The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit.

Pleased to see that in these dangerous times the government is repatriating armaments.

If it's a large bookshop with a forklift in the back I reckon a pilot whale would be possible.

Excellent piece by Dan today.

The solution is simply, we simply need a giant pair of hands to stretch the Strait open.

Cool, cool.

Chuck it straight in the sea, let it float out.

Wait is this the Enron model

TUFTY THE SQUIRREL

"Fossil fuels should be more expensive but not now" - literally every government for the last 20 years.

One thing I still cannot believe is that Word apparently has no straightforward way to link documents together so you can, for example, work on separate chapters as separate documents.

I offer a picture of a medievel toilet, perched just over the battlements of a castle.

Finally we get that Cohen the Barbarian film.

'Centralising power in the hands of the state is absent' and goes on the list many the ways Trump has removed obstacles to his own authoritarian rule.

"Easily destroyable targets" being the ones that would be war crimes, I guess.

Every article of this kind should say something about how straightforward it is to clean the machine; some of the bean to cup machines make lovely coffee but are a beast to maintain every week.

That'll do for a day.

Definite "we're making commerce, not art" vibes

Some of the stuff in tonight's dinner is on its third go round the leftover roulette wheel.

Reaching up to the top shelf and hoping not to mix up the gin and balsamic vinegar bottles

Mary Poppins Mary Poppins Strikes Back The Return of Mary Poppins

I lost a mutual for pointing out that Haber Bosch was why "just decarbonise right now" was a position that would likely kill hundreds of millions of people through starvation.

Henri's Cat (with red fish) Full paint version, available now, link below

ChatGPT, draw me a rough beast.

This is pretty much Arsenic and Old Lace, if I remember correctly.

Saying the "ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant" out loud.

"Never will roses blossom On a Nobler grave than this: Here lie the bones of Boris Johnson: Stop, traveller, and piss!"

*unamuses your li*

Um, isn't a large proportion of that 90% low-paid imported labour, with no real connection, loyalty, or reason to stay if things go bad?

This is entirely consistent with her willingness to start a fight in an empty room.

Didn't actually think Musk was daft enough to think that ONE MEEELION is an unaccountably big number but he's not going to do this, not even close. He might well launch enough to fuck up the night sky though.

As an academic publisher Axel Springer are already almost as evil as the Daily Telegraph, so

well

Charlie Stross: I invented the Vile Offspring in Accelerando as a warning Silicon Valley: At last we have developed the autonomous AI agents from classic Sci Fi novel Accelerando

I'm afraid to ask. I assume cheap imitation diamond teeth.

Now that's a brutalist Rathaus.

I did some executive coaching, and that basically turned into therapy, because it's good to talk about your problems.

Sounds very much like Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

Now waiting for a biography of Genghis Kahn called "On the naughty steppe".

STOP WRITING POETRY you will never better this. Poetry is done. Learn to code or something www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45825/...

This looks alright and I have registered, but it does strike me that spoofing something like this would be an easy way to collect a lot of data. Be careful out there.

Wait, is it all wired into that box on the front of the house, because that feels a bit like a weak spot.

I swear, all these bottles were empty when I found it.

Having surrendered my work laptop, I now have pretty much everything I need - including Teams - running on a Pi 4. It's a little slow but perfectly functional, with the exception of LinkedIn which just won't load on the browser. I am seeing this as a benefit.

thanks apple is crying now

Only cats in subfusc allowed.

Sad news, it is no longer possible to be aware of all internet traditions.

US military planes shot down since Vietnam, leaderboard by country: 1) Iraq 2) USA 3) Kuwait