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My milkshake brings 91.44% of the boys to the metre.
Wearing my publishing consultant hat, are there any independent booksellers reading this who would be up for a quick conversation via DM or email? (Please share this if you know such a person.)
October 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
You are what you eat, which is why my all-pancake diet is so flattening.
October 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
You are what you eat, which is why my all-pancake diet is so flattening.
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Monday - kiki
Tuesday - blue and black
Wednesday - bouba
Thursday - bouba
Friday - kiki
Saturday - gold and white
Sunday - bouba
Tuesday - blue and black
Wednesday - bouba
Thursday - bouba
Friday - kiki
Saturday - gold and white
Sunday - bouba
Lots of confusion in the comments below but the authoritative view is:
Monday - odd
Tuesday - even
Wednesday - odd
Thursday - even
Friday - odd
Saturday - even
Sunday - even
I will not be taking questions at this time.
Monday - odd
Tuesday - even
Wednesday - odd
Thursday - even
Friday - odd
Saturday - even
Sunday - even
I will not be taking questions at this time.
I just saw someone claim that Monday feels "odd" and Tuesday "even", but I've always felt that Monday, Wednesday and Friday were "even", with Tuesday and Thursday "odd".
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Monday - kiki
Tuesday - blue and black
Wednesday - bouba
Thursday - bouba
Friday - kiki
Saturday - gold and white
Sunday - bouba
Tuesday - blue and black
Wednesday - bouba
Thursday - bouba
Friday - kiki
Saturday - gold and white
Sunday - bouba
Reform are winning many new seats, but even so they can keep barely half of the seats they defend. Which might suggest they have a strategic problem.
Aggregate Result of the 122 Council By-Elections (for 125 Seats) since the 2025 Local Elections:
RFM: 47 (+40)
LDM: 32 (+10)
CON: 13 (-15)
LAB: 12 (-30)
GRN: 11 (+3)
Ind: 5 (-4)
Local: 3 (-3)
SNP: 1 (-1)
PLC: 1 (=)
Explore: electionmaps.uk/byelections-...
RFM: 47 (+40)
LDM: 32 (+10)
CON: 13 (-15)
LAB: 12 (-30)
GRN: 11 (+3)
Ind: 5 (-4)
Local: 3 (-3)
SNP: 1 (-1)
PLC: 1 (=)
Explore: electionmaps.uk/byelections-...
October 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Reform are winning many new seats, but even so they can keep barely half of the seats they defend. Which might suggest they have a strategic problem.
A pair of pyjamas includes a pair of pyjama trousers, as well as one pyjama shirt, which actually makes three pyjamas.
October 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A pair of pyjamas includes a pair of pyjama trousers, as well as one pyjama shirt, which actually makes three pyjamas.
A beautifully innovative cut of the data, simply telling a story with implications for policy design. I like a bit of good analysis, me.
We just made this graph showing most people in the world could get by on just some solar panels and batteries.
The X axis is basically latitude, but we filled in how many people live between the equator and a certain latitude.
The Y axis shows the amount of solar and batteries needed
The X axis is basically latitude, but we filled in how many people live between the equator and a certain latitude.
The Y axis shows the amount of solar and batteries needed
October 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A beautifully innovative cut of the data, simply telling a story with implications for policy design. I like a bit of good analysis, me.
Walk softly and carry a big brick.
Think an AK47 on your back will prevent a lot of close passes. Same as bricks work for pedestrians... dailyhive.com/vancouver/br...
"Bricks" placed in Vancouver to help pedestrians safely use a crosswalk | Urbanized
A pedestrian holding a brick in their hand as they cross the road is sure to attract the attention of drivers.
dailyhive.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Walk softly and carry a big brick.
Emmanuel Kant. An ant this long — which supports a Premiership club, and also is an elk.
Performant. An insect which dreams of a life on the stage
Replicant. A travelling insect called Lee that wears a shiny suit and sells shit from his car
September 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Emmanuel Kant. An ant this long — which supports a Premiership club, and also is an elk.
Groypers is the notorious prep school in Bexley.
Groypers scored an unbeaten 213 runs in a record breaking win for South Africa over England in the winter Test series of 1905/6
Groypers is the capital city of Hana Mauii or 'Little Belgium', the smallest and most hostile island in the Federated States of Micronesia.
