Dr D

That’s totally me too, except with a set of dice and score cards for Yahtzee! 😅

Who else tries to be a better version of themselves when they go away? I’m packing my reading glasses - which I never use at home - my interdental toothbrushes (ditto 😑 - sorry Mr dentist!), and a notebook, so that I can Be Extra Organised™️.

A reporter points a microphone at Larry the Cat, outside Number 10 Downing Street.

Breaking News: UK leader gives press conference on Operation Epic Furry

What better time to give your screen and keyboard a bit of a dusting down? #scnr

Bottle of white wine (label says blanc de noirs, trocken (= dry). A stag and a forest are depicted. At the top of the label, the brand name is"Black 4est".

Not the cleverest of puns, but the wine‘s OK. From Renchen near Offenburg, not far from here. #Black4est

I think about this a lot.

Confused immigration protesters at Julie Goodyear's old mansion Protesters falsely thought the former Coronation Street star's old home was going to house immigrants.

BET LYNCH MOB

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Yes, this - every day! :(

Inside Anthropic’s battle with the Pentagon Yesterday's revelation that outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken US strike on a school in Iran has thrown a new spotlight on the use of AI software by the military in war zones.

Yesterday's revelation that outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken US strike on a school in Iran has thrown a new spotlight on the use of AI software by the military in war zones.

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I'd love that too, and I'm happy to fit around your commitments.

nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Going to be in #Aberystwyth for a whole two weeks 16-31 March - hope to see some of you there! 👋

Toby & a mate looking down from a hill with a dog

Surveying the scene from the slopes of Moel Hebog yesterday, looking down over Beddgelert & the peaks of Eryri/Snowdonia 🤩.

A thoroughly good 9 mile birthday hike, finished off with a pie & pint at a pub 🍻

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wow.
Research staff can have a decent pension but teaching staff can’t.
Wonder how students will feel about how much Sheffield Hallam values their teaching.

Perhaps we could compromise and have a pheasant that Churchill shot on the banknote?

Well, I excelled myself in today's admin e-mail, enquiring about the availability of equipment for an exam, by failing to mention the planned date of said exam. #themaskslips

A Honduran statue on a bookshelf.

My statue says hi to your statue (this was a gift from you way back when).

Bad translation here - obviously it wasn’t a “flying bomb” (a VI/ doodlebug/ precursor of the cruise missile type of munition) because we didn’t use them. The German will have been “Fliegerbombe”, which means “bomb dropped by plane”, as opposed to a parachute mine.

TIL the word “evangenitals”, for fundamentalist Christians who spend their waking hours obsessing over the gender and reproductive conformance of other people’s bodies, and I am so putting that in my dissertation

We had to wait a long time for this

The hereditary peers go out in the most British way possible: a step towards democratising the state is achieved only by taking a half step backwards at the same time.

Supreme Court of Ukraine upholds landmark ruling recognising ‘de facto’ same-sex marriage — Novaya Gazeta Europe The Supreme Court of Ukraine officially recognised the “de facto” marriage of LGBT activists Zoryan Kis and Tymur Levchuk in a decision on 25 February, the Ukrainian human rights organisation Insight ...

Well, this is a big moment for LGBTQ people in Ukraine. In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has recognised the marriage between diplomat Zoryan Kis (1st Secretary of the Embassy of Ukraine in Israel) and his partner, Tymur Levchuk. novayagazeta.eu/articles/202...

Ooh, nice!

a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

You really don't want to know how long it has just taken me to write ONE admin e-mail... #perfectionistatwork #beltandbracesandsuspendersandgarters

Thank you! :)

Aaaah, diolch! Not having seen said franchise, I'm going to allow myself to feel less dim now. :)

Have to confess that I don’t actually "get" this. What am I missing? 🤔

Great piece - thanks so much for this. Despite having lived in Germany for 30 years, there were several aspects of Springer I wasn’t aware of.