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Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.

In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal.

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

“When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.” - attributed to John Major

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Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

Whenever I see anyone tout "AI" (usually LLMs and generative/agentic) as a "solution", I think of Mencken

New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢 This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID. doi.org/10.1080/0958...

Am I reading thos right? He's sent a letter to the PM of NORWAY, to complain that they didnt give him the Nobel Peace Prize, an award from an independent body in SWEDEN and therefore he doesnt have any obligations towards Greenland, a country linked to DENMARK?

A couple of dusk photos, from today... #thePhotoHour #StormHour #NothernIreland

BREAKING: The greatest ever winner of the FIFA Peace Prize has now been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after carrying out just 622 bombings in the past year x

What the US learned quickly from the UK was that popularizing certain language had advantages not just for perception, but law. All rollbacks of rights in the UK hinged in some way on the alleged immutability of binary sex and the illegitimacy of gender— accomplished not with science, but words.

When the water industry was privatised in 1989, it had zero debt. Since then, it's accumulated combined debt of £60bn. This has been used to pay shareholders £72bn in dividends & to refinance companies: so original investors paid themselves back the original cost, ie they get the companies for free.

In news which should be shocking to absolutely no-one with an ounce of commonsense or humanity, providing gender affirming care to trans young people reduces risks of harm. Preventing trans young people accessing treatment has never been about "protecting children" www.advocate.com/health/trans...

If anyone is attending this, perhaps they could point Lord Reed to this (goodlawproject.org/survey-shows...) YouGov survey showing that only 31% of trans people trust judges and the rule of law and ask him why the Supreme Court refused to hear from any trans people before devastating their rights?

my latest for Prospect.

Slightly diminish a game. Clair Obscur: Expedition 45

All art about Trump will end up being pro-Trump propaganda simply by virtue of writers and directors giving him more depth than he has. There really is nothing else there. He's just a mobster. He has *no* depth. Zero. None. He likes steak and blondes and gold. That's all there is to him.

C’est une ClayStation

#Vibrant #BlueSkyArtShow

British journalists are addicted to X because even though the views and likes are fake, the numbers under their posts give them the feeling that someone is reading their opinions, which is not a sensation accessible at any British newspaper

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

I AM FUCKING *DECEASED* LOL Spanish equivalent of The Onion or The Beaverton announces "Denmark changes the name of Greenland to Epstein Island so that Trump will quit talking about it"

BREAKING: Outrage after Venezuelan law enforcers shoot innocent woman in face and celebrate on camera. This proves the Maduro regime is... hang on, I'm hearing this was actually in the US and it was just an ICE agent doing their job, it's fine x

Just tried a barley risotto... And, honestly, why would anyone use rice?

It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.

1st job. Living away from home. I made a stew. Long slow cook. I put foil under the lid of the pan as I saw it suggested that would keep the moisture in better. I went to check the stew, and thought it would be better to lift the lid by the foil, as the handle might be hot. Steam burns, both hands

London in the good old days - before everyone's feet pointed forwards.

Wes Streeting, part of a govt that won't confirm it'd uphold an ICC arrest warrant, won't meet its obligations under the genocide convention, & won't condemn what the US has done in Venezuela, says he's concerned about the disintegration of the rules based international system

When you're trying to hide from all the work you put off in December...

The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries. In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas. www.iza.org/publications... 🧵 thread—>

Hell. Homeworld was 1999, as was the EU release of Myth II...

Utah commissioned it's department of health to do a systematic review of gender affirming care for trans youth. In a 1000 page plus report found it was beneficial and the evidence was substantial. The lawmakers rejected it anyways. www.deseret.com/politics/202...

My niece in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, has made a snow dalek that's featured in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. #proudaunt

I'm incensed that this post implies Kermit is not "people" 🙄

The majority of Americans can’t locate Venezuela on this map

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Keir Starmer this morning

This take misses the obvious and normal role of social media: people talk, across wide areas and groupings; they compare notes. That it's critical is not the *fault* of SM, it's the result of people having the tools to come to a conclusion, and not have to rely on the media to give an opinion

So. I have heard a lot of noise about “optimizing” library work by basically setting up a computer with chatGPT on it and telling patrons to go nuts. This will not work. They basically radiated autocorrect with Nazi pedo shit 24/7 and tweaked it so it sounds really sure about stuff it cannot know.

Denying medical assistance is unacceptable in any circumstances. Israel’s threat to withhold registration from MSF & other INGOs is a cynical and calculated attempt to prevent organizations from providing services in #Gaza and the #WestBank, #Palestine. https://ow.ly/XQwE50XR5OE

Um. I wonder if they will, ah, come to regret the branding on this Amazon storefront...

I went to a party and there were people there who aren't in my queer lefty bubble. One of them said they didn't get why the elgeebeetees were so 'political'. They meant 'drawing attention to themselves'. At that moment, my highest of horses magically appeared. When I was born, spake I,

Just saw someone ridiculing an "EMF blocking beanie hat"... I mean, I guess they could run conducting thread through the thing, but doesn't a Faraday cage have to completely surround an object to block EM radiation...? Having an open side where your head goes in would kind of defeat the concept

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

I just sniped a kid in Overwatch and he wrote "ohhh Kirked me" and I just found out they're using that as shorthand for a good snipe HOLY SHIT LOL