I was not meaning to say it was good! Just thought the number worth noting.

That's counting multiple prints as different cards

Counting only cards you get 2019 non-reprint cards for 2025. scryfall.com/search?q=yea...

That's actually less than in 2024! And exactly one more than 2023. Which is kinda weird.

“Southerly” by Jorge Consiglio. It's hard for me not to appreciate a short story collection starting with a Borges riff. No directions home.

Good for him, Corbyn was “arrested for anti-apartheid activism”. Keir Starmer did legal work to bring Stephen Lawrence’s murderers to justice! It doesn’t make what he is *also* doing any better. (Or in both cases, it doesn’t make the earlier stuff any less worthwhile!)

(I have read the government's consultation paper carefully. Nowhere does it answer this very simple question -what is this policy supposed to achieve?)

You can call them a hate group. They submitted a lot of evidence to the Scottish Parliament explicitly calling them a hate group

“The Adventures of China Iron” by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. Scotswoman runs away with Argentine folk hero's wife;subversive Rollick/adventure

I will say this for Bluesky's failings (and boy does it have them): they are at least in the main the result of humans seeing what humans are saying.

Who is that?

Seems to also find that thousands died because of Johnson's being indecisive