Can confirm grossness. I had it when I was 17 and the sheer amount of gribble that flowed into my mouth when it burst was astonishing

I enjoyed The Sot-Weed Factor but I'd just read the Baroque Cycle and George Macdonald Fraser's Pyrates so I was well primed for it.

There weren't enough thudding drum machine + unstable tremelo/distorty/reverb guitar records then, and there definitely aren't enough now.

I mean, it's clearly a one-way *window* but the most important thing about this discussion is that it has reminded me of A.R. Kane's most beautifully harsh (and excellent) track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7OM...

Also there is a cat!

Bloom's breakfast is a much familiar domestic scene than the Martello tower and so a better grounding for everything that follows - you don't have to think yourself into the situation in quite the same way.

Whereabouts are you? Alex M and I were talking about this last year, and she'd read a theory that you should start with the first three Bloom chapters and only then go back to the start to catch up on Dedalus, which I think makes a lot of sense.

one page rpg:

winston churchill vs one otter

you are winston churchill at 90 years of age, and you have been confronted by a single otter. you have four moves: alcohol, genocide by starvation, speeches, and being mean to guests at dinner. the otter has one move, which is to bite you in the ass

I know not _everything_ in black and white makes sense, but... BADGERS ON BANKNOTES

Exclusive picture from Labour HQ:

Daily Mail ' Beware the Green Menace' headline with Green Menace' helpfully printed in green for the hard of thinking

The not remotely menacing Green Gartside of Scritti Politti

I often see a local man walking 5 small dogs around the town and I think it would be easier if he consolidated them into, say, one large retriever but I think probably it doesn't work that way.

A sparkler and swan neck on a beer engine

This is the technology the left is excited about

As someone who was driven up and down the A1 in the 80s, I can testify that the chances of achieving a motorik groove on it was approx. 0

Ha! I should have guessed that greater minds than mine had had the thought before!

Not to get too infrastructuralist, but it just occurred to me that Status Quo never settling into any of their riffs long enough to achieve full motorik nirvana is likely the fault of the 70s UK motorway network being insufficiently extensive.

ALSO would be amazed if ZZ Top (the US branch of the AC/ZZus Queu! continuum) weren't in some way inspired by Canned Heat.

Yes! I heard (and loved) this as a tiny long before I ever heard Neu! and it was definitely a great introductory text to the whole business.

That's one Poirot looking mf right there

I have been informed that Emma Ruth Rundle played one of these tracks and intro'd it with the working title "Noam Chomsky is Fucking Dead to Me" and I am so for that.

Evidence that some people have very different ears to me, part 387: the idea that Turnstile's weak sauce epic bullshit could be any way positively compared to early Bad Brains.

Well, they got Graham Sutton in to co-produce so I would very much assume that is deliberate!

Tbh I think it's reasonable for normal computer _users_ to have never used cron? The fact that some of the stuff "AI agents" are doing (or erroneously claiming to do) is stuff you could do easily with a cron job, or grep, or an SQL query, just tells me that we failed to make this shit usable enough.

Language changes organically, I'd never be one of those people who gets mad cos the meaning of a word cha-

NOW HANG ON JUST A MINUTE

I still think we should rebrand solar power as "space-based nuclear" to make it sound more macho

Agreed, but I am also mystified by his insistence that you are mostly going on the cover. You can literally open the book and start reading it then and there! Like, you can read for hours in a decent shop and no one will care if you end up buying something in the end.

Exactly! It's like their whole schtick in general - their relentless grimness feels like a way of sanitising folk for people who might be embarrassed by it otherwise.

Now I think about it, that bare bit of line does give a nice hint that the Met is effectively an express service on that stretch, which obv isn't a consideration for the Liz

It's a very different bit of information design to the Met line diagram, which shows zone 3 as a bare bit of line with no stations in content.tfl.gov.uk/metropolitan.... I wonder what drove the difference?

Giving various genAI tools “goals” like this, or theaidigest.org/village/goal...? Which means the tools... incompetently try to spam Reddit and actually spam real emails, with made up crap? And then... write a blog post that they know it’s doing this? theaidigest.org/village/blog...
Get in the sea