Pretty

this guy?

Will mean going up from Cardiff on a coach with the other kids from Wales, the day after her 16th birthday.
I am so excited for her :)

About to gush about Eldest.

She applied to go to Oxford for a few days over the summer for a series of STEM lectures/events/experiences. Part of them reaching out to kids in Wales to get them to think about applying there.
She wrote an application about why she should go and today heard Yes!

Thanks for the offer.....but no thanks :)

1st musoc festival I went to, I was hungry, fussy and vegetarian. Food options were limited, so I ordered a Margherita Pizza.....with no cheese.
The guy gave me a look, made it and 5 minutes later he shouted out to thr crowd "one weirdo pizza"

Comic: Types of Board Game. [Each panel has a person, a person with a ponytail, a person with shoulder-length hair, and a person with a white hat seated around a table with different board game and pieces on top. (1) Boring: PERSON 3: Each turn, roll a die and move your token. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until we all get tired and go home. (2) Abstract: PERSON 1: Each turn, you can place any number of red triangles or blue squares on a hexagon, or move any hexagon to a... (3) Hyperspecific Theme: PERSON 2: It’s October 2, 1814. The Congress of Vienna convenes. You are each in charge of distributing and lighting candles for the opening ball, which was held at these three locations... (4) Overcomplicated: PERSON 4: It’s a cross between *Twilight Imperium* and *Cones of Dunshhire*, but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and... (5) Cooperative: PERSON 3: We’re working together to sort these decks of cards using only hand gestures. After that, we’ll silently organize my junk drawer. (6) Branded: PERSON 1: You can play as Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Joey, or, due to an ill-advised tie-in, Goku. (7) Party: PERSON 2: Each of the cards in your hand has a bad word on it. On the count of three, yell the... (8) Social Deduction: PERSON 3: Remember, per our *find the secret murderer* house rules from last week, discovering that a player has committed a real-life murder does *not* count.

Types of Board Game

xkcd.com/3235/

The secondary school equivalent is three blond girls holding their GCSE results.

The one song that of theirs, as a Brit, that does indeed rock,

These colours do not surprise me and also local elections will be interesting

I went to search for more on this story, and all I got was what Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck and many more wore to the ceremony
:(

The youngest set a weird precedent where she wore glasses for a year and then no longer needed them.
I keep wondering when my glasses are going to fix my eyes?

@mtgds.bsky.social are you doing the p1p1 challenge for strixhven?

And saying the huge PR push on her....she had multiple moments where she was vilified by the press.

Oh my.
I'll just say Ray of Light is one of the greatest albums ever made by an older artist (she was a few months off 40 when it was released).
Also, Immaculate Collection is top 3 Greatest Hits ever.

court farm

It was actually showering when I left the house for the dog walk

No you are not! You would think though the singer could remember what year he was in. Not like there had been a massive milestone that January you couldn't exactly miss!

True. They were interviewed for Q in 2000, and he said almost the same "We played V last year, whichever it was" [it was 99] and I wrote in and got on the letters page for pointing out how dim he was for not being able to work out which year it was :)
I won a pair of massive headphonea for it :)

#mtg
The prerelease tonight was weird. The seeded pck was so powerful even thinking about not playing your chosen school was pointless. I had more gold cards in my pair than coloured cards in the other colours.

2026 (planned) Data centers vs. megaprojects Inflation-adjusted costs, billions USD SIT- 2025₽ Data center capex =$930B in 6 years $750B- Interstate Highway System ® S620B, 37yr US Railroads $550B, 71yr $500B- F-35 Program $400B, 25yr (to date) $250B - $O Apollo Program $257B, 14yr Marshall Plan $170B, 4yr Manhattan-Project -$36B,Syr- 10 20 International Space Station $150B, 27yr- 30 40 Years from start of program 50 60 70 Sources: Company reports, Epoch AI • FHWA • NASA • CRS • GAO • Brookings Al capex = estimated data-centre share of global reported capex at the big-5 US hyperscalers (Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Oracle; Epoch AI+ Platformonomics). Assuming DC share scales from +55% in 2020 to =80% by 2026. Excludes Chinese hyperscalers. All costs in 2024 dollars.

Absolutely insane numbers on data center buildout. I haven’t vetted these by they’re about right based on memory/back of the envelope.

I'm so thirsty, goes to make a cuppa.

Finds cold cup of tea next to the kettle.

I love this one so much that on the Playlist I made for the drive home from the hospital with our first born this is how I ended it.

When I first glanced at the pic, I thought it was a tiny tiny cat balancing on a pair of fingers..

Seeing the stories about Geese being plants.
I wouldn't mind, honestly, if I didn't hate their music

Logo for Ready Steady Go! TV show

poorly drawn lines explaining what might happen

Well, as we all saw the original story gotta share the retraction

"Jimmy Saville, he's one of your own"

Gary Neville not mentioning that chant I notice
#manutd vs #lufv

@magic.cardmarket.com is the website working correctly at the moment? I have a £200+ order I want to place and it won't go through, goes to white screen of nothing Ness

"Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?" is a truly great opening line