Dr Jo Kershaw

The most actually 90s callback (probably accidentally) I’ve seen this year was whichever team it was in the Olympic free skiing who had taped up their overly baggy ski pants for increased aerodynamic efficiency.

Can we stop comparing *any* UK leaders with Churchill please? Thatcher wasn’t Churchill, Boris bloody Johnson wasn’t Churchill, and Keir Starmer wasn’t Churchill.

Even Churchill wasn’t the Churchill everyone imagines.

Just shut up about Churchill.

The total as of Monday night from the Iranian Red Crescent Society stood at around 550.

I’ve never understood that.

It’s a promise to pay a sum of money *if they accept your offer*

There’s a story there, but probably not a fun one.

On this theme, something that is happening on the AI adoption curve is that a lot of people who are at the age to naturally be suspicious of new technology

- by the way, I have bad news for you, median user of Bluesky -

are also being impacted by other people's bad use of AI / LLMs.

Years ago I found a note in the parish register of Glenfield in Leicestershire which instantly became one of my favourite Civil War commentaries:

'Churchwardens, not any; because
distractions many; & distructions mightie'.

I've returned to that document, explored other pages nearby, and found...

So much will be said about all this in the coming days, but IMO the biggest takeaway is that James Watt and Martin Dickie each pocketed more than the price BrewDog was eventually sold for, while 500 hardworking staff are now out of a job & 220k equity punks don't get a dime.

Absolute charlatans.

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

It’s a strong look

That’s not a counter argument, that was the original argument! And it’s still setting a bad precedent IMO

Rochdale Herald “reports” that Sam Allerdyce has been named interim Ayatollah and I’m afraid that did make me laugh…

Screen shoot from page 167 specifying the undress for the Consular Service which “in times of danger” may permit the wearing of swords: https://archive.org/details/dressinsigniawor00greauoft/page/n243/mode/2up

Let us return to invitations specifying “Undress but with swords, on account of the Revolution.”

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Ah, phew!

The “we’re all going to die” joke, only in French.

Bof!

Oh, blast, not Weihstephaner. Thanks for the heads up.

This has been part of the trans-kids moral panic for years, gay adults going "If I grew up now, they'd convince me I'm trans."

If your movement had real evidence, you wouldn't be pointing to alternative-universe hypotheticals! Child psychologists know the difference between gay kids and trans kids

And I bet it would cost more to administer than it saved.

These ones are more helpfully specific than that!

Yes.

I expect that’s true but I still think taxing overseas residents is a bad idea.

I doff my optional hat to them.

Huge if, though, as you say

Yeah, so did we. Every sympathy.

Spouse is a US UK dual national and it’s a flipping nightmare sometimes.

I get why people are annoyed about this but it’s definitely a “hard cases make bad law” - and it would also punish a bunch of people who are just doing normal, socially useful jobs across the world.

Counterpoint: can we not do this? It’s an administrative nightmare to have to file US taxes and most people don’t end up paying anything (unless they inadvertently do something that turns out to be ill advised like investing in the wrong ISA).

Also, bad precedent in only helping taxpayers.

There is, in fairness, historical precedent that might make this venue twitchy about swords.