My current fave heatwave game is finding out about how everyone's boiling hot cats are only doing the bare minimum to cool down while simultaneously being furious about being hot. Here's a picture of my idiot who won't stop going in direct sunlight despite being black. She's so mad she's roasting.

Speaking of endonyms and exonyms, no Thai person says Bangkok (unless talking to a foreigner or speaking a foreign language). It's Krung Thep, which in turn is the short version of the extremely long official name of the city.

Greatly enjoying the inadvertent linguistics content on this site today 😌

honestly i saw this ad 20 years ago and ive never forgotten it OR how to pronounce Łódź

Fully conscious that at least half the challenges I face in my workplace would be solved by my dressing more like management. (I won’t)

Oi Trainline what on earth is “Warmly reminder” ?!

Our national anthem is written in Bengali and Sanskrit so technically most Hindi speakers are singing it totally wrong. It starts Jôno-gôno-môno, not Jana-gana-mana

There is always nuance to this and I am generally in favour of exonyms for India. Half the population of India itself can’t pronounce “Bharat” (भारत) so I am not interested in having all of humanity struggle with it as well.

WFF (Work from the Fridge)

Why only 5% of UK homes have aircon - Oldest housing stock in Europe mine was built 1891 - 36% of people rent try asking a landlord for an install lol - Dire building regs thanks decades of neoliberalism!

Monsoon Only pale, sun-deprived poets would call a rain-filled day grey and gloomy. What would they know of thirsty soil, raindrops playing percussion on the roof, trees dancing in the wind? 2023-06-24

What is this AI-generated text 😭

when I say this in public, people are horrified. OF course I like cool breeze and clouds? Who in their right mind would like the SUN? I had to explain to a disbelieving British friend that RAIN is the symbol of romance in India, not the fricking SUN

How does this paragraph manage to be offensive to men, women and non-binary people all at once

this is very disgusting

This is just to say I have taken Those plums Out of the icebox And climbed in Fuck yes

I mean I think a lot of British citizens also won’t be able to stay in the UK under a Reform government (out of sheer disgust)

Very cool WSJ article about the math geek in goal for the US team. www.wsj.com/sports/socce...

#histmed thread

On a similar note I was horrified to see a copy of Manusmriti at Blackwell’s among all the serious books. Why are we propagating vicious nonsense that is used - till date - to oppress anyone who isn’t an upper caste Hindu man, in India… Context: www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

Does anyone know anyone with Hindi and Irish, even a bit of Irish? Have been speaking to a family who recently moved from India, and while the kid is entitled to an exemption they would like to learn some Irish. No comfortable in English yet, so someone to intro it with Hindi would be ideal.

Ok that’s it - British schools are in some alternate reality. Our teachers used to scold us for NOT bringing our own water bottles …. !!!

Glastonbury.

The details contained in this are horrific, as they have been into reviews in maternity care in so many other trusts. Time and again the same issues are raised. If you care about public services, you should care about this. The quality of maternity care is a scandal.

Britain is literally trying to build a gas-powered data center that would use as much electricity as a few hundred thousand homes. Building out fossil fuel infrastructure to power AI slop while consigning people to death from extreme heat is a cruel political choice

Lmaooooooooooo

Broke: keep the capital in London Woke: move the capital to Manchester Bespoke: move the capital back to Winchester

Even the cat - a desert animal after all - is feeling hot 🫠

Also, their paws

“Copyright Jonathan Webb”…?

I am enjoying the image which makes it look as if Paddington Bear has horrifically melted.

THEY TOOK HIS CAT.

People were laughing and cheering at this?!!

w h a t

If the govt had any sense they would: - bar working outside the home for 2 days (and compensate businesses and workers) - encourage people to work from home as much as possible instead of doing this silly nit-picking and misleading people to think it’s fine to step out at 6

GP on the BBC this morning parroting the oft-heard “stay indoors between 11 and 3 because the sun is hottest then”. The sun is *most intense* then, that’s the time of day you’re most at risk of sunburn. The hottest part of the day is usually between 4-6. Thinking you’re safer at 5 is daft.

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” no wtf

Really not right that Partey is playing tonight given the seriousness of the charges against him.

He really does look like Lady Di 😭

I don’t have time for this shit, I’m too busy improving customer experience for (mostly) people in the UK and EU.

A friend recently told me he sat next to a guy who was reading Mein Kampf on the tube.

Jail for anyone who uses Claude / ChatGPT / whatever to generate a document and send it across without reading and checking if it even makes sense

Not to belabor the point but I was told repeatedly over the course of years, decades actually , that women were too emotionally volatile for high stakes positions in industry and government.

Code. Compliance requirements. Customer experience specs. I am going to cry

It was weird going in to work that day.

As James said. "We regret that this event has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office." www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

If I have to read one more Claude-generated document that hallucinates everything about my team’s code I will scream

I didn’t know they do Vedic sacrifices in Wisconsin

See this is why I know my husband has married me for my beauty (😂) because I absolutely cook like this