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Just seeing this now. Really fascinating. Hungarians apparently still had measurable Yakut ancestry in the Middle Ages but by now are genetically indistinguishable from others in Central Europe, while Finns are still 10% Yakut

Nice!

Closest you'll ever get is a slight waggle of the eyebrows from a retired superintendent (of a different force) on a daytime talk show, and "not sure that's the approach I'd have used"

String of plastic pork sausages with faces lying among kelp.

Beach find, 11th March 2022. A beachcombing first for us - a string of plastic pork sausages with faces.

Has a touch of Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose.

Wayside School has moments of surreal genius (eg the one with the pets) My daughter got into reading thanks to them.

Best Friends for Frances is the best. Very snappy dialogue and perfect balance of malice & heart.
"Chompo Bar" is also a family reference now

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Moominsummer Madness A tsunami hits Moominvalley, and the Moomins take refuge on a floating theatre, obviously.

If you need a head cleanser today. 'Moominsummer Madness' this afternoon on Radio 4.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

How do they rank on the Skittles scale (of colourants banned in the EU)?

The Skrmetti judgement is an encouraging sign - even judges make mistakes but in this case the majority didn't.

Also if you've not heard Irving Finkel talking about Noah's Ark, he's great.
youtu.be/jfadDEZdSoQ?...

And before you accuse people like me of any kind of any kind of phobia, understand that you are arguing for doing irreversible harm to healthy bodies, creating lifelong patients, taking years of their lives, taking their fertility and lowering their IQ.
While we want to keep them healthy and whole.

That we is referring to your own family or group, or do you mean society as a whole?
Because as a society we don't even teach our children to love and accept themselves for how they are - especially if they are girls and it's how they are physically - let alone other people.

Insofar as the law seeks to prevent harm being done to children on the basis of their sex (which doesn't match their gender identification)... even judges make mistakes.
youtu.be/gvoajDAOHkc?...

Another reason to stay on the other app. Better the circle of hell you know, etc

Passed someone on hands-free getting livid at a "misérable crétin" but still calling them vous

Was going to hoist the Caca d'Oie pennant of it's always ruder in French, only to discover that the colour is called dark puke green in English

Do our politicians understand the supreme court’s gender ruling? As members of the Women and Equalities Committee questioned Baroness Kishwer, it was not clear they do.

'It took more than 45 minutes for the Women and Equalities Committee to mention “women and girls”. That was left to Conservative MP Rebecca Paul, who, with Rosie Duffield, sat physically apart from and in stark contrast to the rest of the committee.'
www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...

Bet you can't throw a pot (without Patrick Swayze helping you).

YouTube video by Luca Taccardi Tobias Hume Deth and Life. Luca Taccardi, viola da gamba

Luca Taccardi -
Tobias Hume Deth and Life. Luca Taccardi, viola da gamba youtu.be/i5S7-S95PM4?... via @YouTube

#earlymusicnewsorg

Cor!

Edith Sitwell photographed for the Observer by Jane Bown in 1959. A severe looking woman in black, wearing an enormous necklace shaped like three axe blades, and a huge ring on each hand, stares at the camera from under pencilled eyebrows and a feathered headdress

It’s 102 years to the day since the deeply eccentric Edith Sitwell sat behind a curtain at London’s Aeolian Hall, reciting bizarre poetry through what looked like a traffic cone, prompting Noel Coward to take the piss, which started a highly entertaining multi-decade literary feud...🧵

Grunur um að nef­hjól úr flug­vél hafi lent á Austur­velli - Vísir Lögreglunni á höfuðborgarsvæðinu barst tilkynning um að nefhjól úr flugvél hefði lent á Austurvelli. Síðar barst þeim tilkynning um að flugvél hefði lent á Reykjavíkurflugvelli sem vantaði nefhjól.

A wheel from an airplane was found in downtown Reykjavík. Minutes later a plane landed at Reykjavík Airport, missing a wheel. Authorities are investigating if the incidents could possibly be related.

In what way is that a nuanced belief as opposed to just a belief?
How is "for >100 yrs, for many millions of people, & broadly recognized in law & culture" anything more than an assertion?

The male body plan includes the developmental pathway that they followed from conception, which is not undone by surgery and hormones in later life. Still don't see any reason to classify then as female, or why health problems among females taking testosterone might be a reason to?

Where did I say I believe in the divine right of kings?
How about this. Do you believe that humans can literally change sex? If so, in what way is your belief a nuanced one?

Call me an absolutist, but calling someone clearly in bad faith and blinded by prejudice is not my idea of how to start a nuanced conversation.

Why so late?

Too young to consent to those as well, I'm afraid.

Can you show us the relevant bit of the judgement and explain why it's arbitrary and unjustified?