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2024-09-25 11:53:37

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It’s the ridiculously OTT “Rainbow Candy Crush”: https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/plants-blogs/plants/october-2021/kale-rainbow-candy-crush

2024-09-25 11:49:55

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They do make the water whiff rather if you cut them, though!

2024-09-25 11:40:18

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I have several perennial plants, a crinkly dark one and these.

2024-09-25 11:31:09

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Oh, I love kale: I’m sure I will eat it, I just meant you could equally grow it as an ornamental.
It’s illegal because I smuggled the seeds in from the US: it’s a new variety, and Sutton’s have apparently decided to get as much as they could for their UK rights over it by only selling plug plants at ridiculous prices.

2024-09-19 14:29:24

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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/mayonnaise-ice-cream-launch-reaction-twitter-falkirk-scotland-a8466031.html

2024-09-19 09:41:00

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-arent-some-released-prisoners-being-tagged/
> Nowadays, even probation officers struggle to get clear answers about whether or not tags have been fitted. Several recently released prisoners told me that their probation officers had asked them whether they had been fitted with a tag. How are they supposed to keep tabs if they don’t know this basic information?
> Serco, which took over the electronic monitoring contract in May, say they ‘have been working hard to reduce the number of people waiting to have a tag fitted’. They insist they are prioritising cases ‘based on risk profiles.’
> But ‘working hard’ isn’t enough: ex-prisoners, who potentially pose a danger to the public, are not being tagged.
https://archive.ph/d7ETD

2024-09-12 15:07:52

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No one is surprised by it. It’s a power play by men in dresses who get off from forcing women to pretend to believe they aren’t men.
IIRC, that stat is misquoted and it’s actually that women in same-sex relationships are more likely to have *ever* experienced DV, ie that they often experienced it in previous, mixed-sex relationships (and thus are now sticking to women). Not something I’m particularly knowledgable on, though: can anyone clarify?

2024-09-11 13:58:08

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Did you see the part about it raining? No chance!

2024-09-11 13:52:48

Inevitably, it started pissing down again as soon as it got here, but new car!

2024-09-11 12:06:20

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I have absolutely no idea, sorry.

2024-09-11 11:47:43

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You could probably use oil.
If you have no vegetarian fat but oil, I would definitely go for a cake rather than a pie.

2024-09-11 11:44:28

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https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/dorset-apple-traybake
Use margarine / vegetable shortening instead of the butter.

2024-09-10 17:17:38

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In this specific case, it’s net zero that’s to blame.

2024-09-10 10:39:07

wtf?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/08/strava-users-paying-mules-to-run-for-them-for-app-kudos/
> Strava users are paying “mules” to run in their stead, in a bid to gain more “kudos” on the fitness app.
> Popular with runners, cyclists and swimmers, the Strava app allows amateur and professional athletes to track their routes and times – and share their progress with others. […]
> He explained: “Certain clients prefer to give me their phone and they want me to go the extra distance… messaging their spouse, sending them a picture of Central Park, send them a screenshot of the run and be like: ‘Be home soon, honey.’
https://archive.ph/lsKJH

2024-09-07 19:42:39

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It’s not the chicken, it’s the fat content.
Took me forever to figure out, because I always used to shred the left-over meat and throw it into other meals. Since I switched to using poached breast instead, I’m doing much better.

2024-09-07 19:26:39

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Ooh, not had roast chicken in years! Sadly, it makes me stomach unhappy :(

2024-09-07 18:32:55

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Baked mushrooms with eggs and tree spinach, pink fir apple potatoes, random veg grabbed from the garden (see previous post).

2024-09-06 15:20:21

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It’s much easier out here in the countryside. Lots of little dips and gullies on the moors, you don’t even have to do any digging.
You do need a 4x4 for easy transport, though.

2024-09-04 18:29:32

UK.
What are people thinking re: fixing electricity prices?
I didn’t bother when fixed tariffs came back in, wondering if I should take the risk now or not….
(People on non-mains heating especially. The average household prices are meaningless to me!)

2024-09-04 14:25:13

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I would also guess they had a vegetable garden: there’s very little fresh there other than the celery.

2024-09-04 14:23:12

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Agreed: someone was saying that they only got the husband (and thus the rest of them) because he was reported for taking upskirting photos.

