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Perfect for serving porridge

Speaking from the other side of the hedge, I can assure you that IC historical researchers maintain more ships than Barabbas ever did

I’m using this post to calibrate the backlog of Fesses awaiting moderation - seven days, apparently

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

Feels too late already. Even if the “best” president somehow took over tomorrow, America’s allies will, for the next hundred years, have an eye over their shoulder and a hand on their sword hilt.

Where are the trees?
We have A LOT of this landscape and less than 4% native woodland. This should be a rich mosaic of habitats, moor, bog, woodland, montane scrub…We force it to remain in this artificial state. We don’t need to give every inch of our uplands over to sheep, grouse and deer stalking.

Two cats in an office, one of which has stolen the chair and shows no signs of shifting any time soon

Same.

The end of the pump, a very long wooden tree trunk that's hollowed out down the middle.

The pump recovered from the Mary Rose, presented here as a thread.

(Well, it has to be a thread, the blooming thing's over 8.22m (4.49 fathoms) long!)

In "celebration" of thr Pepto Bismol ad now being on the radio, I took some popular radio-friendly songs and added the "Diarrhea" guy.

When is a sausage not really a sausage? Ask the meat lobby | George Monbiot European legislators may ban plant-based products from using the name to prevent ‘confusion’. Just don’t mention beef tomatoes or buffalo wings, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Thick as mince and thick as thieves. A column about the absolute idiots European legislators have made of themselves over the naming of food, at the behest of meat lobbyists.
You laugh and then you weep.
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New Fairytale of New York lyrics just dropped... 😮‍💨

Grace Petrie 👏

I recommend heavy subtext to keep the adults entertained

Oh I read this as Bilbo's "Ring Unwrapped" as he used the item of unspeakable evil to hide from those pesky Sackville-Bagginses!

Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.

New book from me! The sequel to The Executioner's Blade, another fantasy murder mystery full of monsters & intrigue.

I took a teaspoon from the office on holiday to Thailand before returning it to the drawer. I bet its teaspoon mates don't believe where it was for two weeks.

Serves them right for having the solidity of oak wood. I still bear the scars from the neep lanterns of my childhood.

Presumably Andrew, with the help of the French, will then raise an army and march south, to be met in battle by the English army somewhere around Leeming Bar Services. As is traditional.

Ngl if something was going to motivate to fix a live bug at speed, the threat of the Lurking Green Owl hovering in my peripheral vision might just do it

Don’t forget “Exploring Hawaii by Sea: Canoes and Volcanoes”

Sounds like a pain.

Preorders are up for All That Is In the Earth, my scifi story about a quarantined planet, corporate mercenaries, & a soil scientist struggling to survive when he knows he's already dead.

Have you checked whether it was signed for by your receptionist* ?

* - Spooky

Forged for Prophecy Raul has a choice: embrace his fake destiny as the savior king or send his people on a path to certain doom.  Cursed with the knowledge that his destiny as the hero of Estis is

My new book is out today!

Raul, the fake chosen one, is heading for the hills on a quest to find an ancient dagger & unite a crumbling rebellion. Action, adventure, dodgy prophecies, & family angst at the worst moments, in Forged for Prophecy.

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The cover for the novel Forged for Prophecy by Andrew Knighton. Crossed swords across a crescent moon inside a ring, against a background of swirling icy blue.

Forged for Prophecy is out next week!

Embracing his role as the fake chosen one, Raul leads his people into rebellion. But with morale low & the odds against them, the promise of a magic dagger offers deperate hope. It's time for a quest into the wild. After all, prophecies are never wrong...

Exciting!

This is incredible

Swarms.
Locusts, frogs, murder bees, lava beetles; the trick is to summon a *lot* of them. Enough to utterly devastate agriculture and civilised life. Cleanse the world for whatever’s next.

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With the voice of the filling & the voice of the crust, they’d say “eating the pie of the week is unjust!”