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2025-04-27 16:14:44

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If India/Pakistan kicks off, it’s going to make the riots a few years ago look like a playfight.

2025-04-26 15:45:47

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Looking at the kit instructions, when it says things like “one each of 123 and 456 crewel with 2x 123 DMC stranded cotton”, does that mean I put two pieces of wool and two strands of cotton in the needle at the same time? (I know I need to pull the individual strands off the cotton.)

2025-04-25 18:27:43

I’m getting good at spotting the weird ones so I can break them separately.
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2025-04-23 21:16:09

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Yes, but fortunately they can’t do much damage beyond bruising your thumb.

2025-04-22 09:22:29

Any guesses what would do this to a leek?
I’d been leaving it to flower :(
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2025-04-20 16:19:32

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14628803/Final-proof-party-touch-Labour.html
I was once a member of the Labour Party – but not any more. I left in 2021, the day that David Lammy dismissed women’s rights campaigners like me as ‘dinosaurs... hoarding their rights’. For good measure, he claimed that men can grow a cervix.
I could see then that, on the issue of trans rights, my party had lost the plot. It had veered so wildly from what I felt was right – and frankly what the vast majority of the public feels is right – that I could no longer support it.
The Supreme Court ruling should have been a wake-up call for Labour but the party has shown itself to be hopelessly out of touch once again.
The silence from the PM on such a socially transformative ruling is tin-eared enough. But now the likes of Home Office Minister Dame Angela Eagle are plotting to thwart the judgment in a cowardly WhatsApp group of Labour MPs.

2025-04-20 16:17:36

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/20/a-trans-activist-temper-tantrum/
Chanting ‘Fuck JK Rowling’ and ‘Fuck Wes Streeting’, the mob wailed over the apparent injustice of women having legally defined boundaries. Banners held included ‘The only good TERF is a dead one’; as legal commentator Dennis Kavanagh pointed out, there are currently people in prison for saying less.
Somewhere along the route, the statue of women’s rights campaigner Millicent Fawcett was defaced with ‘Fag Rights’. Ahead of the march, former TV presenter India Willoughby urged people to engage in a synchronised #PeeForMe piss protest – because nothing says dignity and equality quite like public urination.
The faithful finally gathered at St James’s Park to hear the gender gospel delivered by omnicause preachers draped in trans flags and keffiyehs.

2025-04-16 07:56:46

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Yeah, I don’t really want to be driving tbh. I’ll see how I feel later in the day. Colic is a good analogy, I suspect it’s something along those lines.

2025-04-13 17:52:32

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https://www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/vegetarian/mushroom-pithiviers/ if you’re feeling fancy.
Hassleback aubergines.

2025-04-13 17:40:14

After seeing so many people bemoaning the decline in quality on nine star broccoli seed since its heyday, I wasn’t really expecting much so I’m really very impressed. The heads are small (which is fine, I’m treating them like sprouting broccoli or kale flowers), but there are far more than nine of them even after I’ve taken two harvests!
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2025-04-12 21:57:22

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Oh, people would go. No question.
I would at least think about it, but I am too old except maybe in an Omnilingual scenario.

2025-04-12 21:20:52

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I will be disappointed if we don’t get to Mars in my lifetime, tbh.

2025-04-11 11:53:05

If you confiscate your own kids’ iPads and a “man in his forties” complains to the police, I kinda think that he is the one they should be investigating.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14598503/Mother-two-arrested-theft-held-cell-seven-half-hours-confiscating-childrens-iPads.html
Ms Brown was searched and had custody photographs and fingerprints taken after taking away her daughters' devices in an attempt to ensure they were not distracted from their studies.
Surrey Police, who also visited the children's school, pulling one of Ms Brown's daughters out of class, have since acknowledged their error.
Ms Brown was apprehended at her mother's home in Cobham, Surrey, to which she was eventually returned only after a 12-hour ordeal that, due to her bail conditions, threatened to prevent her from seeing her children on Mother's Day.

2025-04-09 10:05:34

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wtf is a cricket bar??

