Anyone else tired of being forced to find out when they did not fuck around?
Anyone else tired of being forced to find out when they did not fuck around?
Remembering how Rumsfeld was mocked for the known unknowns speech and actually that was pretty thought through.
This is outrageous slander on Sir Percy Blakeney
Ugh. Also Shakira law is awesome.
On the work chat someone has said that their word of the week is 100 and Iβm fighting the urge to be pedantic.
November @postoctobrist FRANCE: we're fancy WORLD: ok FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch WORLD: FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife 1:27 PM Β· Feb 18, 2017
had occasion to remember this one
My Apple Music just played a song it says I last played on 1 March 2013. Damn I listened to that song obsessively back in the day.
DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE!
On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules.
Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel.
If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on Β£100+ tickets.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...
Text of poem - Pact. This is my child; that is yours. Let peace be between them when they grow up. They are far off now; let it not be through war they are brought near. Their languages are different. Let them both learn it is peace in the hand is the translation of peace in the mind.
Pact - RS Thomas
Dydd GΕ΅yl Dewi hapus...
Good grief Barclaycard, who decided that I want to see an analysis of categories of spending instead of a simple transaction list. Really great way to make it more difficult to keep track.
OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.
openai.com/index/our-ag...
My dad in Montreal currently has a whole hour more daylight than me. I think March is the month I overtake him.
Not only that but those meetings were the most likely to be cancelled at the last minute.
My robot vacuum keeps leaving the room and coming back a few minutes later like it canβt let go of an argument.
Butter yellow crocuses are blooming in the foreground while in the background a bunch of daffodils have all opened in the sunshine. A cat can just be seen inspecting the daffodils.
The sun came out and the flowers are happy. As is the #ProofOfCat
Weβve just passed three years of ownership and I still skip at the thought of no longer dealing with landlords, letting agents, and the annual eviction notice.
Super excited about your UK house though.
It won't come as a surprise to most in UK higher ed that redundancies at research-intensive universities have gone up
But it's stark to see that they practically *doubled* between 2023 and 2025
(figures are from FOI responses from 24 members of either the Russell Group and ResearchPlus)
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Official Team GB Paralympic photo, with the the crests and everything, and a professional headshot, but it's for "Pickle, A Very Good Girl", who is a black labrador, with a hi-viz harness and a red collar.
Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos
You be the judge is⦠interesting⦠given that so many judges rule against them.
On the one hand, people keep posting that vile tweet from the White House and it makes me mad each time I see it. On the other hand itβs always to say how vile it is so I take solidarity from that.
Shame Canada couldn't win gold at hockey, but on the bright side, they've probably saved their nation from the imposition of 1000% punative tariffs on goods into the USA
Dammit team Canada.
Time to revisit Shakespeareβs Wars of the Roses saga.
For those that missed the discourse back then, this was it:
a cat in a tie sits outside of a factory. the cat says "Hope no one is weird to me." The factory is labeled "Being Weird Factory" and has the bluesky logo on it
Variety is the spice of life!
Interesting thread about yesterdayβs tariffs judgment. Is Wessex the new Magna Carta?
So, the government thatβs busy building new concentration camps across the US is also throwing research ethics processes out the window.
No paywall.
More accurate headline.