Mat Bowles (He/Þei)

Until the unexpected vet bill hits

This is hilarious.

Also, completely enraging.

Donny, Rotherham and Sheffield tried to insist they didn't want to be part of Yorkshire hence our botched devolution problem

So if they want to be southern they can ;-)

(resisting the temptation to ask how to find fine people in Rotherham)

Yorkshire secedes and at the same time we restore ancient Dumnonia to its rightful place

A: You know, it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was young.

FORD: Why, what did she tell you?

A: I don’t know, I didn’t listen.

I think every single day about “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”

Ah, I'd actually missed the officially bankrupt news, and yeah, he got his everyone else screwed :-(

Plus it's how we met ;-)

Does Cromwell's campaign get as bad without things like Magdeburg and La Rochelle to respond to? If Wallenstein's doing werid shit in Germany and the religious wars haven't happened in the same way you'd need some other triggers

At least two, the one I've read some in is Alliette de Bodard's Xuya timeline stuff, the detective stories set in alt Tenochtitlan are fun

There's another with a similar conceit but I can't remember who wrote it

You think they know there are mountains?

They're using one of those Mercator Projection political maps where every country gets a colour and very little internal detail at all

That's partially the Greenland/Canada obsession because they look StupidBig and also, y'know, it's all just desert there

This tracks

We couldn't afford Optimus, but I've still got my Rodimus even tho I hated the movie

What we are looking at
is good and evil
right and wrong

youtu.be/9ygsixNsPSc?...

Is there some new news or just the general observation of truth?

Haven't read it since I was a kid but would make as much sense-I'd forgotten it was Vonnegut TBH

Ever see a picture and suddenly want to know everything about the content?

This is basically a self portrait by sculpture Jan Fabre, and if you're going to make a life size statue of yourself called "Searching For Utopia" why not be riding a giant bronze turtle with a gold veneer?

Brilliant

Basically. Normally everyone's got the vote and individual places are rarely news (outside of 'essex man/worcester woman' bollocks)

By-elections, especially record breaking ones, get so much attention before/since

When I moved here 2007 some people knew where it was cos of the 1960 by-election FFS

I got to about episode 5 the other night and just bounced

Astoundingly good cast but it wasn't for me, he's good (and pretty), she's excellent, Henwick is underused but good but I just got bored :-(

This lunch includes all five of the main Dutch food groups: cheese, cucumber, geometry, boredom and sorrow, with most of the vitamin content provided by the soul-destroying view of endless flatness spilling off the far-flung horizon.

Does it include the broadcast costs?

Making it cannot have cost that so there's something weird/corrupt, but if you pay for prime time on all the networks it'll add something

Yeah, it's a very early internet era academic approach of a site built to complement a publication but not to be one, without the tumblr post it'd be bafflingly pointless

Research resource not end point

I mean, would you trust him to organise anything?

Another W Yorkshire priory sex scandal in the early 1300s? Were they swapping notes with Kirklees or something?

Silent Running opening prayer (1972) YouTube video by Buzz Smith

Douglas Trumbull's Silent Running was released 54 years ago today.

"In a future where all flora is extinct, only a few specimens have been preserved in a fleet of space greenhouses."

A sci-fi classic that shouldn't be missed. Bruce Dern was fantastic as Freeman Lowell👌

I looked it up as I also had no idea

I regret to inform you that knew of it it's 23 years ago

And it's of the era I still consider 'young peoples music' because I am An Old

AAVE 'skeet' cognate with 'squirt' meaning ejaculate. Had zero clue, wondered why they were bothered by clay pigeons

You're absolutely right about a lot being former non voters-it's a similar mechanic/demographic to the Brexit referendum voters who turned up for the first time in ages and it takes work to keep them onside

They hear Trump say what they want to hear and can only, eventually, be disappointed

Oh yeah, they're regularly ridiculously overpaid but

I've had some REALLY bad CEOs in the past, and once the nice guy I liked got fired and replaced after a gap, the interim was awful but the replacement was, hands down, the best boss I've ever had

Company boss is a learned skill, but some can't

Oh yeah, but they went from less than 20 staff to a LOT more than that very quickly over the last couple years, scaling that quickly is really hard

Out of curiosity I looked, the sword museum near me has 'leadcutters', which were a modern descendent of broadswords that were made in the early 1900s, some saw service in WW1

Guns are great, but swords are reliable

royalarmouries.org/collection/o...

The skillset of running a big organisation with multiple employees and the skillset of setting up a tech product aren't always going to overlap