I try to remain a constant bear. I am a bear.
a while back a guy I knew was trying to justify having gone to Curtis Yarvin's wedding, and his girlfriend said "Don't you find him thrillingly contrarian' and I said 'That's how boring people excuse being racist'
I must have missed the bit when the Palestinians were supplying the Russians with weapons.
St Pancras station this evening. The Bayeux Tapestry is coming! Through the tunnel (but not on Eurostar). Making the journey on dry land, unlike when it went from Canterbury to Bayeux in the 1070s.
It wasn’t exactly a nice day earlier but it suddenly kicked up a gear!
That’s turning into a nasty storm out there!
Shelob plays with her food: as Frodo and Sam pass her chamber, she forces them to stumble and reel slowly across its entrance, then releases them so they can flee. Only as they reach a fork in the tunnel and need a guide do they realize that Gollum has abandoned them.
Ha, brilliant!
Fair question but I think it was a desperate search for human interest stories during the general election.
Definitely.
Faithful amateurs can do amazing things. By being competent, hard-working, and organised.
Yeah, that made me cringe too.
It was such a bizarre thing to say, especially as there’s substantive stuff you could bring up
This, to me, is the root of it: the left is always going to be more stuffy, constrained and dogmatic because *the left believes that oppression exists and matters.* This is a turnoff to a certain sort of person who does not wish to believe this. But reality wins eventually.
I just saw someone (a Green supporter, I think) claiming Starmer is an obvious liar because he said he doesn’t dream, and… I’m not a Starmer fan, but I see no reason to assume that’s a lie. Not dreaming, or rather not remembering them, isn’t all that unusual.
Oh nooooo
I think the really worry is that shit might not go down
Think yourself lucky (re Forstater, not the artists in question)
in 4th grade I was a big Accelerated Reader guy (dunno if that exists anymore) and Little Women had more points than any other book in the library. I started like “ok let’s slog through this girl shit” and by the end I was sobbing uncontrollably
It’s the theory that if you strike up a conversation with the victim of harassment, it will mean the harasser is more likely to stop.
Yes.
God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform?
No, it passed me by. I think my only knowledge of it at the time was from a slight (justifiably) suspicious article in Life and Work.
Charismatic evangelicalism has never been my world (and I’ve never felt drawn to it), but it has had such an impact on the C of E in the last decades I think all of us need to do some listening and thinking (and praying), whether or not it feels directly relevant to us.
This sounds like a really interesting and important book.
Because I am a bad person:
“Woke badger fiver” scans perfectly - *perfectly* - into “Guantanamera”.
And now it’s in your head.
🎶Woke badger fiver
You got a woke badger fiver
Woke badger fiiiiii-ii-ver
You got a woke badger fiiiiiiver…🎶
I mean, it’s by no means like claiming you’ve never heard of Taylor Swift, but it’s still pretty implausible that you’d not have been aware of them if you’ve been living in the U.K., even if you can’t actually name a song.
Yes, but one of them is “once you have their money, you never give it back.”
They’re musicians and the Sugababes and Sophie Ellis-Bextor have been quite hard to escape at various points if you live in the U.K.
Maya Forstater was born in 1973, per Wikipedia.
