William Barter

Part 125 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd

A 3770 year old Babylonian clay tablet written in Akkadian, containing the oldest known cooking recipes. The tablet includes 25 recipes for stews, 21 meat stews and 4 vegetable stews.

Only 7 hours on the train to Gavle.

I saw someone suggest that "Bond is the cover name that goes with 007" which might be the easiest path out?

It seems ironic that this seems to have given a nominally centre-left government the chance to reset the top leadership of the BBC. This is the bit I don't understand: if you're squeezing out leadership appointed under a right wing govt, why do so now, under a more left leaning one?

Tbh that sounds a perfect fit to take over hosting In Our Time.

Interested in a fully funded PhD place in Experimental Particle Physics in Edinburgh?

We have fully funded studentships, including a specific scholarship for students from a Black heritage (including mixed Black background).

More info: inspirehep.net/jobs/3080808

“Wallace Shawn from DS9”

* mind blown*

This is surreal, seeing you post a photo from where I grew up

It's also a really condescending way for London to talk to people in the other countries to make up the UK. "Your elections are boring."

I mean, sure, but they are relevant for how we live in this part of -your- country.

Which I guess is what you are trying to say but I'm still trying to get my head around it.

Somehow anti-Reform tactical voting managed to find a different party to Labour in a Labour-held seat. I don't see how this isn't a seismic rejection of Labour's current approach to the next GE.

Look, I may me a pro-garlic sort, but this rewriting of history is ridiculous. Or national anthem should be Spem in Allium.

Practically foolproof.

1. Draw some art.
2. Take it to an art gallery in keeping. Display it in a secluded location (that's part of the gallery).
3. Come back later and take it down and walk out. They can't stop you for picking up something you own yourself.
4. Sell it as having been displayed in the National Gallery etc.

This weekend, reflecting on the Louvre case, I think I came up with a get rich quick scheme.

From today's lecture: as good physicists we know we can just divide both sides by dx

Badge of honour

Spring bulbs planted 💐🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻💐

Also - it fits with the wider concerns that too much of BBC programming is drawn from social media and not from objective reality. For years we've been told that social media is not representative of Britain, but now apparently it is.

Me, but wearing glasses. They have rectangular-ish black frames.

Age has reached me. I now need reading glasses.

Not to make light of the editorial failure, but look how far Twitter lies now permeate in to normal discourse. We think we know about the racism but the utter contempt for truth since Musk bought the platform is deliberate & very dangerous. You can’t foment racism with fact checkers in the building.

Welcome to the Panopticon!

[not an amazing story full of insight, but I do think it captures something about how he did inspire random people as he met them]

I remember getting a random message from a friend when we were at uni who was excited that she'd met Ming, and found him to be kind, smart, and funny.

Only if you have a phone. Unless the government plans to buy everyone a phone...

But it’s weird to announce a “digital-ID” scheme when you are going to have to have a paper counterpart from day 1.

I’m intrigued by digital-only ID. How will this work for people without smartphones or for those who struggle to use them?

How will it work for people without smartphones or those who struggle to use them? How will the government avoid mandating people buy smartphones?

Just noting that a *digital* ID scheme runs into massive problems here.