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Product manager. Food blogger. Dreadful champagne socialist woofter. Food blog: https://www.louchegastronomique.com

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A prayer for the Transgender Day of Remembrance - The Methodist Church God loves you unconditionally, no strings attached. That's the good news.

Also they bang on about the Labour Party being more Methodist than Marx.

Ok. Fucking be that, then.

www.methodist.org.uk/for-churches...

09.03.2026 13:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.

09.03.2026 11:52 πŸ‘ 676 πŸ” 151 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 12

imagine being the guy who directed that opening sequence gutpunch of Up (2009) and now being too chickenshit to have a gay character, imagine directing Soul (2020) even as you stare in the mirror every morning trying to remember what a "soul" actually is

09.03.2026 11:57 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

wait so there’s a major oil crisis and they’re gonna fly seven reps to meet each other so they can diplomatically avoid saying that one of them caused this whole ass crisis single-handedly?

because that could be an email

09.03.2026 11:47 πŸ‘ 399 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1

I dunno. It’s like campaigning mainly for people who hit 35 or so, see that the world around them doesn’t match the one their parents told them to expect, and then rather than thinking β€œcool, let’s understand this and maybe adapt a bit”, scream SOMETHING MUST BE DONE and go looking for a manager.

09.03.2026 11:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

08.03.2026 03:32 πŸ‘ 3152 πŸ” 991 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Endlessly building an electoral approach around not getting laughed at in the flat roof pub they’ve imagined.

09.03.2026 11:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

He harks back to something cutesy and family-oriented, which always makes me nervous. I do get the sense that Labour would quite like to campaign on β€œKeir Starmer will make your kids put their bloody phones down and stick to the gender you gave them”

09.03.2026 11:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Trying to figure out which Star Trek characters are most likely to have been in the Epstein files and right now the three frontrunners are Gul Dukat, Liquidator Brunt, and Neelix

09.03.2026 09:47 πŸ‘ 164 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 5

This is so odd. If his vision of blue Labour is as staunchly against rowing back social progress as the third paragraph claims, then what exactly is its much vaunted social conservatism for? What actually are these values? The piece is a vibes-forward symphony of meaning-shaped meaninglessness.

09.03.2026 11:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy "International Men's Day is on November 19th" Day

08.03.2026 20:14 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

08.03.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 4603 πŸ” 1354 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 71

Skill issue

08.03.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You might not know who Country Joe Mcdonald is, but he wrote one of the greatest anti-war songs of all time. It's about Vietnam, but applies to a lot of America's military misadventures.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRl6...

08.03.2026 19:16 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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Hot sour chicken shawarma β€” Louche Gastronomique The lamb shawarma recipe in Ottolenghi's  Jerusalem is one of my favourite things to do with a kilo of dead sheep. It's rich and deep and tasty, and a great workaround for not having a rotat...

Right. Kebab time.

www.louchegastronomique.com/2015/hot-sou...

08.03.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've said it before, and I'll say it several times again: technology might take some of your work, but it's the CFO that takes your actual job.

08.03.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I do like that pringle turtle neck though.

Ok. I'm done.

08.03.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Designer Men's Collection Collection | JW Anderson GB – JW Anderson Explore JW Anderson's new luxury Men's Collection. Find timeless pieces with a modern edge. Shop the collection at JW Anderson official website

In fairness, JW Anderson's own-label menswear collection is only about 10% more interesting, and a steal at - checks notes - about 20x the price.

jwanderson.com/collections/...

08.03.2026 18:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The roll top bag will probably do ok. The striped one is sort of tongue-in-cheek fancy mum beach bag, and that'll land sit nicely on the insta group pics next to your friend's Trader Joe's tote.

The womenswear is just more of those mildly cute boxy cropped Oxfords, which is basically fine.

08.03.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ok, fair play, I quite like the Slutty Frat Boy socks, although they need to be a bit higher up the calf for full effect.

www.uniqlo.com/uk/en/produc...

08.03.2026 18:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is... almost interesting? I guess?

www.uniqlo.com/uk/en/produc...

The little shoulder flashes add some drama to a mid 2000s Gap staple 🀷

08.03.2026 18:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

System prompt: 20000 tokens

Skill definition: 4000 tokens

Output style with full explanation of both my fursona and the fursona the agent is supposed to communicate as: 110000 tokens

Hooks: 2000 tokens

Some who is good at the economy please help me budget this
my context window is dying

08.03.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 265 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

JWA at Uniqlo has delivered some of the absolute MVPs of my wardrobe at amazing value price points. I'd have gleefully paid double for those cricket jersey cardigans. But the menswear hasn't troubled my resting heart rate in years.

08.03.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Breathless Uniqlo marketing email: Did you miss the new JW Anderson drop?!!

1) No, I did not. It just looked like a Marks & Spencer spring window display if someone had made the silhouettes 5% boxier in photoshop.

2) Could we not have left "drop" in 2024?

08.03.2026 18:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

shaggy: picture this we were both butt naked bangin on the bathroom floor

chotiner: sure. go on

08.03.2026 16:54 πŸ‘ 295 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You have discovered a planet. There, The ground is littered with scores vines. I pray that there are cats there.

08.03.2026 15:05 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tu Casa - tapas, reliably β€” Louche Gastronomique The tortilla at Tu Casa, at the town end of Mill Road, is one of the best I’ve had - well seasoned, great texture, retaining a little bite to the potatoes and just gooey in the middle. Like the paella...

February's one-a-month Cambridge Restaurant review new year's resolution entry comes a week into March, for which I plan to look February square in the eye and blame it for being short.

It's about tapas. The review, not February.

www.louchegastronomique.com/blog/2026/tu...

07.03.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

18.02.2026 13:19 πŸ‘ 3320 πŸ” 753 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 37

"The statistical Wario hentai inference engine I asked to do my tax return is conscious, actually!" asserts the exact kind of guy who, if they reasoned through it fully, probably would be ok with it being slavery.

07.03.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
You're in a Toby
You're in a Toby YouTube video by Zion Fox

"You're in a Toby"

08.03.2026 04:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1