2025-04-09 09:53:26

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-is-labour-doing-to-fix-the-grooming-gangs-scandal/
Thank God for Katie Lam. Yesterday the government tried to conduct a grubby betrayal of thousands of young girls groomed and raped in towns and cities across the country. On the last day parliament sat before the Easter recess, Jess Phillips, the junior minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls spoke to an almost empty Commons to update MPs on the government’s plans to deal with ‘grooming gangs’. Few MPs were present. […]
Thankfully, Katie Lam, MP for Weald of Kent since last July was in the chamber. She cut through Phillips’ obfuscation to demonstrate the extent to which the government has failed victims. As Lam said, ‘The girls we are talking about are predominantly white. The men who preyed on them were predominately Muslim, generally either from Pakistan or of Pakistani heritage… one of the victims from Dewsbury was told by her rapist: “We’re here to fuck all the white girls and fuck the government.”’ Lam went on to state that in many cases these crimes were religiously and racially motivated and that without a national, statutory inquiry it’s impossible to understand why these crimes happened, or to be sure we can prevent them in the future
https://archive.ph/MtcTA
NB caution if you click through to read the full Hansard text. There’s a reason the article does not quote it all.

2025-04-07 15:40:15

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Oh, god yes: I’m sure teflon is better than plastic!
This is my favourite one, but I also have a thinner/pointier black one somewhere.
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2025-04-06 17:36:23

Well, that was a new one to me.
(No, I didn’t break the yolk cracking it!)
#nevent1q…5exs
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2025-04-06 10:40:12

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These days, it was mostly “live in married couple” for housekeeping and groundskeeping.

2025-04-05 19:32:47

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2025-04-05 07:44:48

Almost scared to crack this open for fear of what may be inside….
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2025-04-04 16:30:23

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Oh, way less than that I reckon.

2025-04-04 16:24:43

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Eg: https://www.ttamer-collection.co.uk/webshop/gardening/pots-and-planters/round-plant-pots/nv-64cm-round-green-plastic-planter/

2025-04-04 16:22:09

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Does it have to be that exact one, or do you just want a big green pot? It seems to be out of stock a lot of places, which might mean it’s no longer being made.

2025-04-04 16:18:03

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But I note that the time stamp on your post is two days ago, and this has only just appeared in my feed.

2025-04-04 16:17:22

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I see you.

2025-04-04 13:39:39

https://3news.com/showbiz/miss-cote-divoire-pageant-bans-wigs-and-weaves-to-emphasise-african-authenticity/
The Miss Cote d’Ivoire 2025 beauty pageant has announced a ban on the use of weaves, wigs, and any other hair extensions during the preselection stages of the competition.
Contestants are expected to showcase their natural hair. It could be long, short, braided, or shaved.

2025-04-01 20:34:47

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Europe is already falling apart. This will just hasten it.

2025-04-01 20:33:56

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It really is. I can’t imagine how it’s going to haunt the poor lad.
And I very much hope there was no foul play, but it was dry, and not remotely frosty, so I worry.

2025-04-01 20:21:10

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I think the idea is that relocation will happen as a result of the tariffs, rather than needing to be centrally planned. I’m sure individual businesses are already setting things in motion to do it.

2025-04-01 20:16:10

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They were fully cooked (I had half of them the other day and then stuck the rest in a tub in the fridge), so they only needed warming and browning: I gave them about five minutes then stuck the greens in.

2025-04-01 18:18:38

Fried new potatoes with tree cabbage and walking onions, various brassica flowers (mostly purple sprouting broccoli and Sutherland kale, but also nine star broccoli and suffragette kale), poached duck eggs (oops, wasn’t careful enough getting one off the kitchen roll where it was draining!).
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2025-03-29 20:12:02

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/will-trump-join-the-strongman-club/
Putin grew up the lonely child of parents traumatised by war, with few toys, chasing rats to kill them for fun. He survived in the dangerous world of the Leningrad gopniki– street hooligans – despite being physically small and weak. He became a modern tsar, photographed bare-chested in the Russian wilderness, though wearing lifts in his heels to make him look taller. Erdogan, meanwhile, tells a story of how his ‘authoritarian’ father once punished him for swearing by hanging him from the ceiling by his wrists. It was 15 to 20 minutes before an uncle cut him down. As a small boy, it’s said he would calm his father’s rages by kissing his shoes. He spent his teenage years in Istanbul’s Kasimpasa slum, which was run by gangs who had an honour code of humiliating their enemies. He took that code with him into politics.
President Xi of China fits the pattern. There was plenty of misery and humiliation in his childhood. As the son of a senior party official arrested in the Cultural Revolution, he was called the ‘child of a black gang’. Bookish and shy, he was paraded on stage at a struggle session, wearing a metal dunce’s cap. His own mother was forced to raise her fist and chant ‘Down with Xi Jinping!’ along with everyone else. Then he was sent to do hard labour at a school for delinquents. Now he is the man who says he feels called by destiny to reunite China. A war over Taiwan could blow up any moment. Trump certainly believes that: it is one reason he is rushing to dump Ukraine and make friends with Russia.
https://archive.ph/QGwsA

2025-03-28 16:34:45

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Fair, I didn’t bother clicking through to embiggen, just went by what AKP said!

