And we must offer the reviewer our most enthusiastic contrafibularities for having added more words to demotic Anglo-Saxon than any author since, um, Baron Corvo www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuDq...

At least he wasn't arrested-H/T to bsky.app/profile/ruth...; "I took too much drink yesterday evening, and when proceeding home I met with a female with whom I unfortunately went home, and while I remained there my coat, hat, trousers and waistcoat, were stolen." ruthcannon.com/2023/11/21/a...

Ah, you're more or less at what3words.com/senses.knee....

That's very true, but the photos are of Regent Bridge in Waterloo Place- where again the three-dimensional structure isn't obvious till you're actually on the bridge. See www.atlasobscura.com/places/regen...

Sheriff Collins's decision is so lengthy, 419 pages, because the litany of failures is so long, but it bears reading in full. I hope MSPs get their teeth into this; description of wrongs is what courts are for, but they need political action to remedy them. 2/2 www.scotcourts.gov.uk/media/1olg15...

It's a lovely and historic theatre, well worth visiting, but it wasn't built till the 1880s. Burke was dissected in what is now the Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre in the Law School, designed by Robert Adam but remodelled in 2019.

The Court of Session decision, however it should be named (Hafþórsdóttir or Hafthórsdóttir properly I think, not Hafthorsdotir- surely Scottish courts can cope with accents even if not the letter þ!) has some slight interest as to similar bad practice. www.scotcourts.gov.uk/media/xwjdaz....

The Alabama decision, one for court lawyers to bookmark for future reference, is given fully in the excellent Lowering The Bar site, and I assume that's what Lord Cubie was referring to: www.loweringthebar.net/2025/01/judg...

Bermuda had still a Jim Crow segregated society at that time; it didn’t even have universal suffrage until 1967. Exceptional in the British Empire then. So a social invitation from the Governor in 1951 wouldn’t extend to Blacks. See this article: www.royalgazette.com/general/news...

It was true; see Jimmy Carter’s own telling of the incident www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbn...

Jimmy Carter himself told this story well; it happened in 1951, and he made the point that this was a very early story of anti-racist solidarity in the US Navy. Read his vivid account; www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbn...

Perhaps the default setting should be changed? I’m inclined to hide ‘Rude’ and ‘Threats’, not warn, and I turn ‘Intolerance’ off. But when you can do this yourself so easily, that’s not much of a problem. I suspect a sliding scale for all this in the app settings would be inoperable in practice.

Well, it’s utterly subjective whether you regard someone’s posts as ‘intolerant’. For myself I see nothing intolerant in Naomi Cunningham’s feed (and I follow her). But it’s for the reader to make that judgment, and Bsky allows that. Better than X, quietly stifling what it chooses to stifle.

It’s a choice you make yourself in your preferences. To turn it on or off, go to ‘Settings’; ‘Moderation’; ‘Bluesky Moderation Service’; there’s a list of choices; ‘Intolerance’; turn it off. It all seems geared to the idea that it’s up to the user not the platform to fine-tune what they’ll see.

Chapter 136 at en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_His...