Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

The USA wants to treat everyone as terrorists as an excuse to invade other countries and rob their resources.

I am a humble Brazilian artist and I can see this, so why are the government leaders all over the world purposely closing their eyes?

Why are they afraid of Mad Usian Presidential Karen?

I feel like not enough reviewers know they had to remake the entire final third of the Michael Jackson movie because it falsely exonerated him, and it turned out the kid’s lawyer foresaw that shit in the 1990s and made sure to include a clause that the estate could never ever do that on film.

This is horrific. I feel physically ill.

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Imagining the Car but not the Traffic Jam Your typical example of how AI can make life better is analogous to saying "if everyone had a car, we'd all get to work on time."

What I wrote towards the end of last month: azhdarchid.com/imagining-th...

This poll is really fabulous. I've barely heard of anything in it and so much of it is solid gold. The daylists are also pretty short. Do jump in and give it a go if you've ever been tempted but daunted.

Seconded! Have never done this before and it is being a complete revelation. The Dio track!! My god!!

One of two trees outside Trinity College’s gate on Broad Street fell this afternoon. The pavement has since been cleared. As @eduardosuarez.bsky.social relates, Oxford’s Protestant martyrs, Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley, were burnt at the stake here in 1555/6 after refusing to recant Protestantism.

Japan play a good smooth game but are completely outclassed by Dio who are in another league. Riveting play by the dutch lads there!

I’m managing Brazil in the Pop World Cup #PWC26 so please vote Os Mutantes! (although I have to admit the opposing track is also excellent)

The player from Aus is a real find for me, but the surf guitar gets it in the back of the net this time...

yes sorry I misstated it. I can see you typed the accent, I meant more that if you couldn’t get it in general, or not on a particular post, then missing it out is ok ish, whereas spelling it Paolo is never good.

NOT SAO PAOLO! that would be Italian not Portuguese (phew, sorry for capslock but it is a particular bug bear). São Paulo for preference but if you can’t be having the accent then just Sao Paulo is ok.

Or trauma of course (I just saw your other post about being constantly on your guard when out and about now)

Oh mate, that is sad. Do you mean, like, primarily the loss of a whole scene? or of things you used to do and now don't?

They sometimes had some little cartoons too. And I did like the different colours of paper they used.

Northampton couple who met on bus ride double decker to wedding The pair are now married after meeting during their commute last summer.

Everything is terrible. So here is a NICE THING.

There're many reasons why people might be unwilling to make their home addresses public and those reasons aren't generally reasons why they should be disallowed from commenting on a public issue such as planning.

You do need to consider that if you add up the various edge cases they are not, as a body, a minority; it's just that each individual type is a minority. DV? 8%. Adoption history? some other smaller %age but additive.

Oh that sounds very positive! good stuff.

Yes? so I would supply my name and address, it is not anonymous, but it would not all be published in full and public view, for scraping off the internet and for doxxing if I have some unrelated-to-planning issue (DV, adoption history, stalker, or just being a woman on the internet).

Who said they were to be anonymous? the point we’re discussing isn’t about names but about full addresses.

And again WOW to both of these! there are a lot of very hard choices in this first round.

Haiti - never mind the footwork, it’s a real bums and tums workout for sure!

This Haiti vs Scotland one is tricky… I really like them both, and very different too. Must listen further!

What an odd and cynical view of a public process. Yes if i am commenting on, eg, a proposal to put adverts on the Plain roundabout, it belongs to someone who is proposing to do something with their property. But it’s something that could affect me too! potentially very damagingly!

Surely the article’s point about scenarios like DV victims and victims of stalking is a strong argument to be considered. Your view, ‘make it public’ is like ‘if you’ve got nothing to hide you shouldn’t be worried’ but the fact is, there are reasons to be worried about doxxing for many.

Pan paperback of Georgette Heyer’s ‘The Masqueraders’. A woman and a man are sheltering from the rain; they are both wearing 18th century clothing. It is a romance book: she is pretty, she is asleep, she is in the foreground. He is on watch looking out of the door of their shelter in case of pursuit or of better weather to flee further. His waistcoat thing is very natty.

Back cover of the Pan paperback edition of Georgette Heyer’s ‘The Masqueraders’. “Set in the sparkling society of Georgian London for which Miss Georgette Heyer’s novels are famous, THE MASQUERADERS is a story of a charming deception made necessary by the capricious politics of the age”

My copy:

Anyone with young Donut Squad fans in Oxford, get along and check out the window of the Bodleian shop at the Weston Library. I made a cool thing! If I do say so myself.

Here it is!

More to come, but I just did a data analysis for someone who left substack for beehiiv some time ago and WOW, if your only motivation is money? Forget nazis, terfs, and pedos, just care about cash? You should get tf off substack now!