Dr Ieithydd (Carys)

I feel like I've pulled a loose thread and unravelled an entire jumper's worth of taxonomy.

One of the most ludicrous things about suggesting that to be pro trans is to be some sort of ‘loony lefty’ is that I work for the Church of England for heaven’s sake … I mean the actual Established Church, HM the King and all that, fetes and hats.

I know I say this fairly often: people are right to complain concerts are too expensive, but they got that way because a lot of artists started to make almost no money out of their actual records. We have to look really hard at how we pay for music.

I still don't know why Charles and Di didn't employ a Welsh speaker as nanny...

Yes - I worked that out just after posting. I thought synod had been the week I was in Newcastle but it was when I was coming back from Newcastle the following week. Under 3 weeks...

That was exceedingly quick. When I heard Pancreatic cancer I knew it wasn't a great prognosis, but that's been a month

Sir Humphrey had a lovely example of a series of questions which led to opposite answers on conscription

Pity More or Less is currently off air because that's definitely a Stat I want exploring. But there's the podcast

Some quick back-of-the-envelope arithmetic indicates that this "cash boost" will support the National Year of Reading by giving each public library enough money for a one-time purchase of two (2) additional books for their collections or cover approximately three (3) man-hours of staffing.

As more or less reminds us, we always have to ask is it a big number. Superficially 150% of my flat sounds big but in the context of government spending it's peanuts

Kidnapping people from federal appointments where they are COMPLYING with legal requirements for asylum, immigration and legal status is like catching and selling free black folk with their papers in their hands.

And a late medieval catholic preacher. See, some people are too complex to just be typecast.

I'm very glad I noticed in Exciting Holiness that Scotland keep them today or I'd be very confused. England and Wales keep them on 24th May - the anniversary of John's strange warming rather than the day after the anniversary of his death

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I am the very model of a randy Major-General,
I find myself excited by both animal and mineral,
I rate the queens of England, in matters biological
From Anne Boleyn to Good Queen Bess, in order categorical
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Ah awkward

For me it's also in the same mental category as drugs: something I do not want to touch with a ten-foot pole because I am way too much of a control freak, especially and in particular about anything to do with my own cognition. Stay the fuck out of my brain.

@timharford.ft.com had a cautionary tale about them which I listened to yesterday. Made the point that the first photo was a very successful photo in terms of its impact

A reminder: Matt Goodwin lost heavily in spite of an almost total lack of tactical voting, not because of it.

The combined Green/Labour vote was 66%, versus 28.7% for Reform.

If Labour and the Greens split the vote 50/50 – a total coordination fail – he'd have finished third, not second.

Yup...

Aimer media don't seem to be on here. @chpublishing.bsky.social are but we haven't tagged them in to the discussion about yesterday being 2 months behind

Archaeologists have to call out the destruction of cultural heritage wherever it’s done - e.g. 6th century Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza (extensive destruction of museums, archaeological sites, libraries) or here, a UNESCO world heritage site in Tehran

Ending Commonwealth voting is a big step and has nothing to do with voter fraud

Well. It knows what day today is. If you swipe back to yesterday...

The migrant workers/slaves who built the city is geopolitics. The dirty money, the sanctions evasion, the uneasy relationships with neighbours, the war UAE funds in Sudan... Anyone living there is exposed to geopolitics. Just now they can't pretend otherwise.

"politics" is when you have to experience the consequences of your actions

Local Politics is when 20 slaves die building the skyscraper I live in. Geopolitics is when I have to consider a miniscule chance of danger to me.

Isn't a "large, global hedge funds" itself geopolitics?

Hmmm I wonder if MacAfee which i have would do this

Puberty does make a difference to how clothes might fit a person, but there is a huge variation of breast size for example but this isn't catered for in blouses.

There is no good reason for blouses to button one way and shirts the other. Most women dress themselves these days

That might make sense at secondary school but not at 5. And as a person with large boobs most blouses don't reflect my curves. Pepperberry did but don't exist anymore

Ooh a Val McDermid I've not read