"No Stonewall at Pride" wasn't on my 2026 bingo card but here we go

I try to avoid swarming but it is also one of my favourite things in the world to watch when it happens, especially when they all decide to walk up the gangplank into their new home

I don’t mind the stoner, the camp antiques guy, the mopey goth or even the bear, but the elderly woman with paranoid delusions can be really quite unsettling

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

I would very happily spend all day quibbling the first two, just not the third

Yeah that’s too weird a way to do it! You have to be calm and rhythmic and predictable and low-key hypnotise people into doing it (key skill to coxing an eight)

The Correct procedure is “on three: one, two, THREE”: clear; instructive from the start; the monosyllabic one/two sets the rhythm better; yelling “three” jolts people into action if they weren’t paying attention. People dither arrhythmically with ready/steady/go.

Yeah fair enough not quite at the level of pathologically intrusive but unwelcome nonetheless!

"Actually, Scruton disapproved of..."

we are not discussing that, thank you

Intrusive thought for the past 48h has been this bit of academic genealogy:

Ludwig Wittgenstein (tick vg)
had as a student:

Elizabeth Anscombe (vg even if I sometimes disagree)
who had as a student:

Roger Scruton (100% max power turbo wanker)

I dunno; there’s a very interesting article on the same site which suggests the real message is “private equity makes things worse” and that conversely there’s a good reason builders seem to love the Makita brand.

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Is this using galvos or just a bunch of rotating gratings or something?

oh have you decided to get into synthesis of popular substituted phenethylamines then? Didn't think you were the sort but fair enough; what with the economy as it is and no need to deal with HMRC, I can see the attraction

You don’t need the spoon! Just mouth-breathe!

you put the bowl bit in your mouth and hold it with your teeth

If you sort of grip it with your teeth you can breathe through the hollow in the spoon, and personally I find it tends to restrict nose breathing (although I can close off my nose internally which I think some people can't?)

But you don't need to anyway, just.. breathe through your mouth!

Mouth Breather YouTube video by The Jesus Lizard - Topic

File under "cooking techniques I learned from Steve Albini's house-sitter"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpLx...

Years ago I found a thread about chopping onions where they found the best thing was to put a spoon in your mouth, because it forces you to breathe through your mouth; nose breathing draws the vapour too close to your eyes.

Ever since I’ve just mouth-breathed while chopping, and it‘s been fine!

oooh interesting I've always liked the look of Eva Zolnar's stuff

I think about this post every time I hear about a new and otherwise incomprehensible US foreign policy move

There is a barbershop quartet rehearsing in my living room, mmmmmmmmmmm!

This is actually a really good question, and one of the early lessons in beekeeping is that while you can sometimes figure out roughly what the colonies are thinking, and maybe even influence it a little through their environment, they absolutely do not give a shit about what you think

I love to watch them docking you see, Jules; sometimes if you’re lucky you get a big one and you can see all the seamen coming out!

Ooh I like that!

sed: groweþ
med: bloweþ
LFG!

Yup I think so! Ideally we’d like not to have to do any spotting of new unmarked queens this year (ie Hard Mode) because 2 colonies is ideal for us rn but part of the fun is that you never know..

First hive inspection of the year always awakens something in me; now I just want to spend all day singing ”Sumer is icumen in“ while setting fire to Edward Woodward

Always has been around here, just that they go to sleep over the winter (am envious)