The British attitude to ID cards should not be underestimated.

I can’t say I give much credence to reports of Bluesky tagging posts as suspicious. Anyway, time to have a cream tea - jam first on the scone of course, then cream. ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘴𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘰 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘭. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪-𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺.

One interesting thing as an English barrister following this is that I've learned another bit of legal latin – 'sua sponte' – which our courts jettisoned years ago. (Over here it is just "of the court's own initiative' as per CPR r.3.3)

My Amazon order is coming via Evri and it is going about as well as you might expect. Apparently my driveway cannot be found, which is news to me and everyone else who has been using it since we moved here in 2022.

You've probably seen it but this fantastic post from Typeset In The Future discusses fonts in ALIEN in detail and it is so wonderful to see them being reused in ALIEN: EARTH. typesetinthefuture.com/2014/12/01/a...

I am absolutely loving how well the set designers are paying homage to the original 1979 work of Cobb and others. I think I may actually have punched the air in delight at the close-up of the keyboard for MUTHUR.

I really, really want a commentary on Ep 5 of Alien:Earth by Alexander Skarsgård in character as Murderbot, riffing on how even by the standards of humans he's had to look after this crew are absolutely determined to get themselves killed.

so... in the middle of Alien Earth season 1, Noah Hawley just drops us a fully functional hour long Alien movie. Like, fully capable of standing on it's own with no connective material, actually very good Alien movie. As a flex, I guess? Incredible.

Alien: Earth, episode 5: GO EYEBALL SQUID!!!

Film gave us Alien v Predator, comics gave us Alien v Superman (and just about everyone else) but it took TV and Alien: Earth to give us the crossover with Spaced we never knew we needed: Alien v Tyres.

Indeed so. Mrs Clanger's squash patch has produced this, which looks like it should be one of those adverts reminding men to check down there for uneven size or lumps.

Aargh, it’s this bloody bot again!

The late Bob Shaw used to give ‘serious scientific talks’ (which were anything but) at science fiction conventions and one featured his idea for a spaceship powered by urine. Going to full speed involved the crew drinking as much beer as possible.

I love the directness evident in the naming of this stuff.

There is a group of hotel guests sitting just around the corner trying some whisky and one of them has just asked why a Scotch whisky has a French name like “La Phroaig“ 😧😧

“I am not a number, I am a pint of stout!”

This is my bin bag There are many like it, but this one is mine My bin bag is my best friend It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my bin bag is useless. Without my bin bag, I am useless. 🫡

Serious post sharing this for those of you who work with, own, or otherwise mess about in RIBs. Despite the relatively low speed of this accident, the vertical deceleration off the back of a wave sadly left a passenger towards the front of the RIB permanently paralysed.

So the US has got to the ‘Night of the Long Knives’ stage of re-enacting 1930s Germany.

Accommodation barge Sans Vitesse taking precautions against any U-Boats that may be prowling the Firth of Forth. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5312...

Alien: Earth, episode 1: Eyeball squid is So Cute! Can we have a plushie? Alien: Earth, episode 2: We regret to inform you that Eyeball Squid is NO LONGER CUTE.

The Auton Invasion of Worcester was not so much defeated as remaindered. bidonline.ncmauctions.co.uk/auctions/936...

Upgrade a band: The Alan Parsons Final Deliverable.

Just watched Ep1 of Alien: Earth. You had my curiosity. Now you have my attention.

Hard to do the ‘furthest you’ve been’ meme because Aotearoa New Zealand is (just) in the eastern hemisphere but I got there by flying west. So I think the furthest I’ve gone heading west is Dunedin, and the furthest I’ve gone east is Ashgabat in Turkmenistan.

“Nyet Boris, I am telling you, this end goes UP!”

It probably has its own SCP number by now.

Some negatives that don't reverse meaning when you remove the prefix (or just aren't negatives at all): #WordNerd

Too late to call in Ozzy, I’m afraid.

Sci-fi-nance

The Flying Scotsman, crossing the River Severn at the Victoria Bridge this morning while on its visit to the Severn Valley Railway.

Can neither confirm nor deny rumours that, following the death of Ozzy Osbourne, barristers in Birmingham are to wear mourning bands and weepers - in black, of course.

Performing one last massive farewell hometown gig to tens of thousands of people and then dropping dead just a few days afterwards is an incredibly metal way to go out.

In case anyone is wondering how the UK is doing 50 years into metrication, this router bit is specified in a mixture of inches and millimetres, with the width being quoted as the mm equivalent of 9/16 of an inch.

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Our echinops are pretty much a buffet for bees and butterflies.

“I apologise for the slightly crumpled state of my skeleton argument and authorities but my cat thought I had printed them out for her to lie on.”

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

[Sigh] It's black goo. It's always black goo, isn't it? Someone's going to lick it and then we're going to have hideous mutations, exploding chests, mind-wrenching horror and people running around in biowarfare protective suits.

Things I learned today: that Adidas invented the levitated pit smart soccer ball.

This story is horrifying, but behind it lie the consequences of all but abolishing legal aid in civil cases. As a lawyer you hear so often of police telling victims of blatant scams and frauds "it's a civil matter" but what help is that when they can't afford legal help?

TIRED: Pork Barrel WIRED: Blubber Barrel

For context, the US-Ukraine mineral deal that was made in exchange for munitions is barely two months old

Post your favourite Doctor Who, wrong answers only.

Right, who had Cthonians on their list for 2025?

If it’s June 25th then we’re half way between last Christmas and next Christmas. How the hell did that happen? I could swear I was putting away the decorations only a couple of weeks ago.

My mum was complaining that her fitbit app was broken because the slider next to her distance goal never moved. I explained that’s because she’d set her daily walking distance to 7,500km

My rockets blow up Whilst they're still on the ground That's just their deportment Says the ketamine clown www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

They've gone Full Gerry Anderson.

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