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Excellent! I confess I bought it pretty much because I really like him (McCloskey) on the Rest Is Classified podcast, checked out his novels, was fancying something different, so thought I’d get it as well.

Two books on a book shelf. Who Will You Save, by Gareth L Powell. Damascus Station by David McCloskey.

Latest set of book purchases from @waterstones.bsky.social. Who Will You Save, an SF short story collection by @garethlpowell.bsky.social, and Damascus Station, the debut spy thriller novel by ex-CIA analyst David McCloskey (found via the excellent @restisclassified.bsky.social podcast).

There's nothing like spending a weekend driving our 2014 Nissan Micra with my iPhone + Apple Maps as the satnav instead of our Tesla Model 3 with its built-in satnav to realise just how epically shit the Tesla satnav is.

Just came across a work document where someone has taken the company's standard Word template and set the paragraph spacing for the Normal style to zero, and then put a blank line between each paragraph.

Why would you do this?

Who hurt you?

'The Nerve', a new female-founded media title is up and running, bringing independent journalism, a dash of culture and a weekly Stewart Lee column.
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Excellent! Brilliant news. (Gar’s both a great writer and a really good mate).

Kamala Harris has no lessons for the Democrats – or herself In 107 Days, her despair-inducing account of the 2024 presidential election, Harris is uninterested in the true causes of her defeat, and unable to offer...

Nicola Sturgeon on Kamala Harris’s book. Eloquent and blistering.

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My maternal grandfather, born in 1908, had to have his lunch at exactly 1 pm, his dinner at exactly 5 pm, and would only eat certain foods.

But yeah, sure, Paracetamol causes autism.

Screenshot of form. "Other" radio button is selected. Below, in a text edit, text has been entered saying: You are appeasing a neo-fascist government by sacking Jimmy Kimmel for criticising the regime.

Finally got round to cancelling my Disney Plus subscription. Took quite a bit of searching (and Googling) to find the appropriate menu option. To be honest, I've got more streaming stuff than I know what to do with, so it's a bit of a no-brainer.

ArmadaCon 2025, Sir Terry Pratchett, And Me In 1988, four hundred years after Sir Francis Drake set out from Plymouth to defeat the Spanish Armada, a science-fiction and fantasy convention was held in...

I've mentioned before that I will be a guest of honour at @armadacon.bsky.social at the end of next month, but I made a post giving a few more details. buttondown.com/TheNexusFile...

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Americans 🇺🇸: We don’t have kettles in our kitchens.

Brits 🇬🇧: We have kettles built into our tanks and armoured personnel carriers.

The soles on my deck shoes are so worn that if they were tyres, I'd be illegal. Just went slipping and sliding my way across a freshly mopped floor.

Playing Tiny Frontiers for the first time.

I would thought the rule of thumb would be that if a subject is taught in years 6 to 8 at secondary school, that subject should be on offer at every university.

Sorry, is it not to be expected that each university will offer a full suite of standard subjects (like history) with it only being when you get to more niche things (archeology, say) that it will only be certain specialist universities that offer it?

Trans friend of mine, someone I've known for almost forty years, throughout her transition and everything she went through to become who she was all along...

...was assaulted is ASDA yesterday, by a security guard. Told her 'men were not allowed the ladies' loo' and physically dragged her out.

I mean don't get me wrong, regardless of the ECHR and the ruling, this *is* assault, but I'm worried that the ruling and the subsequent stuff the ECHR said have created a smokescreen that gives cover to horrible actions like this. :(

The fucking, awful, horrible thing is that I'm worried that if she does, the police might then cite the crap the ECHR put out following the supreme court ruling (where they seemed to take a quite limited ruling, and then go way beyond what the ruling had said). :(

I remember having that in the Cafe Nero in Brighton. Had to change my daughter on the floor of the gents toilets. Asked staff afterwards about the lack of a changing table, and they said there was one in the ladies.

I was like, that's nice, but how does that help me?

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

Screenshot of cricket score. Day 4 of 4 · 8 Sep - 11 Sep Somerset vs Yorkshire Somerset 441-6 dec (127.0) Yorkshire 56-5 (15.5) Rain - Yorkshire trail Somerset by 385 runs with 5 wickets remaining

@somersetccc.bsky.social could be on the verge of an epic victory against Yorkshire if the bastard rain that's been bastard raining for huge chunks of the first three days would just stop bastard raining.

As John says, THE SWORD DEFIANT is available at a big discount for Audible members in the UK at the moment.

Children's TV favourite Bagpuss to reawaken for new film It will be the first new official Bagpuss production since the original beloved 1974 series.

Bagpuss is tired. He's been out in the cold for years, and now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel back to the place where it all began and betray Professor Yaffle.

Most Money Is Created By Banks, Not Governments If you think money is created by governments or their central banks then think again, because most money is created by commercial banks when they make loans....

My non-economist and very much layman's attempt to explain an apparently true but hugely counter-intuitive fact, which is that when a bank loans you money, they're not moving existing money to you, but creating new money.

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To put into perspective just what a massive deal being a guest of honour at Armadacon is for me, here's a YouTube video of one of their previous guests on a panel. (And if you don't mind, I'm now just going to find a quiet corner to hyperventilate in). 😀
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Banner. Text reads: Armadacon. Friday 31st October to Sunday 2nd November 2025. www.armadacon.org.

Armadacon's a sci-fi and fantasy multimedia convention that's been running in Plymouth since 1988, and this year, I'll be one of the guests of honour. I'm beyond chuffed, hugely excited, and if any of you are attending, let me know because I'd love to meet up with you (@armadacon.bsky.social).

Reason number whatever why cricket is better than baseball: if someone in the crowd catches the ball they have to give it back, which avoids all the arguments about who gets to keep it.

Assorted cars parked in a field.

At a display of electric cars organised by the Yorkshire EV Club at the Rotherham Show. My suggestion that all the Teslas should be grouped together in their own area to the far right of the field was rejected.

(And before you come at me, I drive a Model 3 Wankpanzer myself). 😀

Book cover. Cream background, title in red text, author's name in black text. Line image of a broken bottle in black, with red splash. Death At The Dress Rehearsal by Stuart Douglas.

Liked this one. Very much a cosy. It's a fictional pair of actors in a fictional early 1970s UK TV sitcom who are very intentionally fictionalised versions of Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier (from Dad's Army). Third-person past. [6/?]