Chris in the weeds
@chrisintheweeds.bsky.social
Gardener, dad, language geek, programmer, sinister leftie (🙌), rat-adjacent, permanently bemused. Open to friendly discussion about most things. He/him/any.
I'm not a huge Times New Roman fan, but on the other hand, Calibri is san-serif. Enough said.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I'm not a huge Times New Roman fan, but on the other hand, Calibri is san-serif. Enough said.
I'm not notably good at investing in stocks and shares, but since Trump is busy hiding all the economic stats and the US economic news is probably getting worse in 2026, I feel like now is the time to move the money in my Vanguard stocks and shares ISA into bond- and cash-like things again.
December 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I'm not notably good at investing in stocks and shares, but since Trump is busy hiding all the economic stats and the US economic news is probably getting worse in 2026, I feel like now is the time to move the money in my Vanguard stocks and shares ISA into bond- and cash-like things again.
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Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
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political science
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
political science
Pretty pleased by this slightly ye olde black and white vowel chart created using TikZ, although I have to admit I did get AI to help and then tweaked it, since AI also can't get TikZ right first time, ...
#conlang
#conlang
December 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Pretty pleased by this slightly ye olde black and white vowel chart created using TikZ, although I have to admit I did get AI to help and then tweaked it, since AI also can't get TikZ right first time, ...
#conlang
#conlang
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i will never apologize for a post
February 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
i will never apologize for a post
I've been hitting the secondhand bookshops again.
February 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I've been hitting the secondhand bookshops again.
Just look at that picture. I'm pretty sure that one of the most popular cars Ford, an American manufacturer, has ever sold in the UK was the Ka.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Why don't Europeans buy more American cars?
Trump wants US vehicles to be more popular in Europe, but it's a difficult market for them to crack.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Just look at that picture. I'm pretty sure that one of the most popular cars Ford, an American manufacturer, has ever sold in the UK was the Ka.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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NᴏAᴅHᴏᴄCᴏɴsᴛʀᴀɪɴᴛs:
assign a violation for each ad hoc constraint introduced in this paper
assign a violation for each ad hoc constraint introduced in this paper
February 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
NᴏAᴅHᴏᴄCᴏɴsᴛʀᴀɪɴᴛs:
assign a violation for each ad hoc constraint introduced in this paper
assign a violation for each ad hoc constraint introduced in this paper
Feeds don't seem to work
February 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Feeds don't seem to work
I don't know what to do with my stocks and shares ISA to be honest. I don't know whether it's better to have US exposure or to not have such exposure, where might do better, why nothing is shifting much so far and if that will change...
February 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I don't know what to do with my stocks and shares ISA to be honest. I don't know whether it's better to have US exposure or to not have such exposure, where might do better, why nothing is shifting much so far and if that will change...
The number of closed syllable roots reconstructed for proto-Tibeto-Burman is kind of crazy. The vast majority are closed...
February 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The number of closed syllable roots reconstructed for proto-Tibeto-Burman is kind of crazy. The vast majority are closed...
We're up-to-date on Skeleton Crew now, and Mini-me's still enjoying it. It feels like they have a lot to do in the final episode, though.
January 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We're up-to-date on Skeleton Crew now, and Mini-me's still enjoying it. It feels like they have a lot to do in the final episode, though.
This is a reasonably good read. We've been thinking about replacing an almost new second hand car we bought a decade ago for about £12k, and I was a bit shocked when I saw how much prices had gone up.
“If Jennifer walked into a Ford showroom with a suitcase of cash and bought the absolute cheapest car on sale, with no frills or options, it would cost her a staggering *sixteen thousand pounds* more than a decade ago, twice as much money after inflation. Oh, and she’d be forced to buy an SUV.”
Britain’s car market is a complete disaster
In which the nation's most average driver tries to buy a new car and realises we’re all poor now.
open.substack.com
January 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This is a reasonably good read. We've been thinking about replacing an almost new second hand car we bought a decade ago for about £12k, and I was a bit shocked when I saw how much prices had gone up.
It's heartwarming that they found each other again after a wizard made her forget who he was.
January 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It's heartwarming that they found each other again after a wizard made her forget who he was.
How on earth did Netflix take Ranma, which ran for 160 episodes, and only remake the first 12 of them? Surely a season should have been at least double that.
January 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
How on earth did Netflix take Ranma, which ran for 160 episodes, and only remake the first 12 of them? Surely a season should have been at least double that.
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Every damned weekday evening.
January 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Every damned weekday evening.
I just heard my 10 year old son say "don't call me Shirley" while talking with a friend. 😂
January 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I just heard my 10 year old son say "don't call me Shirley" while talking with a friend. 😂
I didn't see this until recently and... it's just true? As a mathematician by training long long ago, dark everything just smells like a fudge factor to make an inadequate or incomplete model work.
January 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I didn't see this until recently and... it's just true? As a mathematician by training long long ago, dark everything just smells like a fudge factor to make an inadequate or incomplete model work.
New mac user experience: I think macOS might not be an always up kind of operating system. After a month of using it, a reboot noticeably made it a little bit nippier. New house rule is reboot once a month.
January 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
New mac user experience: I think macOS might not be an always up kind of operating system. After a month of using it, a reboot noticeably made it a little bit nippier. New house rule is reboot once a month.
I'm told control of the passage for shipping is also valuable if more of the ice melts for more of the year.
January 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I'm told control of the passage for shipping is also valuable if more of the ice melts for more of the year.
Help, the dressing the nurse put on the finger I cut open with a knife from the toolbox yesterday is making it very awkward to indulge in my need to thoroughly clean my hands before touching books, laptops or expensive items.
January 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Help, the dressing the nurse put on the finger I cut open with a knife from the toolbox yesterday is making it very awkward to indulge in my need to thoroughly clean my hands before touching books, laptops or expensive items.
Kind of wild how in Goonies, a kids' movie front the 80s:
- they make the fat kid do a belly wobble dance
- the older boy uses the mirror of his car to look down a girl's shirt
- one of the boys claims he has naked pictures of another kid's mum
- there are racist stereotypes everywhere...
- they make the fat kid do a belly wobble dance
- the older boy uses the mirror of his car to look down a girl's shirt
- one of the boys claims he has naked pictures of another kid's mum
- there are racist stereotypes everywhere...
January 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Kind of wild how in Goonies, a kids' movie front the 80s:
- they make the fat kid do a belly wobble dance
- the older boy uses the mirror of his car to look down a girl's shirt
- one of the boys claims he has naked pictures of another kid's mum
- there are racist stereotypes everywhere...
- they make the fat kid do a belly wobble dance
- the older boy uses the mirror of his car to look down a girl's shirt
- one of the boys claims he has naked pictures of another kid's mum
- there are racist stereotypes everywhere...
Not a woman, but one thing I resent the most about the healthcare system is how often the only way to get gatekeepers who spend 1-5 minutes on your problem to take it seriously is to try to manipulate them. The setup rewards those who can lie and punishes the honest with chronic untreated illness.
October 6, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Not a woman, but one thing I resent the most about the healthcare system is how often the only way to get gatekeepers who spend 1-5 minutes on your problem to take it seriously is to try to manipulate them. The setup rewards those who can lie and punishes the honest with chronic untreated illness.
For all of you youths. This was such a great and very compact PDA. There's a lot to be said for a well designed physical keyboard and clamshell design. It was so much easier to type with.
October 6, 2024 at 7:54 AM
For all of you youths. This was such a great and very compact PDA. There's a lot to be said for a well designed physical keyboard and clamshell design. It was so much easier to type with.