Nicola

"Captain, we are being pulled into the fiscal black hole. Efficiency savings are not sufficient to overcome its gravitational force."
"Freeze the personal allowance!"
"Freezing…now. Ineffective."
"Mr Scott, I need another 2p on income tax, right away!"
"But Cap'n, the GDP, she cannae take any more!"

Happily, you have conjured for me an image of a white dog smoking on a milk float.

I qualified for universal credit until last week despite being the most senior person at my company, and full time, because some industries don't make much money (plus single parent with mortgage etc). Do we want rid of all industries that don't generate tons of profit? I.e. everything creative?

Yes it's more the image it conjurs than the accuracy of the sentiment

There's something of a 30-50 feral hogs feel to this quote.

Strange, every mention I've seen before this said "near Cambridge"

Did we do it? Did we save daylight?

Which prompted one of the silliest petitions I've ever been asked to sign

the Coldplay song Yellow is about cooking with turmeric

Oh I've gone and found it. It is very funny.

What is it?

I want to live in the minds of people who think that making it illegal to build this inevitable thing will help in some way and keep them safe.

Grow up

I said it once and there are only three women in it and two of them are very recognisably someone else

Unzoomed experience categories:
A) 6 tries but at least I learned about circular irrigation
B) Hang on I've driven down there looking for parking

Halloween do be

Even though I've already eaten it

[muttering] finish your own fucking wall

"did you finish off that wall neatly like I asked?"
[Sideways glance] "uh, yeah of course"

Really well worth watching this clip. Kirsty remains one of the Welsh Govt Ministers held in higher esteem by people who have worked with her.

To hear her voice breaking as she describes the effect on her family of her political life is utterly heartbreaking. 👇👇👇

#Wales #Cymru #Senedd26

There's also the other issue of there being a huge shortage of good web developers because the demand is so high.

Could also be any other reason of course.

I'm not sure how well the social plug ins that most sites use have adapted to changing social media use. Not enough demand for bluesky links has perhaps led to a general lack of easy ways to link to bluesky on your website. (From person still waiting for Devs to add it to mine).

Reidy’s Digest #8: Time to ditch the cult of Hitch An actual short essay and some other bits

Wrote about the Statesman, AI Christopher Hitchens, and why writers need heroes but not idols open.substack.com/pub/padraigr...

Extremely rude.

People trying to sell me stuff should wait til Halloween before sending me horror stories

which you can do if you can submit proof they're using a trademark registered to you. They don't care that it's fraudulent, they don't prevent it from happening over and over and over again.

It's outrageous. There's a scam on there that comes up time and time again, (someone imitates various music businesses and promises marshall amps for £10, lots of our customers contact us to say they've fallen for it). The *only* way to get FB to take the ad down is via copyright violation reporting

Horrible to have to wait. Sending good vibes xx

There was a photo of him in his email signature