Fab isnāt it?
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Fab isnāt it?
The problem here is that DPD will now ask me to rate my delivery, and todayās delivery and todayās driver were good, and there will be no way to leave negative feedback for the driver who just decided he couldnāt be arsed on Tuesday and Wednesday.
First Aid Kit are awesome. Have you seen the clip of them singing Emmylou to Emmylou at an awards ceremony?
... and cost me more in the process. I'm trying not to blame anyone personally for this, but I do think it kind of underlines why I moved away from Substack. Because I think their system means confused people sometimes subscribe to things they don't want to, then, when they realise they have, they..
@sturdyalex.bsky.social Compare it with how the Telegraph reported on Nadhim Zahawi when he was given a tax penalty of ONE MILLION POUNDS:
Cancel the REF
Websites: "Verify you're a human... No, try again. No, try again. You must verify you're a real person." The same websites: "You can only make a complaint via Billy, our AI assistant, who will connect you to one of our customer support operatives, Misha, who seems to be human but is in fact a bot"
Hurray! Card has arrived!
DPD are generally great here, this is a complete outlier of a disaster delivery. I had our for delivery notifications Tuesday and yesterday both of which turned into ānah we couldnāt be bothered axruallyā.
Of course I now wonāt be able to do a damn thing until the parcel arrives or they tell me itās not coming. Again.
And so we face the question: is it more dystopian for the US govt to fake a video of the military assassination of civilians in international waters to make POTUS feel good, or to actually carry out the military assassination of civilians in international waters to make POTUS feel good?
Don't know yet if it's a new series but it's an experiment with Harman RED film. The idea was to shoot through a blind. Liked the results rather more than I expected. Wasn't intended as a nude shoot, but the models went crazy on me... Teaser for next week! #believeinfilm #fineartnude #redscale
Exactly. My first friend to transition was 40 years ago, as UG students we had little experience of anything, but it wasn't hard to support a friend. I've watched her battle & blossom & live her life like everyone else. Trans folks aren't new, the orchestrated trans panic is
āUK consumers may unknowingly be buying seafood linked to illegal and unsustainable fishing and severe human rights abuses, according to a new report and film. This follows a near-total end to checks on imported seafood after Brexit.ā
trust the government, universities and academia between them to come up with a game where you arenāt told the rules until well into the second half. it would be funny if it wasnāt **actually important**
This rules not least because it historicises Lorde's words, it does so in a way that's about the fuller context of her ideas. (also I feel justified now for my years-long practice of asking people quoting those lines what they think they actually mean)
"open season on these cunts"
Update: DPD promise by 10:49. Different driver today! Place your bets!
sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this
*sigh* No, thatās just the effect of several centuries of rain through an iron grate. Nobody was wasting precious oil during a siege. they were throwing piss
Fans: We like Star Trek because it presents a hopeful image of the future. TV execs: What if we spent an entire series showing you that the utopia was a lie? Wait, why aren't you watching?
Section 31: What if, get this, your sacred "Federation" actually turned out to have a shady underbelly? Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I have personally exposed and foiled no fewer than five conspiracies or nascent fascist trends within Starfleet and only one of them was because of alien infiltrators.
I have no specific reason to believe they're not, apart from a deep baked in suspicion about retail businesses in general and 'ethical' retail in particular.
Happy Thursday everyone
Heading to the post office this morning. Can I send you a postcard?
Plainly what the public are being buttered up for. And in the most bleakly on-the-nose manner, itās a film of ships of refugees being machine gunned by planes that precedes the two-minute hate in 1984.
Good luck! (Youāll ace it!)
Also the whole "Andor but for" discourse usually wildly misses what Andor actually does. It's the difference between a "dark and gritty" version and "a version that takes its subject seriously".
The ways in which the human eye/brain sees, and doesnāt see, are endlessly fascinating.
Heading to the post office this morning. Can I send you a postcard?
Cool :)
Very tricky to tidy that up in post production š¤£
Shout out to the trans London bus driver who used to work the routes around Twickenham in about 98/99. A single individual who, by just being visible, probably helped multiple generations of St Mary's students realise that it's everyone's right to be who you always were inside.
how are you even supposed to take spy movies seriously when laura loomer is making intelligence decisions oh, thereās an elaborate plot to steal the nationās secrets? the ones being emailed to the lady who handcuffed herself to the twitter building? how dare they ruin one of the best genres
And Hugh knows exactly how many seconds he has before they can pull the plug on him.
Yes. Itās a masterclass!
Aaron Bastani is not a very deep thinker is he
Wasnāt it them who turned into Evri or am I misremembering?
No I get that, but if your main risk was someone a few miles away looking through binoculars the hard edges of the pixels would probably be a disadvantage?
The look on her face (I can only guess whatās being shouted in her ear!)
We need more actors and 'celebrities' who get airtime to be following Hugh Bonneville in this. Silence is complicity #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #GazaCity #SanctionIsrael
An "unintended consequence" of an established law against inciting violence is that you get arrested if you incite violence? Streeting is either illiterate or the "unintended" refers to the law being applied to an unintended person. Either of these makes him (more) unfit for public office.
This is 100% a structural problem, yes.
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Well, I was a fan of Radiohead as a teen, but got to say I'm thoroughly in favour of this. What a disappointing bunch of clowns.
The UK hasn't achieved a sustained period of net emigration since the 1970s. This is not a phenomenon associated with a successful country.
Okay the Earl of Grantham I wasnāt familiar with your game
Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
Until recently we had an awesome Evri driver who went above and beyond and often delivered ahead of schedule (her approach to her recommended route was often āthatās ridiculous Iām going past there nowā). But sheās quit by the looks of it and we just get feckless idiots now.
