we all know I have no life, so:

i love living in the first village of an rpg man. friendly neighbors, music is chill af, we even got that one kid we adopted into the village of whom the ancient prophecy was written about. anyway there’s a big ceremony tomorrow can't wait to still be alive after it

Oh yeah I’m instinctually against it, but I’ll admit I’ve not thought it through.

Ah, there it is

bsky.app/profile/paul...

…could be worse?

Saw a screenshot of the amendment with an exception for medical devices and some other exceptions that seemed to leave enough wriggle room for a sack full of caterpillars, if schools wanted it. So hopefully there’s been some thought. As to whether it’s a good idea off base, well…

Banksy is a collective rather than a person, and it's at least partially a Massive Attack side project

The BBC caused Brexit by platforming Farage (fairly uncontroversial) not on purpose but in a bungled attempt to split the right wing vote.

LCARS is actually really bad for document management and there's a bootleg WordPerfect program for the holodeck

I’ll never get over the fact that Andrex’s entire fortune is based on the marketing ploy “as soft as wiping your arse on a puppy!”

my gen Z coworker watched Rocky Horror for the first time and came to my office to let me know that she is not sure she understood what message it was sending

3-panel comic. (1) (A person with a picture of a spacecraft behind head.] PERSON 1: There are now three spacecraft headed to Europe: NASA’s *Europa Clipper*, which will investigate Europa’s subsurface ocean, (2) [Person is gesturing at a picture of a different spacecraft while talking to a person with a ponytail and a person with short hair.] PERSON 1: ESA’s *Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer*, which will study the topography and chemistry of Europa and the other moons, (3) [Person with a picture behind head of a Zamboni with a rocket launcher underneath] and the NHL’s *Zamboni Voyager*, which plans to resurface Europa. PERSON FROM OFF-PANEL: Oh no. PERSON 1: We tried to stop them, but the league is set on an expansion.

Europa Missions

xkcd.com/3234/

I feel like you can replace "psychedelics" here with the cultural form of your choice: reading/watching/listening anything, any way you like, is not a de facto short cut to empathy. For every LOTR reader who will carry you into Mordor, there's one who will create Palantir.

Gnocchi in a bkeila-style spinach sauce with sausage — Louche Gastronomique I think I've pillaged more Ottolenghi recipes for components than I’ve made whole ones. I doubt he’d mind - the man has published eleventy thousand recipes, and only three of them take less than a dec...

I'm not sure if this counts as an easy weeknight dinner, but you can bash it out in about 45 mins and it's pretty tasty.

www.louchegastronomique.com/blog/2026/bk...

Melville: listen
Melville: if there's one thing that i know in this world with 100% certainty
Melville: a truth i know as sure as day follows night
Melville: not an iota of doubt in my heart
Melville: it's that whales are fish

BREAKING: Claude Mythos discovers 60-year old computing bug, PEBCAK, that's been silently plagued the tech industry for years. It suggests resolving it by eliminating the entity in the middle and replacing it with a more efficient model.

Oh god. That’s Rogger from the timeline where he stayed in Darlington, drives a mini cab, and doesn’t understand why he hates his wife.

OneDrive opened up today and chose violence

This is simply not true. Labour didn’t have to go right. They *chose* to go right. The big majority was a chance to reset everything back to sanity. Starmer chose the mad, bigoted, ignorant and dishonest route instead.

Gnocchi in a bkeila-style spinach sauce with sausage — Louche Gastronomique I think I've pillaged more Ottolenghi recipes for components than I’ve made whole ones. I doubt he’d mind - the man has published eleventy thousand recipes, and only three of them take less than a dec...

It's Sunday, I'm at a loose end, so that can only mean one thing.

No, not going to the pub. Well, ok, I am later, but that's not the - look, it's a recipe, ok. I cooked a thing.

Here. Sheesh.

www.louchegastronomique.com/blog/2026/bk...

‘Things could go backwards’: Kezia Dugdale on safety, LGBTQ+ rights and the future of Stonewall Exclusive: Former Scottish Labour leader says she feels more scared as a lesbian today and calls for a kinder debate on transgender issues

“We need to be kinder to the people who wish for our extermination” is a position.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This one is modular, with notes at the end for variations around the base sauce, which is a fun time.

Gnocchi in a bkeila-style spinach sauce with sausage — Louche Gastronomique I think I've pillaged more Ottolenghi recipes for components than I’ve made whole ones. I doubt he’d mind - the man has published eleventy thousand recipes, and only three of them take less than a dec...

It's Sunday, I'm at a loose end, so that can only mean one thing.

No, not going to the pub. Well, ok, I am later, but that's not the - look, it's a recipe, ok. I cooked a thing.

Here. Sheesh.

www.louchegastronomique.com/blog/2026/bk...

You prioritize being a "HEALTHY SKINNY QUEEN" but what about your dog? PupEati :: Use code "Brickell" to get 50% OFF Miami's Healthiest Human Grade Dog Food! MyPupEats Your dog doesn't get to choose what they eat. You do.

I am in Miami.

Yeah for sure. This is the most undecided I’ve been in a long time.

The other day, someone commenting on the US situation with progressives rejecting the Democrats, asked "can the system receive the signal you're trying to send?", and and with UK Labour I just don't know. Is it worth risking a great local councillor to send a message that won't be understood?

I'm really torn this year.

(I do remain low-key convinced that "economically centre right and socially progressive in a way that won't scare the nans" is basically the policy agenda that Britain craves in its soul, for better or ill, and is what we'd have had for decades but for right wing media capture.)

Wittering about Lib Dem electability, I use the phrase "the taint of the coalition", and pause, realising we have a new nickname for David Cameron.

The fact that our (very good!) local Labour councillor is sending campaign letters basically pleading for us not to use the local elections to punish the national party when she can’t do anything about their horrible politics is quite a mood.