(May still try to see the Christmas Carol version on that recommendation though... Fun theatre is fun, after all. Looking forward to Into the Woods as our family Christmas theatre trip though. I always end up grinning ridiculously - one of Sondheim's best.)

I enjoyed The Play That Goes Wrong enough - but it isn't a patch on Noises Off IMO. That's the only thing I've ever seen that had me genuinely struggling to breathe due to laughing so much.

Thanks for the super-speedy response :) Writing an email now...

Will happily talk to anyone about church A/V :) (Most articles I read about US churches assumes they have huge dedicated teams, which is the opposite of what I'm aiming to enable, but I suspect that's just a matter of media being unrepresentative.)

Does suggesting that Gemini sleeps on it, or maybe goes for a walk in the fresh air, help at all?

Sounds like a useful thing to (optionally) add to my election site graphs. Thanks for the idea!

I note that Wikipedia says HSV is also known as HSB, where B stands for brightness. That seems far more useful to me. Although "brightness", "lightness" and "intensity" being the third component of three different models seems... unfortunate.

I'm not sure what it says about me, but I'm not as bothered by the claim of "purple doesn't exist" as the ludicrous use of "value" in HSV. That's like having a graph with one axis being "number" and the other axis being "other number". "Value" on its own is entirely non-descriptive.

Sure, the ILR stance is even more extreme than before, but let's face it, the headline appeal of Reform UK has never been "working for [the] community and getting things done for local families" - it's been about immigration. I don't know whether this councillor has been naive, dishonest, or both...

Even if every single person killed is in fact "guilty" in some form or other, that doesn't excuse a lack of due process.

Obviously there will be significant policy differences etc - but in broad strokes, for anyone not looking *that* closely, the Greens seem more viable.

I suspect what YP has going for it is more localised voting patterns (like the LibDems). If the Green vote is spread evenly, FPTP hurts them a lot.

Deeper than my blog posts, I mean. Will watch the video linked earlier when I get the chance.

Find videos of @felienne.bsky.social talking about "programming is writing is programming" for a much deeper dive :)

It all depends where you are.

Do you have recommendations for vegan ones? Asking for @hollywebb.bsky.social who has vegan Brownies and Guides, so we're always on the lookout.

"Well it makes a change from all of the noise
And the sirens
And sometimes from all of the silence.
With six rounds of jingle bells
And we wish you a Merry Christmas even though it is June.
And it's been a long summer."

I suspect part of the problem is that very, very few people feel they're in the "really rich" category. There's always someone richer (and maybe you're more likely to know them if you're "quite rich"). Everything is always relative - it can be hard to keep a sense of perspective.

I don't know enough about Welsh politics to know whether Reform is competitive pretty much everywhere, or whether Plaid will be the natural recipient of tactical votes in most of those places, but if so, things could be quite weird.