It always has been prone to echo chambers. Indeed, the social media era is arguably *less* prone to it than when the dominant places were forums and newsgroups.
05.03.2026 20:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It always has been prone to echo chambers. Indeed, the social media era is arguably *less* prone to it than when the dominant places were forums and newsgroups.
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Farfar: civil servant
Morfar: airline pilot
Newsom went from Basingstoke to Andover, and from Andover to Basingstoke, and from Basingstoke to Andover again, but already it was impossible to tell which was which.
04.03.2026 17:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Toth, a demon from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Congratulations to Toth on winning the TX-02 Republican Primary.
04.03.2026 13:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well, a sufficiently good AI probably *could* generate such images if it had enough images of sex and enough images of children, without needing actual images of CSAM in its training data.
03.03.2026 07:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My usual go-to when I feel ill is high-starch, low-fat food such as dal and rice. Don't know if that would work for you.
02.03.2026 14:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0honk
01.03.2026 04:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am now back home, so should be able to join.
28.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Someone was obviously trying for the CK3 achievement "have two parents, two grandparents and two great-grandparents".
28.02.2026 08:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The one thing I know about Dogdyke is that it's a place that lost its railway station thanks to the Beeching Cuts. (And I know this because it appears in the lyrics of Slow Train by Flanders and Swann.)
25.02.2026 03:56 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I want songs that double as villain songs, you say?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=87HA...
I think I shall pick the African Savannah Elephant. (Or is that not an entrant because it would be too easy?)
23.02.2026 14:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'll go for Egremont Russets as "best average", but yes, pink lady is also a solid choice.
23.02.2026 08:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That's probably more to do with the absence of Mexicans than it is to do with the absence of ingredients, though.
22.02.2026 12:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Brits would probably find that amusing. We are under no illusions about how silly our spelling is.
21.02.2026 13:49 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cartoon of George W Bush descending from a blue plane labelled "Air Force One Be With You", flanked by bodyguards. As he descends, he says: "Where am I? Is this Yurp? Are those people Yurpeans? Can I show 'em my Light Sabre?".
If...
20.02.2026 13:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Given the sex distribution of the name "Jackie", I'm going to claim this as a sapphic song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrx-...
20.02.2026 06:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0He's in an unfortunate position. Normally you'd expect an ambitious young politician to try to build up name recognition by going for statewide office in his home state, but his home state is Indiana. You need a lot to go your way to win statewide as a Democrat there.
20.02.2026 01:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
OK, here's my take: high-speed rail works best when you have multiple large population centres with large distances between them.
(Among Britain's problems with developing HSR is that the density pattern is the opposite: it's densely populated because you're never far from a town with 5000 people.)
We did not have pancakes or semlor, sadly. But we did celebrate Chinese New Year by eating yusheng.
17.02.2026 12:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0(The scientist temperature measurement is actually Kelvin, because it puts the zero in the right place for, say, PVT equations.)
16.02.2026 15:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(My other A-levels were Maths, Further Maths and Chemistry - Physics would probably just have been more of the same; Economics was something a bit different.)
14.02.2026 14:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0No, I mean at understanding the world in general. (None of my A-levels have particularly helped me make money.)
14.02.2026 13:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hmm. I don't regret my A-level in Economics; it's probably served me better than an A-level in Physics would have done.
14.02.2026 13:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0Funnily enough, of the four secondary schools in my home town, the three state schools all have famous alumni; the now-defunct independent school doesn't.
12.02.2026 14:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I appear to be doing a good job of helping look after my new nephews.
12.02.2026 12:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An Olympic pentathlete and I were on the school chess team together.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Weale
Something In Red
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCId...
Age verification?
I became Somerset chess champion for the first time in 1994.
It does. Although I just looked up a famous present-day Portuguese person and found that he is commonly referred to without using either surname.
(Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, in case you were wondering.)