Seem to have found a combo that helps with the Covid a bit.

to avoid confusion I have made a little table of Mitford siblings

Some absolute charmers today who obviously weren’t given enough love as a child.

Watching a charming American eat a crumpet untoasted with clotted cream because that’s what ChatGPT says to do #bantheAI

feels a bit weird that we keep having these stories about individual cyber attacks but without anyone really joining the dots and going "okay, shall we maybe talk about this as a major global story"

Some absolute fucking ghouls on here. Shells of evil that have come crawling out today. Shame I can only block, but rage and anger is what these abominations are trying to create.

We are ten days from EES being introduced at Schengen borders and people absolutely Losing Their Shit. Will be interesting to see how unpopular Brexit really becomes after this and whether Fuhrage gets blamed or manages to use it to his advantage.

At the rate Ukrainians are taking out refineries, Russia will achieve its climate targets by December. kyivindependent.com/russia-to-be...

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‘I know picture editors who use subtext and they are all cowards.’

How very 2021.

Wonder if I'll stop calling people cunts if I switch from Kilchoman to Ardbeg.

Well I'm not a narracistic pork pie hat wearing traitor. So that's a start on the hope that I have got. The name of the talk show also, it has never not made me cringe.

Apropos of absolutely nothing in the news, I’m reminded of when I went to airsoft. Loads of guys with thousands of pounds worth of camo gear, but I doubt any of them could have run a mile. Wonder why I thought of that today.

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Therapist: Cathulhu isn’t real and can’t hurt you Cathulhu:

Superior.

And they say there's no good news these days.

One of the few useful things about being slightly religious is you can have the view of death being the resurrection to heaven (or equivalent). This means it’s easy to see these AI wraiths for the revenants they are.

Serious question for people from that time: how innovative was Numan ? He seems so completely different from everything else we've seen up to that point in 1979. #totp

I've literally pulled a muscle laughing at this.

I know I know, but Message In A Bottle is a great song #totp

Top level miming there. #totp

"...but we heard Aaron Carter was there" #totp

"You took it and made it sound worthless, destroyed what was once great, another classic murdered." youtu.be/pprzVn-yyJI?...

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

Is Pras out of prison yet?

As @andrewmueller.bsky.social noted in one of his excellent books, britpop was full of low-level xenophobia, and Vindaloo is the Acme of all that #TOTP

Suggesting to Janna that this is the worst week of #totp I've seen, to which she points out it's the worst week so far. At least we haven't seen any Atomic Kitten yet.

i maintain that heretics & apostates are much more useful terms than "not real christians"

Just like with the nazi salute he is telling you who he is & gets off on the people who will still lie for him anyway

My recent discovery and obsession with cricket has meant I’ve taken a day off to travel to an away game now. Worryingly, it’s in the county I live in so I feel a bit of a traitor.

“While Allied propaganda exaggerated it, the Germans did in fact do many war crimes in Belgium in WW1 and even more war crimes on the Eastern Front, dwarfed as they eventually would be by their atrocities in WW2”

Thought experiment - if Ukraine is closer to victory than people realise and Russia is on verge of collapse, then what does Putin do to try and claw on to power? And are we seeing the signs of this with the drone attacks in the Baltic and Poland?

A lot of people (rightfully) clown on the shitty German Wunderwaffen in WW2 like the Komet, but we do kind of gloss over a lot of the really very successful weapons the Allies brought in. Ignoring obvious like Manhatten Project, stuff like the proximity fuze made a huge difference. and of course:

All my family were Antifa. warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/reic...

In the latest instalment of AI is going brilliantly.

Surrey Cricket Club and tweed.

Just the most horribly irresponsible policy announcement of my lifetime.

I hate the fact that I like the new Rayban Meta glasses. Not for the videoing people or that bollocks, but so I can watch a film in really boring meetings with nobody noticing.

Just got to the Scorcese scene in the Studio. Laughed out loud for the first time in a long, long time.

We’re a quarter of the way though the century, so it got me to thinking of doing a Top 40 of what I think are the best songs of the century. People who’ve followed me for a while will not be surprised what’s at number 1, but I’ll do 40 - 31 tonight #21stCenturyTop40

Can we just get to the bit when the church helps them all fuck off to obscurity in Argentina?

ERP system replacements are some of the most difficult and complex projects we see organisations undertake. We’ve seen example after example go wrong. Late delivery. Blown budgets. Toxic environments. People left in misery afterwards.

From a great song to an incel anthem #totp

Yeah, this song absolutely fucks #totp

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