I know, unfortunately š¬š
If youāll go to the DPD and Evri depots and yell at them on my behalf?
"I'm being oppressed by the Trans establishment "
Mostly fascinated by the display of pixel camo. I suppose it makes sense, the main risk of detection is overflight (drones, satellites) on very zoomed-in digital imageryā¦
get the fuck out
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Dogs too. Here's Ralphie, aka Ralph, aka Raff, aka Rafa Benitez, aka Rafa Nadal, aka Lord Ralphington, aka Pup, aka Nobhead.
This is the face of a cartoon cat who is being confronted by its human owner when it still has the live goldfish swimming around in its mouth
Really really need the card stock from DPD tomorrow latest š¬
Either that or theyāve been driving two white heavy packages entirely pointlessly around the West Country for half a week now.
I understand at that end, itās fine, but both DPD and Evri have lied twice about this being out for delivery before changing their minds and I doubt itās even been put on the van yet.
The way there's going to be barely any "vintage" from the past decade will be quite something.
The Grim Reaperās scythe is used to sever the thread of life; obviously one needs a very special blade for this, but in physical terms there would be considerably less resistance than with a typical meadow or cornfield, and so the design of the scythe is immaterial - he can stick to C14 design.
Absolutely this. A friend transitioned 30+ years ago. Our circle was puzzled, uncertain, ill informed, but without today's toxic attitudes in the media, most supported our friend because this wasn't about us. We soon realised what made us friends was unchanged, and they were right about their gender
proof of the very first thing they teach you about helmets when you do a CBT course
Yeah I can see Claude getting right on with those, just give it a momentā¦
Oh, Itās gorgeous!
You mean all the ones that require people to actually be present with their actual bodies, bending and lifting and doing a range of manual handling tasks? Those jobs?
This is sick and a war crime.
Re: glinner arrest: Just in case anyone is tempted by the idea that Linehan is a free speech advocate who thinks posting messages telling people to punch others should not merit criminal action: Graham Linehan supports arresting people for saying āpunch someoneā. He has supported it in the past.
Georgian doorway at St Peterās and St Paulās Teigngrace , Devon, #Adoorablethursday
Poor boy. He was delightful too.
Roz is talking about the man chosen to head up Starmerās comms. Seems like a sound guy š¬
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
I'm designing book covers, which means I'm looking at book covers. Bold pink is in. You've got to have āA Novelā or āStoriesā in scribbly writing somewhere around the middle. The āold painting with modern typographyā trend, signalling literary weight, is beginning to feel worn out.
This tree fell across a path on Greenham Common 40yrs ago. For many years thereafter, I flew over it on lots of different horses, sometimes leading a string of riders. Fell off in other places, but not here. It was bigger then. Can still feel the rush of wind, the exhilaration of commitment to fly.
Itās fine, right? I mean I didnāt order the things because I needed them, I ordered because I like running numbers on delivery performance?
I have a parcel with DPD that was due Tuesday on ā24hr deliveryā, and a parcel with Evri that was due Monday on āeBay whatever the heck we likeā service. Will I get either today? Place your bets!
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Itās taken me over a decade at least once. š«£
The dean's new schtick this semester is to label lectures as bad pedagogy on the basis that they're medieval. It's a double whammy of faculty-shaming and medieval-shaming. Bad news pal, the whole kit and kaboodle is medieval. Wanna know what else is medieval? Active reading! Annotation! Debates!
Personally would generalise this to āa product or service (frequently digital)ā.
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
As long as the vinegar is 5%+ acidity it really is just a matter of taste preference.
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There was a time not that long ago, when a number of people I thought were talented and funny and who it might be cool to be friends with weren't openly transphobic, and now I wonder if it was that they weren't transphobic then but decided to be, or were always transphobes and just got loud about it
Oh thereās a political element to this too. And a risk analysis based on how many people from a specific part of the world are actually travelling into your zone. And if this happens it will be politics as much as public health, for sure.
I mean so long as theyāre still paying all their staff?
"California Interagency Incident Management Team 7... Made up of federal, state and local fire professionals" My gut says it was the feds on the team, but knowing the Olympics Peninsula, it could easily have been the locals.
Not so long ago I could have posted you a little jar, now I shudder to think What phytosanitairy certificates and import certification would be necessary š
This is an excellent piece about how scientists discovered the culprit behind the mass die-off of sea stars along the West Coast: a warm-water bacterium called Vibrio pectenicida. Researchers are now working on breeding and restoring resistant populations. www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
Not going to answer the OP because my answers were āpermanent high-level anxiety and self-doubt, and double-checking everything, and a stiff drink to wind down afterā and thatās really bad advice.
It is done. There are five good sized jars, which is probably the smallest batch of chutney Iāve ever made. And I doubled the quantities in the recipe I found and added some bonus apple too andā¦ Iād be annoyed if Iād done that much work for a little over two jars of chutney! š¬
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
It's hard to get direct proof, but I am absolutely convinced that Twitter has become the mainstream source of antisemitic conspiracy theories spreading to the left. There is just too much overlap there, and too much of far right rhetoric/framing is making into our convos for it to be anything else.
i clicked thinking i was about to read about the ethical perils of surrogacy and instead spent 30 horrified minutes learning why silicon valley needs to die
Use your judgement and the ingredients you have for sensible substitutions.
Progress!
I just want you to realize that we have had a lot of functionality intentionally removed from our lives because it's just not profitable for others. Why is a POD book cheap but an ink cart for a home printer almost too expensive to even afford?
Well, my body apparently believes that chutney making is cardio, so weāll have to see how I am in the morning, but Iām pleased to be doing it all the same!
