Entire plot of “The Gentlemen” TV show.

I habitually say “all hail the basilisk” when in meetings which are “automatically summarised”.

Objection: What Happened in Dallas County Was Not a Glitch What happened in Dallas County tonight should scare the hell out of you.

What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*.

In March. Imagine November.

I broke it down here:

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The nonce sense position.

Nom nom nom nom nom. I had to cut down a bit when I realised how much salt it contains.

Or someone who heard it on TMZ

… or by people who brag about it at Joe’s Stone Crab loud enough for gambling addicts to overhear?

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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

“I work with lots of fortysomething men and they probably just think I'm a bit weird"

But, but, the FIFA Peace Prize?!

Normalise talking about the post-rock band Overhead, the Albatross.

Normal for books from RW celebrities or influencers: they are bought in bulk by “think tanks,” PACs, etc, and given away at conferences, seminars, workshops, etc, or bundled with memberships or as Patreon perks etc.

… but can perhaps afford relocation costs….

Rest assured, the US notions of “class” are just as mystifying to outsiders.

Cuberule.com

The Cube Rule Identify your food based on the location of structural starch. Is a hot dog a sandwich? No, it's clearly a taco.

Related: the Cube Rule of Food. cuberule.com

It’s scant compensation for losing the rule of law, but some of the legal opinions at the moment are top-notch.

Fantastic. How about when we electrify everything? In particular transport and heating.

Oof Lent. I have cut down my caffeine habit a little in the last week, but the first day of Lent is still tough.

Regardless of the diagnoses of soi-disant “AI detectors”, I’m going to employ the same em dashes and vocabulary as I always have.

I haven’t eaten cheese for years, but this account is an insta-follow.

Musk and Vance either are ignorant enough to think that “Scots-Irish” means “Scottish or Irish or both, who cares, they’re the same”, or possibly believe that their audience are that ignorant.

British people say the same about Americans. We are divided by a common language.

Nom! Recommended: “Lou’s Brews” hot sauces, as either an ingredient or a condiment.

TAFKAPA

(Ditto ditto liquids and cars of course)

One day children will laugh and mock when their elders tell them about how explosive gas used to be piped underground into everybody’s house, and how the houses only _sometimes_ exploded.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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I see what you did there