No, a butterfly is not an 'approved caterpillar'. It's a butterfly. Seriously, the legal position is quite different, and there's a long-established, well-known word that should be used right there.
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No, a butterfly is not an 'approved caterpillar'. It's a butterfly. Seriously, the legal position is quite different, and there's a long-established, well-known word that should be used right there.
I had a US friend who never had a sweet tooth until he moved to Germany. Then he CRAVED sugar. He said he hadn't changed his diet, but I told him to compare sugar content of his ingredients (e.g. pasta) and he was shook! His gut microbiome really missed that high fructose corn syrup in everything.
Didn't the USA have a 'set everything into jelly' phase in the 50s?
I think we can attribute some blame to Wetherspoons too.
Dispatches from the West Country: somebody’s painted 🏴s on a load of roundabouts in Penzance and the locals are furious because they also hate the English
@samcoatessky.bsky.social hi Sam, this morning you stated “…the main opposition parties, the Cons and Reform UK…” Unless I missed 67 Parliamentary by-elections since July, the Lib Dems are very much the main opposition party with the Cons, not Reform. Do we have to keep doing this?
This makes me uncomfortable. Not only is this a question of ethics & respect, but perhaps these two archaeologists should ask themselves WHY a tech titan from Meta would want to locate heritage sites in resource-rich, Indigenous regions like the Amazon. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Waiters are trained to pounce the second you put the first forkful of food in your mouth to ask if everything is OK then to play hide-and-seek once you've finished the meal and want to pay up and leave.
Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"
'I don't like her laugh' is the one that I really could not get my head around. You're fine with 'grab them by their pussy' out of the other candidate's mouth, but a joyful sound out of her's? No no no?
Was the break good for you? An inightful spiritual relfection comparison would be liked.
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 13: If you are lucky enough to be translated into other languages, always know this: you are NOTHING without your translator. Your translator has skills far beyond just putting words into another language. A good translator is a stylist, an interpreter, a composer.
That’s a really long time to be arguing, but it looks like they’ve buried the hatchet now.
I'm still weirded out by the rebranding of what this was called - Work to Rule. You work according to what you are contracted to do within the hours you are paid. You aren't 'quitting', you are fulfilling the role you are paid for fully.
York is really brilliant for how much of it is on the same street plan and how many buildings survive - you can visit so many cool historic sites - why make stuff up?
Received two reviews on a paper I am a co-author on that was submitted the @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports. Both reviews were written by ChatGPT & clearly not edited with hallucinations. Shame on the editors for letting this unethical nonsense out the door.
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
Oh no, what a shame 👌🥳
Farage owns four homes: Family home (£1M, retained after his divorce) Two beachside homes in Kent (via his comp. Thorn In The Side Ltd) One investment property in Surrey (rented out) Radio silence from media about this but uproar about Angela Rayner’s two homes & ministerial home #NigelFarage
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce #TravisSwift Ohh that's RICH @ohhthatsrich.bsky.social
Same in Switzerland. My kid learned about the political system and parties around 15 years old. Even though they, even if they were a citizen, it would be 3 years before they could vote. I was also taught about it in my German lessons.
In a general, local and county are more regular.
My question is, why didn't we get lessons from 13 to vote as 18 year olds? I remember about 35 years ago when I was in secondary school we had a debate about lowering the voting age and the argument that 16 year olds are ill informed, I countered with how much more informed are 18 year olds?
Digging in my garden tonight, I unearthed some animal remains. Luckily, I could identify them as turtle because I’m a zooarchaeologist.
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
We have a dog on our dog walk who we call lean-on-dog. He'll lean on anyone, but I still feel special when he leans on me.
My boobies were fine by the way. The squeezing is uncomfortable rather than painful.
When I finished the squishing part of my 1st in Swiss German I was mumbling words of comfort to my girls and the mamogramist thought I was talking to her. 'Nei, ich spreche zu meine Boobies'. 'Boobies? Was sind Boobies?' She found the word hilarious. Come the sonogram 'wo sind deine Boobies? hahaha'
New antibiotic drugs.... that's about it.
In addition to creating a joyous event, Zohran Mamdani just showed the stupidity of Fox News's "Crime is so bad in New York City, people are afraid to go out in the street or take the subway!!!"
The rich case for a British wealth tax. "A 2% wealth tax on assets over £10 million is moderate, reasonable and much needed. Imagine you have £11 million. A wealth tax would require you to pay 2% on that 11th million - so £20,000..." www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...?
‘How am I supposed to explain this to my children?’ is one of the laziest copouts that bigots have been allowed to weaponize against social progress. “I don’t know.“ is perfectly acceptable in any situation and “Let’s find out together.” is one of the most precious ways to engage with your child.
Lee Twamley, photographed at the front of Britain First’s “March for Remigration” in Manchester this month, has served prison time for trying to smuggle migrants into the UK.
