Somhairle Kelly

The Greens are a much more serious political party than ReformUKIPBNPNF are - not just in terms of policies but of basic competence as well. Not to mention fundamental consistency and coherence!

Iron Man meme, edited, Obadiah Stane yelling, "Your ancestors made timeless art in a cave! With berries and ash!"

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

I was just a kid (born 1976) and I basically spent my childhood wondering when the scream of light would rip the sky apart and that would be the ending of everything.

Perfectly normal.

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

And a TERF cop at that.

I have a dim recollection from my history lessons that, once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a political party formed with the express purpose of getting working class representation in Parliament.

Does anyone know what happened to it?

Nobody here knows either. Probably something about "but whyyyyy isn't it 1872 any more???"

Purity test is shorthand for “you care about the people I have already decided are expendable.”

Honestly, when I think of fruity temptation I mostly think of Kenneth Williams.

"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

I'm really sick of liberals and centrists thinking that compromise is something you start with instead of something you end with

Bay Arabian horse appears proud of a few purple smears on paper

Same thing but with more nostril

reskeet my son with his first painting for good fortune in all your artistic endeavors this week

How a lack of visual fidelity in patient-generated images risks compromising care Internationally, contemporary primary care is reliant on digital visual information, often generated by the patient through the use of their smartphone. Primary care physicians and their teams routine...

New paper alert… thread below www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A den is a childish statement of belonging, but let’s not mistake childish for trivial. Den making is the instinctive behaviour of homemaking: collecting materials from the world around, as you work out what can be borrowed, salvaged and adapted into shelter. Nearly everyone has built a den.

An actual real-life example of "Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?!"

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Oh dear! Best of luck.

Photo of the ruins of ancient Assur with a ziggurat rising in the distance and low remains of walls in the foreground. It looks like sunset or sunrise with the soft, orange lighting. Photo by Mahmoud Fakhri

How to make perfume in 1230 BCE in the heartland of ancient Assyria.

First, you need to mix cane with cleansed water from the palace well of the city of Aššur (pronounced Ashur).

Second, you need to pour this mixture into a special vessel before adding...

I'm feeling a bit cheated. I had an election leaflet through from the Lib Dem candidate, and it didn't have a single bar chart on.

When that happens, it's usually in the kitchen. So turn things off at the wall and start adding them back in. Unless something has an obviously frayed cord or is soaking wet, in which case blame that and fix it.

Evolutionary limpetus

the Scottish Ministers consider that the material considerations do not outweigh the identified policy conflicts with the development plan in this instance. Formal Decision 46. Accordingly, for the reasons given above, the Scottish Ministers hereby dismiss the appeal and refuse planning permission in principle for the proposed development.

🚨 WE WON - Flamingo Land has finally been rejected!

For the last decade we have fought to save Loch Lomond from this destructive mega-resort plan.

Thank you to the 155,000 people who joined our movement. This is your victory 💚

Happy Breaking Of The Fellowship Day to all orcs who celebrate

the question that seems most important now (and do we have the time to ponder it) is what are we giving up when we hand over tasks to AI.

Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? | Quanta Magazine Columnist Philip Ball thinks the phenomenon of decoherence might finally bridge the quantum-classical divide.

The response to this has been interesting. Quite a few Everettians saying things like "This is just Many Worlds" (it really isn't), but little from folks who cleave to other quantum interpretations. I'd like to think some have figured they had better...
www.quantamagazine.org/are-the-myst...

Tamora Pierce writes really good coming of age fantasy with female protagonists, and Connie Willis writes time travel SF on a broad spectrum of comedy and grimness.

5 authors/5+ books, living women authors edition:
Mercedes Lackey
Juliet McKenna
NK Jemisin
Victoria Goddard
Margaret Weis

5 authors/5+ books, dead white SF guy edition:
Harry Harrison
Lloyd Biggle Jr
Isaac Asimov
Arthur C Clarke
RA Heinlein

5 authors/5+ books, problematic edition:
Marion Zimmer Bradley
David Eddings
Sheri S Tepper
Piers Anthony
Orson Scott Card

5 authors I've read at least 5 books by:
Ursula Le Guin
Anne McCaffrey
Octavia Butler
Tamora Pierce
Connie Willis

Now that's recycling for you.