I don't know Gemma, Aimee or Zara but I just gave £20 to this because the Union St fire is a horrific nightmare and while I can't help everyone who's been wrecked by it I can help one person a little bit. If you can, you might also want to, whether it's this or someone else who's been affected
Headline from both the 16th Century and tonight's Spurs game:
Questions For Tudor Following Palace Catastrophe
Our population of invasive feral parakeets is one of my favourite London facts to surprise visitors with
Thanks!
If Labour/Conservative tribal allegiances are not as strong as they were a few decades ago, you might think there would be more Lab/Con switchers rather than less- are voters now more likely to switch within bloc due to weaker allegiances but less likely than they used to be to switch between blocs?
Very much all of this.
The many Brits bashing the capital are very useful idiots for overseas efforts to undermine the country imho.
As I've said before, it's time to push back at the nonsense
Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
An example of how individuals can shape spelling (that I wish I'd included in my book) is 'ache'.
It was historically spelled 'ake', but because Dr Johnson and others thought (reasonably but incorrectly) that it came from Greek, its spelling shifted to a Greek CH (like 'chronic', 'school') instead.
good grief, this superb, heartbreaking piece. Not all heroes wear capes, eh. www.ft.com/content/cd59...
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If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
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I think these guys make the most joyous podcast around. If you ever need cheering up just get stuck in... The absolutely unfeigned pleasure they take in the movie, and in the podcast banter, it's the best. You could start here though the Starship Troopers is amazing too
Strays Christmas at the Chaos House: official invitation thread!
Do you want to spend Christmas Day with people but have nowhere to go? Can you get to Oxford (England)? Come to ours.
The two work in tandem to create a terrible synergy: people will believe images/video they want to believe while disregarding those they don't.
Congratulations to humanity for building a cognitive bias confirmation machine. 🥳
Quick quiz: In which year did the a report say:
"The longer the essential work is left, the greater the risk becomes that the building might suffer a sudden, catastrophic failure, or that small, incremental failures might make the building uninhabitable."?
But voting red would be the act of a faithful - a traitor would have nothing to gain and everything to lose. Alan voting green when the person he had last voted for was still in the game was more suspicious... David might not clock that though so maybe you're right he would have turned on Nick!
ʼTwas Ozy, and the legs of stone
Did gyre and gimble in decay:
Half sunk was the visageʼs frown
And the sands stretch away.
“Beware the pedestal, my son!
The hand that mocked, the heart that fed!
Beware the antique land, and shun
A sculptor who's well read!”
Bring back small phones! This is my iphone 13 mini. It is a perfectly-sized phone. But it's going to die - in a few years, Apple will stop supporting it w/updates. Yet there are now NO new smartphones to buy on the market that fit the human hand. www.ft.com/content/6332...
"Jack is 30, a barrister's clerk, newly engaged to Chloe and has taken part in research at UCL to turn his diagnosis into a positive."
"But he'd always known he was destined to share his father's fate, until today."
Wow.
Really enjoyed visiting Container City today as part of the Open House Festival - the tour of the SS Robin steam ship alone was worth the trip to Canning Town programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/2205
Of course the other big effect of slash and burn deregulation is to make anyone who invested in good business practices feel like an idiot as they get out competed by lower cost cowboy operators
There's an interesting parallel in the way language changes - sociolinguistics refers to overt prestige (wealthy elites) and covert prestige to distinguish these. Plenty of slang and other linguistic features associated with a "cool" group will spread even if they are not associated with the elite
I think this is it. Despair is easy and you get to feel wise, and it doesn't really place any obligations on you or force you to speak out or do anything, really.
if you want to observe LIz Truss being intellectually owned, this is worth your time via @tobyn.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/30e5...
Without giving this thing any more publicity than necessary, no the old Intervision was not ‘held between 1965 and 1980 in communist Czechoslovakia’.
Now come weeks of this fluff instead of media exposing how 🇷🇺 positions itself as anti-🏳️🌈 world leader by hosting a song contest like this.
We did not suffer through Baz Luhrmann at No.1 for this
@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.
Just on a practical level - Superman has been out for longer, so it'll be out of cinemas soon, whereas you've got a few more weeks to catch FF. (I would also go with Superman anyway!)
I’ve watched this about eight times and I still feel like it is going to go in.
The Mail invariably referred to young women as "flappers".
"Flappers" were party girls, who dashed about in motor cars and danced all night to jazz bands.
The Mirror - also, in those days, a right-wing paper - ran a series of cartoons, imagining the flapper running for Parliament.