September 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Groypers is the notorious prep school in Bexley.
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Discontent management seems more of a useful skill
September 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Discontent management seems more of a useful skill
Reporting symptoms is rather 2020, but on top of ordinary cough & cold stuff both children have had dramatic nosebleeds this week. Is this common?
August 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Reporting symptoms is rather 2020, but on top of ordinary cough & cold stuff both children have had dramatic nosebleeds this week. Is this common?
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This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
www.quaker.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
Girl With A Pearl In Situ
#sellingartatsea
#sellingartatsea
July 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Girl With A Pearl In Situ
#sellingartatsea
#sellingartatsea
Mulberries in Belair, 4 July.
First blackberry of the year, Midsummer's Day. #phenology
July 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Mulberries in Belair, 4 July.
First blackberry of the year, Midsummer's Day. #phenology
June 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
First blackberry of the year, Midsummer's Day. #phenology
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Another example for the "heat pumps don't work" lobby: what if someone drives a ship into your house, eh? Answer me that.
The amazing detail in this story is this lad's neighbour frantically whistling to try and draw the ship's attention to the dangerous local hazard known as [checks notes] Norway.
If it hadn't noticed houses are generally stand on vessels a bit of whistling probably ain't going to do it, fella.
If it hadn't noticed houses are generally stand on vessels a bit of whistling probably ain't going to do it, fella.
Noen drar konseptet "hagebåt" litt langt.
May 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Another example for the "heat pumps don't work" lobby: what if someone drives a ship into your house, eh? Answer me that.
Exactly. It's the difference between November's Fifth and The Fifth Of Beethoven.
May 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Exactly. It's the difference between November's Fifth and The Fifth Of Beethoven.
"Plausibility engine" is the pithiest description of AI.
It nails the technical microscale - penalised linear regression is Occam's razor applied to statistical correlation - and the training process as well as the chatbot outcome of an LLM. The Turing test is, after all, a plausibilty test. VG.
It nails the technical microscale - penalised linear regression is Occam's razor applied to statistical correlation - and the training process as well as the chatbot outcome of an LLM. The Turing test is, after all, a plausibilty test. VG.
By implication, the AI is a plausibility engine; which is terribly dangerous. It's bad enough that AIs produce errors, but surely it's worse if AIs are judged on their ability to persuade people: we swallow enough nonsense as it is; we don't need them to get better at it! 2/2
May 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
"Plausibility engine" is the pithiest description of AI.
It nails the technical microscale - penalised linear regression is Occam's razor applied to statistical correlation - and the training process as well as the chatbot outcome of an LLM. The Turing test is, after all, a plausibilty test. VG.
It nails the technical microscale - penalised linear regression is Occam's razor applied to statistical correlation - and the training process as well as the chatbot outcome of an LLM. The Turing test is, after all, a plausibilty test. VG.
X for Vendetta
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie
The Seventy Eight Steps
The Seventy Eight Steps
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie
Nineteen Weeks
Nineteen Weeks
May 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
X for Vendetta
If we're allowed TV drama: II CCcaxmviiis.
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie
The Seventy Eight Steps
The Seventy Eight Steps
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie
Nineteen Weeks
Nineteen Weeks
May 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
If we're allowed TV drama: II CCcaxmviiis.
Solar power. It's only the day job.
April 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Solar power. It's only the day job.
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I have no artistic talent so if nobody else gets there first I will just paint the whole thing black and then write “that’s Nazi shit” on it in big red letters.
Underpass between littlemore and rose hill if you have a better idea
Underpass between littlemore and rose hill if you have a better idea
Oooooh great someone's put up a large, detailed antisemitic Illuminati mural up on the underpass where i cycle into town, lovely
April 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I have no artistic talent so if nobody else gets there first I will just paint the whole thing black and then write “that’s Nazi shit” on it in big red letters.
Underpass between littlemore and rose hill if you have a better idea
Underpass between littlemore and rose hill if you have a better idea
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anyone free this afternoon and want to hold a baby for a half an hour
April 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
anyone free this afternoon and want to hold a baby for a half an hour