It's a discourse analyst's dream.

"seems"

Lazy cat lounging by a window in spring evening sun

Unsatisfactory situation involving this lump in which she now has coffee on her tail and I now have cat tail in my coffee.

THIS. The media would do well to add some more context here

I think it's understandable that people are anxious about their holidays. Of course medical supplies and aid are more important, but people work very hard and to watch a hard-earned break disappear over the horizon is upsetting.

I think mine would just come right back in, having learned a small lesson about not making their presence too obvious. The holes in my house must be much bigger than even a quite big spider can squeeze through.

And even more staggering when you know that Hoban was American. I thought I could hear the Kent accent in it, but apparently he based a lot of it on rural American voices.

Riddley Walker is tremendous. The plot isn't flawless, imo, but linguistically it's staggering.

Funding cuts turning beautiful Loch Lomond into 'rubbish dump' Lost funding means a community group is no longer able to empty bins on the Loch Lomond tourist route.

This isn't just a problem of funding cuts, or of Loch Lomond. It's about the attitude of people who think it's fine to litter. Scotland has a *huge* litter problem, everywhere you go. I was in London recently and really struck by how *clean* it is compared to Scotland.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's used in the UK with this sense too, although I'm working on a dictionary where it's in the process of being changed to "one-off usage".

Turns out mass unemployment has a downside. Who'da thought?

😁

An LLM is never going to have a word on the tip of its tongue while it searches for exactly the right meaning it wishes to express, despite the fact it says "thinking..." on the screen while it's doing the cutting and pasting.

🤣. Well the loaf in the wall is *possible*, if we're going to split hairs. I'm feeling that the cow would be elsewhere if it found itself in a field with a rhino though.

Shameful

The rhinoceros is mine 😁

Not here in Scotland. As far as I know, there are no single sex state schools.

The interesting thing in this piece is the head teacher talking about how the canteen "has to make money".

Teens are usually allowed to leave the premises at lunchtime and many of them already just head to the nearest shop selling fast food or energy drinks or whatever. Obviously not all can afford to do that, and this is a good start, but not a silver bullet.

There won't be any jet fuel to get there by then anyway if the insanity in the middle east continues much longer.

I imagine a lot of them are people peeling away from Reform. If it's her or Farage for a right-wing voter, maybe they pick her? Not sure there's much in it, but I'd never vote for either, so what do I know?

The Microsoft AI guy was terrifying. A shrug about all the misery his products are likely to unleash. I like GP, but I'd have liked some more pushback, especially on the nonsense about education. I want kids to learn about all the glorious stuff humans have created, not reduced to "budgeting".

I'm all in favour of a bit of maximalism but yikes. I'd be swinging by Farrow & Ball for 5 litres of Dimity.

They're going to lose their jobs anyway if we continue to allow these leeches to kill our NHS and get their mitts on our personal data, so y'know.

He's pretty reliably wrong about everything, but his patronising hectoring is world class. The supreme confidence of his ignorance is quite breathtaking.

*Henry VIII enters the chat*

NOIDON'TWANTTOGOSUPERDUOLINGOTHANKSVERYMUCHPLEASEGOAWAY

*smashes the like button 10,000 times*

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Funnily enough I was at a talk just a couple of weeks ago about frame quilting and how it's new on the endangered list, and I'm very much here for that. It's one of the more sociable crafts so I like the idea of creating some radical and beautiful work while also getting all the local tea.