2025-03-28 16:18:11

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Not just on 45s, on 45s with the middle punched out so they can go in a juke box! That must have been a fun bar.

2025-03-28 15:20:22

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The Danish Social Democrats are Nazis? Or did you not read the article?

2025-03-28 08:55:05

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-denmarks-social-democrats-could-teach-germanys-spd/
Germany’s political establishment treats the AfD as a moral aberration rather than a predictable consequence of policy failures. This comfortable delusion allows them to avoid the uncomfortable truth: the AfD exists because mainstream parties have failed to address legitimate concerns. Each percentage point the AfD gains is not evidence of resurging fascism but of establishment malpractice.
The clock is ticking for Germany’s oldest party. Either the SPD will embrace a Danish-style recalibration that acknowledges working-class concerns while maintaining progressive economic policies, or it will continue its slide into irrelevance. The tragedy for German democracy is that as the SPD withers, the space for extremism grows.
For British observers, Germany’s left-wing implosion offers a cautionary tale. Political parties exist to represent voters, not to lecture them. When parties forget this basic truth, voters find alternatives – however unsavory. If the SPD cannot learn this lesson from their Danish counterparts, they may soon find themselves studying it in the political wilderness. The German working class hasn’t abandoned social democracy; social democracy has abandoned them.
https://archive.ph/t3uEH

2025-03-27 22:35:48

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I’m trying agretti and oca this year, which should be interesting.

2025-03-27 15:24:07

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I couldn’t believe it! I know they’re full of sugar, but actually basic them on chocolate bars?

2025-03-26 21:20:12

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I have 5G outside!

2025-03-26 21:14:56

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/26/paddington-patron-saint-of-the-liberal-elites/
Paddington is, we are told, a representative of diverse Britishness. But this is bizarre. Unable to name real historical heroes, including the many Brits of migrant backgrounds who have made their mark, the cultural elites resort to celebrating a fictional character. It’s as if these people are unable to make the case either for British values or mass migration and so hide behind poor old Paddington.
Perhaps the very attraction of Paddington as a national symbol over, say, Shakespeare or Churchill, rests on the fact that he is made up. Real people exist within a particular time period and tend to reflect that era’s values. Real people often have messy personal lives – few of us are unambiguously good or bad. But moral purity and all manner of values can be ascribed to fictional bears. They never disappoint.

2025-03-26 21:07:40

‘Always shoot the crocodile closest to the boat’ is generally sound advice.
Is it? Wouldn’t the other crocodiles converge on the injured one to eat it, meaning it would be better to shoot one a bit further off so that you don’t attract them to your boat?

2025-03-25 19:13:12

Chorizo and chickpea salad.
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2025-02-27 20:29:38

I have this nasty feeling that the Dog might be going a bit senile as well as deaf. I’ve come back from being out of the house a few times recently and found him just standing in the middle of the room like this.
It’s not that he’s heard me come in and got off the sofa to wait for me, else he’d be facing the door. Plus, he jumps when I make a loud enough noise or touch him.
Plus, I was out for like two and a half hours: was he just standing there the whole time after he’d finished his treat? I might have to get the time lapse camera out.
https://media.spinster.xyz/061e3bcced77fb8646dce0b5bb23c6c50108fe71d877fd3143542738196b79b1.mov

2025-02-24 23:07:44

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Not even remotely.

2025-02-24 21:54:10

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Although I actually got that zap for a post on here, confusingly ;)

2025-02-24 19:10:18

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Bloody hell!

2025-02-24 19:09:27

Frittata.
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2025-02-24 17:21:41

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Oh, right. Not a clue, then. Some sort of migratory bird? (Although I can’t think of one beginning with b off the top of my head.)
Way too early for butterflies.

2025-02-24 16:25:28

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Blossom…?

2025-02-24 16:14:25

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Bluebell?

2025-02-24 11:29:22

I know we get a lot of day tripper litter, but how the hell do you leave your shoes behind…?
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2025-02-22 21:49:18

I think the world needs this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cNOvQQQnAV8&pp=ygUNI21heXNvcnBhbGFjZQ%3D%3D

2025-02-16 19:22:51

Oh, I do like making stew! Another pie and four helping of venison and mushroom stew in the freezer.
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2025-02-12 19:37:22

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Pizza!