2024-09-04 09:24:30

https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-worse-summarising-information-humans-government-trial/
> Artificial intelligence is worse than humans in every way at summarising documents and might actually create additional work for people, a government trial of the technology has found. […]
> The test involved testing generative AI models before selecting one to ingest five submissions from a parliamentary inquiry into audit and consultancy firms. The most promising model, Meta’s open source model Llama2-70B, was prompted to summarise the submissions with a focus on ASIC mentions, recommendations, references to more regulation, and to include the page references and context.
> Ten ASIC staff, of varying levels of seniority, were also given the same task with similar prompts. Then, a group of reviewers blindly assessed the summaries produced by both humans and AI for coherency, length, ASIC references, regulation references and for identifying recommendations. They were unaware that this exercise involved AI at all.
> These reviewers overwhelmingly found that the human summaries beat out their AI competitors on every criteria and on every submission, scoring an 81% on an internal rubric compared with the machine’s 47%.

2024-09-01 13:20:36

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That’s basically the status quo: some pubs don’t allow smoking in the garden.

2024-09-01 10:02:03

https://www.city-journal.org/article/adolescent-gender-dysphoria-is-a-temporary-diagnosis-for-most-teens
> To summarize our key findings, the number of young people who have received a GD diagnosis in recent years is much higher than previously reported. By our conservative estimate, over 300,000 minors in the U.S. had a GD diagnosis between 2017 and 2023, which means that the condition is not rare. Even more important is that among adolescents with a GD diagnosis in 2017, over half lost their gender-related diagnoses by 2023, with future ongoing declines likely, as suggested by the trend.
This is very interesting and possibly a sign of hope:
> It appears that the number of GD-related diagnoses in 2023 have dropped substantially. We are undertaking a separate analysis of this preliminary finding. Our current analysis suggests that though states that imposed age limits on medical transition had the highest drops in the diagnosed prevalence of GD, all the states, including those that became “sanctuary” states for minor transition, seem to have experienced notable declines in 2023.

2024-09-01 09:49:29

https://thecritic.co.uk/defending-an-outdoor-smoke/
> Despite promising to ensure politics “treads more lightly” on the lives of people, Keir Starmer has recently announced that his government is considering the prohibition of smoking in pub gardens, parks and the outside of nightclubs. According to Starmer, banning smoking in public places needs to be done to reduce pressure on the NHS and to mitigate against second hand smoke. Neither argument works. Smokers are not a strain on the state and nor does the occasional wisp of smoke in a pub garden warrant infringing upon the publican’s private property. A liberal society must be opposed to this proposal with the utmost force.

2024-08-31 21:09:50

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-big-business-pushed-up-vet-bills/
> Almost 60 per cent of veterinary practices in the UK are owned by large groups – up from 10 per cent a decade ago. Since 2013, 1,500 of the 5,000 practices have been bought by six large corporate groups: CVS, Independent Vet Care, Linnaeus, Medivet, Pets at Home and VetPartners. Pets at Home alone owns a quarter of the animal care market. Many also own pet food and pharmaceutical companies.
> In 1999, a change to the law allowed non-vets to legally own veterinary practices. Along came big business and hungry shareholders who have inserted themselves between our pets and vets. The suspicion is that owners are paying the higher price to keep investors happy.
https://archive.ph/LZG55

2024-08-29 19:18:18

> Kew lies at the western end of a 40-mile stretch of the Thames that in 1957 was declared unable to sustain animal life. The river had become so grossly polluted with emergency sewage discharges and heavy metals from road run-off and industrial waste dumping that there was a complete absence of fish between Kew and Gravesend on the Thames estuary. […] Something had to be done. From 1976 all raw sewage was banned from entering the river. More water-treatment works were opened. […] But London’s river, in many ways the country’s showpiece waterway, did benefit from its initial clean-up. Salmon, flatfish and eels returned to the Thames.
How does that work? Surely salmon don’t live for 20+ years.
Would they have moved fertile eggs from another river into the headwaters?

2024-08-28 20:01:40

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The law disagrees.

2024-08-28 06:29:46

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Why not just buy a basic Janome locally if the Necchi doesn’t come through? Mine’s a little work horse, I love it, and if you buy it locally then you can shout at the shop to fix it.

