Catherine Butler

Alaska springs to mind - after all, it's historically Russian territory.

The Terminator crossover you never knew you wanted.

ACLU press release regarding the fight back against Trump’s ban on gender affirming care for trans youth. The quote above comes from this, but references Trump rather than Streeting.

“Good and decent parents of transgender kids should never be in the frightening position of having their child’s prescribed, medically necessary care cancelled at the whim and threat of a politician. But that’s exactly what…” Wes Streeting has done.

TFW you see a bowl of bananas in the cafeteria and momentarily mistake it for a happy yellow dolphin.

Time for another remake?

With a rule of checks and balances
A nation was announced;
Till the balance toppled over
And the checks - well, they all bounced.

Musk's DOGE boy band arriving at USAID yesterday. (I knew I'd seen them somewhere before.)

A canary in the coalmine. This is ChatGPT's answer as of today, but I'll be checking back now and then to see how quickly its answer converges with that of DeepSeek on Tiananmen Square.

He has refused to rule out war with and Denmark, a NATO ally, if they refuse to hand their territory over to him. That feels pretty warmongerish to me. Ditto Panama.

Quote of the day:

Though justice against fate complain,
And plead the ancient rights in vain;
But those do hold or break
As men are strong or weak.

(Andrew Marvell, 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland')

Amazon UK to stop selling Bloomsbury's books Amazon UK has said that it will cease selling Bloomsbury’s print and e-books from midnight on 23rd January.

Good news:

Bloomsbury published the paperback edition of British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture today!

Bad news:
www.thebookseller.com/news/amazon-...

If Americans lose birthright citizenship, does that mean only naturalised citizens - i.e. immigrants - will be left? (I bet Melania's keeping quiet about that, so she can have Trump deported later.)

Quote of the day:

"I've often noticed that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age,' they say it because it *is* happening." (Fiona in Diana Wynne Jones' Fire and Hemlock)

All GWR trains now come equipped with the services of an 18th-century barber surgeon.

Delivering newspapers in an unacceptably slapdash manner.

At least it was a student.

That'd be great! I'm pretty sure I didn't confabulate the whole thing. Not that anything rides on it, but these things niggle.

Oh, this is a bit random, but if anyone knows it you will. There was another, somewhat similar show - a little later, but pre-Edge of Darkness - that often cut from the action to show the protag as a pig running round a PacMan style maze. I've been trying to remember the title for years. Any ideas?

Was Season 2 the one that ended with an American assassin with a time-delayed fatal stomach punch? I remember thinking it cool at the time.