Oh, definite chemistry there.
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Oh, definite chemistry there.
They are not a liberal party. The main liberal party of the UK is the Liberal Democrats. The Labour Party mainly uses the word "liberal" as a slur.
In this piece for Aeon, I argue that, while nanotechnology is now a very real and mature field, a popular early vision of it was an example of what I am calling an "oneiric technology": a fantasy of the sort that Silicon Valley loves. aeon.co/essays/no-su...
Basically (and I think this is what Chris is really saying; I just don't think it's expressed helpfully by bringing the debt path into the story) the UK has absolutely no problems that couldn't be solved, except the government has promised not to solve them in order to get elected
Here's the other thing about virulant transphobia - it not only loses you trans votes, it loses you LGBT+ votes, and more than 80% of LGBT+ people and groups actively support the trans community. It also loses you ally votes too, and that's significant. Learn a lesson, will you?
the obvious answer is st paul, who's constantly engaged in QT debates w/people who block him so you're never quite sure what he's arguing against but he sure is mad about it. christianity is just posters all the way down
Scotland freely chose to remain part of the United Kingdom in 2014.
I'm afraid that whenever this discourse rears its head, there are non-white Americans coming out with exactly the same but-where-are-you-really-from stuff as their white countrymen. It's a notably American trait.
From which we can infer that this gentleman last ate a dish of blood and soil, and that he had a childhood dog named National.
If correctly written: "Ministers are to announce a tightening of migration rules as the government hands over the political agenda to Nigel Farage" Both immoral and politically inept. Well done Yvette Cooper.
Labour's whole 'well everything sucks but the politics are what they are, look we're at least getting the employment rights bill through' act is the behaviour of a junior coalition partner
Punchy Lib Dem source quote about Kemi Badenoch's supposed offer from Stamford, as detailed in this excellent story by colleague @jessicaelgot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey will table a Humble Address motion when Parliament returns this Monday to force the Government to publish the legal advice it has received on breaches of international law in the Israel-Gaza war
Parasite would be another great example.
Happy 'greatest correction ever' day to all who celebrate
Your social circle sapphic needs to be informed of this
"There was no gender back in them days - in fact all of the things that I know are objectively too progressive were introduced the very moment I became middle aged, which was a ploy by Big Woke to make me look like I was getting reactive as I got older"
This is incredibly sad. The Doctor Who that he created was scientific fairy tales, and beautiful for it. Using bits of computer language where Douglas Adams would use silly made up terms - all block transfer computations and recursive occlusions - and somehow making it seem like poetry.
Of the many extremely weird guys to write for or script edit Doctor Who, Bidmead always managed to stand out for being just that little extra bit weirder. Also he liked TARDIS Eruditorum, so it’s doubly sad.
"Events cast shadows before them, but the huger shadows creep over us unseen." – Logopolis, by Christopher H Bidmead One of my favourite openings to any novel ever. RIP Chris, who died on 6 August. Lovely man. Brilliant, engaging interviewee. With a clear, audacious vision for Doctor Who.
Very sad to hear this. Bidmead's science-fairy-tale season of Doctor Who is one of my all time favourites. He also said that he suggested Helen Mirren as the Fifth Doctor, but JNT went with the then-better-known Peter Davison instead.
If/when he does re-emerge it would be fun to insist that it's a clone just to be annoying
Motorhead on The Young Ones, and it's not even close.
Ah, I was hoping for some specific historical data, but never mind.
That line of thought is a post-war rationalisation. The plan was to bomb Japan with everything they had until a ground invasion was ready, then invade. It wasn't either/or, it was everything and the kitchen sink until Japan surrendered.
It was clear before the Yalta conference. Tbh, even in the counterfactual where the bomb is ready in time, it's not hard to see why Berlin itself would be an unlikely target by looking at a map. But who is the "they" you talk about, and when and where did they make this decision you describe?
Alex Wellerstein discusses the evidence here, but the bottom line is that it was clear long before May 1945 that the war in Europe would be over before the bomb would be ready.
Unconditional surrender of Germany: 8 May Trinity test: 16 July Yep, definitely a three pipe problem.