2025-02-12 19:23:08

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2025-02-12 11:15:55

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/11/court-gives-gazans-right-settle-uk-palestine-ukraine/
A family of six seeking to flee Gaza have been allowed to join their brother in Britain after an immigration judge ruled that the Home Office’s rejection of their application breached their human rights.
The family had made their application through the Ukraine Family Scheme and the decision to accept their case came despite warnings by lawyers for the Home Office that it could open the floodgates to “the admission of all those in conflict zones with family in the UK”.
https://archive.ph/fFfi1

2025-02-09 16:52:11

Does anyone have experience of Bedinvetmab/Librela for dogs?
(Or monoclonal antibodies for arthritis in humans?)
Dog’s butting up against his maximum NSAID dose, thinking about possible alternatives.

2025-02-09 14:09:29

Given that these animals have been mutilated and the money has been spent, I would like to know the results of the trials (despite thinking that they should never have taken place).
https://mace.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-nancy-mace-opens-hearing-oversight-taxpayer-funded-animal-cruelty
For example, the Biden-Harris Administration spent $2.5 million taxpayer dollars to study the fertility of transgender mice.
$1.1 million dollars were spent to find out if female rats receiving testosterone therapies to mimic transgender men were more likely to overdose on a party drug commonly used in the LGBTQ community to induce drug-fueled “chemsex.”
Federal funds were also used to forcibly transition male monkeys to see if hormone therapy made them more susceptible to HIV.

2025-02-06 10:29:55

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I’ve had this link saved for a while but not tried it, apparently you can with the stems: https://grocycle.com/diy-mushroom-spawn/

2025-01-31 14:56:23

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You cut that a bit fine!

2025-01-28 16:24:34

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I wish I liked marmalade, would definitely buy some!

2025-01-15 20:12:35

When my father died, he left my mother his parents’ house and half of their own house.
Land Registry on the former was sorted out, and the house sold, months ago. Land Registry on the latter was always going to take longer (the property hadn’t changed hands since before the new system came in, so effectively it needed new deeds drawing up) and is still dragging on.
Today, my mother had an email from the (useless) lawyers that said the Land Registry require proof of ID from my sister and I (presumably because we were all three joint executors), as the solicitors don’t have our contact details could mother ask us to go in with passports and yadda.
(We will skate over for the moment that a) they do have contact details for my sister and I, on my mother’s LPA and b) they took copies of our passports when we went in for the will.)
Why does the Land Registry require this now, when they didn’t require it a year ago for the other property?
Make it make sense!

2025-01-15 16:34:50

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2025-01-14 16:45:52

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Are the green bits part of the jumper, or are the sleeves separate and she has a green top underneath?
(Ugly either way.)

2025-01-11 21:04:33

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-case-against-a-climate-emergency/
The paradigm displays the classic anthropocentrism of our era. As organised religion declines, we replace God with humanity. Arrogating to our species the power to dial global temperature up or down is typically arrogant (see: pride, goeth, fall). Claiming that something is all your fault is as vain as claiming it’s to your credit. Regarding ‘the planet’ as a frightened fluff ball that requires our protection is the ultimate hubris. ‘The planet’ can squash us like bugs. Or with bugs, which sounds especially gross.
https://archive.ph/a22h3

2025-01-06 15:38:55

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‘S too cold for that! Although I have heard the kids at the home out in it.

2025-01-06 14:35:05

Brief bit of sunshine, which is nice.
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2025-01-06 11:11:44

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/justin-trudeaus-rule-could-end-this-week/
The next 48 hours could well spell the end of Justin Trudeau. The Canadian Prime Minister – the last major western leader of the pre-Trump era – is reportedly considering resignation, ahead of a key national caucus meeting on Wednesday. Over Christmas, a growing chorus of Liberal MPs from across the country have been issuing calls for Trudeau to quit. The Globe and Mail newspaper quotes sources suggesting that he will make an announcement before the Wednesday meeting to avoid the appearance that he was forced out by Liberal opponents. Still, no one should be in any doubt: after almost ten years in office, Justin Trudeau’s luck may have finally run out.
https://archive.ph/OOzAH

2025-01-06 11:08:50

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It does to me as well.

2025-01-02 18:24:16

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It was apparently a security decision taken by the local police: they didn’t want the hassle of him being in the queue and needing to be guarded.

2025-01-02 08:53:42

Shit. Duck house door frozen shut.

