Eddie Robson

The 15yo just came home to find me listening to this album and told me he tried to put me onto this album about a month ago because he thought it'd be my kind of thing, and I obviously failed to make note of it and then forgot.

Space Museum (album) - Wikipedia

The Wikipedia entry noted the Doctor Who connections for the cover and two of the tracks, but apparently missed the one in THE ALBUM TITLE. Anyway I fixed that this morning. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_M...

Solid Space - Space Museum Listen to Space Museum on TIDAL

Been listening to this terrific album from 1982. I saw a T-shirt in a vintage shop in Belfast at the weekend with the cover on it, and you may be able to see why it attracted my attention. tidal.com/album/823995...

Right, so it's a pot and the platform takes 5% and the winners split the rest. But there must still be lots of people losing their stakes, in order for there to be any money for the winners. So people must be betting and getting it wrong, in spite of having insider info. That's what I'm saying.

Huh, I'd have thought too many bets would pay out for that to be viable, but maybe a lot of people bet using insider info and still get it wrong.

Dan Kaszeta post: FFS I’m talking about The United Kingdom 🇬🇧 you daft American knobs Reply from user winnbear: You do realize that you are on an American platform, bellend.

This is a ridiculous response, yet it becomes clear why some Americans behave as they do on here

Yes it’s an American-owned platform, but do they think all non-Americans are guests or something?

How do Polymarket make money if it's based around insider info? Are they just a middleman?

For all of you concerned about your holidays 🙄

Yeah I had the same thought. Surely you need lots of people getting it wrong in order to make money, and if all the bets are coming from people who know they're right, where are the profits coming from? Bookies usually stop taking bets when it's clear the info is circulating.

3 very bad things here:
1) the whole *idea* of Polymarket is people can bet using insider information - illegal for a reason
2) insiders have an incentive to manipulate events, even awful events, to match their bets
3) insider trading is still illegal, so the bettors are blackmailable security risks

The argument here appears to be that by allowing hollow-eyed ghouls to abuse insider information so they can profit from death, they're also giving the people who are about to be bombed a heads up, and this is some kind of public service?

Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

Yeah I can see that being a problem if someone manages to avoid getting the ticket checked. Of all the shitty things rail operators in this country do, requiring you to apply for a refund before the ticket is to be used seems like one of the less outrageous ones.

I honestly had no idea they were ever refundable, but then if I don't get a cheap advance fare I always leave it until I'm actually travelling, as the benefit of booking a seat is outweighed for me by the possibility I might fall ill and have to cancel the whole trip.

My rates are very reasonable and I can be a very nice and honest chap (discounts for people struggling, and I charged a billionaire the exact same rate as your “normal” punter). Some people say this is a weakness, I prefer to see it as my strength.

Inspired by a reply to a QT of that thread (that didn't use the term in this way)... petition to refer to people who turn to the GC cause in an attempt to run away from their own gender dysphoria as rotten eggs

If Reform gets control of Wakefield and flogs off the modern art collection, I actually might cry.

I think the difference with manga is the starting point is clear and you read from there. They're often long but they're not messy, whereas every big US superhero is. And frankly Marvel comics from the 60s are not the best way to hook a 10-year-old today, so you need another starting point.

Similarly anecdotal but yeah. My kids watched those movies and enjoyed them AND were comics readers, but had no interest in reading Marvel comics. And I don't think any of their friends got into the comics either.

I learned the word "simultaneously" from a Transformers comic. It was a caption on two panels which appeared to be happening at the same time, so I checked with a parent this was what it meant. And it is MUCH easier to look up a word now, you don't need to have a dictionary or a literate parent.

Oh wow, this is REALLY handy. Makes it so much quicker.

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This is deeply disturbing. I received this from an author I've never heard of (I looked him up before replying to be certain he is real & this wasn't just another kind of scam to get me to reply--because I've also received those). I am disgusted by this email that was supposedly written by ME.

Absolutely true, and I think something that’s been a real casualty of the changes in how we consume media - we’ve lost that casual, low-stakes ubiquity of Stuff Lying Around To Read.

Is there a Wikipedia editor whose main job is to make sure every well-known actress's career summary has a section headed "Established actress"

footprints in the snow on a mosque roof

Cats have been on the roof of the mosque

It must be nice to be a sociopath, because all the new products are for you. The smart glasses will give you that woman’s address, the betting apps will finally let you make bank on war crimes.

AT TIMES INACTIVITY IS PREFERABLE TO MINDLESS FUNCTIONING

lot of love for the guy who thinks it's in Dorset

I liked that first still so much I stuck it on my home screen

Ninón Sevilla was a Cuban-born Mexican movie star who made films in the Rumberas genre. These combine elements of melodramas, burlesque, musicals, and Noir. Sevilla’s movies featured showgirls, pimps, gangsters, and demon-possessed plantation harkots. Good stuff.