Fuck hotel shouters and roundabout painters, this is England:
The play Farm Hall, about the German scientists who were captured after WW2, absolutely nails how physicists talk to each other. There is a wonderful scene at the start of Act Two of an earnest discussion, with equations and diagrams, that turns out to be about how the bubbles get into champagne.
The single most important thing to understand about digital futurism is this: When the digital future that Sam Altman ( or Elon, or Andreessen, etc) predicts fails to materialize, he doesn’t have to give the money back.
To be fair, cooking meth is the ethical alternative to working for an essay mill.
1. Between 7 and 8 hours sleep every night 2. Plenty of water 3. No more than 28 units of alcohol per day
Do you think there are headlines back on the Predator planet that are like “Dentist Speared By Earthling He Paid to Hunt” and there’s a bunch of Predators in ties around a watercooler going “Lol RIP.”
Children of the Stones is hardly scientifically sound, but Gareth Thomas is the only actor I've ever seen deliver physics dialogue like an actual physicist.
This is a very good thread, but it strikes me that it's similarly hard to get kicked out of the Catholic Church. I remain nominally Catholic despite being an atheist all my adult life. I suppose I could write to the Vatican and ask to be excommunicated, but that seems a bit of a hassle.
Apparently the UK government are doing an emergency alert test on the 7th of September so just in case anyone knows any current domestic abuse victims who would need to have their safety phones switched off so as not to be outed, please pass it in.
This is a really, really, good letter. Absolutely *destroys* the transphobes without ever once using rude, aggressive, or other language that could cause handwringing.
It's something when the Beano is dishing out more insightful political commentary than the papers
I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂
It's the year 2025 and I'm so tired of having to say: - immigration is good - racism is bad - bodily autonomy is good - policing bodies is bad - consent is good - overriding or ignoring consent is bad Why are so many people determined to ignore these demonstrable facts?
"The economy grows because the population grows; tax revenues grow because more people pay those taxes." Mehreen Khan, economics editor of the Times, says the government's goals of economic growth and a reduction in immigration numbers are contradictory. #Newsnight
What were your first 3 #ttrpg box sets? 1. D&D Basic (Mentzer red box edition) 2. Traveller 3. Call of Cthulhu
Catholicism is Goth Christianity. Show us what you say is a crucifix and we fold our arms all 'and WHERE is its little tortured corpse accessory?'
Those breathless articles from the early 60s about the Beatles would at least bother to mention that they were a popular beat combo.
A definition of science fiction which does not include the works of Philip K Dick is unlikely to be useful.
That doesn't get you hundreds of billions in VC funding though.
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
This phenomenon is... not unknown in science fiction.
Wrt Bobby Sox, it's more something that's probably no problem if you're the guy that wrote the bassline, but a bugger to remember if you aren't.
WELL THAT FUCKING EXPLAINS A LOT
When we play it together remind me to point out the bits that make me want to give Mike Dirnt a slap.
This is an incredibly interesting observation. Even in a "historical" science like astronomy, we are introduced to the various models and their creators literally in the first year of study. I imagine changing history to be taught like that would be a huge wrench, but it might be worthwhile.
Ta. I'll check it out when I'm not half cut in Soho.
Tabs can be very dodgy. Could you share the video with me? I appreciate it will be for guitar, but it would still be a useful check.
Hey, if it was good enough for Bach youtu.be/CvglW3KNSsQ
I mean it has a whole appendix about Newspeak. It's certainly more SF than, say, A Scanner Darkly.
Ah, guitar solos are great, they let the guitarist show off harmlessly while the rhythm section makes the song happen.
Hard to tell from this bland announcement just what the government plans for asylum appeals, so I’m trying not to speculate. But I’ve worked in the sector in various roles since 1987 & I’ve seen a lot of policy proposals come & go so I have Thoughts on the dysfunctional way we decide such things 1/🧵
If it's establishing world peace, I've got to say you've left it a bit late.
Fair dos. Personally I loved it, but I guess I have a greater taste for the grotesque.
I would be genuinely interested to know what you think of The Great.
The best sci-fi, like the best theatre, is both serious and comic at the same time. See e.g. Philip K Dick.
Frank Zappa defined art as "something that someone has put in a frame", and I've yet to encounter a better definition.
