Kathryn

I feel like I might have had a better time with someone trans - someone who'd had a proper think about gender and what it means. My mother and the Bra Ladies all seemed to think I wasn't doing Woman right, being all tall and gangly, and finding lace and bows ridiculous.

Ohhhhh. Wow. (That's actually good news if they can't get people, maybe? Especially not useful ones, rather than the ones who enjoy the posturing...)

What sort of ad can there be for ICE? Like, an ad suggests something people might want to choose..?

Stop scrolling and post 2 characters who bring you joy and happiness

Also, makes me even keener to start an old-school, manually-managed listings website for some info I wish people could find.

The HouseFresh article gets into some usefully specific numbers, first about Google pretending AI Overview provides facts when it doesn't, and then how they're reducing traffic to actual websites through this pretence. Honestly odd that they're trashing their value this way.

It took me a moment to recognise him out of uniform. Maybe that's an attempt to acknowledge the difference?

still thinking about the Montana knife maker who said you don't have to worry about tariffs if you buy american. and then three months later, he realized he imports swedish steel and german equipment. and even MiUSA equipment costs $100k more now because of tariffs

I work in an industry that has genuine uses for 3D printing, but it's still only occasionally the right way to do something - and it certainly isn't the everyday home tech that people thought it might become 15 years ago. If it's useful, people will use it. If not...

Tutting with distaste at those challenging progress?

I mean, speaking as one myself, kids need to learn what it means to challenge detail-oriented nerds, right?

As a very tall, quite large-handed woman, I'm feeling a terrible urge to try to recreate this photo... But I'm not really willing to break my knees for it.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

I'm interested to see what effect this will have on language, in certain spheres; the LLMs are trying to meet standards defined in the past, so change future expectations to 'not sounding like an LLM' and they're already left behind.

Very little about the headline seems to reflect the actual story, but 'coke dealer in Land Rover is catastrophically stupid lying arsehole' probably isn't news, I suppose?

Ohhh - just connecting the dots with other things now, thanks.

Is this related to something happening in the UK? I'm not getting anything about age verification here in NZ. (But wonder if I'd need to look at it if visiting the UK.)

I suppose 'boy band' matches 'girl band' - some women singing while people (men) do the rest of the music - but it still irked me when I played drums in a band that was all women, and then a 'girl band' would come on after, and sing about being all girls, girl power etc. What were we, then?

I mean, yes, but I don't think you can count 'any restaurant that serves rice' as an Indian restaurant :D Especially if they themselves don't think they're an Indian restaurant...

Pom (dish) - Wikipedia

There's Indian influence in Surinamese cooking, with things like roti, but it's mixed with so much from elsewhere (Indonesian and Caribbean) that it's its own thing. I don't think most Indian people would recognise pom, for example: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pom_(di...

Many more Indonesian or Surinamese restaurants than Indian, when I was there. And many packaged sauces/mixes for satay, rendang and nasi/bami goreng in the supermarkets, while the only curry option was Patak's, a British brand.

Restore Regional Rail

Something we can all get behind Aotearoa. Thanks to @julieannegenter.bsky.social
#kikorangi

I'm coming from a Euro perspective, but the place I live in right now is near the lower bound of your 'smaller home' range, it's the biggest place I've ever lived in, and I actually find it a bit much. But, anywhere smaller here (NZ) is usually built cheap & ugly.

Southern ones are pretty good too!

It's a little bit 'the noise you don't hear until it stops', though. I could name the reasons why the UK had Indian food, before I left, but then I moved to the Netherlands and the baseline availability moved from tikka to satay and really felt it too.

Alarming climate data shows 'existential threat' facing cricket Cricket greats speak out after a new report warns increasing temperatures are making it harder to play the sport at all levels.

The headline looks like 'haha, maybe you'll care about climate change if it affects sport!' but the detailed reality of the report is quite disturbing. Through both heat and pollution, it's getting hard to live (including play) in some places.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Also, I'm going to guess there's outdoor space not being taken into account in the 1200 square foot. Most of the places I lived until I was 40 had either a balcony, a yard or nothing, and this did not stop me, e.g., building a 1:5 scale model of a pedal-powered airship.

I get the same feeling watching Kiwis pack cars. They put two boxes in the middle of the space and then say it's 'full', and I'm like, clearly you have never moved the entire backline of a band in a Fiat Panda or Peugeot 106 then?

Yep - I just had to convert that to get it, but yes, 1200 ft² is about 110m² and that's bigger than pretty much anywhere I ever lived in the UK.

"Why can't we have more of the skilled people, and less of the racist machines second-guessing them in high-stress situations?" (Said by someone who works at the hospital, and regularly sees nurses struggling with a voice-activated radio system that Can't Handle Accents.)