Honourable mention for The Vourdalak!

I did a batch of pumpkin spice cinnamon rolls last week, subbing pumpkin purée for the eggs in the dough. Highly recommend.

Would be interested to know whether those who do this don’t usually hear an inner voice when they read. I don’t think I could bear it, because I can’t read without ‘hearing’ the words in my head, and the two voices would inevitably clash.

Agreed - and will be important to see what this means for Museum Development Midlands too.

It doesn’t and can’t ‘look things up.’ The gen in genAI means that it generates the most likely token in any given context. So if texts that talk about tide times usually give a time in the format 00:00, it’ll generate a plausible-looking time in that format.

Yes, and ‘Always money for the temporary exhibition, not the permanent collection.’

Read this as mice. Not sure which is worse.

Walking and writing also.

My carrot is shocked by your carrot.

Americans paint fences, over which they can chat with their neighbours. Brits plant Leylandii so we never have to see our neighbours again.

Do you use Citymapper? I find it generally reliable across cities and modes.

Particularly relevant question here in Matt Western’s constituency, where the two largest employers are JLR and Warwick University.

Right. And plenty of us would rather give up the convenience of their various potential uses in favour of the govt not having a list of who we all are. My ancestors escaped the pogroms to come here; we became an invisible minority and we’d like to stay invisible thank you very much.

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