GhostLad

"“When we walked in, the woman told us about the castle, and she took our money, and then she says, ‘We close at six.’”"

Also, not to put too fine a point on it, but you *were* telt, ladies.... There might even have been a sign somewhere with the same information.

Arguing *for* something instead of against? It'll never catch on...

Peter Mandelson issues secret notice demanding press leave him alone – read in full LATE on Friday evening, this notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news…

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone.

He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein

We have published it in full.

www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...

On the one hand that could be copium, but on the other hand I would quite like that to be true, so sign me up for a hit I guess. 😄

Seconded!

Want to boost this a little as I've seen folk talking about how Anas Sarwar wants to remove trans women from women's prisons - because in his actual column he makes clear it isn't just prisons. It's everywhere.

Is the "there should still be mecanisms" in Jessicas post an expression that there are other mechanisms, or just a desire that a mechanism should be made?

I consider myself leftie as well, with the proviso that I prefer to limit it to a level where I can get A Thing out without removing several Other Things first (grabbing something halfway down stacks of things do not count).

Nerdforge are delightful and mad in the most inspiring way. Well worth a look and a follow on their youtube www.youtube.com/Nerdforge

"Not minching your words" would the understament of the month. A verbal broadside against the cruelty of the administration.

Ah, my mistake then.

To each their own ofc. I will file missed calls without a voice note as not important (or "they willcall later"). If you leave a note I will assume it was at least important enough to hear and maybe call back.

demi glace is a gateway to extreme actions. Talk to your friends if they start reducing excessively. :D

This confirms my feeling…that Find Out Now are not a good actor. Why would you release a poll with a sample size of 143? What’s the point of it? (A boost for Labour, tho, in that I assume they will plaster this all over their ads in the home it “becomes” true.

Avoid a basic election analysis error with this one neat trick… Don't build conclusions on voter movements from change in aggregate vote share

Written a short explainer on one of the most common and avoidable errors in election analysis at the moment: building conclusions on how voters are moving from vote change.

Share it with anyone who needs to see it, which includes an alarming number of people in Westminster.

It feels extremely in the "posting is activism" line of thinking. Ie. pretty pointless, both in the missing thereof and in effect.

Congrats. I now image all KCs are selected via jousting. Or possibly competitive interpretative dance. :D

It is extremely exciting to be goverened by people who literally do not understand how computer make beep.

"Flet næbbet" (braid your beak. Danish)

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.

A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.

The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/airport-bo...
Great piece on “airport book brain” - the tendency of politicians to swallow simplistic solutions. Latest example the Jonathan Haidt book shaping policy on teens and social media

I can deal with a obvious mechanic cop-out if I must (like Lightning Returns essentially infinite "freeze time" button), but then it just becomes busywork and a bit annoying. What I will not abide is narrative design that punishes me with bad endings for engaging with the content I am presented.

I also resent not being allowed to explore a world, especially because many designs are "oh, you didn't find the yellow tree in act 2/do sidequest EtaEpisilon2? Have a bad ending". Even when not the case, it is common enough that I can't be sure without spoiling. Plus I dont want to skip content.

Final Fantasy Lightning Returns is another on in this bucket. "Clock is always ticking!!" Except, if you kill a few things occasionally you have essentially an infitine "stop time" button. Don't get me wrong, I would not have played it were it not for that button, so I am firmly camp "no timer".

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

I also oppose it on several grounds (practicality, enforcement, the lifeline stuff you mentioned), but also more fundamentally we should allow young people to "scale up" their trust and civic involvement. A ban will be akin to "Day N-1: you cannot be trusted with facebook. Day N: You may now vote".

Sorry, that did come off as condescending twaddle, didn't it. I meant to add a perspective for others who may read your post why, in some cases, people may still recommend a thing despite calls for boycotts.

This is not, I think, cope and "I just want to keep playing things regardless". I've never seen a game boycott materially affect sales if the game itself was even halfway decent. The activism is better spent informing people of the issue and use the buzz that way than to call for toothless boycotts.

I say this as a person who's played computer games for decades, follows the game news and is very sympathetic to some of the causes that get people to call for boycotts of them. I may have missed it, but I've never seen a boycott work when the game was solid. Whatever the cause, they never do.

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now.

Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations.

Source: dr.dk