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YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski Are We Looking At The Economy All Wrong? | Richard Murphy | Zack Polanski

Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party, recently invited me to discuss economics. There was a lot to talk about. youtu.be/a27AfFTOW3o?...

This Is Fascism

It's a fab thing called Super Seconds Festival this weekend! 250 independent makers & artists are offering bargains today and tomorrow.

You don't even need to battle storm Amy because it's all online: www.supersecondsfestival.co.uk/makerlineup/

...and here are some of my sale items 🛍️:

[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking] 1 SOCRATES: Plato.. PLATO: Yes Socrates? 2 SOCRATES: Can you tell me, are you human? PLATO: Why… yes, Socrates 3 SOCRATES: And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is? PLATO: Um, yep 4 SOCRATES: So you can tell me, then 5 [Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel] SOCRATES: *Is that a chariot*? 6 PLATO: Well that’s more just a bit of wheel 7 SOCRATES: So not a *chariot*. PLATO: No. 8 SOCRATES: [Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes] So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*? 9 PLATO: Well you can’t tap any of them really 10 SOCRATES: So are we not human? PLATO: ‘Spose not. 11 [Bleak pause] 12 PLATO: I’ll get the hemlock SOCRATES: Yeah [ends]

Released on my birthday you say? ...

Gone floppy.

When I make a booking, I want it carved in stone...

When I make a booking, I want it carved in stone...

Our fig tree. Tall enough to pick fruit through the bedroom window

Really must do something about the fig tree...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

The body and front leg of the Uffington White Horse stretched out to the horizon while volunteers trim weeds and clean the chalk

Kneeling down to work on the chalk lines of the Uffington White Horse's front leg

The back and hind legs of the Uffington White Horse stretching out across the Downs towards Dragon Hill and the clay plains of Oxfordshire

They're cleaning the horse on the Ridgeway. A rare chance to get close, and to help preserve a 3000 year-old slice of this country's history. #whitehorse #uffington #uffingtonwhitehorse #nationaltrust #chalk #trowel

Transcription mishearing from a month or so ago:
"Hello Luke, you're through to Cameron"
became
"Hello! Lick your fruity camera!"

When you find out, let us know! Exact same question here. I have my plot cleared of soil, hardcore down and just off level. Now, slab-base? Or mix my own? (also, can it stop raining until I've finished?)

The Boss: telling it like it is

Springsteen shining a light on the chaos, threats & injustices of the moment with hope and love in his heart for America 🇺🇸

Do You Realise? Flaming Lips at Bristol Beacon, May 2025

May take my retinas a while to recover. That was immense! #flaminglips #bristolbeacon

Absolutely nobody asked for this but I reformatted my animal yeetability thread into printable poster & zine files.

Introducing, the "Pocket Guide to Responsible & Sustainable Animal YEETING" featuring a revamped rating system. Download links below.

And you brought them very well indeed! Thank you for a lovely evening

Hello,
How do we list the campervan ticket in isolation? Tixel wants the email confirmation but that includes the main tickets as well, which we want to keep.

We have a campervan ticket for sale...
We will still hang onto our tickets but we have to go somewhere else on Saturday 😕 and now can't camp on site...

The Studio – Making It Work I’m a couple of years into the build of an Art Studio in our back garden. It’s been up and functional for a while but there are always things to do. Here’s a summary of recent wor…

Messing About With Wood...
New blog post!
In which I summarise half a year's worth of weekends in 800-odd words. The studio has a sink though, which is good!
#messingaboutwithwood #studiobuildingproject #painting #plumbing #pedestals #pump
messingaboutwithwood.com/2025/02/23/t...

Do they go barefoot?

Beech Table – part 2 So here I am, making a table out of Beech to go in my son’s room. I spent most of the previous post talking about the wood itself, and catching up on work I actually carried out a couple of years a…

Messing About With Wood
New blog post!
I'm making a small table out of beech. It has been going on for ages, largely because I interrupted the project to build an art studio. Anyway, it's assembly time for the table. Here's a link: messingaboutwithwood.com/2025/01/07/b...
#woodworking #wood #beech

Messing About With Wood Swapping computer screens for splinters

Messing About With Wood!
I shall start as I have left off...
New blog post!
So you'll gather over time, I waffle on about woodwork quite a lot. Today's post is about upgrading my Router Sled. You're welcome to drop by. The blog is at messingaboutwithwood.com
Cheers!