Tom Cleaver

Now THAT'S the yolk

Seven Princes of Hell

And "don't be an idiot"

All morning, Philp has toured studios spouting this guff. Look at his shock when @sophyridge.bsky.social challenges him.

"No, I'm not having this. Remind me, how long have the Conservatives been in power? I haven't got my history that wrong."

High hopes for the new Sky Ridge/Frost pairing. ~AA

A portion of Butler's Secret cheese. A fold obscures the "B" and half of the "u".

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"Ah, Delegate Rieper. Will I have your support at the cabinet meeting?"
"When the time comes, I'll break the deadlock."
"Excellent. And I understand you'll be delivering a presentation?"
"I've prepared a few bullets."

@backpagepod.bsky.social Saw this in my timeline and thought of you. Mission Story Revealing

I've never forgotten this particular war crime of the genre, from The Riddling Reaver (1986)

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

Whenever my doorbell rings during the day I involuntarily tell it to fuck off. 6 years and counting.

He may not have the pace, or the endurance, or the agility. But these days it's all about selling the dream - and I think Farley might just have what it takes to help these boys fall back in love with the game.

How I felt at the end of the Metacritic Game:

YouTube video by Tastytoast225 Bison remembers Tuesday

youtu.be/GlhOUyy4wbs

100% it's a blank portrait frame but when you look at it you get sucked into the portrait and then it's a portrait of you trapped in a portrait, Rod Serling voiceover, roll credits.

The jury for drafts is a great idea, and I hope they don't announce themselves, because there is huge potential for a deductive metagame involving listening out for any suspiciously out-of-character picks and working out which member of the Back Page extended universe they are designed to win over

I do agree with all the replies saying it's unfair to blame the lawyers, but I also accept that a whole load of lawyers showing up to tell you why you shouldn't criticise lawyers is probably not that persuasive.

Basically, show me a leading disruptive thinker and I'll tell you what chapter of Chaos Marines they collected in the early 2000s

The word "NPC" is such a reliable alarm bell. It captures a certain kind of preening, performative spitefulness from people who need to believe that they're cleverer than everyone else but who really just had their minds blown by The Matrix and have spent the rest of their lives chasing that high

Every time I try Connections it contains something that on Only Connect would be a red herring but in Connections is just slapdash design (e.g. four "parts of a song" but two of them mean the same thing). It's like you have to suspend the part of your brain that has respect for the question-setter.

Enjoy it. You're a lucky guy.

The two guys in the jackets look a lot younger than I feel.

I can't believe I'm only finding out about this from a Bluesky post. Have now diarised. I'll also set a few reminders and alarms.

When I was a pupil @thebrieftweet.bsky.social introduced me to the very helpful distinction between "textbooks that contain answers" and "textbooks that contain questions". This one feels like it has really dug in on one side of that line.

Good luck

The second edition even has a postscript that purports to explain what the first edition's cover was all about, but even that is pretty inscrutable.

Part hoity-toity and part tally-ho.

But can you help get to the bottom of whether Blue Prince is (i) lah-di-dah, (ii) dee-diddly-dee, (iii) mimbly-bimbly, or (iv) some fourth, previously undiagnosed type of thing?

Have some respect! It's SLEVE McDichael

51% in a four-way race?? Those are Saddam numbers. Send in the UN