I am now desperate to learn his opinion on leap years, and whether we should just live on a calendar of 365.25 days annually as God intended.

His point, as far as I can make out, is "I have no idea what grass feels like."

Dispersal is a thing, and has been for a very long time, and if your current warplan is basically "hammer the enemy's long range fires capabilities" then it actively helps if the enemy must expend multiple missiles to hit multiple targets, rather than getting frag assists from single impacts.

The perfect holster for the person to whom he's giving a piggyback.

A day later and your silence is deafening, @jametc.bsky.social

Reported.

Growing up.

The violence in NI was inescapable. It killed or wounded 3% of the country's entire population.

I never blocked you.

You can apologise here and now.

I do hope she's Cree or Obijwe or some other First Nation so that there's nothing in that crack about colonisers that might force her to engage with the nature of her own identity...

Yeah, you can't make that argument on the basis of anything I've said, and the fact you're even trying shows how thoroughly bereft of ideas you are.

You didn't need to come on the internet and show the world your whole ass, yet here you are anyway.

One wonders if the explanation for the origin of her shitty take lies in the fact that she is, apparently, simply a shitty person.

One of us knows what the aftermath of a car bomb looks like up close.

That's not you, though, is it, you absolute fucking gornicle.

Hello from Northern Ireland.

GFY you witless waste of oxygen.

"Don't be silly; British people are mythical. Didn't you realise Harry Potter was a fantasy?"

The UK, in which Potter and his classmates live, famously has no class system, and Rowling – along with authors like Dickens, Austen, Thackeray, Trollope, Lawrence, Hardy, etc. – had to invent one from whole cloth.

This is the lot I would have wanted.

And: bsky.app/profile/seea...

But let's take a look at the wording of that statement: bsky.app/profile/seea...

"Consistent with UNSC Resolution 2817, we emphasise that such interference with international shipping and the disruption of global energy supply chains constitute a threat to international peace and security. In this regard, we call for an immediate comprehensive moratorium on attacks on civilian infrastructure, including oil and gas installations."

The same thing occurs here. There's nothing identifying the Iranians exclusively as the only armed party to which such a moratorium would apply. In fact, a "comprehensive" moratorium would *require* American and Israeli involvement and compliance.

"We condemn in the strongest terms recent attacks by Iran on unarmed commercial vessels in the Gulf, attacks on civilian infrastructure including oil and gas installations, and the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces."

It's even better than that. The US is implicitly condemned by the statement. Notice that while Iran is identified as attacking commercial vessels and closing the Strait, the perpetrators of attacks on civilian infrastructure are *not* identified by name:

On behalf of Europe I ask: who is this semi-sentient thumb?

Okay, I don't disagree with any of that, but that is about *the use of the material* and not *the material itself*.

In other words, in a hundred years' time, if someone reads this stuff knowing nothing about the author, would they view the stories themselves as problematic for the trans community?

Is *the material* pro-genocide, though? I thought the problem was the creator (and their wealth), not the creation (especially if divorced from the process of wealth creation).

"going forward"

I made an entire company stop using it by replacing it wholesale with "ambling crabwise" and asking if the words really needed to be there at all.

Time to take the English off the roadsigns in Scotland, Wales and Northen Ireland, then, if we're going to remove languages brought by immigrants...

This is not just a mic drop, it’s an M&S mic drop.

What's JAQing off

Meanwhile, a bun is something sweet. And, uniquely in Northern Ireland (so far as I know), the phrase "a piece of cake," meaning something simple or easy to achieve, is replaced with "wee buns":

"Can you replace that bulb?"
"Oh aye. Sure it's wee buns."

It's a word that, in Northern Ireland, is associated with "nose." Thus, there's a hill nicknamed "Boney's Poke" because it's said to resemble Napoleon's nose (Napoleon Bonaparte = Boney).

And a small portion of chips (fries) is "a poke" because it used to be served in a nose-like funnel of paper.

Most honest reporting in the past few weeks.