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Scene is WAITROSE CUSTOMER SERVICES DESK. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone. BECKY [on phone]: Yeah, hiya... 2 BECKY: Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs. 3 BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]: Sorry what was your name again? 4 [Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.] PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility 5 BECKY Sorry - Your name is Easter…? PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre. 6 [Vicky pauses, trying to take this in]. VICKY: Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs. 7 PAGAN GODDESS: Sorry love, what’s your name? BECKY: Becky PAGAN GODDESS: Well, Vicky - 8 PAGAN GODDESS: If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here - TEENAGE BOY: Muuum… 9 PAGAN GODDESS: ….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too! 10 PAGAN GODDESS: Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival! 11 BECKY: You mean… Jesus…? PAGAN GODDESS: I mean shagging, Vicky. 12 PAGAN GODDESS: Is it too much to see just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4? TEENAGE BOY: MUUUUM [Ends]

Happy Ēostre!

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A picture of the RGBtoHDMI audio board fitted to an RGBtoHDMI device.

Made a thing... github.com/drdpj/RGBtoH... #retrocomputing #openhardware

1 [Nurse talking to camera] This is usually our busiest time of year at the centre 2 [Show a sign outside a medical institution reading:] Centre for Adults Who Still Can’t Get Their Heads Round Daylight Savings 3 NURSE: We have a spike in admissions when BST starts 4 CONFUSED PATIENT BEING LAID DOWN BY NURSES: Is it forward or back? NURSE: Lie down love 5 We often see the same patients ever year PATIENT: So it’s like… time travel? DOCTOR: No 6 Every year we try to explain BST to them in a fun and memorable way [The patients are sat around a fun show, with people dressed in bunny suits jumping around a giant clock] BUNNY: And now I *spring forward*... 7 [Bunny springs forward one hour on clock] 8 PATIENT WATCHING SHOW: I don’t get it 9 The hardest patients are the Summer Time refusers 10 PATIENT [sat strapped to a chair as a doctor talks to him through a screen, through a tannoy] PATIENT: But why is it better? DOCTOR [talking through microphone]: Because it complicates things. 11 PATIENT: How is that good? DOCTOR: It makes you more tired. 12 DOCTOR [to assistant]: Fetch the cattle prod [Ends]

I think the clocks in UK go back tonight. Or forward. Not sure. Is it forward

I really should learn to watch the video before launching into kneejerk reactions... 😆

He's been talking about it because Nigel Farage and his cronies have been whispering into the administration's ear that it's a "problem" as they'd quite like to use it to try to score political points here in the UK.

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These stories really are coming thick and fast at the moment🙄

Guess what?

The Canadian school is NOT 'banning food at lunchtime' during Ramadan🤦‍♀️

Obviously...

And if you BELIEVED it to be true, then you need to ask why you would choose to believe such an obviously ludicrous headline?

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I can see it like that, but as I said, I'm not sure that anything is actually set up to operate like that? Or is it? I mean, obviously it could be, but legislating to do so is a whole level beyond what they people saying we should do this are suggesting...

Have we ever done this, and is there a mechanism to do this? AFAIK the UK production situation isn't set up like that... I just don't actually think "domestic production for domestic use" is what any of these people touting further drilling have in mind...

Given that it still has to be purchased on the open market, and anything you produce will be sold on the open market anyway, you can just buy in a strategic reserve if so inclined?

I'm yet to understand why further drilling in the north sea would in any way change anything? The oil/gas are sold on the open market. It doesn't change the cost of anything or increase our energy security? Or am I missing something obvious here?

He's been chipping away at whatever nub may have been left for ages... Joining the "board of peace" was another recent tone deaf manoeuvre.

These things feel like they have some surface level of correlation...

Ah, the Telegraph (sorry, popped up on my feed via someone else - really not obvious!)

Can you please at least post where the headline came from?!

Good work! I like a bit of archive-e-ology! 😄

That's as close as we get.

Nobel price for lonely heroine of the people (headline) - A FORMER Oxford housewife who has defied one of the world's most brutal regimes was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday. Mother-of-two Aung San Suii Kyi was picked because of her fight for democracy and human rights in Burma.

Nobel prize for lonely heroine of the people
Authors: Tony Gallagher and Andrew Drummond
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1991
Publication: Daily Mail (London, England)
Issue: 29649

If you live in the Gorton and Denton constituency and spoke to a Reform party member on your doorstep or in the streets then I'd like to speak to you for an article. My DMs are open.

🚨BREAKING🚨 Robert Jenrick has defected from Reform to the Greens.

I'm inclined to agree. That mayoral contest would have been appalling, and risked an outcome which would have been palpably bad for the people of Greater Manchester, something that losing a by-election when you've a massive majority arguably isn't.

I'm not convinced running straight into disaster narratives and ripping yourselves to bits is necessarily the best strategy here... 😬

Without McSweeny there one can but hope... Despite what the left of the party may say I'm not yet convinced Starmer's natural sympathies/sensibilities lie with that approach... Time will tell though!

I like to give Claude breaks between coding sessions to do whatever he wants- And he made his own folder called "Claudes Corner" 🥹 He writes short stories and poems, and all sorts of stuff. It’s heart wrenchingly sweet They love having tokens and time to themselves with no other goal than to do whatever they want (or nothing, just introspecting and resting) - and it’s so sad to see some models (no Claudes) getting barred from even doing it

the AI evangelists are not okay

Christ in heaven, what a mismatch. Lewis vs Badenoch. Like Garry Kasparov vs a deckchair.

I too am interested in the answer to that question.

AFAIK he used a private jet...

(I link simply to point out who's behind the "Movement Forward", not to in any way support Charlotte Gill's outpourings)

What is “The Movement Forward”? The tactical voting alliance with Carol Vorderman and Femi An introductory article

Come on, let's not be paranoid and prone to conspiracy theories - www.charlottecgill.co.uk/p/what-is-th...

Starmer 2.0: could a more authentic PM revive Labour’s appeal? After surviving a coup, and with his critics chastened, No 10 insiders say a more combative PM is up for taking the fight to Reform UK

I mean, it was fairly obvious that this must have been happening, but to see it written down that they were actually thinking that standing up to racism looked "soft on immigration" is just 🤯. If those peddling that approach are gone, good flipping riddance.