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9th July 2026 The Farage stunt by-election in constitutional context * “Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came” – a 1960s slogan and a title of a 1970 film * The current leader of the Reform Party has resigned his parliamentary seat so...
In a follow-up to the 250th Color Birds of NASA post on Monday, we would be remiss not to bring up the fact that the agency has a four-plane aerial demonstration team made up of privately owned (not a misprint) F-5 Tigers. Do what?...
Fuck it, is the general feeling here, because we are minimum-wage employees in a doomed independent bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky, because what we do is useless… fuck it because no less than four of us have MFAs to our name, which...
Few months ago Cloudflare introduced Markdown for machines: As a business, to continue to stay ahead, now is the time to consider not just human visitors, or traditional wisdom for SEO-optimization, but start to treat agents as...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, published 1600, play, 64 pages. A bit bonkers. Once again, Ovid shows up everywhere. (I had no idea to what degree until after I read the Metamorphoses and started recognizing the...
I don't like you. I tried to smile and wave back at your falsely nice expression, but I could't. We hear you scream everyday. Our walls are not that thick, you must know we decipher each and every one of your words when you're making fun...
It was advised to me that I be aware of my company. I was also advised to be mindful of who I listen to. Else, I might listen to a fool or that I might be so foolish to listen to the advice from someone who I’d never turn to. I was told...
When David of Oxford declared that he was divorced from his wife, Muriel, little did he know the furor it would cause. In Jewish law, a wife must consent to a divorce, which Muriel did not do. She reached out to relatives, who contacted...
A couple weeks ago I listened to the new "Humans" podcast from Hank Green, and a line from that stuck out to me. Wyna Liu, editor of the NYT Connections game, said this:I sort of believe that... the number of hours you spend doing...
CONTENT WARNING: This post is mostly "SFW" (Safe For Work) but the pictures are somewhat spicy, though Instagram-safe.Radiator Forever is a new ongoing re-remaster / re-re-release of my short experimental gay games. I'm putting them all...
Pretty hard to write an intro for this post that consists of anything other than ‘Holy fucking shit this is hot’, so I won’t even try. Please welcome the phenomenal @jamiebear – who has contributed stunning guest blogs here before on...
It is amazing how conversations about immigration are conveniently put on pause when immigrants are scoring goals in a World Cup, hitting clutch shots for the city’s basketball team, or winning gold medals at the Olympics.
One of the most valuable things about partitioned tables is pruning - the database's ability to eliminate entire partitions based on a query predicate. Under conventional wisdom, pruning can only be achieved when querying by the...
https://seriot.ch/computation/uts35/ Lovely little article where Nicolas Seriot shows how you can use Unicode's rewrite rules, which are intended for converting characters from one language to another, to execute arbitrary programs. via...
By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap with a Yellow belt in Wado Ryu Karate. Lol. TL;DR:D&D martial classes get stuck saying "I attack" while spellcasters get flashy options. The fix isn't a house rule, it's narration. Steal...