Burn down the right, quite the slogan.

"I have never cheated on you with Annie!" Tom cried, animatedly. #v2 #labouringthepoint

What was the Latin word used to introduce questions expecting the answer "Because of racism, obviously"?

"I'm not Icarus, am I?" asked Tom, knowingly.

To the tune of "I am the very model of a modern major general": 🎶Thiel is a walking antidote to modern multiversity He's stolen all your data and knows lots about perversity, He weighs in on democracy and matters mathematical And bought your last election with his weighty venture capital🎶

As catnip to cats, or Whiffle On The Care of The Pig to Lord Emsworth, is this thread to the righteous.

🎵 Birds do it Bees do it Rival troops of chimpanzees do it Let's do it Let's start a war Creatures from Mars do it Czars do it Nemeses with cats and scars do it Let's do it Let's start a war!

But we should go back to holding a by-election any time an MP is made a minister.

The noble, the majestic, the sweet-smelling River Effra.

Who does non standard Bike maintenance in Glasgow? A few specialists refuse unless you bought it from them and others don't have space.

Clothes buying expert keeps the receipts.

🎶And then I saw her face Now I'm a Lea beaver And not a trace Of doubt in my mind

He's making a list, He's checking it twice, He knows if you've been naughty or nice. Santa Claus has data-controller responsibilities under GDPR.

Supermarket delivery included an "800g" loaf of bread weighing in at 432 grams. I've lived my life believing that bread of standardised loaf size and flour content is the very bedrock of trading standards since Biblical times, and for the English/UK state since the Middle Ages. Discombobulated now.

Mein Haus ist von 1880: alte Ziegel, Radiatoren, kein Neubau-Standard. Genau der Gebäudetyp, der angeblich „nicht für Wärmepumpen taugt“. Ich hab’s trotzdem gemacht – und es funktioniert. Mehr dazu in meinem neuen @focusonline.bsky.social Artikel.

>the gyre? narrowing >falcon? hears the falconer >things? sticking together >center? holding >mere anarchy? never heard of it >blood-dimmed tide? locked up tight >ceremony of innocence proceeding as normal >the best have so much conviction >the worst? listless and apathetic we're all gonna make it

O Weihnachtschwein, o Weihnachtschwein, Wie lecker sind dein Schinken! Du gruntest durch ganz Sommerzeit Bis dein Winter-Schinkenhaftigkeit

Martyred on the same day as St Reatham. They must surely both have come to a terrible end. More terrible even than Elmer's.

Juries are not perfect. Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials. But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having. They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.

The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.

"I'll choose from the Passover menu," said Tom judiciously.

You are what you eat, which is why my all-pancake diet is so flattening.

Monday - kiki Tuesday - blue and black Wednesday - bouba Thursday - bouba Friday - kiki Saturday - gold and white Sunday - bouba

Reform are winning many new seats, but even so they can keep barely half of the seats they defend. Which might suggest they have a strategic problem.

A pair of pyjamas includes a pair of pyjama trousers, as well as one pyjama shirt, which actually makes three pyjamas.

A beautifully innovative cut of the data, simply telling a story with implications for policy design. I like a bit of good analysis, me.

Walk softly and carry a big brick.

Emmanuel Kant. An ant this long — which supports a Premiership club, and also is an elk.

Groypers is the notorious prep school in Bexley.

Discontent management seems more of a useful skill

Reporting symptoms is rather 2020, but on top of ordinary cough & cold stuff both children have had dramatic nosebleeds this week. Is this common?

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

Girl With A Pearl In Situ #sellingartatsea

Mulberries in Belair, 4 July.

First blackberry of the year, Midsummer's Day. #phenology

Another example for the "heat pumps don't work" lobby: what if someone drives a ship into your house, eh? Answer me that.

Exactly. It's the difference between November's Fifth and The Fifth Of Beethoven.

"Plausibility engine" is the pithiest description of AI. It nails the technical microscale - penalised linear regression is Occam's razor applied to statistical correlation - and the training process as well as the chatbot outcome of an LLM. The Turing test is, after all, a plausibilty test. VG.

Bears unclench.

X for Vendetta

If we're allowed TV drama: II CCcaxmviiis.

Solar power. It's only the day job.

I have no artistic talent so if nobody else gets there first I will just paint the whole thing black and then write “that’s Nazi shit” on it in big red letters. Underpass between littlemore and rose hill if you have a better idea

anyone free this afternoon and want to hold a baby for a half an hour

I do have a joke about Zeno which you might very nearly get.

🎶Yeah we wept, when we remembered Psion

Truss's - and my - age cohort was at the bottom of the 1970s baby crunch. There are barely 70% as many of us as there were of the cohort ten years older. You must expect us to throw up fewer competent people.