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I really do miss my old thread where I’d been doing this since Cameron.

decided to grab some food after a work thing in town so popped into the burger place near the station, and just as i was sitting down who should appear but @mink.bsky.social, who had the same plan! we had a completely random and pleasant dinner. good things can happen when i leave the house!

keep finding weird things. what's this, an au pairs listing from 1996 at the Astoria 2, when they were supposed to be broken up?

just discovered evidence for a second Kenickie. (a gig at the half moon in putney a month before they did they did their debut gig up in tyne & wear)

Wikipedia has a facility to go to a random page in a category. For some reason if I try it on the category of living people, it gives me a disproportinate number of "race walkers" (ie competive sport walkers). this is bewildering & i don't understand how. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special...

I hear you’re a transphobe now, Horne.

Wes Streeting, earlier:

One time I had 10,000 knives when all I needed was a spoon…

There was precedent

it's always good to bear the existence of this in mind when they do the bit at the start including Kirk asking Spock "Aren't you dead?" top trolling.

does anyone else wonder what would have happened if the trick of SeaQuest DSV having a name nearly like Star Trek TNG had worked? would we be today watching shows called things like EarthHike PXB and and SludgeTrod BMP?

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

death to video essays

hey why have they got my name and age wrong and also put a picture up of someone else

Annual appraisal with the vampire, Performance review with the vampire, Personal improvement plan with the vampire, Exit interview with the vampire, Industrial tribunal with the vampire, Out-of-court settlement with the vampire, Non-disclosure agreement with the vampire.

Somehow missed this 2022 UK paper exploring responses to radical right parties (RRP) and whether accommodation - i.e. "beat" them by repeating a version of their tale actually worked electorally. Short version: Nope. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It’s time for the people who haven’t said much about trans rights because it’s a bit inconvenient and might cause tension with gender critical colleagues to actually say something btw

by the way you all remember that bit I’ve been doing for the last 22 years? obviously that was just a bit.

@julesscheele.bsky.social :(

This is what I mean about it being unworkable, btw - there's literally no provision in any law for removing someone from a given toilet. Toilets aren't legally protected spaces. What this does is simply create a disincentive for a trans person to risk being trans in public.

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

For business owners, the important part of the new ECHR advice is this: 13.179: There is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex. [...] Therefore, it is unlikely to be proportionate or practical to ask for further evidence of a person’s sex.

completely illegal bullshit

do i know anyone with any images of Kenickie that they might be willing to place under a creative commons licence so that Wikipedia could use them?

do i know anyone with any images of Kenickie that they might be willing to place under a creative commons licence so that Wikipedia could use them?

linked the mercian nationalist party website on a discord (www.evilmagic.org/mnp, mercian independent fans) and someone asked me "Why is this webpage built like a cogito hazard?" - fuck yeah, that's what it's all about!

Previously, on Twitter: “trying to track down the exact bit of telly where lauren laverne called geri halliwell "tory scum". it's not the 7 February 1997 episode of Buzzcocks. anyone know?”

Spider-Man: Same Old Brand New You Spider-Man: Brand New Heavies Spider-Man: Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)

you know how all the MCU Spider-Man films had the name "home" in them? Homecoming, Far From Home, No Way Home... does that mean the sequel to Brand New Day could be Spider-Man: Brand New Combine Harvester?

well, it's an oldie where i come from.

evergreen

seven years to the day since i posted this to a facebook group late at night. by the time i woke up sober i was banned from the group.

just had a quick but sudden burst of hail!

Slightly increase a band 9½ Inch Nails

it’s time for Britain’s first Australian prime minister

love things like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ipk...

this is a bit random, but does anyone have access to Billboard Pro and do a couple of checks of things for me?

had a thought of “how many syllables are there in english” and found web.archive.org/web/20160805... which claims “For instance, the following two putative syllables are not actually legitimate syllables of English: jh r ae k s LUGGAGE-RACKS t w er k t OUTWORKED”

have discovered that although Mrs Mills and Mrs Miller did versions of “Yellow Submarime” nobody has yet done a mashup of them.

very pleased that they've finally got rid of all the hereditary peers from the unelected house of lords, leaving a different sort of unelected house of lords.

why is this arcane supplies shop in W5 not called Ealing Crystals.

still incapable of seeing the name of the singer Addison Rae and not thinking of Addison Lee.

having enjoyed watching the King of the Hill revival despite not watching any King of the Kill; i am now watching the Malcolm in the Middle revival without having watched any Malcolm in the Middle. it's fun!

just been chatting to a person in the pub attending the same event I was who says they were 3 months old on September 11, 2001.