Daniel Nye Griffiths

Slipped the snare of capital for long enough to get in a bus, and on my way to #adventurexpo.

Predictably, I was rooting for Tahani and Jason!

Ambivalently telling Netflix that I liked "A Merry Little Ex-Mas" so it recommends more Christmas movies, but I cannot bring myself to give it a double thumbs up, because without integrity I am nothing.

Nothing in nature is unnatural, but 6'5" is, realistically, a bit much.

I mean... Good, but sort of a sad good?

The battle of the Lelantine Plain! Nobody is 100% sure whether it happened, exactly when it happened or exactly who was involved, but we're oddly confident that if it _did_ happen it happened on, or over, the Lelantine Plain.

I feel like you should be wearing a tie and, minimally, have done your shirt up while saying this.

Anyone should be at liberty to block anyone, for any reason or none, without criticism or recrimination. You're in a common space, but you have the right not to spend time in the company of people you don't enjoy.

Practically speaking, though, it's impossible to persuade everyone to agree.

But I think the ironic (possibly even sardonic) intent would be clear to a lot of readers from the litotes of "not unreasonable", which is the actual text. Possibly "not irrational" or "not the worst way to get what you want" would have been less controversial? Too late now, I acknowledge.

You're going to feel patronised again, I'm afraid, but it means both "fair" _and_ "appropriate". A "reasonable facsimile" is not one that feels good. It's one that is appropriate to the circumstances it is required for.

Well, I don't mean to be, so sorry about that. You're a professional, and I am an amateur. It's very reasonable to conclude that my attempts at commentary would not meet your standards.

But, respectfully, you asked me a question, and I did my best to answer. I didn't come here to fight.

Whereas I think it's in the same class as those words.

Someone has done a bad thing (leaking), in pursuit of a bad outcome (bathroom bans), but, based on observation, this is not an irrational tactic for them to have adopted in pursuit of that bad outcome.

Well, sort of? You are, at least for the purposes of having this fight, reading "reasonable" as being fundamentally a moral quality. A bad act cannot be reasonable. That's Platonic.

(So it is different from "well-planned" or "tactically astute" or "logical" or "clever", or other adjectives.)

But. If you _did_ want that outcome, and reason told you that the best chance of achieving it was before 1st December or so this year, and that to do so would require pressure to be placed on a reluctant but persuadable minister, and so on... Is this a tactic that might, reasonably, _work_?

I think that you don't think it's _good_, which, yes, obviously. Not good civically or ethically to leak without a compelling justification. Also, you could say that it is not reasonable to want something bad, so actions taken to achieve a bad outcome can never be motivated by reason.

I think you can definitely question whether this is a good thing, or whether this is a good tactic in this case, but it's not an unreasonable one...

Oh - because this government seems to be very influenced by legacy media, and particularly traditionally conservative media. Leaking to the Times could be seen as more likely to influence the Leadership than actually speaking to them.

This feels accurate - the EHRC seems no longer to be communicating with UKGov through conventional channels, and is instead seeking to put on pressure through open letters, leaks to media etc.

Not really cricket, but not an unreasonable tactic.

Bold of the Guardian to cover running as a sport, tbqh.

Yep!

Singing of KPop Demon Hunters songs banned at school in Poole The head teacher tells parents references to demons can feel

Yeah.... good luck with that.

Your party continuing to be the Change UK of the left.

I guess my question is who a) wants this and b) would ever be likely to vote Labour.

Wait, what?

Ant wars!

Such a nice time!

A cropped photo of a TikTok where there is text that reads “Pringles is launching their first ever collectible characters” as if that’s a sentence that makes sense

Every day we fall further from gods light

Perhaps if the Home Secretary talked about how much union jack bunting she has in her shed?

I remain absolutely in awe of cosplayers. Such creativity, but also such _dedication_. #thoughtbubble

It is the Cold Bath Brewing co! We should have ramen there!