The Royal Family own 250,000 acres including at least 12 grand palaces and large country estates. Funny. Never seen the Telegraph get sniffy about that. Seems like more of a target.
It's utter nonsense to focus on something like 'Operation Raise the Flag.' If people were genuinely patriotic, they would be putting that same energy into cleaning up the streets and contributing to their communities instead of just flying a flag.
Summer of 1889: Inspired by the match girl's strike in the previous year, London's tailors and dockworkers join together in a general strike. The tailors demanded better pay, a 12 hour work day, a limit on overtime, and a 1 hour break for dinner and tea. They eventually won.
If anyone genuinely believed this ridiculous "the brain isn't fully formed until 25; you shouldn't make irreversible life-changing choices til then" grift, they'd be insisting that people shouldn't be able to join the army, get married, have kids, etc until then either. But look: they don't.
I mean, I asked the librarian to think about getting rid of a book series called 'Shit Happens' from my kids primary school library. They didn't. It was a German language newspaper cartoon series in a German speaking school library though. But they do start learning English from 2nd year. Meh.
“I have to have a licence to curate remains,” Biers said. “You can’t take photos of any human remains under 100 years old if you go to Barts pathology [department]. But it’s OK to turn a child’s spine into a handbag handle. I don’t understand this.” M’learned colleague Dr Trish Biers eloquently…
I remember when I were a lad, the Neolithic was peopled by peaceful hippies who grew crops, erected stones, and were generally nice to each other. Well not any more, sunshine 😁
I know the Third Reich analogies are overwrought, but come on
"[Maxwell’s] like listening to Ted Bundy talk about his victims. Literally what’s the point," Epstein survivor Marijke Chartouni texted me. Let's not forget prosecutors charged Maxwell with perjury & cited her "willingness to lie brazenly under oath about her conduct" in court docs.
Just saw all your comments from last night’s post and someone shared a pic, Orlando showed up and used chalk to bring the rainbow crosswalk back! We love this so much!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Luckily this time Guide Dog Ava managed to find a safe route around the abandoned bikes. On other occasions the “inconvenience” I’ve faced includes being forced into the road, including when I have my toddler with me. When using my white cane I've even been injured by badly parked bikes. 3/
Danish activists have been painting their flag on roundabouts. Either that or British 'patriots' are a bunch of thick twats, which I find hard to believe.
Did he just light the nation on fire and walk away?
'Freely admit in a court of law that you called...'
Is it St George's day? Has an England national team won something?
Many humans are unpredictable, and it takes time and effort to get to know if different humans will be kind or mean (and how to recognise which human is which, as we always change our coats and smells). You must have worked hard to work out which humans are calm and predictable enough to trust.
That WAS quick. Well worth the extra grand!
Mum,mum I had a great visit to Wales and I bought you back this fab jaw bone I found as a souvenir. Mum places jaw bone by a stone thinking I don’t want this cluttering up our home. (Bought to you by the goth with sheep skulls from Wales and a mother that failed in her attempt to remove them).
If corporations didn’t own office buildings they’d be the first arguing for people to work from home. “Why should we buy a place for you to work when you can work from home??”
Forgot alt. A greyish grey heron stands on a concrete base in the middle of the top of an artificial waterfall whilst a brown river rushes over either side of it and the white boiling water is below. A factory, which was a nunnery mill in mediaeval times and still uses water power, is behind.
Morning Heron has the biggest waterfall! This youngster was proud as punch. Further up river, seperatly, were two adults napping and a youngster trying to fish off a pebble bar (no sand), but I think the water is too fast and murky. Yesterday an adult was in the field looking for rodents/reptiles.
So a small group of faculty (and me) went to the biological station on a Northern lake about four hours from the Twin Cities on our main campus. We are spending all day writing our books with little breaks for food, hikes, canoe. That is a retreat. I am on retreat. All day meetings are not.
If the 60s we used a computer the size of a hardback to take us to the moon and now we use computers the size of cities linked across the earth to unsuccessfully add two numbers together.
Exactly. I love eating bacon, but someone shoving it through my letterbox or waving it in my face would make me pretty upset too.
Imagine how different it would all be if, rather than aping Farage, Labour had worked from day one to establish safe routes, set up processing centres in France, process applications, and softly defuse the asylum issue.
If it's true that Labour wants to fight the next election on the basis of "Look, it's us or the far right", as Macron did, then they're going to have to start explicitly denouncing the far right, as Macron does
"Remember Clippy, that annoying assistant that everyone immediately switched off? We learned a valuable lesson from that: our new AI assistant can't be switched off."
Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
Omg. He should really stop talking.