2024-08-25 15:57:12

Went to test drive the car I wasn’t planning on buying today, and even if I had been planning on buying it I wouldn’t.
They get a slight pass because one of the two sales guys was off sick, but. Even though I’d booked the drive in advance, they left me sitting waiting for fifteen minutes, then took another ten minutes to go and find / bring the car around, then half a dozen of them (if not sales, then IDK, mechanics?) had a debate in Urdu about which of them was going to — horrors — get in a car with a woman. And then the guy who lost the argument got lost, which actually was pretty hilarious and made him loosen up a bit.
Needless to say, I didn’t get the hearty handshake the sales guy gave a male customer who came in while I was sitting waiting.
(I did like the car, though. It is a bit underpowered, but other than that the only issues were that I kept hitting the wipers when I wanted the indicators and that the turning circle is so ridiculously small that I kept over-steering around corners.)

2024-08-22 16:07:15

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Ah, ok: didn’t realise they were so varied!
> According to the breed standard, Great Danes have six to seven (depending on the standard) show-acceptable coat colours

2024-08-22 16:03:52

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Huh, I thought they were brown. Wonder what I’m mixing them up with?

2024-08-18 16:49:42

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Actually, you remind me that my sister has her husband in as something along the lines of “sexy hubbie”.
My sister and I are very different people.

2024-08-18 16:43:28

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What should her husband have her in his phone as? Confused.

2024-08-17 17:34:32

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For new drivers and those reapplying: might be relevant to a few of the old people, which is convenient if they’re the ones who know about it.

2024-08-17 13:01:04

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What a peculiar article: it doesn’t actually say what these supposed new laws are. As far as I can tell, the only thing happening in September is the new reg plate number, which no one needs to be aware of.
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/content/news/driving-laws-and-rules-update

2024-08-17 08:02:04

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/male-violence-does-not-take-place-in-a-vacuum/
> At worst, the gendered nature of this violence is ignored altogether. In the wake of the Stockport murders and the riots that followed, many political issues have been discussed: immigration; multiculturalism; the poverty and alienation of the working class; relationships between police and local communities; Islamophobia; fake news; mental health; whether we should protect the identity of those under 18. In doing so, we have overlooked the very specific demographic of the victims whose deaths triggered the riots in the first place: this was not just an attack on children, but on girls.
> Yet how can we possibly start to tackle this epidemic unless we can address it in the first place? We have to be able to acknowledge the fact that these crimes are very specifically acts of violence against women and girls, and not worry that by doing so, we rekindle the old ‘not all men’ debate. Of course it’s not all men – let’s not forget the bravery of Jonathan Hayes, a passerby who was also stabbed by the Stockport attacker after trying to intervene, or the security guard who disarmed the Leicester Square knifeman and gave the girl first aid until the emergency services arrived.
> The sad reality though is that it is enough men, and too many men, and that over the last month the media has been too reluctant to dwell on the sex of the victims in all of these past and potential tragedies. We have therefore ended up with a situation where the government wants to appear tough on crime by jailing people for Facebook posts, but has almost nothing to say about a much more pressing national emergency.
https://archive.ph/NfGGW

2024-08-16 09:25:56

Guess who lost his footing having a wee and ended up upside down in a drainage ditch?
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2024-08-15 19:53:31

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/15/we-can-no-longer-say-that-britain-is-a-free-country/
> This situation creates some very obvious problems. One is definition creep. “Grossly offensive”. “Abusive.” “Insulting”. “False”. “Stirring up.” Who says what they mean? The answer is judges and magistrates, using guidance from the Crown Prosecution Service. This currently says that they mean more than just offensive, satirical, or unfashionable, applying the standards of an “open and just multiracial society”. But who says what those standards are?
> Another is the chilling effect. In a country like ours, with clear social and political problems related to immigration and community integration, one person’s fair commentary is another person’s “abuse” or “insult”. If you comment on different crime levels among migrant communities in the UK, or note that most of those on small boats are young men leaving one safe country for another, are you making a political point, or “stirring up” racial hatred?
> Apart from the Online Safety Act, these laws were designed for a different world – one of green ink letters and abusive messages on voicemail. They are too broad to deal with social media, open to all, and with its own particular style – punchy, satirical, meme-based – where one person’s sharp comment is another’s abuse.
https://archive.ph/Py5Fr

