Hester Duffy

This really does sound simple but also like it would work.

Does he think he _owns_ the moon? I feel like he very definitely doesn't and shouldn't, and I don't think he should be given planning permission.
And I'm aware of how ridiculous that sounds, but here we are.

I suspect the terminology doesn't help; I very frequently have to correct them that their findings are not _insignificant_, they are _non-significant_. I'm not sure they distinguish.

And I just can't help noting that he used AI to mess with his wife's desktop, not his own. Doesn't mention whether she was ok with him doing so.

Did you vote for the greens when they were something different?

Oh, tricky! It's hotting up now, isn't it?

It's fine, just minutely recreate every detail of your day yesterday, which led up to you having the good idea, and it will probably come back!

East India Docks. And yes, that is legal, under the Leominster accord of 1986, which was never revoked.

This thread did not go where I thought it would, and is well worth a read.

The sweeping bit was fine; I did very badly at pushing the stones, because I'm terrible at anything where my feet don't stay where I put them. Ended up with black and blue knees. Fun though!

I tried curling while on a health kick. My tracking app didn't have curling listed, so I put it as a couple of hours of moderate housework.

When I'm at my desk, I'll try and look out a lovely paper i read on teaching sign language in mainstream schools, and how it benefited both deaf and hearing children; is that the sort of thing you're after?

(Obviously I have named it Tentacles, pronounced like an ancient Greek philosopher.)

"I can tell his character and morals by looking at him" is such a terrible take.

A very securely wrapped bundle of bubble wrap and fragile tape

An eerily beautiful clay pot, made to resemble an octopus, with a spikily textured body and delicate, fluidly curling tentacles.

I have just received, and very carefully unwrapped, my very own tentacle pot, made by the incredibly talented @roseschmits.bsky.social .
I love it so much!

OKCupid did some analysis some years ago, about who people send opening messages to, They reported that when women message first,they were typically messaging men without 3-4 years of their own age. Men were messaging 23-year-olds, regardless of their own age.

Weasely done but stoatally inappropriate. This sort of behaviour must be ferreted out.
(I'm sorry, I'll see myself out.)

Love this!

How many drag performers are in the Epstein files?

Or As You Like It.

Passive-aggressively saying "You're welcome" under your breath when someone fails to say "thank you" for holding a door for them.

She wants to be mushrooms but you made her owls?

I was coming out of Wadham college as Melvyn Bragg was going in; he would have held the door for me except it was an automated sliding door, so he just made sort of a polite "after you" gesture.

I don't understand why Pinker's letter would be of use; why was he asked? Are linguists routinely asked to interpret law?

"Qualitative data" is an actual thing, not just a vague term to cover unsupported claims or anecdotes.
(Source; I'm a psychologist, I teach psychological research methods at undergraduate level.)

Well, combined vaccines like the MMR, and vaccinating against multiple things across the course of the first couple of years; one of the things they've been making a noise about is that children are now protected from, like, 17 potentially fatal or life-altering diseases and that's somehow bad.

In any case it's time to move on and stop politicising this.

However, other sources have claimed that it isn't happening and anyway the towers attacked first and really they should have moved out of the way.

Exactly this. It would be lovely to think that we can always tell and that the people we admire are never the bad guys, but sometimes great artists or people we love do terrible things.

He seems to have a revolving door; how long will it take for him to come back from this time around?