 CET

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Both good things to do in any case.

2026-03-09 16:17:35 CET

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Unless him spraying a lithium fire with water made it worse?
Maybe not worse but certainly completely ineffective.
Plus, standing that close to it was dangerous as hell, they basically shoot out jets of flame and/or launch like rockets, from what the guy interviewed on WatO was saying.

2026-03-09 16:10:09 CET

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What do you reckon the white blobby stuff is? Cream cheese?
I used to make something similar when I had easy access to wild garlic. But without whatever the white blobby stuff is.

2026-03-09 15:16:36 CET

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I guess I could freeze it for French toast / bread pudding, just need to remember to salt the egg mixture.

2026-03-09 15:13:55 CET

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Not sure I need that quantity of breadcrumbs. I usually just do a few crusts a couple of times a year.

2026-03-09 14:20:15 CET

Couldn’t figure out why this loaf of bread tastes so weird and almost cake-like.
Just realised I forgot to put salt in the mix. Really weird. Will try putting salt on my sandwich tomorrow, but I think I might have to bin it.

2026-03-09 13:50:03 CET

https://spectator.com/article/what-will-ed-miliband-do-when-the-lights-go-out/
How many times has Ed Miliband told us that his renewable energy policies were helping to free us from ‘fossil fuel dictators’? Wind and solar energy, he assures us, are saving us money and making us more energy-secure. Then we wake up to find that actually, Britain has only two days’ worth of gas left in storage.
It has been clear for a long time that Miliband’s claims are somewhat contrary to reality. If Britain’s net zero policies are really helping to bring down prices, then how come UK households – even before the current crisis – were paying twice as much for their gas and two and half times as much for their electricity as US consumers? And no, the Energy Secretary can’t blame global gas prices for setting our high electricity costs: actually, the US generates a higher proportion of its electricity from gas than does the UK.
Archive is being slow, will add link when it finishes chuntering.

2026-03-09 13:37:01 CET

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The Skeptic is not the FSU’s newsletter. They just happen to have both been founded by Toby Young.

2026-03-09 13:03:09 CET

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I’m very glad that my tank is on 70%.

2026-03-09 12:54:15 CET

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Ha, have a look at Spinster on there (this is my favourite). Very much “fascists”: some of them, whisper it, voted for Trump.
https://media.spinster.xyz/fcef4d102ac59771a9106c6849c5f25aa61ebb00546de01f6ab8d58a4b911ed6.jpeg

2026-03-09 12:52:33 CET

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There are reacts, but just the standard thumbs up / like (iirc, it’s a star on NAS), not the laugh/angry/etc that we have.

2026-03-09 11:27:21 CET

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Anatidaephobe!

2026-03-09 10:48:38 CET

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2026-03-09 08:59:50 CET

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2026-03-09 08:55:15 CET

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My Bernese was like that, we just assumed she was very dumb but… huh.

2026-03-09 08:49:30 CET

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Oh, that is brilliant news! I’m very happy for him.
You look after yourself, though. It’s going to be weird without him.

2026-03-09 08:43:06 CET

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Not very realistic: there should be more of them.

2026-03-08 21:38:22 CET

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You’re good people. I hope it goes well.

2026-03-08 21:37:13 CET

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Oh, right. No, they were very neat slices until I tore them in half.

2026-03-08 21:34:57 CET

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They redefine citizenship itself.
Technically I think they don’t: women have also been re-classified as slaves, not citizens.

2026-03-08 21:30:50 CET

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Oh! No, I had some left-over bacon as well!

2026-03-08 20:09:26 CET

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This was the last of the pre-sliced. I did buy a whole one in Lidl the other day, though.

2026-03-08 20:03:13 CET

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