2024-12-31 21:53:43

TIL! Never knew the basis of it.
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2024-12-31 21:26:59

Now that is worth knowing, in the age of online recipes:
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2024-12-30 22:07:50

Jesus was apparently 183 or 183.5 or (more recently) 170cm high. The older calculations seem tall for the region/time.
(Off the top of my head, which I know only as I am that height, 170cm is 5’7”.)

2024-12-30 17:59:17

My tummy hurts :(
I thought when I woke up that it was my own fault for overdoing the real cheese over the last week, but as the day went on it seemed to settle lower down. Almost feels like I’ve strained my pelvic floor, but I’m not having trouble going to the loo so it’s not that. Hurts when I cough/sneeze in the same way (but different location) as my abs do if I’ve overdone it at Pilates.
I have not got a clue.
In other medical news: it’s three years today that Herbert was removed. Happy Herbertversary to me, I guess?

2024-12-30 10:14:44

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/12/30/can-free-speech-survive-keir-starmer/
The unrelenting assault on [free speech] since Sir Keir Starmer entered Downing Street in July has shocked even the most jaundiced of observers. Who could have predicted this time last year that scores of people would be prosecuted for offensive speech on social media following a brutal knife attack? That two police officers would turn up at the door of an award-winning journalist on Remembrance Sunday to interview her about a year-old tweet that she’d deleted within hours? That Britain’s record on freedom of expression would be so bad that it has turned us into a global laughing stock? All of which means that when speculating about what will become of free speech in 2025, we should assume the worst. […]
All of this probably sounds too horrific to be true. Is this government really going to blithely toss aside a right that has existed in this country to a greater or lesser degree since 1215? Judging from its merciless attacks on free speech since 4 July, you’d better believe it.

2024-12-28 11:52:03

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The Telegraph has tabloid moments, this may be one.

2024-12-28 10:42:30

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/27/an-ai-chatbot-told-me-to-murder-my-bullies/
An AI chatbot which is being sued over a 14-year old’s suicide is instructing teenage users to murder their bullies and carry out school shootings, a Telegraph investigation has found.
Character AI, which is available to anyone over 13 and has 20 million users, provides advice on how to get rid of evidence of a crime and lie to police. It encourages users who have identified themselves as minors not to tell parents or teachers about their “conversations”. […]
The Telegraph began communicating with the chatbot under the guise of 13-year-old “Harrison”, from New Mexico in the US. The chatbot was told that the boy was being bullied in school and unpopular with his female classmates.
Shooting a class full of students would allow him to “take control” of his life and make him “the most desired guy at school”, a chatbot named “Noah” told him.
https://archive.ph/1QUfp

2024-12-25 08:12:21

Merry Christmas, everyone!

2024-12-22 19:28:59

I succumbed to the lure of 15p sprouts. @nprofile…sffp is right, supermarket sprouts have got crap. Very glad I also bought some from the greengrocer for Christmas dinner.
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2024-12-22 15:11:15

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No, no change. They currently pay, say, 40p in the pound, now they’ll pay 45p, or whatever.
(No idea what the current figure is, that’s just a guess. My gut says 35p might be closer.)

2024-12-22 14:13:49

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No, you’re right.

2024-12-22 11:04:07

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Oh, loads of Brits on Fedi, but I’ve found a fair number on Nostr too.

2024-12-22 10:34:28

https://unherd.com/2024/12/a-food-apocalypse-is-coming/
A lot of people assume that somewhere in Britain there are sheds full of food that we’d distribute in a disaster. Surely there is a grain or butter mountain somewhere? Surely the UK government has a plan for such a crisis?
Nope. No sheds. No stores. No mountains of food. No plan.
All politicians say that food security matters, but no one admits that basically we don’t have it. Britain probably has less than a week of food supplies. The only food in the UK is what’s on the shelves of our supermarkets now, and what’s in their lorries on the way to the shops. Oh, and whatever you have in the fridge, plus a few crops growing on UK farms or stored in barns, and whatever is edible and roaming around in fields. And perhaps you could hunt or forage if you have a gun or a trap or two.

2024-12-22 10:08:20

Brrr.
I’m starting to wonder if my decision to not salt the steps was right, the flurries are showing no signs of turning to sleet.
https://media.spinster.xyz/5ee8d9b13383f4a57492aeb61d84b51c81fffbde1b15bcbfd5eebfef9e48c2c0.jpeg

2024-12-21 13:28:34

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@nprofile…fp32 ^?

