Jamie McKelvie

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Hey, look, it’s the guy who paid affectionate tribute to US podcaster Charlie Kirk when he got murdered.

I'm writing this book partly, mostly, for readers who aren't already into boxing 🥊

The Devil's Dance Floor is about pugilists, pressmen, policemen, and Alf Ball's pet puma. Murder, madness, Jem Smith's tight tights. We got wives. Bald bears. A Victorian epidemic of discarded orange peel! Smallpox!

Why is this so Major Kusanagi-coded

earlier today saw Stephen King skeeting about how a new adaptation of something of his is really scary, and it got me thinking how hilarious it would be for him to see an adaptation, get the shit scared out of him, and suddenly be like "oh no I have to stop this, what have I been doing?"

Why might minorities might want to live together, why might they want to cluster for safety to avoid, say, a view that thinks they are inherently other from & a threat to you & everyone like you, such that you commend their deportation & exclusion

I wonder why they might take your words to heart

many benefits are household claims. imagine you're british and your spouse has ILR, and you're told that you're being denied benefits because your spouse is from "other parts of the world and they can leave". imagine if you lose your job and your spouse can't claim jobseekers, so you end up homeless

Same

Fair

It's a horrifying tool, especially with the distinct lack of safeguards and no interest shown by the creators in what it is going to do to society.

Fast and Furious levels of scope creep

Well let's hope they collapse before that happens!

I have a very sturdy case! It's baffling how it happened.

Isn't the problem there that the cost of it outweighs the income it generates? Not so much the capabilities.

a bald man in a suit and glasses says there is only one way to find out ALT: a bald man in a suit and glasses says there is only one way to find out

There's only one way to settle this

Dunno, but that's England anyway!

So please do check it out if you're interested in the hobby! His videos are always interesting and give you something to think about, on top of the beautiful crafting and painting.

Alex doesn't do the various things the YouTube algorithm requires to put your videos in front of people (ridiculously hyperbolic titles and thumbnail images, drama, mentioning Space Marines even if it's nothing to do with 40k etc) so his channel doesn't get nearly the views it should.

My birth certificate for my visa applicaton is coming via first UK royal mail and then I assume Canada Post. 😬

I never had to descale our kettle in nearly a decade in and around Edinburgh.

I guess that tells you how good Scottish water is!

Belated happy birthday!

Is it as good at Scottish water?? A bold claim.

Yeah. It left the UK a loooong time after we packed it up (I think shipping to North America is a mess right now for obvious reasons) and then we'll have to wait a while for it to clear customs. I miss my desk and chair!

(Brita filter helps)

Ugh Ontario water

All our winter stuff is still on a boat on the Atlantic somewhere ☹️

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Yeah seems bad (but I did enjoy swimming on Saturday)

Absolutely incredible that Labour have been working to make Access to Work *even harder* to access, while pretending that the cuts they wanted to make to PIP were supposed to somehow help people access work.

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