I have to say, much as I can't stand Clegg, that is one of the best burns I have ever seen.
I don't go abroad to meet British people. If I wanted that I'd go to fucking Blackpool.
hypothetically, if fucking a dog meant that there would definitely be 2026 elections, i would ask how you know the causality of that relationship, because if you can't explain how it verifiably does+will work, i gotta be real with you, it just sounds like you're looking for permission to fuck a dog.
I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
ok I synthesized a few ideas and I think I figured out how to explain basically all goth music
Some years ago, we needed some work doing on the flat. I forget what. Our previous contact had retired, so I searched for another contact and ended up contracting someone via Go Assist. The premise here is that they're a broker: supposedly you get workmen cheaper through them, for a subscription.
I was 11. A formative experience.
Went to see Threads at the BFI for the 50th anniversary. Credits rolled in stunned silence, apart from the young lady behind me, who had evidently never seen it before, whispering to her friend "That was truly horrible".
Absolutely. Rye Lane is a lovely movie, with a great heart and a wonderful sense of place.
On my way to Hyde Park for a friend's birthday picnic. A hen party got on - ladies in glitter at 2 pm - and one sat beside me. She offered me a cake. They had been to a cake decorating workshop, but she didn't want to carry it around. So I arrived with an amateurish but delicious birthday cake.
For those unfamiliar: the “brains aren’t fully formed until 25” myth was a misread of a study that measured subjects’ brain dvlpmnt UNTIL age 25 & then the study stopped, & it was misreported as development ending then when really the DATA ends then & past 25 we have no data yet. Misreported science
I always thought the Jedi should have gone with Luke Skywalker's severe and vaguely Jesuitical black suit from ROTJ.
Brave heart, Una.
When I campaigned for a Labour government last year I'm afraid I did not account for them being deeply, deeply, *deeply* stupid fucking bastards
I've yet to make it past episode one. It's very good, but 'Allo 'Allo absolutely ruined it for me.
this is the kind of thing that would cause a folklorist in 1919 to declare that the Dalek costume goes back to pagan times
One of the best bits in The Wicker Man is that it’s quite explicit that all the paganism is a recent invention.
Nick Clegg accidentally hits on a free speech test for Americans. Namely, if you enter the US/UK/EU, which of these might check your social media feeds to see if you're deemed a critic of the 'regime'? There's only one answer. Screw Americans' criticisms of Europe-style free speech.
Sit down, Iain. You have no understanding of pedagogy.
Woah Dave Gibbons really did this guy dirty
Theresa May's saving grace as Home Secretary was her open and obvious contempt for senior police officers.
Fucking disgusting.
The police famously don’t bother with career criminals because their behaviour is in line with expectations.
I remember one of the many things that the Labour Party attacked the coalition for *from the authoritarian right* was that the coalition pledged to stop keeping children in the Trump-style "detention centres" (concentration camps) for asylum seekers like Yarl's Wood which had been set up by Labour.
Athena: I am the goddess of wisdom and war. I care not for the frivolities of other women. Paris: Good to hear because the fairest ain’t you. Athena: It wasn’t wise to tell the goddess of war she’s not as pretty as some dumb slut.
It's quite funny that fairly early in its history philosophy invented writing well (Plato) and reasoning well (Aristotle) and made it clear you can only do one; subsequently clarifying that we'll typically do neither.
Before we skip straight to "the blood of innocents" how about we pause to consider trying "the blood of Nazis" first.
To be fair, he was very good in Doctor Who.
Absolutely inspired
Yeah, the default YouTube experience is pretty much "Here is the sensible mainstream channel GB News, now how would you like us to radicalise you?" But it does at least stop showing you that stuff if you insist, unlike X The Everything App. Small mercies.
Notably, one of the main reasons Gilroy and Luna cite for cutting Andor short is that the star would be too old by the time they had made five seasons. And Diego Luna isn't a 12 year old boy.
After clicking "do not recommend this channel" a lot, I now have a YouTube feed which focuses on my actual interests (ancient history, rock music, sci-fi telly and so on). My wife still has a bit of a problem with this stuff, though, as one of her actual interests is the Third Reich.