I bought and read Masterpiece too! I hope it gets adapted for TV or a movie.

Are you back in the UK? If so, where?

Jon, there's nothing remotely erotic about either Trump or Musk. That said, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34

My thoughts too. There was no lakeside venue but the historical resonance was clear. And even if some viewers don't know about Wanseee, the ruthless, bureaucratic inhumanity was obvious.

I saw this. www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

I walked by NASA HQ this morning with my dog. The building is named after (for now) Mary W. Jackson. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ja...

I like that one K is one degree Celsius. I also acknowledge that, despite my metric inclinations, the Fahrenheit scale is optimized for weather. I do not miss my native country's predecimal currency of pounds, shillings and pence (LSD in Latin).

I followed your strategy when I was on Facebook. I pretended to be a devout member of the Taliban. Pretty much every ad that the algo showed me was offensive in some way, so I flagged them. The tactic kept the ads at bay for a few months then they (and Taliban me) returned.

Possibly related www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I hope the term Darkfriend enters the mainstream. It's turned out to be useful and apt.

Jan and I haven't read the books, but we're digging the TV adaptation. It's better than Rings of Power and better than the last season of House of the Dragon.

My original skepticism remains. Arsenic's cosmic abundance is tiny. pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...