2024-08-15 12:24:19

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Sadly not. It was a decade ago, which offers a small glimmer of hope.
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/child-bride-in-yemen-dies-of-internal-bleeding-on-wedding-night-activist-idUSBRE98910N/

2024-08-15 10:40:42

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2024-08-15 10:01:08

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cFK2Xq2RyiU

2024-08-13 20:08:30

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/08/13/lessons-about-fake-news-are-indoctrination-masquerading-as-education/
> In recent years, plenty of children have been taught that sex is randomly assigned at birth rather than being a biological fact determined by a person’s chromosomes. Would Labour teach pupils to spot this ‘misinformation’? All the signs suggest no. The Tories’ ban on teaching gender ideology has been placed under review. This means that if Phillipson gets her way, teachers could spend the morning warning children of the dangers of fake news and the afternoon telling them that men can become women. We can all decry the lies and rumours that were spread in the wake of the Southport atrocity, but it’s hard not to escape the suspicion that the distinction Phillipson wants to draw between ‘misinformation’ and ‘truth’ is simply whether ideas conform to her and her pals’ worldview more broadly. Lessons in fake news will hasten the blurring between education and indoctrination.

2024-08-13 20:03:36

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/08/13/the-ridiculous-hysteria-over-musks-trump-interview/
> Anyone is entitled to disagree with Trump’s policies and Americans are free to vote against them. But instead of fighting Trump’s policies in open and robust debate, his establishment foes across the West misrepresent, emote and obfuscate. They make it very difficult to have a sensible discussion about anything, much less government policy.
> Musk put it best when he said during the interview: ‘We want safe and clean cities, we want secure borders, we want sensible government spending, we want to restore both the perception and reality of respect in our judicial system… stop the lawfare.’ He then added: ‘How are those even right-wing positions?’

2024-08-11 19:41:31

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TimTams are much better than Penguins.

2024-08-11 10:19:16

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It’s very easy to flip a photo. Looking at the sign with the ring around it, that’s also a mirror image. Why do you think it’s significant?

2024-08-11 09:59:46

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What about it? Woman (I assume Harris) giving a speech, clasping her hands at one point. What is it you want people to take note of?

2024-08-11 09:54:51

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I’m still none the wiser what we’re looking at.

2024-08-10 09:22:33

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Hope Not Hate has basically admitted that it made up the list of 100 locations.
https://media.spinster.xyz/eade81ac85411dc837cb6b5e849ca37cf71af001e156416dd85b7cfb282677c7.png

2024-08-10 09:17:38

https://news.sky.com/story/i-was-raped-every-day-for-two-years-the-horror-of-life-as-an-isis-sex-slave-13180372
> The first man who bought her was twice her age. She hadn't even started menstruating. As she recalls the horrific abuse she suffered, there is a mix of anger and sorrow in her voice. When she tried to run away, he dragged her back by her hair and beat her. "He said he'd kill me and bury me in his backyard if I didn't do what he wanted."
> "I was raped every day for two years," she says. Her tone is matter-of-fact but her eyes indicate a deep pain. Her two children were born of rape by two separate IS men, both of whom are now believed to be dead.
> During that time, she also witnessed a 10-year-old child being raped.

2024-08-10 09:13:23

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/09/labour-run-council-to-fine-people-100-for-swearing/
> In a statement on the Thanet PSPO, the Free Speech Union said: “This is the worst one we have seen.
> “This order would apply to the entire built-up area around the Thanet coastline, and is a draconian measure, which would restrict the freedom of expression of 130,000 residents plus the roughly four million tourists who visit Thanet each year.
> “People within the area covered can now be fined or even face a criminal conviction for ‘causing a disturbance to others’ or being ‘pejorative’ in public, among other things.
> “It effectively imposes a strict liability speech offence, with none of the safeguards which Parliament and the courts have deemed necessary when restricting people’s fundamental rights and liberties.”
https://archive.ph/vDLCc