We have successfully made computers Worse At Math! They are literally Made Out Of Math, so this is quite the accomplishment
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
BREAKING: The far right have not called for all white men to be kicked out of the UK after a white British Labour councillor was convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl 🤷♀️
Shocking stats from this paper on the extreme 2024 summer heat in Arctic Svalbard, which lost 1% of its total ice volume in just ~6 weeks. 🔥 In fact, Svalbard's 2024 glacier mass loss actually exceeded that of the Greenland Ice Sheet, which is 50 times larger!!! 😱 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... ❄️🧪🌊
It is (or practically is) in most 1st world countries.
Nothing in the report about who owns it, and since when. I have questions. Who currently owns it? Who was previously suspected of arson? Recently fell into disrepair under whose ownership? Has anyone applied for planning permission for something that was denied (as a grade 1 listed building)?
Vaccines don’t prevent infection. Vaccines are meant to produce immunological memory and antibody production, so that when you get infected, your immune system can rapidly respond to eliminate the pathogen and prevent serious complications, including death. Vaccines don’t cause autism!
You know it's a funny thing because, personally, I'm sick of seeing Jonathan Gullis everywhere
64% of the richest 10% in Britain got most of their money via inheritance, not by working for it. Such as Allsopp, the eldest daughter of Baron Hindlip, chairman of Christies, who got her start in TV via her art history degree, which she studied at ... Christies. But sure. More austerity.
The campaigners who saw off the Port of Dover's attempt to strip mine the Goodwin Sands are now asking the Crown Estate to enact a policy which would see no further permissions awarded to remove sand and gravel from, what is probably, the greatest concentration of maritime archaeology in UK waters.
So good they named it (and visited it) twice.
Idiot subbie takes the standard "should we find human remains" clause in a #archaeology WSI in advance of building works to mean it's thought there are human remains at the site. Sad to see what was once an excellent local paper like the Echo reduced to this level of pathetic clickbait
Is that not considered gender-affirming surgery?
The absolute cream turnip of hypocrites.
Trump has made no comment. The White House has found the time to post a video of the arrest of that guy who threw a sandwich at a cop, but nothing about a cop killed defending the government's own employees. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose district includes parts of Atlanta, has also said nothing.
Dear BBC. He said there would not have been a war, not that Russia would not have invaded. Remember when Zelenskyy refused the US offer of safe passage out of Ukraine?
A song we sing, to the tune of the German nationalhymn # Germans have no sense of humour Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha That's not true it's just a rumour Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha We can laugh # Singing stops. But we don't # means music as I have no music symbols
I have actually said to my kiddo when little both 'no more cucumber until you eat some more chips (fries)' and 'no, you have to have some chocolate cake before you have another satsuma'
There is a condition amongst British people whereby they DO want baked beans with their full English breakfast, but they DO NOT want those beans to touch any of the other foodstuffs on their plate, and there is a whole industry based around the provision of small ramekins to affect this outcome.
He was the Danish vice consul, a Dutchman by the name of Cornelis Dirk Van Vliet. This thread was for him. A few years ago I felt I had to make sure his family knew what this men meant to me and so many others and started looking for his descendents.
Why was there a Kindertransport? Because we wouldn't let their parents come with them. Five years into the Nazi persecution, we wouldn't let their parents come with them. And we insisted every child had someone to meet their "costs". And we only agreed on condition most would "re-emigrate".
"It was a beautiful shade of blue, but then not exactly blue, it was more like lilac. But then, not exactly lilac either, since it had a tinge of grey in it. To be more precise, it was the color of heartache." 💙💜🩶 From the novel Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Hopefully charged with driving without due care and attention and told that that prevents the insurance claim succeeding. Ahhhhh, to live in such a world.
Looking at this photo from the BBC, if you've managed to hit that trief kerb, then you've already gone over the overrun area, and perhaps shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a car?
Boyne: look, i know i said i was a terf and i fully supported jk rowling's crusade to eradicate to trans people Boyne: but i don't think it's fair that i should have to suffer social consequences for my beliefs and actions Boyne: i think everyone should just do what i want Rowling: god, big mood
And some underwear. Don't forget the free pair of knickers.
Bit of am empty threat anyway. "If you refuse to accept us not answering your question, we will not answer any more of your questions."
Brav Hund! Klug Hund!
I dont know who needs to hear this, but the Smithsonian is NOT hiding the remains of giants in the basement… 🤦♂️ meidasnews.com/news/gop-ove...
When Argentina invaded the Falklands one of the first things they did was to put up signs instructing locals to drive on the right. The move sparked absolute outrage in the British press. It was one thing to invade sovereign territory... but to force people to drive on the right!!!
Counterpoint to his argument: youtu.be/gqH_0LPVoho?...
Fascinating, although I thought Darwin hardly mentioned the tortoises, being more interested in the finches (which makes sense with their shorter generational time and less tasty and less flesh)
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
These are the people who will pocket a tenner they find a shop rather than handing it in, reasoning: why shouldn’t I get it instead, when the shop will just keep it? Why shouldn’t I get my PPI payout, why shouldn’t I get the notability car. If everyone else is a bastard and a shyster, I am justified