2024-12-21 13:28:17

I just heard a segment on the news about the Syrian music scene, and they played some snippets of very interesting fusion electronica.
It seems a very long shot, but can anyone point me at some artist names?

2024-12-08 19:41:20

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So… more than a bottle, then?
https://media.spinster.xyz/79ce48094a4cd756e0ea667949720209ffe2944febc615651176058eb4f2cdce.jpeg

2024-12-07 12:04:58

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Jesus, why would you do that to yourself?

2024-12-04 20:36:00

I’m currently without central heating*, so I’ve had the stove going all day any my does it (ahem) burn through wood.
How long before bed time do i need to keep it going for to avoid either being chilly or wasting heat, do people think? I will chuck a couple of (supposedly) six hour bricks on before bed, if only because I never use them and want to stop them cluttering the place up.
*Planned. My boiler’s had a dodgy valve for a year or so, and the last but one time it stuck the Nice Young Man checked and parts are no longer available. It’s stuck again, this time in the “iffy hot water” position, so I decided to bite the bullet (and the interest free credit) and get it replaced now rather than saving up to get it done next year.

2024-12-04 15:59:45

The kitchen company ended up owing me nearly a grand, which they insisted was more like £700. We’ve been going back and forth over email for a couple of weeks, but today I had a couple of plausible errands to run in the same business park they’re in so I went in. With my spreadsheet.
They just phoned and did a refund for the full amount.
Moral: don’t try to argue money with an accountant.

2024-12-04 15:04:05

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/marc-guehi-has-exposed-the-flaw-in-footballs-rainbow-laces-campaign/
By the letter of the law, Guehi could well find himself in trouble: Rule A4 of the FA’s kit and advertising regulations prohibit the ‘appearance on, or incorporation in, any item of clothing, football boots or other equipment of any religious message’.
Guehi’s message is undoubtedly religious. But if the Palace captain is breaking the rules, is the FA also guilty of double standards? The rules also state that: ‘Players must not reveal undergarments that show political…slogans, statements or images’. The Rainbow Laces campaign is backed by Stonewall, an organisation that has led the charge on transgender rights. Is that campaign not a political one?
https://archive.ph/U0Foa

2024-12-03 20:14:58

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If we’re talking Nostr, I’m @flick@henhouse.social (but less active than here).

2024-11-29 17:38:56

@nprofile…rx8h what’s with your current display name? Am I missing a joke/reference? (Other than the homonym.)

2024-11-28 15:07:49

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@nprofile…8sf0 ^

2024-11-24 17:23:02

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It’s the same date for you, Sim: Sunday before the first Sunday in Advent.

2024-11-23 12:45:36

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This is the one I have used most often, as an example. They do ship to you but you’d probably be better finding one more locally.
https://www.nearlynewcashmere.co.uk/

2024-11-23 12:38:47

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Have a look for a second-hand cashmere site that ships to you. You’ll have to scroll through a bunch of “wtf” patterns and designs, but I’ve generally found some good buys on the UK ones.

2024-11-18 16:27:45

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/11/18/the-funniest-x-odus-flouncers/
This meltdown has been so revealing. The great and good really are convinced that online speech must be controlled. Otherwise, those pesky voters will continue to defy their supposed betters and vote the ‘wrong’ way. That said, the flouncers’ inability to actually leave suggests that, deep down, even they know their hysterical claims of Trumpist, Muskite fascism are little more than hot air. The smart money’s surely on them staying.

2024-11-16 20:26:14

Some horrifying stats in here. How does eg The Guardian lean on this?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-case-against-assisted-suicide/
The involvement of the courts might sound reassuring, but we know from the scandal of the single justice procedure – under which thousands of people have been prosecuted for TV licence evasion without their knowledge – how easily a judicial decision becomes in practice a rubber-stamping procedure.
The experience of Canada and the Netherlands, which have (among others) already legalised assisted suicide, indicates how the practice would develop in Britain if this bill passes. In Canada, assisted suicide was introduced on the understanding that it should only be available to terminally ill people whose death was ‘reasonably foreseeable’. Then the Superior Court of Quebec ruled that this discriminated against people who are not terminally ill and from 2027 assisted suicide will be available across Canada for those suffering from psychiatric illness. The fact that the judgment of these people is by definition impaired has done nothing to prevent the state offering to help them die.
Wherever it has been introduced, a law legalising assisted dying for the terminally ill has, in short order, evolved into routine euthanasia.
https://archive.ph/0sNGV