2024-08-10 09:02:35

Yet more Met Office disinformation….
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2024-08-10 08:25:42

https://dailysceptic.org/2024/08/10/were-the-spontaneous-anti-racism-rallies-even-real/
> But was this ever really likely? Britain’s actual full-on neo-Nazi fringe is tiny. If they really were planning to attack in 100 locations simultaneously, this would have to be done in the shape of 100 one-man-army Fourth Reich Aryan super-soldiers, like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando. Sure enough, come Wednesday night, precious few anti-immigrant protestors took to the streets at all. The whole thing seems to have been at best a moral panic, at worst a hoax.
> Instead, the main predictable result of the police, media and politicians pumping out this alarmist fable was to flood the streets with far-Left protesters instead (not that they are ever called that by most media, of course). Watching rolling-news coverage that night was to see a new, politically useful counter-narrative being born before our very eyes. As it became increasingly clear the Nazi army was not going to turn up after all, primarily because there wasn’t one, banner headlines changed abruptly from ‘Communities Braced for Far-Right Anti-Immigrant Invasion’ to ‘Pro-Immigrant Communities Defeat Far-Right Invasion’ instead. The overriding meta-narrative was clear. Set up expectation of imminent social disaster, then let it down with an outpouring of love, unity and collective public Muslim-loving: redemptive bathos on a grand scale.
> But if no such invasion was ever due to actually occur, how could it ever have been defeated? If I hang a big banner from my window saying ‘Vikings Not Welcome Here!’ and then no Vikings do actually come, can I really take any true credit for the fact?

2024-08-09 19:29:00

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*How* much??

2024-08-09 19:26:01

https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2023/march/crab-shells-could-help-power-the-next-generation-of-rechargeable-batteries.html
> Lithium-ion batteries have become ubiquitous in recent years, powering phones, cars and even toothbrushes. But because the amount of lithium metal in the world is limited, some researchers have turned their attentions to its “chemical cousins” instead. Previously, researchers created a biodegradable zinc-ion battery using the chitin in crab shells. But these wastes could alternatively be turned into “hard carbon,” a material that has been explored as a possible anode for sodium-ion batteries. Though chemically similar to lithium, sodium ions are larger, and thus incompatible with a lithium-ion battery’s anode, which is typically made of graphite. When hard carbon is combined with metallic semiconductor materials, such as the transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), the material can become a feasible battery anode. So, Yun Chen, Yue Zhao, Hongbin Liu and Tingli Ma wanted to explore how two different TMDs — tin sulfide and iron sulfide — could be combined with hard carbon made from crab shells to make a viable sodium-ion battery anode.

2024-08-09 13:27:46

Found the inspiration for that weird Martin Luther King statue!
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2024-08-08 21:28:42

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> According to The Nottingham Post, the boy is now being kept away from the girl at the school.
Nope, nope, NOPE!

2024-08-08 20:32:59

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> he had COVID
> After crossing the line third for the second straight Olympics
> “It definitely affected my performance,” he said.
lol

2024-08-08 14:42:13

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/anti-fascist-demonstrators-have-a-troubling-blindspot/
> A flyer calling for the expulsion of an ethnic group from parts of London was widely shared online yesterday. There were also reports of menacing chants being made outside a place of worship. Were the far-right thugs of riotous Britain up to no good again? Actually, this time the bigotry was coming from the other side, from the self-styled anti-fascists of the radical left.
> Yes, it seems yesterday’s anti-racist gatherings may not have been entirely anti-racist. A group called Finchley Against Fascism shared a virtual leaflet inviting people to gather in Finchley in north London to show their opposition to the bigotry and chaos of recent days. We need to mobilise, it said, in order to ‘Get fascists, racists, Nazis, Zionists and Islamophobes out of Finchley!’ […]
> Some people also reported hearing chants of ‘Free Palestine’ outside the synagogue by Woodside tube station in Finchley. I thought we’d all agreed that political agitation near places of worship is a bad thing? There were Palestine flags on many of the anti-racist gatherings yesterday, too, and spontaneous eruptions of the chant, ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!’.
> Was this really necessary? I thought these protests were about riotous bigotry here at home, not conflicts in the Middle East?
https://archive.ph/L7A96

2024-08-08 11:58:59

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Wow. Very cool.

2024-08-07 15:34:58

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How’s your hand doing now? Have you been to the clinic?

2024-08-07 08:05:39

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Sharpie. Draw around the swelling, write the time. Do the same a few hours later. It will be useful for the clinic staff when they assess you.

