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Albert Scamus
Forgery Fodor
David Exhume
Auxiliary Putnam
Simulated Honderich

I Can't Believe It's Not Judith Butler

TIL about the free ball rule. It seems my youth was less misspent than I had thought.

I'm needled by this too.

Today I was stopped by a policeman for not dismounting when cycling past a Cyclists Dismount sign. Proof, were further proof needed, that we live in a fascist state.

Yes it would be quite a detour if you're heading back to Oban. It's a shame there's only two buses a day Oban-Lochgilphead on Saturday - they will usually put a bike in the hold if they have room, so you could spend more time on the local back roads and less on the A816.

That road goes through Kilchoan estate which is being rewilded by a Chilean supermarket baron. Stop and look at the chapel he built. Further on you can get a coffee at the cafe that serves the timeshare at Melfort Village (Cuilfail pub in Kilmelford is still closed I think)

If you have time on the way back from Seil, try the (quite rough) track from Ardmaddy to Degnish then singletrack road along the Loch Melfort shore to Kilmelford.

Some stunning gravel tracks round here if you want to go offroad. The tracks are made for the timber lorries and often don't make it onto maps - hard to find on Strava heatmaps too as there aren't that many cyclists yet.

Hostile aliens are encouraging us to think we can do this, as they will be lurking on the far side of the planet ready to ambush. It will be, if you will, a Venus fly trap.

To review that you need ShartGPT.

What happens when your LLM is fed massive datasets of NME album reviews, but no fart noises.

So there might be other planets supporting organic life, but where the skyscape is so boring none of it could be bothered to evolve the consciousness needed to appreciate it.

"A few" 3-5
"Quite a few" 6-9
"Several" 3-9

Thoughts and a well-intentioned but invariably irritating anecdote about how someone else I know once suffered a similar misfortune.

The moon mission should attract more attention from stockbrokers in the next few days - they mostly ignored it last week, believing the "launch is for wimps"

I'd like to see one of the Lords Spiritual defect to Islam but refuse to give up their seat. The resulting constitutional crisis would be resolved either by disestablishing the CofE, or by adopting Islam as an additional state church.

Why don't they just get AI to generate the rest of the missing Doctor Who episodes?

Agreed, but again might be down to voter's misunderstanding. A final preference for the Face-Eaters is logically the same as leaving the final preference blank.

Whitburn by election results showing 2/3 of Labour votes going non-transferable when their candidate get excluded

Pretty sure compulsory full preferencing would have changed the result in Whitburn&Blackburn recently, where a lot of voters seemed to plump for Labour. I think a lot of voters just don't understand the power of later preferences.

I like the cartoons that advise to "shake well before opening".

Do FIFA's rules allow them to rescind their Peace Prizes?

He should stick to making crap jewellery.

The Yeovil Pink Floyd aren't too bad actually. If you want a really crap tribute band, try
Captain Beefhartlepool.

Toyah
Vice Squad
Poison Girls
Whitetop Mountain Band
Julie Fowlis

I got a 5-star hygiene rating for a home-baking business in an open-plan kitchen with two cats in attendance when the inspector visited. If a restaurant charging £500 a head can't demonstrate they are managing hygiene risks they deserve to be shut down.

That Jimi Hendrix introduced feral parakeets to the UK by releasing a breeding pair in Camden has been debunked as an urban myth, but maybe he released them instead in Islington?

I think this is why people got fed up with Ordinary Language Philosophy.

The only reason Putin hasn't countered with a threat to annex Finland is that Finland doesn't exist. #conspiracytheory

Or just get a cat that can hypnotise you into thinking it has no psychic powers.