2024-08-07 08:02:42

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That’s worrying, Nina. How quickly is the swelling spreading? Any sign of streaks on your skin around it?

2024-08-06 21:00:46

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I’m not sure how I have never seen this before, but I didn’t realise he’d lived long enough to make it.

2024-08-04 21:38:26

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There *was* a guy with a knife. Whether there was *also* a guy with a machete, who knows. There have been some alarming videos from the last 24hrs of Muslims with weapons, *apparently* attacking white men for no obvious reason.

2024-08-04 11:59:17

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2024-08-04 11:55:48

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Oh, they’ve been doing that for a few days already!

2024-08-04 11:21:21

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The number of things Russia is currently behind, makes you doubt they’ve got time for a war as well.

2024-08-03 21:59:39

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It’s impressive, but I kinda feel like he’s trying to cash in on Simone Biles’ reputation. Did he really need to strip off? (And won’t he drop points for it?)

2024-08-03 21:55:35

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We didn’t ;)

2024-08-03 21:49:03

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“Confederate English” seems like a non sequitur.

2024-08-03 21:41:53

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Hypothetical for you, Taylan. Say you were this person. You’d been raised as a girl, liked boxing because you were really good at it and it was empowering for you as a girl in a society where women are denigrated, then at the age of twenty (ish) you found out that you actually had male genetics, that meant you could punch harder and farther than an XX woman.
Would you shrug you shoulders and say “I’m going to win whatever it takes”, or would you regretfully bow out of competitive sports?
Because my guess would be that most women would do the latter. One can argue that that is female socialisation, nurture not nature, but if this person was raised as female then….
(CF the TIF contact sport competitor saying that this person should not be fighting woman.)

2024-08-03 13:07:31

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Serious question: do men find that attractive?

2024-08-03 12:59:32

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Gross.

2024-08-03 06:47:50

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I feel sorry for those kids, they must be so frightened and bewildered.

2024-08-01 19:09:38

Per BBC radio, the man who won the women’s boxing had this to say in the post-fight interview (during which his opponent said "I hope my nation won't take it badly, I hope my dad won't take it badly […] It could have been the match of a lifetime, but I had to preserve my life as well in that moment“):
> I'm here for the gold - I fight everybody.
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2024-08-01 12:53:28

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Not sure if these are directed at me, but in case they are and I’ve correctly understood your meaning: he does walk to heel, as long as he doesn’t see another dog. If he *does* see another dog, chicken / liver / anything else I’ve tried is completely irrelevant.
And it doesn’t piss him off, he quite happily pokes his nose into it to put it on.

2024-08-01 12:37:10

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I personally dislike Haltis, because of the sideways pressure on the neck. I think this style is better, biomechanically, because the lead attachment is behind the head.
https://www.k9bridle.com/

2024-08-01 12:34:27

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No indeed. Bad enough in any sport, but worse in ones that are contact.

2024-08-01 12:09:11

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Two of them, one in this fight, both previously disqualified from the world championships after chromosome tests, but the IOC chose to ignore that and say it was ok because they have passports that say “female”.

2024-08-01 12:05:00

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Has been lifted.
> We can now report that the 17-year-old charged with three counts of murder is Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, born 7 August 2006.

2024-08-01 12:03:18

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Because he’s a minor and because the investigation is ongoing.
He’s in Crown Court very soon, which is when the press will be able to petition to have his anonymity lifted.

2024-08-01 09:21:15

A sighting of the eggs of the rare “square sided” tractor! Good to see that it’s breeding up here this year.
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2024-07-31 10:57:20

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Making doesn’t mean what it sounds like.
If you look at CP and a copy is in your browser cache, for example, that counts as “making”. Or if someone texts it to you.
Actually taking the original picture is a different, more serious offence.
https://www.olliers.com/news/what-constitutes-making-indecent-images/

2024-07-30 22:04:57

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Wait, you sekritly got a job without saying?
Otherwise I thoroughly approve!

2024-07-30 21:53:42

Good to remember:
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/07/30/in-praise-of-southports-heroes/
> Leanne Lucas, who organised the dance class, and her colleague, dance teacher Heidi Barlow, both 35, are reported to have saved the lives of 16 children by barricading them in a toilet when the knifeman was running amok. Lucas was stabbed and is currently in a critical condition, while Barlow sustained injuries that were not life-threatening.
> Then there was Jonathan Hayes, who works in an office in the same building as the dance studio. After he heard screams, he ran towards the unfolding carnage and tried to tackle the attacker and take his knife off him. The 63-year-old Hayes was stabbed in the leg amid the melee.
> Joel Verite, a 25-year-old window cleaner, was driving past the dance studio but stopped when he saw an injured woman on the floor. She told him there was ‘a fella stabbing kids up there’, and he immediately ran in to help. Along with two police officers, he tackled the knifeman to the ground.

2024-07-30 21:34:28

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Agree in principle but I’ve seen him maybe five times in the last twenty years: he’s lived in Aus my whole life, we have very little contact.

2024-07-30 20:47:47

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Thank you, that was my reading of it.
It’s my uncle, who’s a smart cookie, so I have no doubts that he’s completely on top of it from his end, but I was worried he was sugarcoating it for my mother

2024-07-30 20:25:30

Can anyone decode this? I think it means “cancer but it’s not spread (beyond the prostrate and seminal vesticles) so easily operable”.
> My MRI pathology report says I have a lesion on the outside of the prostate (presumably spreading from the inside) and it's "invaded" (their word) the seminal vesicles, which provide fluid for semen via the prostate. So, whatever it is, it's spread. The word cancer is not mentioned in the report.
> The lesion is listed in the report as "T3b NO", which meant nothing to my GP, who has referred me for an "urgent" biopsy.
> My research shows that "T3b" means a "locally extensive cancer" but "NO" fortunately means it's not yet evident in the lymph nodes.

2024-07-09 10:38:16

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No, looks like he actually did. Oh dear!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/eric-adams-nyc-trash-wheelie-bins-b2576182.html

2024-07-09 09:41:53

https://www.christian.org.uk/news/bbc-misleads-viewers-on-fitness-of-mens-milk-for-babies/
> A news item on so-called chestfeeding was “misleading” and biased, the BBC has admitted.
> Viewers contacted the BBC to complain about an interview in which a trans activist made unchallenged claims over the benefits of hormone-filled milk produced by gender-confused men.
> The broadcaster’s complaints unit has now admitted that BBC News had failed to meet its editorial standards of “accuracy and impartiality”.

2024-07-07 08:39:40

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That does not seem like it would be very successful.

2024-07-04 21:29:53

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I know how you feel. I’m at home, so chin chin.

2024-07-04 19:50:09

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Who’s the guy in the middle? Surely not Reagan?

2024-07-02 18:24:48

This meal is called “Flick’s laughably inauthentic enchiladas”. It’s tasty, though. Could have done with a minute less under the grill.
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2024-06-28 10:15:17

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I’m on the landline. We shall see.
(“Just so you know, there’s lots of information on our website…” Gosh, really, you don’t say? Do you really not think I would have checked there before I sat here listening to this god awful music for half an hour?)

2024-06-28 10:09:03

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God they’re useless. I even tried the chat bot, which apparently has no memory of previous messages in the same chat, and when I repeated my query with an added explanation of why the web page it has given me didn’t answer the question it just told me I needed to use simpler words.

2024-06-28 09:54:47

How long am I going to be on hold with HMRC?

2024-06-19 20:35:40

Is there such a thing as a fridge freezer where the freezer part is bigger than the fridge part, or is 50/50 as good as it gets?

2024-06-19 07:12:38

I’d missed this:
https://freespeechunion.org/feminist-campaigner-accuses-police-of-bullying-her-over-tweet-about-trans-doctor/
> Maya Forstater, the director of gender critical campaign group Sex Matters, told the Times that the Metropolitan Police is examining a post on X, formerly Twitter from June 2023 in which she said Dr Kamilla Kamaruddin “enjoys intimately examining female patients without their consent”.
> The alleged offence is punishable by up to two years in prison. […]
> Forstater believes she is the victim of “bullying and harassment” because of her views and has not ruled out legal action against the police.
> “I think the investigation shouldn’t have even got as far as questioning me,” she told the Times. “My tweet isn’t even something that would get deleted by Twitter, let alone for it to be a crime. Being threatened with arrest and then having a police investigation hanging over my head for almost a year now has been very stressful.”